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Preces Quotidianae

The Cry of Repentance

The soul cries out to God in deep repentance, confessing sin and pleading for mercy.

God of those who repent, and Savior of sinners: and from evening to evening I turn back, from the deepest marrow of my soul; and from the depths my soul cries out to you: I have sinned against you, Lord; I have sinned gravely against you. Ah, ah!✦1 Alas, alas for this misery! I repent—alas for me!2 I repent—spare me, Lord—I repent, alas for me!✦3 I repent,4 Help my impenitence.✦5

A Litany for Mercy and Cleansing

A series of short pleas for mercy, culminating in the petition to blot out iniquity, supported by a psalm reference.

Be gracious. Spare me, Lord. Be gracious. Have mercy on me. I said, Lord, have mercy on me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against you. Have mercy on me, God, according to your great mercy, and according to the abundance of your mercies blot out6 my iniquity.✦ Ps. 11. 1.✦

Petitions for Deliverance and Purity

A collection of petitions for forgiveness, deliverance from distress, cleansing from hidden faults, and protection from idle words, each supported by scripture references.

Forgive the guilt, heal the weaknesses, blot out the stains, rescue me from shame, free me from bondage, and don't make an example of me. Rescue me from my distresses, Lord. Ps. 25. 16. Cleanse me from hidden faults, and spare your servant from the sins of others. Ps.7 19. 12, 13. The inconstancy of desire. Wis.8 4. 12. and idle words (Matt. 15.9 36.]✦10 Do not set these against me.11

The Bilge of Impurity

A final, stark acknowledgment of the murky and unclean thoughts within.

that murky and unclean bilge12

Read the original Latin

Deus poenitentium, et peccantium Servator, et de vespera in vesperam revertar, ex infimis anim:e medullis, et de profundis clamat tibi anima mea, Peccavi, Domine, tibi: graviter peccavi tibi, Vah, vah! Hei, hei miseriam ! Ponitet, hei mihi! P«nitet, parce mihi, Domine, Poenitet, hei mihi! poenitet,

Adjuva impoenitentiam meam.

Propitius esto. Parce mihi, Domine. Propitius esto. Miserere mei. Ego dixi, Domine, miserere mei, Sana animam meam, quia peccavi tibi. Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam, Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum dele

iniquitatem meam. Psa/. 11. 1.

Dimitte reatum, Sana languores, Dele maculas, de confusione eripe, de servitute libera, et ne in me exemplum statuas. De necessitatibus meis erue me, Domine, Psal. xxv. 16. ab occultis munda me, et ab alienis parce servo tuo: Psal. xix. 12, 13. Inconstantiam concupiscentie, Sap.

iv. 12. et otiosa verba, (Matt. xu. 936.] ne statuas mihi.

'Turbidam et immundam sentinam

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩2Sam.12.13;Luke.15.18 — David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the LORD.' And Nathan said to David, 'The LORD has also put away your sin; you shall not die.' Luke.15.18 — I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.'
  2. ↩Joel.2.17 — Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep. And let them say, 'Spare your people, O LORD, and do not make your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, "Where is their God?"'
  3. ↩Mark.9.24 — Immediately the father of the child cried out, 'I believe; help my unbelief!'
  4. ↩Ps.51.3;Ps.52.1 — Be gracious to me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. Ps.52.1 — To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David.
  5. ↩Ps.11.1;Ps.51.1 — To the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How can you say to me, ‘Flee like a bird to your mountain’? Ps.51.1 — To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
  6. ↩Matt.12.36 — But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they will give an account for it on the day of judgment.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized source has corrupt 'anim:e'; read as 'animae' (of the soul) in 'ex infimis animae medullis'.
  2. 2 ↩Source 'Ponitet' is a misspelling/corruption of impersonal 'Poenitet' (it grieves me / I repent).
  3. 3 ↩Source 'P«nitet' is OCR/print corruption of 'Poenitet'; second 'Poenitet' is clear.
  4. 4 ↩Sentence is a hanging fragment ('poenitet,'); rendered as the same impersonal penitential refrain as above, without inventing missing words.
  5. 5 ↩impoenitentiam = impenitence / unrepentance (hardness of heart in failing to repent). Rendered with the durable devotional term; the petition asks God to aid this condition, not to affirm it.
  6. 6 ↩Latin ends mid-clause at dele; neighboring section continues with iniquitatem meam.
  7. 7 ↩ab alienis: rendered as 'the sins of others' (literal aliena); traditional English often has 'willful' or 'presumptuous' sins for this psalm line.
  8. 8 ↩Accusative phrase without governing verb in this section; reads as a listed fault or scriptural tag, continued in neighboring material.
  9. 9 ↩Latin ‘xu.’ read as Roman xv = 15. The familiar ‘idle word’ verse is Matt 12:36, not Matt 15; chapter may be corrupt or a different locus.
  10. 10 ↩Printed ‘936.]’ looks corrupt—likely verse ‘36.’ plus a stray digit and/or edition page/apparatus mark. Rendered as the plausible verse close of a Matthew citation.
  11. 11 ↩‘ne statuas mihi’ is a bare prayer clause (dative mihi); object list continues across section boundaries (cf. previous ‘ne in me exemplum statuas’ and next ‘Turbidam et immundam sentinam’).
  12. 12 ↩Fragment only: the finite verb and genitive complete the sense in the next section (turpium et illicitarum cogitationum averte). Leading apostrophe on Turbidam looks like a quote/OCR artifact and is ignored.

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