Commontide
Almighty God, whose blessed Son restored Mary Magdalene to health of body and of mind, and called her to be a witness of his resurrection: Mercifully grant that, by your grace, we may be healed from all our infirmities and know you in the power of his unending life; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 630
Preface of Apostles
Through the great shepherd of your flock, Jesus Christ our Lord, who after his resurrection sent forth his apostles to preach the Gospel and to teach all nations, and promised to be with them always, even to the end of the ages.
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A mid-twentieth-century Anglican composition written fresh by the Episcopal Church's Standing Liturgical Commission in 1963, when this feast returned to the Anglican calendar after more than four hundred years of absence. Revised for the 1979 Book of Common Prayer to add the distinctive phrase "health of body and of mind," the text has been carried by every subsequent Anglican prayer book.