Commontide
Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness keep us, we pray, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in mind and body, may accomplish with joyful hearts those things which belong to your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 604
Preface of the Lord’s Day, or of the Epiphany
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who on the first day of the week overcame death and the grave, and by his glorious resurrection opened to us the way of everlasting life.
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One of the oldest prayers in regular Anglican use, this collect descends from an eighth-century Roman service book and entered English worship in 1549 when Cranmer translated it for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. Its compact petition – that God clear every obstacle so we may do his work unencumbered – has accompanied Christian prayer for well over a millennium.