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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Palm Sunday — The Procession

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Palm SundayLent & Holy Week

Provenance

Huntington, 1928

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A Holy Week prayer that turns Christ's road to the Cross into the pattern of every disciple's path, composed in the 1890s and formally entered into the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer.