Commontide
O God, you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his blood, may share with her the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 631
Preface of Christmas
Because you gave Jesus Christ, your only Son, to be born for us; who, by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary his mother, was made truly man, yet without the stain of sin, that we might be cleansed from sin and given the right to become your children.
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A modern Anglican prayer for the August 15 feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, confirmed in the Episcopal Church BCP of 1979 and carried into the ACNA BCP of 2019. Secondary sources say it was adapted from the Church of South Africa's commemoration of the feast.