Commontide

For the Acceptance of Prayer

O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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Commontide
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Trinitytide

Week Starting August 28-September 3

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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Original-language source

BCP 2019, p. 619

Provenance

Gregorian Sacramentary, c. 800

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

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.