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"O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

Proper 21

• ​Address: "O God"
• ​Ascription: "you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity"
• ​Petition: "Grant us the fullness of your grace"
• ​Aspiration: "that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure"
• ​Pleading: "through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

“O God, who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running to obtain thy promises, may be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

Proper 21 (Traditional)

"Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

Proper 20 (Contemporary)

• ​Address: “O Lord”
• ​Acknowledgment: None
• ​Petition: “Grant us… not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure”
• ​Aspiration: None
• ​Pleading: “through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

"Grant us, O Lord, not to mind earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to cleave to those that shall abide; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

Proper 20 (Traditional)

What is a collect? 

It is a brief prayer with a particular structure that gathers the intentions of the community around the appointed Scripture readings for that Sunday.

What is its form or structure?

It’s made up of 5 parts.

These parts consist of: 

• ​An Address
• ​An Acknowledgment
• ​A Petition
• ​An Aspiration
• ​A Pleading

(That said, not every collect has all 5 parts–some have 4; others just 3. But the 5 part structure is pretty normative.)

So what’s an example?

Taken straight from one of the collects that we’ll pray in Lent:

“Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”

-Fifth Sunday in Lent

1. ​The Address (is always to God: in this case “Almighty God”)
2. ​The Acknowledgment (highlights an aspect about God’s character or human nature: “You alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners”)
3. ​The Petition (is our ask: “Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise”)
4. ​The Aspiration (is the “so that” or the reason for our ask: “that among the swift and varied changes of the world our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found”)
5. ​The Pleading (The Trinitarian or Christological “mediating” conclusion: “through Christ our Lord who lives and reigns”)

Today’s collect:

“O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”

-Proper 17

The form or structure of today’s collect

1. ​The Address: "O God"
2. ​The Acknowledgment: “because without you we are not able to please you”
3. ​The Petition: “mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts”
4. ​The Aspiration: no aspiration in this collect
5. ​The Pleading: “through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”

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The late Medieval, early Modern saint who, despite his shortcomings, published some very glad tidings

*h/t to the one-and-only Phillip Cary

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