Sursum corda / the second, the Anapho- ra to the close. The first division again falls into the Mass of the Catechu- mens, and the Mass of the Faithful, to the Sursum corda. To it belong the Prefatory Prayer, the Introit, Ingressa, or An- tiphon, the Little Entrance, the Trisagion, the Scripture Les- sons, the Prayers after the Gospel, and the Expulsion of the Catechumens ; then the Prayers of the Faithful, the Great En- trance, the Offertory, the Kis» of Peace, the Creed. The Anaphora comprises the great Eucharistic Prayer of Thanksgiving, the Commemoration of the life of Jesus, the "VYords of Institution, the Oblation of the Elements, the Invocation of the Holy Ghost, the Great Intercession for Quick and Dead, the Lord's Prayer, and finally the Communion with its proper prayers and acts, the Thanksgiving, and the Dismissal.'' ' The Collects belong strictly only to the Latm church, which has produced many hundred such short prayers. The word comes either from the fact that the prayer collects the sense of the Epistle and Gospel for the day in the form of prayer ; or that the priest collects therein the wishes and petitions of the people. The col- lect is a short liturgical prayer, consisting of one petition, closing with the form of mediation through the merits of Christ, and sometimes with a doxology to the Trin- ity. Comp. a treatise of Neale on The Collects of the Church, in Essays on Liturgi- ology and Church History, p. 46 ff., and William Bright: Ancient Collects and Prayers, selected from various riiuals, Oxford and London, 1860. - It is a curious fact, that in the Protestant Episcopal Trinity chapel of Xew York, with the fuU approval of the bishop, Horatio Potter, and the assistance of the choir, on the second of March, I860, the anniversary of the accession of the Russian Czar, Alexander II., the full liturgy or mass of the orthodox Graeco-Russian church was celebrated before a numerous assembly by a recently arrived Grteco-Russian monk and priest (or deacon), Agapius Honcharenko. Tliis is the first instance of an Oriental service in the United States (for the Russian fleet which was in the harbor of New York in 1863 held its worship exclusively upon the ships), and probably also the first instance of the celebration of the unbloody sacrifice of the mass and 626 THIED PEEIOD. A.D. 311-590. § 99. The Onental Liturgies. There are, in all, probably more than a Imndred ancient liturgies, if we reckon revisals, modifications, and translations. But according to modern investigations they may all be reduced to five or six families, which may be named after the churches in which they originated and were used, Jerusalem (or Antioch), Alexandria, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Rome.' Most of them • belong to the Oriental church ; for this church was in general much more productive, and favored greater variety, than the "Western, which sought uniformity in organization and worship. And among the Oriental liturgies the Greek are