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Chapter 15PrecesPriv.1.15

Preces Quotidianae

Invocation and Prayer for the Holy Spirit

Opening prayer invoking God's peace and the Holy Spirit, with source attributions.

Prompting in us ways of life that are worthy of repentance. May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ, equip us with every good thing, so that we may do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs glory forever and ever.✦1 Heb.✦2 13.3 You who on this day sent down your thrice-holy Spirit on your disciples: that same Spirit, Lord, do not take away from us, but renew it day by day.4 in us who ask You.5 Chrysostom.6 Liturgy.7

Penitential Confession

A heartfelt confession of sin, acknowledging guilt and clinging to vanities.

Merciful and gracious Lord, patient and rich in compassion: I have sinned; against you, Lord, I have sinned.8 Alas! Wretched man that I am—Rom.9 vii.10 24. I have sinned against you, Lord; often and heavily I have sinned—and that by clinging to vanities and lies.11 I hide nothing; I make no excuses at all. Ps.

Confession with Scripture

A confession giving glory to God and confessing injustice, citing Joshua and Psalms.

[unclear citation fragment]12 4. I give you glory, Lord, today. Josh.✦ 7. 19. I confess against myself my injustice.13 Ps.14 32.

Final Lament and Confession

A concluding confession of sin with exclamations of remorse.

5. Truly I have sinned against the Lord, and I have done such and such.15 Oh! What have I done? and, as I deserved,16

Read the original Latin

Suggerens nobis mores poenitentia dignos. Deus pacis, qui eduxit de mortuis Pastorem ovium magnum, In sanguine testamenti ceterni, Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, Aptet nos in omni bono, Ut faciamus ejus voluntatem, Faciens in nobis quod placeat coram se, Per JEsuM CHRISTUM, Cui est gloria in secula sseculorum. e£. xin. 20, Qui ter-Sanctum tuum Spiritum hac in die in discipulos tuos demisisti, Eum Ipsum, Domine, ne auferas a nobis, Sed de die in diem renova

in nobis te rogantibus. Chrysost. Liturg.

MiISERICORS et clemens Domine, Longanimis et multz miserationis, Peccavi, Tibi, Domine, peccavi. Eheu! Infelx ego homo, Aom. vu. 24. Peccavi tibi, Domine, Sepe et graviter peccavi, Idque observando vanitates et mendacia. Non abscondo quicquam, non excuso excusationes ullas. Psal.

cxh. 4. Do tibi gloriam, Domine, hodie, Jos. vii. 19. Confiteor adversum me injustitiam meam. |Ps. xxxii.

5.] Vere ego peccavi Domino, Et sic et sic feci.

Oh! quid feci? et, ut dignus eram,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Heb.13.20-Heb.13.21 — Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant—our Lord Jesus— Heb.13.21 — equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  2. ↩Heb.13.20-Heb.13.21 — Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant—our Lord Jesus— Heb.13.21 — equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  3. ↩Josh.7.19 — Then Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and give him praise; and tell me now what you have done — do not hide it from me.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized corrupt readings ceterni→aeterni and secula sseculorum→saecula saeculorum as eternal / forever and ever.
  2. 2 ↩Source surface e£. is corrupt; most plausible as the book citation Heb. after the Hebrews 13:20-21 prayer, especially with following xin. and residual 20.
  3. 3 ↩Source surface xin. is almost certainly the Roman numeral xiii. as the chapter citation for Hebrews 13.
  4. 4 ↩Leading 20, is likely residual verse numbering from Heb. xiii. 20 attached by segmentation, not part of the new prayer address; omitted from the English petition.
  5. 5 ↩Continues the previous petition (PrecesPriv.1.15.1.s5): 'Sed de die in diem renova in nobis te rogantibus' — 'But renew [Him] day by day in us who ask You.'
  6. 6 ↩Abbreviated source attribution (Chrysost. = Chrysostom), not body text of the prayer.
  7. 7 ↩Abbreviated source attribution (Liturg. = Liturgy), likely paired with Chrysostom as a citation of the Chrysostom liturgy.
  8. 8 ↩Normalized OCR corruptions: MiISERICORS→Misericors; multz→multae (multae miserationis).
  9. 9 ↩Normalized Infelx→Infelix; Aom. read as Rom. (Romans), matching the following vii. 24 citation fragments and Rom. 7:24.
  10. 10 ↩vu. treated as vii. (Roman chapter numeral 7) in the Rom. vii. 24 citation chain.
  11. 11 ↩Sepe normalized as Saepe (often).
  12. 12 ↩Source reading 'cxh.' is not valid Latin or a standard Roman-numeral citation; likely OCR corruption of a scripture/reference tag (possibly completing the preceding 'Psal.').
  13. 13 ↩injustitia can be rendered injustice, iniquity, or wrongdoing; injustice keeps the Latin surface and the confessional legal force of adversum me.
  14. 14 ↩Leading pipe in '|Ps.' treated as a typesetting/OCR artifact, not lexical content.
  15. 15 ↩sic et sic feci is the biblical confession formula for naming particular sins without listing them here; rendered as the idiomatic English 'such and such' rather than a stiff 'thus and thus.'
  16. 16 ↩ut dignus eram is comparative ('as I was deserving / as I deserved'), not purpose. In this Job confession sequence it means the speaker had earned the punishment he did not in fact receive (continued next section: Non recepi).

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