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Morning Prayer
Almighty and everlasting God, who alone works great marvels: Send down upon our clergy and the congregations committed to their charge the life-giving Spirit of your grace, shower them with the continual dew of your blessing, and ignite in them a zealous love of your Gospel; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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One of the oldest prayers in the English liturgical tradition, this collect was already in Cranmer's 1544 Litany and entered the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as "A Prayer for the Clergy and People." Its Latin original stands in the early-medieval Roman sacramentaries, and its opening phrase echoes Psalm 136 verbatim; the ACNA 2019 text freshens the language and adds a new petition for "a zealous love of your Gospel."