Grant, Lord, that we who are baptized into the death of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ may continually put to death our evil desires and be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death we may pass to our joyful resurrection; through the merits of him who died and was buried and rose again for us, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Prayed after the Flood reading at the Easter Vigil, this collect is not ancient: it first appeared in the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book, was reworked for 1662, and was revived by the ACNA's 2019 prayer book in modernized form.