Excerpt from A Companion to the Prayer Book: A Liturgical and Spiritual Exposition of the Services for the Holy Communion, Morning and Evening Prayer, and the LitanyThe collects for the Saints' days are mostly of English composition, the older Latin col lects frequently containing a petition for the aid of the prayers of the saint commemorated, and generally being meagre in comparison with those for the Sundays or the festivals of our Lord.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.