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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 Resurrection Hope

Sunday — Evening Prayer

Lord God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ triumphed over the powers of death and prepared for us our place in the new Jerusalem: Grant that we, who have this day given thanks for his resurrection, may praise you in that City of which he is the light, and where he lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.

Provenance

Episcopal BCP 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A 20th-century composition written for the 1979 US Book of Common Prayer, this Sunday Evening collect gathers the day's thanksgiving for the resurrection into eschatological imagery drawn directly from the Book of Revelation: Christ as the light of the heavenly city, the new Jerusalem as our prepared home. The ACNA 2019 book gave it its present title.