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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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Prayers

Week Starting August 28-September 3

Proper 17

O Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow after us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Tua nos, quaesumus, Domine, gratia semper et praeveniat et sequatur, ac bonis operibus iugiter praestet esse intentos.

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Original-language source

BCP 2019, p. 619

Provenance

Gregorian Sacramentary, c. 800

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This short prayer asking that God's grace "precede and follow" us comes from an early medieval sacramentary and has been prayed in Western Christianity for over a thousand years. Archbishop Cranmer carried it into the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.