Daniel Meeter For my morning devotions I pray the Daily Office. I had first started with the Roman Catholic version, but about six years ago I switched to the Book of Common Prayer. One reason I did so was for the excellent collects of the Prayerbook. A "collect" is a compact prayer with a specific fivefold structure of address, attribution, request, result, and closing. (See John Witvliet's introduction, "Collective Wisdom," in the Christian Century of July 29, 2008.) Collects came…
Daniel MeeterOctober 16, 2008