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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 Quiet Confidence

O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be our strength: By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee, to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 670

Provenance

Suter, 1919

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A twentieth-century American collect, first drafted in 1919 by a father-and-son team of Episcopal clergy and carried into every American prayer book since, weaving Isaiah's "in quietness and in confidence shall be our strength" together with Psalm 46's "be still, and know that I am God."