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 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.