O Lord,
you wash away our offences.
Comfort us who call on you.
Blot out our transgressions,
and restore us
from the death of sin
to the land of the living;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Source: Sarum Breviary
Source of this version: Freely modified from Prayers of the Middle Ages, edited by J. Manning Potts, 1954
The prayer is a reflection on Psalm 51
Graphic: Page from an English Psalter, from Flickr, Walters Art Museum, Public Domain.
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