Preces Quotidianae
Petitions for Mercy
A series of petitions asking God to grant eternal rewards, relieve suffering, show compassion, accept devotion, lift hearts to heaven, turn mercy upon us, save souls from damnation, and grant entrance into the Kingdom.
May they obtain eternal rewards in heaven.1 That you would deign to look upon the miseries of the poor and of captives, and relieve them. That you would regard with kind compassion the fragile falls of the flesh, and steady those who are slipping.2 That you would accept as pleasing the reasonable service of our devotion.3 That you would lift our minds to heavenly desires. That you would deign to turn the eyes of your mercy upon us.4 That you would snatch our souls and the souls of those close to us from eternal damnation.5 That with those for whom I have prayed, or whom I am in any way bound to pray for, and with all the people of God, I may be granted entrance into your Kingdom, there to appear in righteousness and be filled with glory—we ask you,6
A Cry for Hearing
A brief plea for God to hear the preceding petitions.
Hear us, Lord.
Call to Thanksgiving
A heading that introduces a section of thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving.
A Psalm of Praise
Scriptural exclamations and a verse from Psalms calling for God's works to praise Him, giving thanks, and exalting His name.
Let your works praise you, O God, and let your saints bless you. It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praise to your name, O Most High: Psalm7 92. 1. to proclaim your mercy in the morning, and your truth through the night.8 Versicle.9 9.✦ I will exalt you, my God, my King, and I will bless your name10
Doxological Close
A concluding ascription of eternal praise to God, with a citation to Psalm 145:1.
Read the original Latin
Praemia zterna consequantur in coelis; 3. Ut miserias pauperum et captivorum intueri et relevare digneris ; 9. Ut lapsus carnis fragiles benigna compassione recolas, et labentes statumines; 4. Ut obsequium servitutis nostre rationabile acceptum habeas; 5. Ut mentes nostras ad coelestia desideria erigas; 6. Ut oculos misericordiz super nos reducere digneris; 7. Ut animas nostras et propinquorum nostrorum ab zterna damnatione eripias; 8. Ut cum his pro quibus oravi, vel qualicunque modo orare teneor, et cum omni populo Dei, introduci mihi detur in Regnum tuum, ibi apparere in justitia, et satiar gloria; Te rogamus,
Audi nos, Domine.
GRATIARUM ACTIO.
CONFITEANTUR Tibi opera, Deus, et Sancti Tui benedicant Tibi. Bonum est confiten Domino, et psallere nomini Tuo, Altissime: Psal. xcii. 1. Ad annunciandum mane misericordiam 'luam, et veritatem Tuam per noctem. Vers. 9. Exaltabo Te, Deus mi, Rex, et benedicam nomin Tuo
in seculum, et in seculum sccul. — Psae/. cxlv. 1.
Scripture echoes
Notes
- 1 ↩Reading zterna as aeterna (eternal); residual numeral 3. omitted as non-linguistic source residue.
- 2 ↩statumines rendered as steady/strengthen those who are slipping; recolas as regard/remember with care.
- 3 ↩rationabile obsequium echoes Rom 12:1; servitutis nostrae kept as our devotion/service rather than literal bondage.
- 4 ↩Reading misericordiz as misericordiae (of mercy).
- 5 ↩Reading zterna as aeterna (eternal).
- 6 ↩Reading satiar as satiari (to be filled); Te rogamus kept as the litany petition formula before the response.
- 7 ↩Source 'confiten' read as confiteri (truncated form of confiteri); 'Psal.' treated as a citation label, not prose.
- 8 ↩Source "misericordiam 'luam" read as misericordiam tuam (apostrophe likely OCR damage on t).
- 9 ↩Liturgical abbreviation Vers. expanded as Versicle; could also be left as 'V.' in layout.
- 10 ↩Source 'nomin' read as nomini (dative of nomen); sentence is incomplete in source and continues in the next section (in saeculum...).
- 11 ↩Source reads 'in seculum, et in seculum sccul.'; taken as the standard doxological close 'in saeculum, et in saeculum saeculi' continuing the interrupted Ps. 145:1 from the previous section ('Exaltabo Te, Deus mi, Rex, et benedicam nomin Tuo').
- 12 ↩Source '— Psae/.' treated as a corrupted citation label for 'Psal.' / 'Ps.' (Psalm), matching the citation pattern in the previous section.
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