Preces Quotidianae
A Good End and Resurrection
Pray for a holy death and a joyful resurrection.
And grant a good end, which is above every gift: a good and holy end of life,✦1 A glorious and joyful resurrection.2
Petitions for Earthly Provision
Prayers for the fruits of the earth, peace, and satisfaction of the poor, drawn from the Psalms.
Bless our catch with the fruits of the earth and all its fullness.✦3 132. 15. Bring peace to our borders and fill us with the finest wheat.✦ 146. 14. Satisfy the poor with bread.✦ 132.
Petitions for Protection and Deliverance
A comprehensive prayer for safety, health, freedom, and salvation.
195. Strengthen the bars of the gates; bless our children among us. Ps.4 147.5 13. Clothe the enemies with shame. 75. 132. 18. Grant a temperate climate; grant the fruits of the earth; drive away carnal desires; restore health to the sick; grant restoration to the fallen; to those who sail and those who travel, a prosperous journey and a harbor of salvation; to the afflicted, joy; to the oppressed, relief; grant freedom to captives; soundness of mind, wholeness of body, strength of faith, security of hope,6 the protection of salvation.
Read the original Latin
Et concede finem bonum, Quod est super omne donum, Bonum et sanctum vitz finem,
Gloriosam et letam resurrectionem.
De frugibus terre et plenitudine ejus, Benedie capturam nostram, Ps. cxxxii. 15. Pone fines pacem, Imple nos adipe frumenti, Ps. cxlvi. 14. Satura pauperes panibus, Ps. cxxxii.
195. Conforta seras portarum, Benedic filis nostris in nobis, Ps. exlvii. 13. Indue inimicos confusione, 75. cxxxii. 18. Aéris temperiem indulgeas, Fruges terre concedas, Carnalia desideria repellas, Infirmis sanitatem restituas, Lapsis reparationem annuas, Navigantibus et itinerantibus, iter prosperum et salutis portum, 'Tribulatis gaudium, Oppressis relevationem, Captivis libertatem concedas, Sanitatem mentis, Integritatem corporis, Robur fidei, Securitatem spei,
''utelam salutis.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Jas.1.17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
- ↩Ps.132.15 — I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
- ↩Ps.147.14 — He sets peace as your border; with the finest wheat He fills you.
- ↩Ps.132.15;Ps.132.15 — I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread. Ps.132.15 — I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads 'vitz'; translated as intended 'vitae' (of life), a common corruption/abbreviation of vitæ in private-devotion witnesses.
- 2 ↩letam is a common early-modern spelling of laetam (joyful/glad).
- 3 ↩Source reads 'Benedie'; translated as imperative 'Benedic' (bless), the expected form in this petition series.
- 4 ↩Reading 'filis' as 'filiis' (children).
- 5 ↩Corrected corrupt 'exlvii' to intended psalm number cxlvii (147).
- 6 ↩'relevationem' is relief/easing (from relevo), not 'revelation'.
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