Preces Quotidianae
Petition for Grace and the Kingdom
The believer asks for the grace to worthily receive God's gifts, culminating in the obtaining of His kingdom.
But give us even to our final breath, to worthily take up the hope of your holy gifts: sanctification, illumination, strengthening, the lifting of the burden of my many sins, the warding off of every diabolical obsession, the driving out and turning away of my evil way of life, the mortification of the passions, the keeping of the commandments, the increase of your divine grace,123 and obtaining Your kingdom.
Memorial of the Sacred Mysteries
The prayer declares the completion of the mystery of Christ's dispensation and recalls the memorial of His death, resurrection, and eternal delights, which also look forward to the world to come.
Finished and complete, Christ our God, is whatever lies within our power regarding the mystery of Your dispensation.4 For we have kept the memorial of Your death, seen the figure of Your resurrection, been filled with Your eternal life, and enjoyed Your delights, of which there is no end.56 which also in the world to come7
Final Plea for Acceptance
The prayer concludes with a request that the Lord God graciously accept all believers.
May it please you, Lord God, to deign to accept us all.
Read the original Latin
Sed da nobis
usque ad finalem et extremum spiritum, digne spem suscipere sanctitatum tuarum, Ad Sanctificationem, Illuminationem, Corroborationem, Levationem oneris multorum meorum peccatorum, Averruncationem omnis Diabolicz obsessionis, Depulsionem et aversionem male me: conversationis, Mortificationem passionum, Custodiam prsceptorum, Augmentum divine Tu: gratis,
et Regni Tui acquisitionem.
ABSOLUTUM et consummatum est, quicquid in nostra potestate est, Christe, Deus noster, quoad Dispensationis Tu: mysterium. Habuimus enim memoriam Mortis Tu:e, Vidimus typum Resurrectionis Tu:, Impleti sumus vita Tua eterna, Fruitionem habuimus deliciarum Tuarum, quarum nulla est satietas,
Qua et in futuro szeculo
Nos omnes dignari complaceat tibi, Domine Deus.
Notes
- 1 ↩Normalized several corrupt forms to the most plausible Latin: Diabolicz → diabolicæ; male me: conversationis → malæ meæ conversationis; prsceptorum → præceptorum; divine Tu: gratis → divinæ tuæ gratiæ. Colon artifacts treated as OCR noise.
- 2 ↩sanctitatum tuarum taken as genitive after spem: “the hope of your holy gifts.” Could also be heard more abstractly as “hope of your holinesses/sacred things.”
- 3 ↩conversationis rendered as “way of life/conduct” (biblical-Latin conversatio), not spoken conversation.
- 4 ↩Source reads 'Dispensationis Tu: mysterium'; translated as 'Dispensationis Tuae mysterium' (the mystery of Your dispensation), treating 'Tu:' as a broken 'Tuae'.
- 5 ↩Source forms 'Mortis Tu:e' and 'Resurrectionis Tu:' treated as 'Mortis Tuae' and 'Resurrectionis Tuae'.
- 6 ↩'typum Resurrectionis' rendered as 'figure of Your resurrection' (sacramental type/image), not as a full vision of the resurrection itself.
- 7 ↩Source surface szeculo is almost certainly a typo/variant for saeculo (age/world); rendered as the standard liturgical/eschatological phrase 'world to come'.
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