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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Prayers

The Transfiguration

O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 630

Proper Preface

Preface of the Transfiguration

Because in the mystery of the Word made flesh, you have caused a new light to shine in our hearts, to give the knowledge of your glory in the face of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Provenance

Huntington, 1892

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A Victorian prayer rooted in the mountain-top moment when Moses, Elijah, and the disciples saw Christ shining in glory. Its language weaves together the Gospel accounts of the Transfiguration with the Old Testament prophet's promise that God's people will one day "behold the King in his beauty," and was composed for the American prayer book in 1892 by William Reed Huntington, the Episcopal priest behind the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral.