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Preces Quotidianae

Anamnesis and Eucharistic Petition

Remembering Christ's saving work, we ask to be united to His Body and Blood and become a temple of the Holy Spirit.

So we too, Lord, as we stand before Your Sacrament, remember the saving Passion of Your Christ, the life-giving Cross, the most precious Death, the three-day Burial, and the Resurrection from✦1 the dead, the Ascension into heaven, the Sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and the glorious and fearful Coming. We ask You, Lord, that receiving a share of Your Sacraments with the pure witness of our conscience, we may be united to the holy Body and Blood of Your Christ; and receiving those things worthily, may we have Christ dwelling in our hearts, and become a temple of Your Holy Spirit.✦✦23

Prayer for Worthy Reception

A brief plea that none be made guilty or weak through unworthy reception of the holy Sacraments.

Also, O our God!4 Do not make any of us guilty of these awe-inspiring and heavenly Sacraments, nor weak in soul or body, because of unworthy reception of them.✦5

Read the original Latin

Memores igitur et nos, Domine, in presentia Sacramenti Tui, Salutarium Christi Tui Passionum, Vivifieze Crucis, Pretiosissimze Mortis, Triduang Sepulturz, Resurrectionis a. Mortuis, Ascensionis in coelum, Sessionis a dextra Dei Patris, Gloriosi et formidabilis Adventus, Rogamus Te, Domine, ut in puro testimonio Conscientiz nostrae accipientes partem Sacramentorum tuorum, Adunemur Sancto Corpori et Sanguini Christi Tui: Et illa digne recipientes, Habeamus Christum Cordibus nostris inhabitantem, et fiamus Templum Sancti Tui Spintus; 11. Etiam, O Deus noster! Neque quenquam nostrum reum facias horum tremendorum et Coelestium Sacramentorum, neque infirmum anima vel corpore, propter indignam horum receptionem.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩1Cor.11.23-1Cor.11.26 — For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 1Cor.11.24 — and having given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' 1Cor.11.25 — In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 1Cor.11.26 — For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
  2. ↩Eph.3.17 — that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith
  3. ↩1Cor.6.19 — Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own,
  4. ↩1Cor.11.27-1Cor.11.30 — So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 1Cor.11.28 — But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 1Cor.11.29 — For the one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 1Cor.11.30 — Because of this, many among you are weak and sick, and a considerable number have died.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized source shows OCR/print corruption: Vivifieze→Vivificae, Pretiosissimze→Pretiosissimae, Triduang→Triduanae, Sepulturz→Sepulturae; presentia read as praesentia. Sentence ends mid-phrase at 'Resurrectionis a', completed by s2 'Mortuis' (a mortuis).
  2. 2 ↩Corrected Conscientiz→Conscientiae and Spintus→Spiritus. Trailing '11.' treated as print/section marker, not prayer text.
  3. 3 ↩'partem Sacramentorum' rendered as 'a share of Your Sacraments' (portion/participation); could also be heard as 'our portion in Your Sacraments'.
  4. 4 ↩'Etiam' taken as additive intensifier introducing the further petition ('Also'); could also be heard as affirmative 'Yes'.
  5. 5 ↩'reum facias horum ... Sacramentorum' rendered as 'make ... guilty of these ... Sacraments' (liable through unworthy reception), following the Pauline sense of being answerable for the Body and Blood.

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