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 Any Commemoration · Commontide

Collect

Saints & Holy Days

Of Any Commemoration

Almighty God, you have surrounded us with a great cloud of witnesses: Grant that we, encouraged by the good example of your servant N., may persevere in running the race that is set before us, until at last, with him, we attain to your eternal joy; through Jesus Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 640

Proper Preface

Preface of Any Commemoration

For the grace and virtue manifest in [N. and all] your saints, who have been the chosen vessels of your love, and the lights of the world in their generations.

Provenance

American Episcopal, 1928

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A twentieth-century American prayer built almost entirely from two verses of Hebrews 12, first provided in the 1928 revision of the Episcopal Church's prayer book to give congregations a general collect for commemorating any saint.