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Summary
- Grace is God’s free, unearned favor and help: “by grace are ye saved through faith” (Ephesians 2:8), and “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls grace “the free and undeserved help that God gives us” (paragraph 1996) and distinguishes sanctifying grace from actual graces (paragraph 2000).
- “The Grace” is the blessing of 2 Corinthians 13:14, with which the 1928 Book of Common Prayer allows Morning Prayer to end.
- Short prayers ask for grace for the day, after failure, to forgive, toward oneself, in suffering, for humility, in speech, to grow, and for someone else.
- The collect “that thy grace may always prevent and follow us” appears in both the Book of Common Prayer and the Catholic Missal; the 1888 Manual of Prayers gives the grace before meals “Bless us, O Lord.”
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Numbers 6:24–26; Psalm 84:11; John 1:16; Romans 3:24; 5:20; 8:1; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 13:14; Ephesians 2:8–9; Colossians 4:6; Titus 2:11; Hebrews 4:16; James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:10; 2 Peter 3:18). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraphs 1996 and 2000. https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/section_one/chapter_three/article_2/ii_grace.html
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Morning Prayer, “A Collect for Grace” and rubric, p. 17, and 2 Cor. xiii. 14, p. 20; Collect for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, p. 213; Collect for the Annunciation, p. 235. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. The Angelus, p. 56; Grace before Meals, p. 58; Collect for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, p. 744. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
