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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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For Knowing and Loving God

O God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the wills that serve you: Help us so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 668

Provenance

Lesser Feasts and Fasts, 1963

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for the mind's illumination, the soul's love, and the will's service, drawn from the Episcopal Church's 1963 collect for Augustine of Hippo and carried, the saint's name quietly dropped, into the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019).