O God, who by your only-begotten Son has overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life, grant us, we ask you, that we who celebrate the solemnities of our Lord’s resurrection may by the renewing of your Spirit arise from the death of the soul; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. [Amen.] The Gelasian Sacramentary((Thomas C. Oden and Cindy Crosby, eds., Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings: Lectionary Cycle A (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007), 101.))
Almighty God, who through thine only begotten son Jesus Christ has overcome death, and opened unto vs the gate of everlasting life: we humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires: So by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth, and reigneth with thee, and the holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.((The Book of Common Prayer from the Original Manuscript: Attached to the Act of Uniformity of 1662 (London; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Melbourne; Sydney; New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1892), 151.))
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