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Advent IV - Sunday Collect

Advent IV's collect intensifies the "Excita" formula with "magna virtute succurre" (succor us with great might). The acknowledgment that sin impedes what grace hastens articulates Advent's tension between human failure and divine mercy. Propitiation's indulgence accelerates delayed salvation.

LATINE
Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, indulgentia tuae propitiationis acceleret: Qui vivis.
ENGLISH
Stir up thy power, we beseech thee, O Lord, and come, and succor us with great might, that, by the help of thy grace, what is hindered by our sins, may be hastened by the bounty of thy mercy. Who livest.
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Breviarium Romanum (1962)
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Advent IV - Sunday Collect
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