Preces Quotidianae
Prayer for All Creation and the Church
The prayer begins by naming creation and humanity, then expands to the universal Church in all its branches.
Creation, the human race, those placed in1 want and abundance, error and truth, sin and grace. the Ecumenical Church, the Eastern, the Western, our own; the superiors, the clergy, the people.
Prayer for Rulers and Realms
Petition is made for empires throughout the world and for Christendom, including neighboring lands and one's own country.
Empires throughout the world, Christendom — the neighboring lands, our own.2
Prayer for the Royal Family and Estates
Intercession is offered for the King, Queen, Prince, nobles, counselors, judges, armed forces, common people, and various occupations.
The King, the Queen, and the Prince. The nobility. Counselors, judges, the armed forces. The common people, Farmers, merchants, and craftspeople,
Remembering the Lowly and the Recommended
The prayer descends to include those in lowly trades, beggars, and persons specifically recommended to the one praying.
even down to the lowly trades and beggars. those he recommends to me3
Petition for Virtues and Relationships
The prayer concludes by asking for knowledge, kindness, stewardship of temporal things, care for the past, entrusted matters, moral friendship, Christian charity, and closeness of place.
Knowledge,4 Kindness, Administration of temporal things, Former care now things entrusted,5 Moral friendship, Christian charity,6 Nearness of place,
Read the original Latin
CREATURAM, Genus humanum,
positos in
angustia copia, errore et «4 veritate, peccato | gratia. (Ecumenicam, Orientalem, | Occidentalem, Nostram, Prepositos, Clerum, Populum.
Imperia per orbem terrarum,
Christiana, — Finitima, Nostrum.
Regem, Reginam, Principem. Proceres,
Consiliarios, Judices, Vim bellicam. Plebem,
Agricolas, Mercatores, Artifices,
usque ad sordidas Artes
et Mendicos.
Quos commendat mili
Cogmatio,
Beneficentia,
Administratio temporalium,
olim Cura
nunc
] demandata,
Amicitia moralis,
Christiana. charitas,
Vicinitas loci,
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin is a truncated fragment (positos in). Neighboring context suggests a list of intercessions for the human race under paired conditions (distress/abundance, error/truth, sin/grace). Rendering preserves the participial phrase without inventing missing objects.
- 2 ↩Tense intercession list following 'Imperia per orbem terrarum.' Christiana likely means Christendom / the Christian world (or Christian empires); Finitima and Nostrum continue as neighboring realms and our own realm. Genders vary (Christiana f., Finitima n.pl./f., Nostrum n.sg.), so the implied nouns are not fully explicit.
- 3 ↩Source reads mili; taken as mihi (to me), a common corruption. Subject of commendat is unspecified in this fragment.
- 4 ↩Source surface 'Cogmatio' is not standard Latin; most plausible intended lemma is cognitio (knowledge), given the list-like chapter context and neighboring abstract noun 'Beneficentia'.
- 5 ↩Source opens with a stray `]` before demandata; treated as non-lexical noise. demandata is rendered as neuter plural 'things entrusted' (from demando, to entrust/commit/recommend); gender/number and full clause context are not recoverable from this fragment alone.
- 6 ↩charitas rendered as charity (theological virtue) rather than love, given the Christiana…charitas pairing in a list of bonds (cf. neighboring Amicitia moralis / Vicinitas loci).
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