Grant, we pray, Almighty God, that we who celebrate with reverence the Paschal feast may be made worthy to attain to everlasting joys; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui festa paschalia venerando egimus, per haec contingere ad gaudia aeterna mereamur.
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Preface of Easter
But chiefly are we bound to praise you for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the true Paschal Lamb, who was offered for us, and has taken away the sin of the world; who by his death has destroyed death, and by his rising to life again has won for us everlasting life.
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A prayer from the ancient Roman sacramentary tradition, carried into Anglican worship through the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer. It opens Easter week with a petition that those who have kept the feast with reverence may be found worthy of everlasting joy.