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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 Simon and Saint Jude

Grant, O God, that as your apostles Simon and Jude were faithful and zealous in their mission, so we may with ardent devotion make known the love and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Deus, qui nos per beatos Apostolos tuos Simonem et Judam ad agnitionem tui nominis venire tribuisti: da nobis eorum gloriam sempiternam et proficiendo celebrare, et celebrando proficere.

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BCP 2019, p. 633

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 1979, rev. ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This collect was newly composed for the 1979 US Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, replacing the prayer Anglicans had used for more than four centuries. The ACNA 2019 recast its opening from a thanksgiving into a direct petition while keeping the heart of the prayer intact.