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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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For Desiring God

O God, grant that we may desire you, and desiring you seek you, and seeking you find you, and finding you be satisfied in you for ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 668

Provenance

ACNA 2019 (attrib. Xavier)

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A brief, cascading prayer, desire, seek, find, rest, printed for the first time in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer under the name of the sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier.