Commontide

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 Mary Magdalene

Almighty God, whose blessed Son restored Mary Magdalene to health of body and of mind, and called her to be a witness of his resurrection: Mercifully grant that, by your grace, we may be healed from all our infirmities and know you in the power of his unending life; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 630

Proper Preface

Preface of Apostles

Through the great shepherd of your flock, Jesus Christ our Lord, who after his resurrection sent forth his apostles to preach the Gospel and to teach all nations, and promised to be with them always, even to the end of the ages.

Provenance

Episcopal Church, 1963 / rev. 1979

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A mid-twentieth-century Anglican composition written fresh by the Episcopal Church's Standing Liturgical Commission in 1963, when this feast returned to the Anglican calendar after more than four hundred years of absence. Revised for the 1979 Book of Common Prayer to add the distinctive phrase "health of body and of mind," the text has been carried by every subsequent Anglican prayer book.