“O Lord God—who has given man the night for rest, as you have created the day in which he may employ himself in labor—grant, I pray, that my body may so rest during this night that my mind cease not to be awake to you, nor my heart faint or be overcome with torpor, preventing …
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Evening Collects
Both of these prayers, I think, are beautiful in their acknowledgment of our human condition and our dependence on Christ in the midst of it. And both are from The Book of Common Prayer, the 2019 edition. May they bless you this night. “Be present, O merciful God, and protect us through the hours of …
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