humana sapientia, divina fides

The collect prayer for today’s saint, Albert the Great:

Deus, qui beátum Albértum, epíscopum, in humána sapiéntia cum divína fide componénda magnum effecísti, da nobis, quǽsumus, ita eius magistérii inhærére doctrínis, ut per scientiárum progréssus ad profundiórem tui cognitiónem et amórem perveniámus.

Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

“God, you made Blessed Albert, the bishop, great in his synthesis of human wisdom and divine faith; grant to us, we pray, so to cleave to the lessons of his teaching, that through advances in human knowledge we may reach a deeper knowledge and love of you.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.”