Commontide
Eternal Father, at the baptism of Jesus you revealed him to be your Son, and your Holy Spirit descended upon him like a dove: Grant that we, who are born again by water and the Spirit, may be faithful as your adopted children; 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. 601
Preface of the Epiphany
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who took on our mortal flesh to reveal his glory; that he might bring us out of darkness and into his own glorious light.
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A collect for the First Sunday of Epiphany, marking the Baptism of the Lord. It descends from a Latin prayer composed by the post-Vatican II liturgical reform commission around 1970, entered Anglican use in the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980), and reached the ACNA prayer book by way of Common Worship (2000), with small but deliberate revisions.