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Preces Quotidianae

Confession of Unworthiness and Appeal to Christ's Mercy

The speaker confesses unworthiness and appeals to Christ's mercy by recalling His humble reception of sinners.

Lord, I am not worthy, nor fit.1 viii.✦2 8.✦ that you should enter under the filthy roof of my soul's house—for it is completely desolate and ruined, and you have no suitable place with me where you can lay your head.3 But as you condescended to rest in the stable and manger of animals; Luke4 ii.✦ 7. as you did not refuse to be received into the house of Simon the Leper; Matt.5 26.✦ 6.✦ As You did not refuse a sinful adulteress like me when she came near and touched You; Luke.6 7.7 37.✦ Nor did You shrink from her impure and detestable mouth, v.8 38. nor the thief on the Cross who confessed to You; Luke.9 xxn.10 43.

Petition for Eucharistic Communion

The speaker petitions Christ to receive them in the Eucharist despite their unworthiness.

May You Yourself also deign to receive me—crushed, miserable, and thoroughly unworthy sinner—to the touch and the sharing.✦11 of the immaculate, excellent, life-giving,

Read the original Latin

DOMINE, Non sum dignus, neque idoneus, Maff. viu. 8. ut intres sub sordidum tectum Domus anime mese, Quoniam tota desolata est, et ruinosa, nec habes apud me locum aptum, in quo reclines caput tuum. Sed ut dignatus es in stabulo et prasepi brutorum animalium reclinare; Luc. ii. 7. Ut non dedignatus es in domum Simonis Leprosi recipi; | Maff.

xxvi. 6. Ut non recusasti mei similem adulteram peccatricem, cum accederet et tangeret Te; Lwc. vu. 37. Nec horruisti impurum et execrandum os ejus, Vers. 38. neque furem in Cruce, confitentem "Tibi; ZLwc.

xxn. 43. Digneris ipse et me Protritum, miserum, et indignum admodum Peccatorem, Recipere ad contactum et participationem

Immaculati, excellentis, vivifici,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Matt.8.8 — But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. Only say the word, and my servant will be healed."
  2. ↩Matt.8.8 — But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy for you to come under my roof. Only say the word, and my servant will be healed."
  3. ↩Luke.2.7 — And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
  4. ↩Matt.26.6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  5. ↩Matt.26.6 — Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  6. ↩Luke.7.37 — And behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner, having learned that he was reclining in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster flask of ointment
  7. ↩1Cor.10.16 — The cup of blessing that we bless — is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break — is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source citation 'Maff.' is almost certainly an OCR/print corruption of 'Matt.' (Matthew), matching the Domine non sum dignus tradition at Matthew 8:8.
  2. 2 ↩Source 'viu.' is almost certainly OCR corruption of Roman numeral 'viii.' (Matthew chapter 8), given the following verse marker '8.'
  3. 3 ↩Normalized 'Domus anime mese' as 'domus animae meae' (house of my soul); intended sense is clear despite missing diacritics/OCR noise.
  4. 4 ↩Source 'prasepi' read as praesepi/praesepe (manger).
  5. 5 ↩Source citation 'Maff.' again treated as 'Matt.'; neighboring section continues with xxvi. 6 (Matthew 26:6).
  6. 6 ↩Source ends with 'Lwc.'; read as Luc. (Luke), matching the neighboring Luke citation pattern.
  7. 7 ↩Source reads 'vu.'; most plausible intended form is vii. (chapter 7), with Luke 7:37 following.
  8. 8 ↩'Vers.' is treated as a verse label continuing the Luke 7 citation into v. 38, not as part of the petition itself.
  9. 9 ↩Source ends with 'ZLwc.' and a stray quotation mark before Tibi; read as Luc. (Luke) and as confitentem Tibi without an opening quote.
  10. 10 ↩Corrupt citation marker (likely a book abbreviation such as Ioan./Joh. or similar); left as in the witness rather than silently expanded.
  11. 11 ↩Sentence is syntactically incomplete in the source; object of contactum et participationem continues in the next section (Immaculati, excellentis, vivifici…), almost certainly the Sacrament/Body of Christ.

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