So as I prepared for the vigil tonight and the Eucharist tomorrow for the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary I suddenly realized that there is not an official collect for such (I knew this mind you but some things do not hit you until prep time) and that the traditional collects were all for the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which for various dogmatic points of incarnational theology and praxis points of the Lutherans with whom we share worship, these are not practical... Thus with a bit of thought comes this:
O God, who in the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ prepared for him a dwelling-place by the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: mercifully grant that she who was first to bear Christ may evermore pray for us so that we too may be prepared to bear Christ to the world. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
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