Quote Originally Posted by Chaplain Harris View Post
Ya know, sometime you get chosen to do something and you look at the order and it boggles the mind when you hear something that you have no idea what it is. We have a point of our service call "the collect". Now, I've got some guesses to it, but I have never heard it before. I know the Scotsman confession, Call to worships, benedictions, blessings, performed many sermons/homily. Just not "The Collect". (Maybe it is something that the churches I've been affiliated with have not used) Any input would be appreciated.

Chaplain Harris
From the Latin word collecta, meaning "assembly." The word is normally used to refer to the prayer near the beginning of the Eucharist that precedes the lessons. The collect was supposedly designed to "collect" the thoughts of the lessons and bind the thoughts together, back in the days when only one lesson and a Gospel were read. A collect is actually any short prayer that contains an invocation, a petition, and a pleading in Christ's Name (in that order).

-- http://www.holycross.net/anonline.htm
From an online dictionary of Episcopal/Anglican terms.

It's the Scots Confession, btw.

Regards,

Todd