Commontide
Morning & Evening Prayer
Officiant O Lord, show your mercy upon us; People And grant us your salvation. Officiant O Lord, guide those who govern us; People And lead us in the way of justice and truth. Officiant Clothe your ministers with righteousness; People And let your people sing with joy. Officiant O Lord, save your people; People And bless your inheritance. Officiant Give peace in our time, O Lord; People And defend us by your mighty power. Officiant Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; People Nor the hope of the poor be taken away. Officiant Create in us clean hearts, O God; People And take not your Holy Spirit from us.
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Seven versicle-and-response pairs drawn from the Psalms and a 6th-century Latin antiphon, these prayers form one of the oldest continuous threads in Anglican daily worship, entering the English prayer book in 1549 and shaped in their current form across five centuries of revision.