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For Guidance

Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally, through your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Prayers

Saint Luke

Almighty God, you called your servant Luke to be an evangelist and physician of the soul: Grant that, by the wholesome medicine of the doctrine he taught, all the diseases of our souls may be healed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 632

Proper Preface

Preface of All Saints’

For in the multitude of your saints, you have surrounded us with so great a cloud of witnesses that we, rejoicing in their fellowship, may run with patience the race that is set before us, and, together with them, may receive the unfading crown of glory.

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

Written by Thomas Cranmer for the first English prayer book of 1549, this collect turns Luke's identity as physician and Gospel author into a petition for doctrinal healing of the soul. The ACNA 2019 text is a light modernisation of Cranmer's original.