Commontide
Proper 25
Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; 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. 621
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One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican prayer book, this collect traces to an anonymous oration in the eighth-century Gregorian Sacramentary. It asks the God who governs everything – heaven and earth alike – to hear his people and grant them peace. Cranmer translated it for the very first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.