A Prayer to Begin the Day from the Roman Breviary

O God, who by the lowliness of thy Son hast raised a fallen world: Grant to thy faithful people perpetual gladness; and as thou hast delivered them from eternal death, so do thou make them partakers of everlasting joys; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.

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One comment on “A Prayer to Begin the Day from the Roman Breviary

  1. Steve Perisho says:

    8th-century Gelasian sacramentary (no. 541):

    “Deus, qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti, laetitiam concede fidelibus tuis, ut, quos perpetuae mortis eripuisti casibus, gaudiis facias sempiternis perfrui.”

    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015006952322?urlappend=;seq=194