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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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Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally, through your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Actiones nostras, quaesumus Domine, et aspirando praeveni, et adiuvando prosequere: ut cuncta nostra operatio et a te semper incipiat, et per te coepta finiatur. Per Dominum.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 669

Found in the Prayer Book

This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.

  • Occasional Prayers
  • Ordination Of A Deacon · as “Post Communion Collect”Ordination & Institution

Provenance

Gregorian, c.750

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short prayer asking God to go ahead of us into whatever we're about to do, and to see it through with us, so that everything we undertake, however it turns out, ends up glorifying him.