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  • And in case you are not familiar with the term Collect, this word is the name for brief prayers which sum up or "collect" the private petitions of God's people; that is why there is or should be a slight pause between "Let us pray" and the Collect itself, to allow for the people to pray silently for a moment.

    The Continuum 2010

  • Both the study text of the English Translation of the Order of the Mass and the GIRM indicate that the Collect is said at the chair.

    A Reader Question about Ad Orientem in the Modern Liturgy 2009

  • New tax revenue stream: Collect from the Dine 'n Dash Dems nt

    House Democrats: half-trillion tax hike for Obamacare. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Bang out action blurbs in Collect, detail them in Process, file them in already-labelled folders like Actions, Someday/Maybe, and Projects, and mark them off in Execute.

    GTD Free Puts Getting Things Done On The Desktop | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • Today we have a simple little game called Collect The Dots.

    Totally NSFW 2008

  • Time was when the Collect was the only source of sweet water on the island—nearly every well dug on Manhattan yielded a brackish, murky flow—but people said it gave off malevolent vapors that caused yellowing fever.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • Time was when the Collect was the only source of sweet water on the island—nearly every well dug on Manhattan yielded a brackish, murky flow—but people said it gave off malevolent vapors that caused yellowing fever.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • After the Gloria he says the Collect, which is a collection of prayers in which the priest prays for the needs of the Church and of its children.

    Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead

  • If you have any questions, require assistance with voting your WHITE proxy card, or need additional copies of the proxy materials, please contact: (212) 929-5500 (Call Collect)

    unknown title 2011

  • Where we have the Tombs and surrounding blocks, stood the "Fresh Water" lake or "Collect," several fathoms deep, with high sloping banks on the north and west, and on whose surface were made the earliest experiments in steam navigation in

    The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

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