Commontide

Before Receiving Communion

Be present, be present, O Jesus, our great High Priest, as you were present with your disciples, and be known to us in the breaking of bread; who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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Blessing
Prayers

The Grace

The Great Litany — the Officiant may add other prayers, and may end the Litany, saying

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen.

Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν.

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Provenance

Pauline, c. AD 55

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

The closing blessing of almost every Anglican service is not a composed prayer at all but a single sentence lifted verbatim from St. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, written around AD 55. Paul's trinitarian valediction was set at the end of the Daily Offices and the Great Litany in the 1559 Book of Common Prayer and has stood there ever since.