Commontide

Preparation for Personal Prayer

Holy Spirit, breath of God and fire of love, I cannot pray without your aid: Kindle in me the fire of your love, and illumine me with your light; that with a steadfast will and holy thoughts I may approach the Father in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who reigns with you and the Father in eternal union. Amen.

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A Collect for Endurance

Friday — Morning Prayer

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.

Provenance

Huntington, c. 1890s

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

Composed by William Reed Huntington in the 1890s and first adopted in the US BCP 1928, this collect for Monday in Holy Week weaves two antitheses from Cranmer's sickbed exhortation into a petition that the way of the Cross and the way of life are one and the same road.