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Preces Quotidianae

Fear and Hope in God

The soul declares its fear and hope in God alone, asking to fear nothing more than Him.

You are my fear, and you are my hope. May I fear only one thing: that I fear nothing more than you.1

The Golden Rule and Humility

A call to treat others as we wish to be treated and to think of ourselves with sober humility, grounded in Scripture.

I will treat others exactly as I want them to treat me. Help me not to think more highly of myself than I ought to.✦2 but to think soberly.✦

Prayer for Light, Unity, and Order

A prayer for enlightenment and peace, followed by a call for unity of mind, order, and a firm foundation.

Enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.✦ Direct our feet into the way of peace. Luke✦3 1.4 79.✦5 That we may be of one mind toward one another, hold a straight course, walk uprightly, build one another up, and with one mind and one mouth glorify God.✦67 Nevertheless, if we think anything otherwise, that we may remain in the same rule for what we have already reached—let us keep order and dignity✦89 and the foundation.10

Read the original Latin

Timor meus, Spes mea. ( Unum modo timeam, Nequid plus quam te timeam. Sicut volo ut mihi faciant homines, et ego illis ita faciam. Non plus sapere quam oportet sapere,

sed sapere ad sobrietatem.

Illumina his qui in tenebris, et in umbra mortis sedent. Dirige pedes nostros in viam pacis; Luc. i. 79. Ut idipsum sapiamus in alterutrum, Recte secemus, Recte incedamus, JEdificeemus, Unanimes, uno ore honorificemus Deum. Veruntamen siquid aliter, ut in eadem permaneamus regula, ad quod pervenimus, ( Retineamus ordimem, decorem

et Firmamentum.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Rom.12.3 — For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly than one ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
  2. ↩Rom.12.3 — For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly than one ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
  3. ↩Luke.1.79 — to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  4. ↩Luke.1.79 — to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  5. ↩Luke.1.79 — to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  6. ↩Rom.15.5-Rom.15.6 — Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think the same thing among yourselves, according to Christ Jesus, Rom.15.6 — so that with one mind and one mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  7. ↩Phil.3.15-Phil.3.16 — Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Phil.3.16 — Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Nequid is read as ne quid ('lest anything' / 'that nothing'). Unum modo timeam is taken as a jussive petition: 'may I fear only one thing.'
  2. 2 ↩sapere is rendered in the Romans 12:3 sense of sober self-estimate ('think more highly'), not mere information-knowing; the next section's sapere ad sobrietatem supports this.
  3. 3 ↩Trailing 'Luc.' is a citation label for Luke, not part of the petition itself; the chapter/verse appears split across the next two sentence units.
  4. 4 ↩Source unit is the roman numeral 'i.'—almost certainly chapter 1 of the Luke citation begun in s2, not a free-standing sentence.
  5. 5 ↩Source unit is the verse number '79.' Completes the citation Luc. i. 79 = Luke 1:79 with s2–s3.
  6. 6 ↩Normalized reading takes 'JEdificeemus' as 'aedificemus' (may we build up).
  7. 7 ↩Source 'secemus' (from seco) is odd beside 'incedamus'/'aedificemus'; rendered figuratively as 'hold a straight course.' It may be corrupt for 'sentiamus' (think/judge aright).
  8. 8 ↩Reading 'ordimem' as 'ordinem' (order).
  9. 9 ↩Sentence is truncated mid-list (open parenthesis; continues in the next section with 'et Firmamentum'). 'decorem' rendered as 'dignity' (seemliness/beauty of order).
  10. 10 ↩Fragment continuing the previous section's petition (Retineamus ordinem, decorem…): firmamentum here is most naturally 'foundation/support/structure' of ordered life, not the celestial firmament.

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