Commontide

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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Holy Saturday (alternative)

O God of the living, on this day your Son our Savior descended to the place of the dead: Look with kindness on all of us who wait in hope for liberation from the corruption of sin and death, and give us a share in the glory of the children of God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 608

Found in the Prayer Book

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

  • Collects of the Christian Year
  • Holy SaturdayLent & Holy Week

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This Holy Saturday prayer takes its address from Jesus's own words to the Sadducees: God is not the God of the dead but of the living. A modern Anglican composition first appearing in the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019), it gives scriptural voice to the Church's quiet vigil between cross and empty tomb.