Commontide
O God, you know that we are set in the midst of many grave dangers, and because of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright: Grant that your strength and protection may support us in all dangers and carry us through every temptation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 602
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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One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican prayer book, this collect traces to the Gregorian Sacramentary of early medieval Rome, where it was prayed by Christians who knew what it meant to be "stationed in the midst of great dangers." Cranmer translated it for the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549, and it has been carried in Anglican books ever since.