A prayer for today from Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882)

O Holy Creator Spirit, on this day come down once more into our souls in Thine own thrilling fire of life and light and heat, kindling our senses with thy light, our hearts with thy love; wash away, stains, bedew our dryness, heal our wounds, bend our stubbornness, guide our wandering, that, thou being the Inmate of our hearts, the Instructor of our reason, the Strength of our will, we may see by Thy light Whom as yet we see not, and know Him Who passes knowledge, and through God may love God, now as way-farers, and, in the day of perfected Redemption, in the beatific vision of our God, to whom, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be ascribed all honor, power, might, majesty, thanksgiving, and praise, forever and ever. Amen.

Give us Grace: An Anthology of Anglican Prayers, ed. Christopher L. Webber (Harrisburg: Morehouse, 2004), p. 254 (edited ever so slightly-KSH)

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