Editing Collect (section)

==Structure==

A collect generally has five parts:<ref name=Barbee/><ref name="Fortescue">{{Cite book | last = Fortescue | first = Adrian | title = The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy | edition = 2nd | publisher = Longmans, Green and Co. | date = 1914 | url = https://archive.org/details/massstudyofroman00fort  }}</ref>{{rp|250}}
*Invocation or address: indicating the person of [[Trinity]] addressed, usually [[God the Father]], rarely [[God the Son]]
*Acknowledgement: description of a divine attribute that relates to the petition (often ''qui ...'' - who ... )
*Petition: "for one thing only and that in the tersest language"<ref name="Fortescue"/>{{rp|249}}
*Aspiration:
**The desired result (begins with the word ''ut'' - in order that)
**Indication of a further purpose of the petition
*Pleading:
**Conclusion indicating the mediation of [[Jesus Christ]]. 
**Response by the people: [[Amen]]

In some contemporary liturgical texts, this structure has been obscured by sentence constructions that depart from the straightforwardness of a single sentence.