Commontide

For the Acceptance of Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Commontide
Collect
Saints & Holy Days

Of Any Commemoration (alternative)

Almighty God, by your Holy Spirit you have made us one with your saints in heaven and on earth: Grant that in our earthly pilgrimage we may always be supported by this fellowship of love and prayer, and know ourselves to be surrounded by their witness to your power and mercy; for the sake of Jesus Christ, in whom all our intercessions are acceptable through the Spirit, and who lives and reigns with you and the same Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 640

Proper Preface

Preface of Any Commemoration

For the grace and virtue manifest in [N. and all] your saints, who have been the chosen vessels of your love, and the lights of the world in their generations.

Provenance

ECUSA 1979 / ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

First given to Anglicans by the Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book, this collect prays the ancient truth of the communion of saints: the Holy Spirit knits the living and the departed into one fellowship of love and prayer. The 1979 book offers it in both contemporary and traditional language, and an earlier devotional source may lie behind it.