Collects from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which is in the public
domain in the United States, taken from bcponline.org. Both rites, and
every one carries the page it starts on so you can find it in your own
copy. The thirty-three Lenten weekday propers come from the daily
eucharistic lectionary instead, so they have no traditional twin.
The text was machine-gathered and has not been checked against a printed
book, so a draft badge means the division into parts is a first pass and
not yet read by a person. Where a collect matters, check it against the
book.
Where this comes from.
The text is bcponline.org .
The naming of the parts is a teaching convention rather than an official
one, and the sources differ on how many there are: the
Episcopal Church's
glossary gives three, Anglican
Compass four, the common analysis five. This tool uses five.
justus.anglican.org
has the prayer books from 1549 onward, and
the Catholic
Encyclopedia has the etymology at length. In print, Marion Hatchett's
Commentary on the American Prayer Book is the standard reference
for the 1979 book.
How
a Collect Is Built is the short version of all of that, written up.
Part of the workshop at
The Common Wild.