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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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Saints & Holy Days

Saint Bartholomew

Almighty and everlasting God, you gave your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your Word: Grant that your Church may love what he believed and preach what he taught; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui hujus diei venerandam sanctamque laetitiam in beati Apostoli tui Bartholomaei festivitate tribuisti: da Ecclesiae tuae, quaesumus, et amare quod credidit, et praedicare quod docuit.

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Original-language source

BCP 2019, p. 631

Proper Preface

Preface of Apostles

Through the great shepherd of your flock, Jesus Christ our Lord, who after his resurrection sent forth his apostles to preach the Gospel and to teach all nations, and promised to be with them always, even to the end of the ages.

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

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This collect has been prayed on Saint Bartholomew's feast since Thomas Cranmer drafted it for the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549, drawing on a Sarum Latin oration but reshaping it around the twin apostolic gifts of faithful belief and bold preaching. Cranmer's prayer has remained in virtually every Anglican and Episcopal prayer book for nearly five centuries, asking that the Church share the apostle's grace: to love what he believed, and to preach what he taught.