Before reciting the collect in the Office, everyone in deacon's orders or in priesthood says _Dominus vobiscum, Et cum spiritu tuo_, and this is said even if the Office be said privately. All others reciting the Office say _Domine exaudi orationem meam. Et clamor meus ad te veniat_. Then the word _Oremus_ is prefixed to the recitation of the collect, and at the end, _Amen_ is said. If there be only one collect, the _Dominus vobiscum_ or the _Domine exaudi_ with the responses _Et cum spiritu tuo; Et clamor meus ad te veniat_ is repeated after the _Amen_. But if there be more than one collect, before each is said its corresponding antiphon and versicle and also the word, _Oremus_. After the last collect is said, the _Dominus vobiscum_ and _Et cum spiritu tuo_ are repeated. Then we add _Benedicamus Domino; Deo Gratias, Fidelium animae_.... This latter verse is not a constant sequel to the _Benedicamus_, as we see in Prime, where the verse _Pretiosa_ succeeds it; and again in Compline it is succeeded by _Benedicat et custodiet_. The concluding words of the prayers or collects vary. If the prayer is addressed to God the Father, the concluding words are _Per Dominum_ (see the collects given above). If the prayer be addressed to God the Son, the concluding words are _Qui vivis et regnas_--e.g., Deus qui in tuae caritatis exemplum ad fidelium redemptionem .... Qui vivis et regnas (Collect for St. Peter Nolasco's feast, 3ist January). If in the beginning of the prayer mention is made of God the Son, the ending should be _Per eundem, e.g.,_ Domine Deus noster? qui, beatae Brigittae per Filium tuurn unigenitum secreta coelestia revelasti; ... Per eundem Dominum (collect for feast, 8th October). But if the mention of God the Son is made near the end of the collect, the ending is _Qui tecum vivit et regnal, e.g._, "Famulorum tuorum, quaesumus, Domine.... Genitricis Filii tui Domini nostri intercessione salvemur: Qui tecum vivit et regnat" (collect of Assumption, 15th August). If the name of the Holy Ghost occur in the prayer, the conclusion is, _In unitate ejusdem Spiritus sancti, e.g._, "Deus, qui hodierna die corda ... in eodem spiritu recta ... _in imitate ejusdem Spiritus_" (collect: for Pentecost Sunday). The following lines, giving the rules for terminations, are well known and are useful, as a help to the memory:-- _Per Dominum_ dicas, si Patrem quilibet oras Si Christum memores, _Per eundem_, dicere debes Si loqueris Christo, _Qui vivis_ scire memento; _Qui tecum_, si sit collectae finisin ipso Si Flamen memores _ejusdem_ die prope finem When there are several collects an ending or conclusion is added to the first and last only. _Dominus vobiscum_ is said before the first collect only, but each collect is preceded by the word _Oremus_, unless in the Office for the Dead.