Commontide
O God, you made this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord’s resurrection: Stir up in your Church that Spirit of adoption which is given to us in Baptism, that we, being renewed both in body and mind, may worship you in sincerity and truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, 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.
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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One of the oldest prayers in Anglican worship, this Easter Eve collect traces to the Roman Vigil service books of the early medieval period and has been prayed at the Easter Vigil for at least thirteen centuries. Bishop John Cosin translated it for the 1662 Prayer Book, giving the Church of England its first propers for Easter Eve.