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​The Address (is always to God: in this case “Almighty God”)​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”)​The Petition (is our ask: “Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise”)​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”)​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 17The form or structure of today’s collect​The Address: "O God"​The Acknowledgment: “because without you we are not able to please you”​The Petition: “mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts”​The Aspiration: no aspiration in this collect​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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