Commontide
O God, you desire that all people be saved and come to knowledge of the truth: Prosper all those who live, preach, and teach the Gospel at home and in distant lands; protect them in all perils, support them in their loneliness, sustain them in the hour of trial; give them your abundant grace to bear faithful witness; and endue them with burning zeal and love, that they may turn many to righteousness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 652
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A prayer for all who carry the Gospel at home or abroad, this collect opens with the universal missionary mandate of 1 Timothy 2:4 and asks God to protect, sustain, and inflame those who bear witness.