• Foreword by HRH The Prince of WalesIntroduction by Ian Curteis An analysis of the Collects by Canon H.J. Burgess The Origin and Essential Characteristics of the CollectsThe Strcuture and Content of the CollectsThe Teaching of the CollectsThe Origin or Authorship of each Collect The CollectsMorning PrayerEvening PrayerAdventChristmasEpiphanyLentGood FridayEaster DayAscension DayWhit SundayTrinity SundaySaints' DaysThe Lord's Supper or Holy CommunionAfterword by the Bishop of London

This slim and beautiful book reminds us that the Collects are, in their original form, both holy and beautiful. They have a transcendent spiritual radiance that can hardly fail to appeal. Choir Schools Today, No. 16, 2002Tastefully presented. This is a volume to possess, and to use regularly in the home. We suggest it should form part of daily family prayers. English Churchman May 2000Essays on the origin and essential characteristics of the collects, their structure and contents, their teachings, the origin or authorship of each (.) What more can one say, except buy it? The Anglican Catholic, Spring 1999They express our deepest thoughts and desires in our relationship with God, yet with such economy of language and such clarity of meaning that their very simplicity masks the skill of their composition. Faith and Worship, No. 47 1999, W.A. BullSumptuous little volume. The Independent

• Foreword by HRH The Prince of WalesIntroduction by Ian Curteis An analysis of the Collects by Canon H.J. Burgess The Origin and Essential Characteristics of the CollectsThe Strcuture and Content of the CollectsThe Teaching of the CollectsThe Origin or Authorship of each Collect The CollectsMorning PrayerEvening PrayerAdventChristmasEpiphanyLentGood FridayEaster DayAscension DayWhit SundayTrinity SundaySaints' DaysThe Lord's Supper or Holy CommunionAfterword by the Bishop of London

This slim and beautiful book reminds us that the Collects are, in their original form, both holy and beautiful. They have a transcendent spiritual radiance that can hardly fail to appeal. Choir Schools Today, No. 16, 2002Tastefully presented. This is a volume to possess, and to use regularly in the home. We suggest it should form part of daily family prayers. English Churchman May 2000Essays on the origin and essential characteristics of the collects, their structure and contents, their teachings, the origin or authorship of each (.) What more can one say, except buy it? The Anglican Catholic, Spring 1999They express our deepest thoughts and desires in our relationship with God, yet with such economy of language and such clarity of meaning that their very simplicity masks the skill of their composition. Faith and Worship, No. 47 1999, W.A. BullSumptuous little volume. The Independent

• Foreword by HRH The Prince of WalesIntroduction by Ian Curteis An analysis of the Collects by Canon H.J. Burgess The Origin and Essential Characteristics of the CollectsThe Strcuture and Content of the CollectsThe Teaching of the CollectsThe Origin or Authorship of each Collect The CollectsMorning PrayerEvening PrayerAdventChristmasEpiphanyLentGood FridayEaster DayAscension DayWhit SundayTrinity SundaySaints' DaysThe Lord's Supper or Holy CommunionAfterword by the Bishop of London

This slim and beautiful book reminds us that the Collects are, in their original form, both holy and beautiful. They have a transcendent spiritual radiance that can hardly fail to appeal. Choir Schools Today, No. 16, 2002Tastefully presented. This is a volume to possess, and to use regularly in the home. We suggest it should form part of daily family prayers. English Churchman May 2000Essays on the origin and essential characteristics of the collects, their structure and contents, their teachings, the origin or authorship of each (.) What more can one say, except buy it? The Anglican Catholic, Spring 1999They express our deepest thoughts and desires in our relationship with God, yet with such economy of language and such clarity of meaning that their very simplicity masks the skill of their composition. Faith and Worship, No. 47 1999, W.A. BullSumptuous little volume. The Independent