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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Commontide
Collect
Holy Week

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.