Joye X
The Prayer of the Loaves and Fishes
The speaker petitions Mary to safeguard their body from sin, recalling the joy of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes.
Pray to your Son to keep my body from every misdeed, for the sacred joy you had when, with1 five2 barley loaves and two3 fish, five thousand men were filled in the meadow.✦4
The Closing Ave Maria
The section concludes with the traditional Ave Maria prayer.
Hail Mary.
Read the original Middle French
Que mon corps gard de toutes meffaçons Pries ton filz, pour la joye sacrée Qu'eus quant de . v. pains d'orge et . ii. poissons Cinq mille hommes replanis en la prée. Ave Maria.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.14.17-Matt.14.21;Mark.6.38-Mark.6.44;Luke.9.13-Luke.9.17 — But they said to him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish." Matt.14.18 — He said, "Bring them here to me." Matt.14.19 — And he directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. Matt.14.20 — And they all ate and were satisfied, and they took up the leftover pieces—twelve baskets full. Matt.14.21 — Those who were eating were about five thousand men, besides women and children. Mark.6.38 — He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go and see." And when they found out, they said, "Five, and two fish." Mark.6.39 — And he commanded them to make all sit down in groups on the green grass. Mark.6.40 — And they sat down group by group, in hundreds and in fifties. Mark.6.41 — And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all. Mark.6.42 — And they all ate and were satisfied. Mark.6.43 — And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces, and of the fish. Mark.6.44 — And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. Luke.9.13 — But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people." Luke.9.14 — For there were about five thousand men. Then he said to his disciples, 'Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.' Luke.9.15 — And they did so, and made them all sit down. Luke.9.16 — Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd. Luke.9.17 — They all ate and were satisfied, and the broken pieces that were left over were gathered up—twelve baskets full.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source segment ends mid-phrase after 'quant de' because the witness uses dotted Roman numerals (.v., .ii.) for 5 and 2; the intact section reading is: 'Que mon corps gard de toutes meffaçons / Pries ton filz, pour la joye sacrée / Qu'eus quant de .v. pains d'orge et .ii. poissons / Cinq mille hommes replanis en la prée. / Ave Maria.'
- 2 ↩Witness form '.v.' is a medieval numeral for 5, not a free-standing sentence.
- 3 ↩Witness form '.ii.' is a medieval numeral for 2, not a free-standing sentence.
- 4 ↩'replanis' = filled / fed full; 'prée' = meadow, matching the grassy place of the feeding (cf. John 6:10).
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