O God, the God of spirits
and of all flesh, who is beyond compare, and stands in need of nothing, who has
given the sun to have rule over the day, and the moon and the stars to have
rule over the night, do thou now also look down upon us with gracious eyes, and
receive our morning thanksgivings, and have mercy upon us; for we have not
spread out our hands to a strange god; for there is not among us any new god,
but thou, the eternal God, who art without end, who hast given us our being
through Christ, and given us our well-being through him. Do thou vouchsafe us
also, through him, eternal life; with whom glory and honor and worship be to thee
and to the Holy Spirit forever.
Amen.
- the Apostolic Constitutions