Commontide
Almighty God, by the hand of Mark the evangelist you have given to your Church the Gospel of Jesus Christ: We thank you for his witness, and pray that you will give us grace to know the truth, and not to be carried about by every wind of false doctrine, that we may know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 628
Preface of All Saints’
For in the multitude of your saints, you have surrounded us with so great a cloud of witnesses that we, rejoicing in their fellowship, may run with patience the race that is set before us, and, together with them, may receive the unfading crown of glory.
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The collect for Saint Mark has been prayed in Anglican worship since Thomas Cranmer composed it for the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549, replacing an older prayer that asked the saint's intercession. The form now in use is a further revision made by ACNA in 2019, restoring a scriptural allusion Cranmer had used but which an earlier Episcopal revision had dropped.