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AUTOMATED FEMALE VOICE: Thank you for calling 1-800-Collect (KAH-lekt), a different kind of prayer line. We are not affiliated with 1-800 Collect (Kuh-LEKT). For a collect (KAH-lekt) from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, please press one. For a coll-

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To hear this Sunday's collect, press one. To hear next Sunday's collect, press two. To select a collect according to the liturgical year, press three. For Holy-

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For Advent, press one; for Christmas, press two; for Epiphany, press three; for Lent and Holy Week, press four; for Easter, press five; for Pentecost, and the time afterward, press six; to hear thi-

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For Pentecost, press one; for Trinity Sunday, press two; to select a collect based on it's Proper numbering, press three; to select a collect by date, press four; to select a-

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Please enter the two digit month followed by the two digit date, then press pound.

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You have entered, August, Twenty,-one, If this is correct, press one; to cha-

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For traditional language, press one; for contemporary language, press two.

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Please wait while I retrieve your collect.

[MUSIC: end of organ introduction to the hymn tune Merton. "Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding./"Christ is nigh," it seems to say;/"Cast away the works of darkness,/O ye children of the . . ."]

Collect for Proper 16: the Sunday closest to August 24. Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

To hear this again, press one; to hear more information about this collect, press two; to select another collect, press three; to exit the system, press four.

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1-800-Collect is a service of the Episcopal Church but is not endorsed by the Custodian of the Book of Common Prayer. Thank you for calling 1-800-Collect, a different kind of prayer line.

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