St Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor

Today is a significant day in my particular calendar of liturgical peculiarities. Today marks one of the very few instances where I find the collect in the new Pauline Rite is quite superior to the Roman Rite. (Don't go looking in your missalette for it; the ICEL version has nothing to do with it.) Whatever about making the rest of the liturgy "relevant to today" this one is certainly relevant to the needs of the Catholic Church in the United States circa 2006:

Deus, qui beatum Ambrosium episcopum cathoicæ fidei doctorem at apostolicæ fortitudinis exemplum effecisti, excita in Ecclesia tua viros secundum cor tuum, qui eam fortiter et sapienter gubernent. Per Dominum.

I wonder if the consilium had any idea how "relevant", indeed desperately necessary, that plea of that collect was going to be.