Collect: Lent IV

The collect for Lent IV is a mishmash of sources and sources misapplied. See Lauren Pristas.

Deus, qui per Verbum tuum humáni géneris reconciliatiónem mirabíliter operáris, præsta, quæsumus, ut pópulus christiánus prompta devotióne et álacri fide ad ventúra sollémnia váleat festináre.

Deus, qui per Verbum tuum humáni géneris reconciliatiónem mirabíliter operáris, præsta, quæsumus,

From Gelasianum Vetus 178 Wednesday after Lent II

ut pópulus christiánus . . . prompta devotióne et álacri fide

From St Leo the Great, Sermon Lent II

Interestingly enough what is not picked up in the sources is the necessity of fasting. Perhaps this is a misguided attempt to give a nod to Laetare  Sunday.

O God, who through your Word do wondrously work the reconciliation of the human race, grant, we beseech you, that the Christian people with prompt devotion and ready faith may be able to hasten to the coming solemnity.