Preces Quotidianae
Grace for the Earnest Seeker
The Lord's graciousness is promised to those who love and seek him wholeheartedly, even when they fall short of the saints' purity.
The good Lord will be gracious to all who love him with their whole heart and seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, even though they have not attained the purity of the saints.✦1
Read the original Latin
Dominus bonus propitiabitur cunctis, qui in toto corde se diligunt, et requirunt Dominum, Deum Patrum suorum, Quamvis non assequutis puritatem Sanctorum.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Exod.3.6 — And he said, 'I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin has se diligunt (literally 'love themselves' / reciprocal 'love one another'). In this devotional register, parallel with requirunt Dominum and the idiom in toto corde, the intended sense is almost certainly love directed to God ('love him'); rendered accordingly.
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