Preces Quotidianae
A Prayer of Surrender and Deliverance
The soul entrusts itself to God, confessing human limitation, and petitions for deliverance from harmful pleasures, twisted habits, evil desires, and spiritual defilement.
to forgive, to entrust,1 You can do more than I can.2 Do not let harmful pleasure oppress me, To spare, to sin.3 At least let a twisted habit not crush me. From wicked and unlawful desires, from empty, harmful, unclean thoughts, from the illusions of evil spirits, From the pollutions of mind and body.
Read the original Latin
remittere, committere,
Plus potes { quam ego1
Ne premat delectatio noxia,
parcere, peccare. Saltem ne opprimat consuetudo perversa. A pravis et illicitis desideriis, À vanis, noxiis, immundis cogitationibus, Ab illusionibus malignorum spirituum,
A pollutionibus mentis et corporis.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source is a bare two-infinitive fragment with trailing comma and no finite clause, object, or prayer frame. remittere rendered as 'to forgive' (remit/release); committere as 'to entrust' (hand over/commit to care). Either verb can mean differently (remit/send back; commit a fault) if fuller context later requires revision.
- 2 ↩Source reads 'Plus potes { quam ego1' with likely OCR/corruption noise ('{' and trailing '1'). Translated as the plausible prayer sense Plus potes quam ego: 'You can do more than I.'
- 3 ↩Bare paired infinitives with no governing verb or clear syntax in the supplied section; rendered literally. Possible fragment, catchword pair, or corrupt reading (e.g. a fuller petition such as spare / do not sin), but no correction is secure from this witness alone.
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