Commontide
Proper 4
O God, the protector of all those who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy, that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal that we lose not the things eternal; grant this, heavenly Father, for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 616
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One of the oldest prayers in the Book of Common Prayer, this collect has been prayed in English since Thomas Cranmer translated it in 1549 from a Latin oration attested in the Roman rite since at least the seventh century. Its central petition – to pass through the things of time without losing the things of eternity – gives it an enduring place in the season after Pentecost.