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For a Virtuous Heart

Give me, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy thought can drag down; an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose can tempt aside. Bestow upon me understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and faithfulness that finally may embrace you. Amen.

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Week Starting June 26-July 2

Proper 8

O God, your never-failing providence sets in order all things both in heaven and on earth: Put away from us all hurtful things, and give us those things that are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

Deus, cuius providentia in sui dispositione non fallitur, te supplices exoramus, ut noxia cuncta submoveas, et omnia nobis profutura concedas.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 617

Provenance

Gelasian, c. 750

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer that God's unfailing ordering of creation would reach into our daily lives: removing what harms us, granting what is good. Its Latin original is over a thousand years old, traceable to an early-medieval sacramentary and carried through the Sarum Missal into every generation of the English prayer book.