# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617) — read
# directly from the reference engine's own real-date output (2026-08-03),
# which auto-expands the raw file's cross-reference to St. Stephen's Dec
# 26 collect with "natalícia" substituted for "Inventiónem".
id: finding-of-st-stephen-collect
text:
  la: |
    Orémus.
    Da nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine, imitári quod cólimus: ut discámus et inimícos dilígere; quia ejus Inventiónem celebrámus, qui novit étiam pro persecutóribus exoráre Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum:
    Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
    R. Amen.
  en: |
    Let us pray.
    Grant us, we beseech thee, O Lord, so to imitate what we revere, that we may learn to love even our enemies; for we celebrate the Finding of the holy body of him who knew how to pray for his very persecutors to our Lord Jesus Christ:
    Who with thee liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
    R. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified