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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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Midday Prayer

Blessed Savior, at this hour you hung upon the Cross, stretching out your loving arms: Grant that all the peoples of the earth may look to you and be saved; for your tender mercies’ sake. Amen.

Provenance

Anglican midday collect, modernized 1979

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A midday collect anchoring noon prayer in the hour of Christ's crucifixion, drawn from a traditional Anglican prayer with Byzantine roots and modernized for the American Episcopal Church's 1979 Noonday office.