Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ’s glory, that he may be known, worshiped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Preface of the Epiphany
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who took on our mortal flesh to reveal his glory; that he might bring us out of darkness and into his own glorious light.
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A collect new to the 1979 Episcopal prayer book, drawn from the ecumenical Church of South India's Book of Common Worship (1963). Its imagery of Christ as the light of the world, and of the baptized shining with his reflected glory, is wholly scriptural in texture, drawing on John 8, Matthew 5, and 2 Corinthians 3 and 4.