Commontide
O God, who for our redemption gave your only begotten Son to die upon the Cross, and by his glorious resurrection delivered us from the devil and the power of death: Grant us grace to die daily to sin, that we may live with him in the joy of his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 609
Preface of Easter
But chiefly are we bound to praise you for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the true Paschal Lamb, who was offered for us, and has taken away the sin of the world; who by his death has destroyed death, and by his rising to life again has won for us everlasting life.
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An ancient prayer first found in the 7th-century Gregorian Sacramentary, where it was assigned to Wednesday of Holy Week. Cranmer adapted it for BCP 1549, moving it to Easter morning and adding the petition to "die daily to sin." After disappearing from the prayer book tradition in 1552, it was not restored until the 1892 American revision.