Commontide
O God, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that we, who have been raised with him, may abide in his presence and rejoice in the hope of eternal glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 610
Preface of Easter
But chiefly are we bound to praise you for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the true Paschal Lamb, who was offered for us, and has taken away the sin of the world; who by his death has destroyed death, and by his rising to life again has won for us everlasting life.
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A twentieth-century composition by Frank Colquhoun, an English parish priest and canon, this collect entered Anglican worship through the 1979 US Book of Common Prayer. It weaves the language of 2 Timothy 1:10 and Paul's baptismal theology in Romans 6 into a proclamation that Christ's destruction of death is the ground of the congregation's resurrection hope.