{"id":9718,"date":"2023-10-19T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=9718"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:07:03","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Collect (Opening Prayer)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">After the Gloria comes the Collect, often called the opening prayer.&nbsp; The priest begins, \u201cLet us pray\u201d and then there is silence.&nbsp; The silence is intentional as a moment to collect our thoughts to bring together our hearts in prayer.&nbsp; It is \u201cusually addressed to God the Father through Christ, in the Holy Spirit\u201d (G.I.R.M., 54).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">While short, the prayer is structured in four parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;Invocation &#8211; calls upon God, generally with the simple words \u201cAlmighty God\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">2.&nbsp;Amplification &#8211; and then comes words announcing the good things God has done for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">3.&nbsp;Petition &#8211; Then the prayer asks God to help us in some way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">4.&nbsp;Conclusion &#8211; invokes the Trinity, \u201cThrough our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Previous articles in this series can be read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass<\/a>)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Collect (Opening Prayer) After the Gloria comes the Collect, often called the opening prayer.&nbsp; The priest begins, \u201cLet us pray\u201d and then there is silence.&nbsp; The silence is intentional as a moment to collect our thoughts to bring together our hearts in prayer.&nbsp; It is \u201cusually addressed to God the Father through Christ, in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #11&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2wK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}