Collect · Aug 13, 2015 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”
Vetus Ordo13th Sunday after Pentecost — Sep 3, 2028
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei, spei et caritatis augmentum: et, ut mereamur assequi quod promittis, fac nos amare quod praecipis.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Almighty everlasting God, grant us an increase of faith, hope and charity, and cause us to love what You command so that we may merit to obtain what You promise.
Today’s prayer survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary. The verb assequor, according to our splendid tool the Lewis & Short Dictionary, means mainly “to follow one in order to come up to him,…