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Preces Quotidianae

Pleading for Mercy in Humility

The soul acknowledges its own condemnation, humbles itself before God, and prostrates in penitent surrender.

See me, Lord, condemned by my own judgment—77/.✦1 3:11.✦2 And see, O Lord: do not enter into judgment with Your servant.✦ Ps. cxhn.3 2.✦ And now, Lord, I humble myself under Your mighty hand, 1 Pet. 5,4 6. I bend my knees before You, Lord. Eph.✦ 2.5 14. I fall to the ground on my face.

In the Garden and on the Ground

The prayer echoes Christ's acceptance of suffering, stretches out hands in supplication, and beats the breast in compunction.

Let this cup pass from me. I stretch out my hands to You. Ps.6 143. 6. I strike my breast✦7 mine.8

From the Depths I Cry

The soul cries out from the depths like a parched land, offering every bone and inner being, and pleads for God to hear.

Thigh—Jeremiah 31:19: From the depths my soul cries to You, Psalm.9 130.10 1.✦ Like a land without water before You, Psalm. 143. 6.✦ and all my bones, and everything that is within me.11 Lord, hear my voice.

Read the original Latin

Ecce me, Domine, proprio judicio condemnatum, 77/. iii, 11. Ecce, et, O Domine, ne intres Tu in judicium cum servo tuo. Psal. cxhn. 2.

Et nunc, Domine, Humilior sub potenti manu tua, 1 Pef, v. 6. Flecto genua ad Te, Domine, Eph. ii. 14. Procido in terram, in faciem meam.

Transeat a me calix iste. Expando manus meas ad Te. Psa/,. cxliii. 6. pu a pectus? meum.

femur Jer$ xxxi, 19: De profundis clamat ad Τὸ anima mea, Psal. οχχχ. 1. Sicut terra sine aqua tibi, Psal. cxliii. 6. et omnia ossa mea, ( et omnia quz intra me sunt.

Domine, exaudi vocem meam.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Titus.3.11 — knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.
  2. ↩Titus.3.11 — knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.
  3. ↩Ps.143.2;Ps.144.2 — And do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you. Ps.144.2 — my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer for me, my shield; in him I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
  4. ↩Ps.142.2 — My voice to the LORD I cry out; my voice to the LORD I plead.
  5. ↩Eph.3.14 — For this reason I bow my knees to the Father,
  6. ↩Luke.18.13 — But the tax collector, standing far off, was not even willing to lift his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner.'
  7. ↩Ps.130.1 — A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.
  8. ↩Ps.143.6 — I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a weary land. Selah.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Trailing '77/.' looks like a broken citation label (likely the start of a book/chapter ref continued in s2 as 'iii, 11.'); left as in source.
  2. 2 ↩Roman 'iii, 11.' rendered as chapter:verse; book name is missing/corrupt in s1.
  3. 3 ↩Source reading 'cxhn.' is almost certainly a corrupt Roman numeral; given the preceding petition, the intended psalm is likely cxlii (Vulg. 142) or cxliii (Heb. 143).
  4. 4 ↩Source citation '1 Pef, v.' is almost certainly a corrupt print/OCR form of '1 Pet. v.' (1 Peter 5), continued by the following verse number.
  5. 5 ↩Printed chapter is ii (2). The genuflection formula more naturally belongs to Ephesians 3:14; leave final resolution to the scripture stage.
  6. 6 ↩Source surface 'Psa/,' is a corrupt print/OCR form of the Psalm label (Psal./Ps.), introducing the following chapter and verse numbers.
  7. 7 ↩Source 'pu a pectus?' is corrupt OCR/print. Parallel Preces Privatae daily-prayer sequences after Expando manus meas ad Te regularly read Percutio pectus meum; rendered from that reconstructed reading. English word order places the possessive with breast; the possessive meum continues in s7.
  8. 8 ↩Bare possessive meum completes the reconstructed phrase Percutio pectus meum ('I strike my breast'). The next section begins mid-gesture with femur (Jer. 31:19).
  9. 9 ↩Source mixes a Jer. 31:19 catchword (femur / thigh, from percussi femur meum) with a Psalm 130-style petition. Greek Τὸ is treated as corrupt te ('to You'); Jer$ as Jer.
  10. 10 ↩οχχχ. is treated as OCR garble for Roman numeral cxxx. (Psalm 130), matching the preceding De profundis petition.
  11. 11 ↩quz read as quae; stray opening parenthesis left untranslated as likely OCR noise; clause appears truncated.

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