Be gracious to your people, we entreat you, O Lord, that they, repenting day by day of the things that displease you, may be more and more filled with love of you and of your commandments; and, being supported by your grace in this life, may come to the full enjoyment of eternal life in your everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The collect for today speaks of "repenting day by day" and being "more and more filled with love" of God. The sense of both of these phrases is that we often strengthen our relationship with God gradually rather than all at once. Turning our lives around is a bit like a plant which turns in the direction of the sun. It happens a little bit every day until it is facing the light. So we also may turn toward the light of God's love and forgiveness.