Commontide

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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Holy Saturday (alternative)

O God of the living, on this day your Son our Savior descended to the place of the dead: Look with kindness on all of us who wait in hope for liberation from the corruption of sin and death, and give us a share in the glory of the children of God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 608

Found in the Prayer Book

This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.

  • Collects of the Christian Year
  • Holy SaturdayLent & Holy Week

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This Holy Saturday prayer takes its address from Jesus's own words to the Sadducees: God is not the God of the dead but of the living. A modern Anglican composition first appearing in the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019), it gives scriptural voice to the Church's quiet vigil between cross and empty tomb.