Commontide
Pour your grace into our hearts, O Lord, that we who have known the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ, announced by an angel to the Virgin Mary, may by his Cross and passion be brought to the glory of his resurrection; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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A prayer accompanying the feast of the Annunciation since at least the eighth century, first used as the postcommunion after the Eucharist in the Sarum and Roman rites, then promoted by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 to serve as the collect for the day – a position it has held in Anglican prayer books ever since.