Proper 17
O Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow after us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Tua nos, quaesumus, Domine, gratia semper et praeveniat et sequatur, ac bonis operibus iugiter praestet esse intentos.
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This short prayer asking that God's grace "precede and follow" us comes from an early medieval sacramentary and has been prayed in Western Christianity for over a thousand years. Archbishop Cranmer carried it into the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.