Commontide

For the Acceptance of Prayer

O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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A Collect for Guidance

Thursday — Morning Prayer

Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Provenance

Attrib. c.440, att. Fox 1913

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A morning collect drawing on Paul's words to the Athenians in Acts 17, asking that the Spirit keep us aware of God's presence through the day's ordinary work. Its earliest prayer-book appearance is the Canadian Family Prayers, though a 1913 devotional anthology attributed it to "an ancient collect, A.D. 440" – a claim no surviving manuscript source confirms.