Structure
A collect generally has five parts:
- Invocation or address, indicating the person of Trinity addressed, usually God the Father, rarely God the Son
- Description of a divine attribute that relates to the petition (often qui ... - who ...)
- The petition, "for one thing only and that in the tersest language"
- The desired result (begins with the word ut - in order that)
- Indication of a further purpose of the petition
- Conclusion indicating the mediation of Jesus Christ.
- Response by the people: Amen
In some contemporary liturgical texts, this structure has been obscured by sentence constructions that depart from the Latin flowing style of a single sentence.
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