Preces Quotidianae
A Plea for Pardon and Mercy
The petitioner asks the Lord to turn away shameful thoughts, forgive sins, and avert deserved punishment.
Turn away shameful and forbidden thoughts.1 Lord, my ruin comes from myself.2 xii. 9. Mercifully forgive whatever I have done wrong.3 Do not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. Look kindly on our weaknesses, and for the glory of your most holy name, all those evils that, by our sins, and so to us,4 are most justly due—turn them away.5
An Evening Prayer for Rest and Protection
The weary petitioner prays for rest, renewal, enlightenment, protection from night terrors, the guardianship of God, the company of saints, and self-revelation through dreams.
Evening Prayer. And to me, Lord—weary as I am—give rest.6 Renew strength for the one who is languishing. Enlighten my eyes, lest I ever✦7 fall asleep in death.✦ Deliver me from the terror of the night,✦ from the pestilence that walks in darkness; Ps. 91. 5, 6. Grant me wholesome sleep, and to pass this night without fear. O Guardian of Israel, who never sleeps or slumbers (Ps. 121: 4). Protect me through this night from every evil; guard my soul, O Lord. Visit me with the visitation of the saints (Ps.8 106: 4). Reveal my mind to me in the visions of the night.✦9
Read the original Latin
turpium et illicitarum cogitationum averte. Domine, Perditio mea a me est, 1708. xii. 9. quiequid deliqui clemens ignosce. Non secundum peccata nostra facias nobis, neque secundum iniquitates nostras retribuas nobis. ( Infirmitates nostras benigne respice, et propter gloriam sanctissimi tui nominis, Mala ea omnia, quie peccatis nostris, adeoque nobis,
justissime debentur, averte.
PRECATIO VESPERTINA.
MrHIQUE, Domine, lasso da requiem,
languenti virtutem renova. Illumina oculos meos, ne unquam
obdormiam in morte. Libera me a terrore nocturno,
a negotio perambulante in tenebris; Psal. xci. 5, 6. Somnum salubrem concede mihi, et
sine timore transire noctem hanc.
O Custos Israel, Qui neque dormis neque dormitas unquam, Psal. cxxi. 4. Custodi me per noctem hanc ab omni malo, Custodi animam meam, o Domine. Visitans me visitatione Sanctorum, (Psal. cvi. 4.]
Revela mihi animum in visionibus noctis.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.13.4;Ps.14.3 — Look at me, answer me, O LORD my God; give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death. Ps.14.3 — Everyone has turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- ↩Ps.13.4 — Look at me, answer me, O LORD my God; give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.
- ↩Ps.91.5 — You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
- ↩Job.4.13;Gen.46.2 — When deep sleep falls on people, amid thoughts from visions of the night, Gen.46.2 — And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and He said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am."
Notes
- 1 ↩Genitive turpium et illicitarum cogitationum likely continues the previous accusative phrase (Turbidam et immundam sentinam) as 'the murky and unclean bilge of shameful and forbidden thoughts'; rendered here as a stand-alone petition with averte.
- 2 ↩Trailing '1708' treated as non-text apparatus (page/year/reference mark), not translated.
- 3 ↩Reading quiequid as quicquid/quidquid ('whatever').
- 4 ↩Reading quie as quae ('which/that'). Sentence is incomplete and continues in PrecesPriv.1.113.2 (justissime debentur, averte).
- 5 ↩Syntactically continues the previous petition: Mala ea omnia… which by our sins, and so to us, are most justly due—turn them away. Rendered as the closing clause of that address, not as a freestanding sentence.
- 6 ↩Source surface MrHIQUE is treated as corrupted Mihique (mihi + -que): 'and to me.' lasso is dative with mihi: 'to me, weary.'
- 7 ↩Clause is incomplete in this section; the purpose clause continues in PrecesPriv.1.113.6 with 'obdormiam in morte.'
- 8 ↩Latin Visitans is a present participle; rendered as a petition ('Visit me') to match the surrounding night-prayer imperatives. visitatione Sanctorum is a cognate construction: visit with a saints' visitation.
- 9 ↩Latin animum (from animus: mind/spirit/disposition) is rendered mind rather than soul, distinguishing it from anima in the preceding night-prayer petition (Custodi animam meam).
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