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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

in tranquillity, in green and dewy places, in Paradise, in refreshment, in Abraham's bosom,✦1 in the dwellings of the saints,2 To rejoice, to sit at rest, to be glad, honor at the right hand, to keep festival, of God, eternity.✦3 To be glorified, the Thrice-Holy, to be blessed, with the angels, to enjoy delights, in the light, psalm, song on high, in heaven.✦4 Belt, helmet, breastplate, shield, shoes, sword✦ Above all, prayer. Eph.5 6.6 14. –18.]✦7 Grant me the power and the opportunity to act well, so that before the day of my departure I may at least accomplish some good whose fruit remains—that I may appear with righteousness and be filled with glory.8 You who added fifteen years to Hezekiah's life, grant me such a span of life, at least in due measure,9 as long as I can still lament my sins,

Read the original Latin

tranquillitate, I virentibus, locis 1 ] rorantibus, in Paradiso, Refrigeratione, Sinu Abrahz,

''abernaculis Sanctorum,

Gaudere, Sedere Quies, Laetari, ad dextram Honor, Feriari, Dei, ZEternitas. Glorificari, 'Ter-Sanctus, Beari, Cum Angelis, Delicüs frui, In luce, Psalmus, Sursum, Cantus, In ccelo. Zonam, Galeam, Loricam, Scutum, Calceos, Gladium,

super omnia orationem. | Ep. vi. 14. —18.]

Concede mihi potestatem et opportunitatem bene agendi, ut ante diem exitus mel saltem aliquod bonum efficiam, cujus fructus maneat, Ut apparere possim cum justitia, et satiari cum gloria. Qui Ezechic annos quindecim vite adjecisti, mihi tantum vitz spatium indulgeas, saltem ad mensuram,

dum peccata valeam deplorare,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Luke.16.22 — And it happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.
  2. ↩Ps.110.1;Mark.16.19;Heb.1.3 — The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." Mark.16.19 — So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. Heb.1.3 — He is the radiance of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's own being, and he upholds all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  3. ↩Isa.6.3;Rev.4.8 — And one called to another and said, 'Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the fullness of the earth is his glory. Rev.4.8 — And the four living creatures, each having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. And they have no rest day and night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.'
  4. ↩Eph.6.14-Eph.6.17 — Stand firm, then, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness. Eph.6.15 — and having shod your feet with the readiness of the gospel of peace Eph.6.16 — In all circumstances, take up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Eph.6.17 — And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
  5. ↩Eph.6.14-Eph.6.18 — Stand firm, then, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness. Eph.6.15 — and having shod your feet with the readiness of the gospel of peace Eph.6.16 — In all circumstances, take up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Eph.6.17 — And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Eph.6.18 — Through all prayer and supplication, praying at every season in the Spirit, and for this keeping watch with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source is badly broken: reading as a traditional list of resting-places of the blessed — tranquillitate; in virentibus locis rorantibus; in Paradiso; refrigeratione; sinu Abrahae. OCR/print noise includes 'I' for 'in', 'locis 1 ]', and 'Abrahz' for Abrahae.
  2. 2 ↩Source reads ''abernaculis; almost certainly tabernaculis (missing initial t and stray quotes), continuing the previous section’s locative list (in Paradiso, Refrigeratione, Sinu Abrahae…).
  3. 3 ↩Normalized 'ZEternitas' read as Æternitas/eternity (OCR digraph corruption). 'Sedere Quies' taken as paired 'to sit at rest'; 'Feriari, Dei' left as sequential list items rather than forced into a single phrase.
  4. 4 ↩Read 'Delicüs' as deliciis and 'ccelo' as caelo; leading quote mark on 'Ter-Sanctus treated as noise.
  5. 5 ↩Source reads '| Ep.'; the pipe looks like a print/OCR margin artifact. Rendered as the book abbreviation Ep. (Ephesians).
  6. 6 ↩Source 'vi.' is the chapter number in Roman numerals (6), belonging to the Ephesians citation.
  7. 7 ↩Source '—18.]' closes a verse range (through 18) and a bracket that likely opened before this split citation; kept as an end-range marker rather than rewritten into a full reference string.
  8. 8 ↩Normalized reading treats printed mel as corrupt for mei with exitus (day of my departure). Honey (mel) is contextually impossible here.
  9. 9 ↩Printed Ezechic → Ezechiae (Hezekiah); vite and vitz → vitae. All treated as OCR/print corruption of the standard biblical prayer formula.

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