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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 Thomas

Everliving God, you strengthened your apostle Thomas with firm and certain faith in your Son’s resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt to believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, that our faith may never be found wanting in your sight; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, beati Apostoli tui Thomae solemnitatibus gloriari: ut eius semper et patrociniis sublevemur, et fidem congrua devotione sectemur.

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BCP 2019, p. 624

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

ACNA 2019 (after BCP 1979)

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

The prayer now used for Saint Thomas's feast in ACNA 2019 is a modern composition, written for the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer and lightly revised by ACNA. It replaced a much older Anglican collect by Cranmer (1549), which was itself an original composition rather than a translation of the medieval Latin prayer used in the Sarum missal before the Reformation.