Preces Quotidianae
Contentment in Every State
The prayer expresses contentment in any circumstance and asks for freedom from earthly desires.
and, in whatever state I am, to be content;✦ IV. [uncertain apparatus: ll, 12] But beyond what I have, may I have nothing earthly, temporary, or fleeting—neither to covet it, nor ever to demand it.
A Holy Life and a Peaceful Death
The prayer seeks a life of piety and virtue, a gentle death, and the hope of immortality.
An easy life in piety, gravity, purity, and every uprightness—with a composed mind, a healthy body, a good name, an even spirit, an unharmed free condition, a peaceful old age, a gentle death, Immortality.
Read the original Latin
et, in quibus sim, sufficiens esse; PA. iv. ll, 12. Extra quiz habeam vero, Nihil terrenum, temporarium, caducum, neque concupiscere, neque unquam flagitare. Vitam facilem in Pietate, gravitate, puritate, omni probitate, Cum mente composita, sano corpore, bona fama, Animo zequo, incolumi conditione, libera, JEtate tranquilla, Mortem lenem,
Immortalitatem.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Phil.4.11 — Not that I am speaking from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.
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