Commontide

For the Acceptance of Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Week Starting June 19-25

Proper 7

Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Deus virtutum, cuius est totum quod est optimum, insere pectoribus nostris tui nominis amorem, et praesta, ut in nobis, religionis augmento, quae sunt bona nutrias, ac, vigilanti studio, quae nutrita custodias.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 617

Provenance

Gelasian, c.750 → Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest collects still in Anglican use, this prayer has been prayed at the Sunday Eucharist since at least the seventh or eighth century. Cranmer translated it for the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549, quietly recasting its opening to echo St. James's letter on the God who gives all good things.