Preces Quotidianae
A Cry of Repentance
The soul cries out to the Lord, pleading that He not abandon it.
Lord, let it not be so.
Petitions for a Pure Heart
A litany of petitions asking the Lord to remove hardness of heart, blindness, contempt, a reprobate mind, and sins against the Holy Spirit, supported by scripture references.
So that You may not do this, take from me, Lord, hardness of heart. Mark✦1 16. 14. blindness of heart,2 Mark 3.✦ 5, and 6. 52. contempt for your threats, a seared conscience,✦ 1 Timothy✦3 4. 2.4 A depraved mind.✦ Romans.✦ 1. 28. Sin against the Holy Spirit. Sin that leads to death. Four that cry out.5 Six things that come before that.6
Invocation of the Holy Spirit
A brief invocation of the Holy Spirit, perhaps as a source of the desired purity.
in the Holy Spirit.
Deliverance from All Evils
A comprehensive prayer for deliverance from physical calamities, ecclesiastical corruptions, and vain pursuits.
Deliver me from all the dreadful and hostile things in this world: from plague, famine, war, earthquake, flood, fire, rainstorms, drought, mildew, blight, lightning, thunderbolts, storms, epidemics, acute and malignant diseases, and from sudden death.7 From atrocious evils.8 In the Church: from private interpretation of the Spirit, from innovation in sacred things, from the spreading of corrupt dogmas, and from languishing over useless questions.9 and vain ones,10
Read the original Latin
Ne fiat, O Domine.
Quod ut ne facias, Aufer a me, Domine, Cordis duritiem, Mar. xvi. 14.
Cordis ezceitatem, . Mar. iii. 5, et vi. 52. Minarum tuarum contemptum, Cauteriatam conscientiam, . 1 77m. iv.
2. Reprobam mentem. Rom. i. 28. Peccatum in Spiritum Sanctum. Peccatum ad mortem. Quatuor clamantia.
Sex precurrentia illud
in Spiritum Sanctum.
Libera me Ab omnibus diris et infestis in hoc szculo, Peste, fame, bello, Terre motu, inundatione, incendio, Plaga pluviali, siccitate, J/Erugine, uredine, Fulmine, fulgure, procellis, Morbis epidemiis, acutis, et malignis, Morte improvisa. Ab atrocibus malis im. Ecclesia, Privati spiritus interpretatione, Innovatione in rebus sacris, Pravis dogmatis spargendis, Languendo circa questiones inutiles
et vanas,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Mark.16.14 — Later, as the eleven were reclining at table, he appeared to them and rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because those who had seen him risen from the dead did not believe.
- ↩Mark.3.5 — And having looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their heart, he says to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
- ↩1Tim.4.2 — This will come through hypocritical liars, whose own consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,
- ↩1Tim.4.2 — This will come through hypocritical liars, whose own consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,
- ↩Rom.1.28 — And just as they did not see fit to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a disapproved mind, to do what is not fitting.
- ↩Rom.1.28 — And just as they did not see fit to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a disapproved mind, to do what is not fitting.
Notes
- 1 ↩Quod ut ne facias continues the preceding petition (Ne fiat, O Domine): purpose/negative-purpose force kept as ‘so that You may not do this.’ Cordis duritiem is the biblical hardness of heart (cf. Mark 16:14).
- 2 ↩Source reading 'ezceitatem' is corrupt; translated as caecitatem (blindness), the standard petition parallel to cordis duritiem.
- 3 ↩Source reading '1 77m.' is corrupt; translated as 1 Timothy (1 Tim.), matching the following chapter and the next section's verse 2 with cauterized conscience.
- 4 ↩Bare numeral; in sequence it likely finishes the previous section’s 1 Timothy 4 citation as verse 2 (with cauteriatam conscientiam / a seared conscience).
- 5 ↩Likely the traditional ‘four sins that cry out to heaven’; Latin is only the short headword Quatuor clamantia.
- 6 ↩precurrentia = praecurrentia (things that run ahead / precede). Heading-style fragment; illud points to a previously or next-named referent (likely the sin against the Holy Spirit from neighboring sections).
- 7 ↩Normalized reading takes szculo as saeculo (this world/age); Terre motu as terrae motu (earthquake); J/Erugine as erugine/aerugine (mildew, plant-rust).
- 8 ↩Source ends with truncated im.; only Ab atrocibus malis is securely translatable. Possible expansions include imminenti(bus) or a line break into the next sentence, but that is not readable from the supplied text alone.
- 9 ↩Ecclesia is taken as a domain label for the following ablatives (dangers in the Church), not as a petition to be delivered from the Church itself. Privati spiritus interpretatione is rendered as private interpretation of the Spirit / private-spirit judgment.
- 10 ↩Fragment continuing the prior litany item on useless questions (questiones inutiles); vanas is feminine plural and most naturally continues that list as 'vain/empty [questions].'
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