As we head into the final stretch of our Presidential election and we brace to hit the wall, an old prayer that may have seemed quaint back in the day has certainly made a comeback in relevance, in this case the Collect for Peace from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. You can see it above. The idea that we need defence from “all assaults of our enemies” is certainly relevant these days; Cranmer and the divines of yore were on to something.


Amen!
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One of the best of the collects – and there are a lot of good ones!
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