Commontide

For Help to Bear Bereavement

Heavenly Father, help us to entrust our loved ones to your care. Though sorrow darkens our lives, help us to look up to you, remembering the cloud of witnesses by which we are surrounded. And grant that we on earth, rejoicing ever in your presence, may share with them the rest and peace which your presence gives; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Commontide
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Prayers

Week Starting October 23-29

Proper 25

Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui cæléstia simul et terréna moderáris, supplicatiónes pópuli tui cleménter exáudi, et pacem tuam nostris concéde tempóribus. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

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Original-language source

BCP 2019, p. 621

Provenance

Gregorian, c. 785-6

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican prayer book, this collect traces to an anonymous oration in the eighth-century Gregorian Sacramentary. It asks the God who governs everything – heaven and earth alike – to hear his people and grant them peace. Cranmer translated it for the very first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.