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

Collect of a Martyr · Commontide

Collect

Saints & Holy Days

Of a Martyr

Almighty God, you gave your servant N. boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world, and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us, and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 637

Proper Preface

Preface of a Martyr

For the witness of your martyrs, who took up their cross and followed you even unto death, and revealed your power made perfect in human weakness.

Provenance

Episcopal SLC, 1979

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A modern prayer for martyrs, woven from New Testament calls to witness, first introduced by the Episcopal Church in 1979 as part of a newly structured Common of Saints.