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A prayer for a church service

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak … as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4. The picture: El Greco, Pentecost, about 1600, Museo del Prado.

Prayer 1 of 5About 25 seconds aloud

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears, may, through thy grace, be so grafted inwardly in our hearts, that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living, to the honour and praise of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Book of Common Prayer (1928), Prayers, Collects, p. 49

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El Greco, Pentecostés, en un marco dorado en la pared: los apóstoles y María bajo la paloma, una llama sobre cada cabeza
“Y fueron todos llenos del Espíritu Santo, y comenzaron a hablar… según el Espíritu les daba que hablasen”.Hechos 2:4 · El Greco, Pentecostés, hacia 1600, Museo del Prado

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