That God has acted in history through Jesus Christ and God still acts among us. This is the pregnant silence that proceeds an announcement of the most wonderful news. The text itself, somewhat complex in structure, is too often read by the priest like a middling actor in a school play.īut the prayer is meant to be begin in silence. The silence that is meant to follow the invitation to pray only lasts as long as it takes for the presbyter to find the words on the page. Of course, you rarely get the sense that one is praying in the actual practice of the liturgy. This is the opening collect prayer, that which is intended to draw together the individual prayers of the assembly into a single voice before the Father. The priest says, "Let us pray." This invitation to prayer is not simply an announcement that the priest is finally to begin praying. The priest says, "Let us pray," and then a series of words follow that (if you're me holding a toddler performing acrobatics), you rarely listen to. After the angelic song of the Gloria concludes, in which heaven and earth kiss, silence descends upon the assembly.
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