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
Collect
Trinitytide

Week Starting September 11-17

Proper 19

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Dirigat corda nostra, quaesumus, Domine, tuae miserationis operatio, quia tibi sine te placere non possumus.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 620

Provenance

Gelasian, c. 750

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican tradition, this collect reaches back to the early medieval Roman church, appearing in the Gelasian Sacramentary around 750 AD. Thomas Cranmer translated it for the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549; in 1662 the revisers made its petition more explicit by naming the Holy Spirit as the one who directs our hearts, the form all subsequent prayer books have kept.