Commontide
Grant, O God, that, following the example of your apostle James the Just, kinsman of our Lord, your Church may give itself continually to prayer and to the reconciliation of all who are at variance and enmity; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 633
Preface of Apostles
Through the great shepherd of your flock, Jesus Christ our Lord, who after his resurrection sent forth his apostles to preach the Gospel and to teach all nations, and promised to be with them always, even to the end of the ages.
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A twentieth-century Anglican prayer drawing on the early church historian Hegesippus's portrait of James as a man of unceasing intercession, and on Acts 15, where James mediated the Jerusalem Council's landmark decision for unity between Jewish and Gentile believers.