Commontide

Before Receiving Communion

Be present, be present, O Jesus, our great High Priest, as you were present with your disciples, and be known to us in the breaking of bread; who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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Commontide

For Mercy · Commontide

Prayer

Prayers

For Mercy

Almighty God, you have not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities; grant that we, who for our evil deeds deserve to be punished, by the might of your grace may mercifully be relieved; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Concede quesumus, omnipotens deus: vt qui ex merito nostre actionis affligimur: tue gratie consolatione respiremus. Per do.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 669

Provenance

ACNA 2019 splice

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This prayer takes a line from Psalm 103 (God does not deal with us as our sins deserve) and joins it to one of the oldest prayers still said in English: the historic collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, which goes back through Cranmer's prayer book to a Latin prayer said in Rome well over a thousand years ago.