Grant, Almighty God,

    since you have not only created me out of nothing,

  but intend to create me again in your only begotten Son;

    and since you have taken me from the lowest depths,

  so that you may raise me to the hope of your heavenly kingdom:

Grant, I pray,

   that I may not be proud or puffed up with conceit;

  but may embrace your favor with humility,

    and submit myself to you in simplicity,

  until at last I become a partaker of that glory

    your only begotten Son has acquired for me.

Amen.

 

John Calvin

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We all, with unveiled faces, 

    are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord 

    and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory;

 this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.