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To Please God Rather Than Men

Our God, in whom we trust: Strengthen us not to regard overmuch who is for us or who is against us, but to see to it that we be with you in everything we do. Amen.

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Week Starting August 14-20

Proper 15

Keep your Church, O Lord, by your perpetual mercy; and because without you the frailty of our nature causes us to fall, keep us from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable for our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua: et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas; tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxiis, et ad salutaria dirigatur.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 619

Provenance

Gelasian, c.650

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer of fourteen centuries' standing asking God to hold his Church back from harm and guide her toward salvation – carried from the Gelasian Sacramentary into every major Anglican prayer book by Archbishop Cranmer in 1549.