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For Guidance

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For Knowing and Loving God

O God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the wills that serve you: Help us so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 668

Provenance

Lesser Feasts and Fasts, 1963

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for the mind's illumination, the soul's love, and the will's service, drawn from the Episcopal Church's 1963 collect for Augustine of Hippo and carried, the saint's name quietly dropped, into the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019).