Grant to your faithful people, merciful Lord, pardon and peace; that we may be cleansed from all our sins, and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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This little prayer has been quietly forgiving people since before England had a printed Bible. Born as a medieval Sarum collect and translated by Cranmer in 1549, it later became the words a deacon prays on Ash Wednesday in place of the priestly Absolution.