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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 the Coming of God’s Kingdom

Hasten, O Father, the coming of your kingdom; and grant that we your servants, who now live by faith, may with joy behold your Son at his coming in glorious majesty; even Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 679

Provenance

TEC 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This prayer asks God to hasten the day when Christ returns "in glorious majesty," and it comes from the Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book, where it closes the Prayers of the People. The Anglican Church in North America carried it into its own 2019 prayer book, modernizing the old "thy" and "thou" into "your" and "you," and placed it among prayers about death and the world to come.