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The Latin word collēcta meant the gathering of the people together (from colligō, "to gather") and may have been applied to this prayer as said before the procession to the church in which Mass was celebrated. It may also have been used to mean a prayer that collected into one the prayers of the individual members of the congregation. [1] [2]
When the hall was reopened after restoration in 1986, Bernstein received the first commission for the opening celebrations. [1] He set a Hebrew benediction for baritone and orchestra. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The text is the Priestly Blessing ( Numbers 6:24–26 ), which serves to conclude the liturgy of traditional morning services, [ 2 ] in English:
This prayer is said at the conclusion of the Liturgy of the Word or Mass of the Catechumens (the older term). The General Instruction of the Roman Missal states: . In the General Intercessions or the Prayer of the Faithful, the people respond in a certain way to the word of God which they have welcomed in faith and, exercising the office of their baptismal priesthood, offer prayers to God for ...
The first opening prayer on the first large bead (optional); The second opening prayer, repeated three times, still on the first large bead (optional); The Lord's Prayer on the first small bead; The Hail Mary on the second small bead; and; The Apostles' Creed on the third small bead. The praying of the decades then follows, repeating this cycle ...
The Rev. Jacob Duché leading the first prayer for the Second Continental Congress, Philadelphia, September 7, 1774. Prayer before the opening of a legislative body traces its origins back to the colonial period. At that time, before the Constitution and its amendments separated church and colonial assemblies would open proceedings with prayer.
The Daily Office is a term used primarily by members of the Episcopal Church. In Anglican churches, the traditional canonical hours of daily services include Morning Prayer (also called Matins or Mattins, especially when chanted) and Evening Prayer (called Evensong, especially when celebrated chorally), usually following the Book of Common Prayer.
Since 1937, the United States presidential inauguration has included one or more prayers given by members of the clergy. [1] [2] Since 1933 an associated prayer service either public or private attended by the president-elect has often taken place on the morning of the day. [3]
Understood in his divine and human mystery, Christ is the foundation and centre of history, he is its meaning and ultimate goal.... His incarnation, culminating in the Paschal Mystery and the gift of the Spirit, is the pulsating heart of time, the mysterious hour in which the Kingdom of God came to us (cf. Mk 1:15), indeed took root in our history, as the seed destined to become a great tree ...