"Let Us Pray..." in the new translation of the mass?

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Is it being omitted or will it still be said to introduce the Collect. I was just noticing this, because it seem to be left out in the new Today’s Missal from OCP but is there in the current one.
 
“Let us pray” is there at the Opening Prayer and Prayer after Communion in my copy of the Mass, as printed in the Canadian “Celebrate in Song”.
 
Is it being omitted or will it still be said to introduce the Collect. I was just noticing this, because it seem to be left out in the new Today’s Missal from OCP but is there in the current one.
Yes, the “Let us pray” is in the new translation of the Mass. Whether it shows up in a particular privately-published missal is, of course, a different story.
 
The Latin hasn’t changed. It’s Oremus.

The Romans used the word “orare” to refer to speech, or coming from the mouth (os, oris- mouth). The Church Christianized the Latin to mean “to pray,” presumed “out loud” as opposed to “in silence.”
 
The Latin hasn’t changed. It’s Oremus.

The Romans used the word “orare” to refer to speech, or coming from the mouth (os, oris- mouth). The Church Christianized the Latin to mean “to pray,” presumed “out loud” as opposed to “in silence.”
I think the confusion here is that the actual words “Let us pray” are no longer printed before each collect in the upcoming Roman Missal. They are printed in the Missal itself, they’re just not repeated on every page as they used to be.

Apparently, whatever version of hand missal the OP has seen doesn’t have the words printed. This might be an editorial decision, or it might even be a requirement to print “exactly” what’s found in the official Roman Missal.

It seems that the OP was a bit confused by this, and thought that was an indication that the words “Let us pray” had been dropped from the Mass–not the actual significance of the words.
 
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