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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Commontide
Collect
Prayers

The Great Vigil of Easter — The Flood

Grant, Lord, that we who are baptized into the death of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ may continually put to death our evil desires and be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death we may pass to our joyful resurrection; through the merits of him who died and was buried and rose again for us, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Great Vigil Of EasterLent & Holy Week

Provenance

Scottish BCP, 1637

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

Prayed after the Flood reading at the Easter Vigil, this collect is not ancient: it first appeared in the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book, was reworked for 1662, and was revived by the ACNA's 2019 prayer book in modernized form.