Commontide
Proper 2
O Lord, you never fail to support and govern those whom you bring up in your steadfast love and fear: Keep us, we pray, under your continual protection and providence, and give us a perpetual fear and love of your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 615
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One of the oldest prayers in regular Anglican use, this collect traces to the ancient Roman liturgy preserved in the 7th-century Gelasian Sacramentary. Cranmer brought it into English in 1549; the 1662 revision gave it the shape it held for three centuries, and the ACNA 2019 text restores the explicit pairing of fear and love that earlier versions had softened.