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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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The Communion of Saints

O God of the spirits of all flesh, we praise and magnify thy holy Name for all thy servants who have finished their course in thy faith and fear; and we beseech thee that, encouraged by their examples and strengthened by their fellowship, we also may be found meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 678

Provenance

BCP 1979 / ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer of thanksgiving for all who have died in the faith, first found as an added burial prayer in the American Prayer Book of 1979, then lifted into the 2019 ACNA Prayer Book as an occasional prayer under its own title.