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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After Communion

Finished and perfected is the mystery of thy dispensation to us, O Christ our God: For we have beheld the likeness of thy death, we have seen thy resurrection in the breaking of the bread, and we have partaken of thine inexhaustible and divine delights, of which do thou make us worthy, both now and in thy kingdom and unto the ages of ages.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 677

Provenance

Liturgy of St. Basil, ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer borrowed whole from the East: the priest's quiet words at the close of the Byzantine Liturgy of St. Basil, given new English dress in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.