"Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei, spei et caritatis augmentum, et, ut mereamur assequi quod promittis, fac nos amare quod praecipis. Per."
Almighty ever-living God, give to us an augmentation of faith, hope, and charity, and, in order that we may merit to obtain what you promise, cause us to love what you command. Through.
Collect for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Roman missal. =Corpus orationum no. 3819, where it is traced back to no. 598 in the Leonine/Veronese "sacramentary", which Mohlberg places in "Datierungsversuche" no. 6 (366/384), 28 (mid-5th-century anti-Semipelagian), 37 (468/483), 51 (492/496), 63 (498/514), and 68 (537/555). So anywhere between 366 and 555 as of 1956.
1549 BCP, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity:
"ALMIGHTYE and euerlastyng God, geue unto us the increase of faythe, hope, and charitie; and that we may obteine that whiche thou doest promise; make us to loue that whiche thou doest commaunde, through".
1662 BCP, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity:
"Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command, through."
1976 BCP, Proper 25 (Contemporary), Sunday closest to November 2:
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command, through."
1973 ICEL, as above: "Almighty and ever-living God, strengthen our faith, hope, and love. May we do with loving hearts what you ask of us and come to share the life you promise. We ask this through".
Cf. this one.
Image: Fragment of a 3rd/5th-century vessel of gold glass in the British Museum that Princeton University's Index of Medieval Art treats as "possibly" an image of Pope Damasus of Rome (366-384), the earliest figure to whom this prayer is attributed in the scholarship indexed in 1956 by Mohlberg, above.
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