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Daily Devotional Guide Preparing Our Hearts

Invocation: Our Prayer of Acclamation Grant, O Lord, we beseech Thee, to Thy people an inviolable firmness of faith; that as they confess Thine Only-begotten Son, the everlasting partaker of Thy glory, to have been born in our very flesh, of the Virgin Mother, they may be delivered frompresent adversities, and admitted into joys that shall abide; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ~ Leonine Sacramentary, inWilliam Bright, Ancient Collects and Other Prayers: Selected for Devotional Use fromVarious Rituals, 8th ed . Oxford and London: James Parker, 1908. p. 23. Call toWorship Blessed are you, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And blessed is your Kingdom, both now and forever, amen. Praising Our God Te Deum Laudamus You are God: we praise you; you are the Lord; we acclaim you; you are the eternal Father: All creation worships you. To you all angels, all the powers of heaven, Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. The glorious company of apostles praise you. The noble fellowship of prophets praise you. The white-robed army of martyrs praise you. Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you; Father, of majesty unbounded, your true and only Son, worthy of all worship, and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.