Short prayers to be committed unto perfect memory for our first Holy Exercise in the beginning of the day.
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When we first awake.
Light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death. (Psalm 13:3)
Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. (Ephesians 5:14)
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. (Psalm 119:18)
At our uprising.
In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for evermore.
Or this.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was crucified for me, I arise from my own rest to do him service. By His Cross and Passion, may he save me, bless me, govern me and keep me this day and forever. Amen.
I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. (Psalm 3:5)
At apparelling.
Clothe me with the garments of salvation; cover me with the robe of righteousness. (From Isaiah 61:10)
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (Romans 13:14)
At the washing of our hands.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! (Psalm 51:2)
Cleanse me, O Lord, in the bright fountain of your mercy, and water me with the dew of your abundant grace, that being purified from my sins I may grow up in good works truly serving you in holiness and righteousness all the days of my life.
And then humbly commending ourselves to God’s protection upon our knees.
Into the hands of your blessed protection and boundless mercy, O Lord, I commend this day my soul and my body,with all the faculties, powers and actions of them both. Always be with me to direct, sanctify and govern me in the ways of your laws and in the works of your commandments, that through your most mighty protection, both here and ever, I may be preserved in body and soul to serve you, the only true God, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen
Source: Modified from Collection of Private Devotions in the Practice of the Ancient Church, Called the Hours of Prayer, Ed. John Cosin, James Parker & Co, 1867, p. 47-49
The final prayer is also found in the Sarum Psalter.
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