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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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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.