Commontide
Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and as we are sorely hindered by our sins from running the race that is set before us, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 599
Preface of Advent
Because you sent your beloved Son to redeem us from sin and death, and to make us heirs in him of everlasting life; that when he shall come again in power and great glory to judge the world, we may without shame or fear rejoice to behold his appearing.
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An ancient Advent petition whose Latin root survives in an eighth-century manuscript, reshaped by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 with allusions drawn from Psalm 80 and the Letter to the Hebrews. Its opening cry – "Stir up your power" – has been prayed at the close of Advent in Western Christendom for well over a millennium.