More Ready to Hear: Collect for Proper 12 | #anglican #prayer #theology

The collect for the week of Proper 12 is one that is packed to the gills with theology about God himself. Father Jeremiah unpacks it for us today that we might draw near to our God in Jesus Christ more fully.

The text of the collect is:
Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire
or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.