Commontide

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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Commontide
Collect
Prayers

The Second Sunday of Epiphany

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.

BCP 2019, p. 602

Proper Preface

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.

Provenance

CSI / ECUSA 1979

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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.