Commontide
Proper 3
O Lord, we entreat you mercifully to hear us, and grant that we, to whom you have given the desire to pray, may by your mighty aid be defended and comforted in all our adversities; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 616
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One of the oldest continuously-used collects in Anglican prayer books, this prayer traces from an early Roman sacramentary through medieval Sarum use to Cranmer's 1549 Book of Common Prayer, where it stood as the Third Sunday after Trinity collect, a place it has held in every major Anglican revision except the 1979 American BCP, which the ACNA 2019 deliberately reversed.