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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Prayers

Week Starting May 22-28

Proper 3

O Lord, we entreat you mercifully to hear us, and grant that we, to whom you have given the desire to pray, may by your mighty aid be defended and comforted in all our adversities; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

Deprecationem nostram, quaesumus, Domine, benignus exaudi; et quibus supplicandi praestas affectum, tribue defensionis auxilium.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 616

Provenance

Gregorian, c. 590–800

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest continuously-used collects in Anglican prayer books, this prayer traces from an early Roman sacramentary through medieval Sarum use to Cranmer's 1549 Book of Common Prayer, where it stood as the Third Sunday after Trinity collect, a place it has held in every major Anglican revision except the 1979 American BCP, which the ACNA 2019 deliberately reversed.