Have been using Reflections for Daily Prayers, a wee devotional book, over the advent period. Wanted something different to the usual devotional readings I use, and so this seemed an ideal choice as it takes it's readings for each day from the Common Worship Weekday Lectionary (see http://www.dailyprayer.org.uk/ for more info). The rhythm it takes and forms has been really enhancing for me.
Today's collect is a particularly beautiful prayer:
Almighty God,
who wonderfully created us in your own image
and yet more wonderfully restored us
through your Son Jesus Christ:
grant that, as he came to share in our humanity,
so we may share the life of his divinity;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.
In the words used yesterday:
give us grace faithfully to bear his Name,
to worship him in the freedom of the Spirit,
and to proclaim him as the Saviour of the world.
Amen.
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