The collect (/ˈkɒlɛkt/ KOL-ekt) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy.
[3]: 248 In the 1973 translation of the Roman Missal by the ICEL, the word collecta was rendered as "Opening Prayer".
[8] In more modern Anglican versions of the Communion service, such as Common Worship[9] used in the Church of England or the 1979 Book of Common Prayer[10] used in the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Collect of the Day follows the Gloria and precedes readings from the Bible.
Similarly, Lutheran liturgies typically retain traditional collects for each Sunday of the liturgical year.
In the Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymnal of the ELCA, however, the set of prayers has been expanded to incorporate different Sunday collects for each year of the lectionary cycle, so that the prayers more closely coordinate with the lectionary scripture readings for the day.