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Preces Quotidianae

The Evening Sacrifice

The heading introduces the evening prayer, followed by a petition to remember God's name and a prayer that the evening sacrifice rise to God.

The Evening Sacrifice.✦ May I remember Your name in the night, and keep Your law.1 May the evening prayer rise up to You, and may Your compassion come down to us—You who give songs in the night, You who make the outgoings of dawn and evening praise You (Ps. 65. 8.]

Rest in God's Care

A brief petition acknowledging God as the giver of healthy sleep, with an orphaned parenthesis.

You who give Your beloved ones healthy sleep.✦ (2

The Clock

A heading introducing the next section on the ordering of time.

The Clock.

Times and Seasons

A prayer acknowledging God's sovereignty over time and asking for timely prayer and protection.

You who have set the times and seasons in Your power,✦3 1. 7.✦ Grant that we may pray at a fitting and opportune time,4 And keep us.

Born Again in Christ

A prayer recalling Christ's nativity and asking for daily regeneration through the Holy Spirit until Christ is formed in us, concluding with a plea for safety.

You who, for us humans and for our salvation, were born in the deep of night, Luke5 2. 8. Grant us to be born again day by day through the renewing of the Holy Spirit,✦6 3.7 5. until Christ is formed in us, into the perfect man,8 And keep us.

Resurrection and New Life

A prayer recalling Christ's resurrection and asking for daily renewal and repentance, concluding with a plea for protection.

You who early in the morning, with the sun already rising in the East, rose from the dead, Mark 16. 2. Raise us up daily to newness of life, Romans9 6. 4. Suggesting to us the ways of repentance that You Yourself know,10 And keep us.

Read the original Latin

SACRIFICIUM VESPERTINUM.

MzMxon sim nocte nominis Tui, et legem Tuam custodiam. Vespertina oratio ascendat ad Te, et descendat ad nos miseratio Tua, Qui das carmina de nocte, ( Qui facis ut exitus Aurore et Vesperi dilaudent Te, (Psal. lxv. 8.]

Qui das dilectis Tuis somnum sanitatis. (

HOROLOGIUM.

Qui tempora et momenta posuisti in potestate Tua, 4cf. 1. 7. Largire, ut tempore commodo et opportuno oremus ΤῸ,

Et serva nos. Qui propter nos homines, et propter salutem nostram, Alta nocte natus es, Luc. ii. 8. Da nobis renasci indies renovatione Spiritus Sancti, 77/. 111. 5. Donec Christus formetur in nobis, in virum perfectum,

Et serva nos. Qui mane primo Oriente jam sole resurrexisti a mortuis, Mar. xvi. 2. Resuscita nos quotidie ad vitze novitatem, Rom. vi. 4. Suggerens nobis, quos Ipse nosti, modos poenitentiz,

Et serva nos.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.141.2 — May my prayer be set before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
  2. ↩Ps.127.2;Ps.128.2 — It is futile for you—rising early, staying late, eating the bread of anxious toil—for so He gives sleep to His beloved. Ps.128.2 — When you eat the fruit of your own labor, you are blessed, and it will go well with you.
  3. ↩Acts.1.7 — But he said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority."
  4. ↩Acts.1.7 — But he said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority."
  5. ↩Titus.3.5 — not by works of righteousness that we ourselves had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of renewal and rebirth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source opens with corrupt token 'MzMxon'; translated as 'Memor' (Memor sim…), the only reading that yields coherent Latin and matches the clear Psalm 119:55 / Vulgate 118:55 evening-prayer pattern.
  2. 2 ↩Source unit is only an opening parenthesis, likely the start of a scripture citation continued in neighboring units; left as structural punctuation, not prose.
  3. 3 ↩Trailing '4cf.' is almost certainly a fractured scripture citation (likely Act. 1.7), split across s1–s3; not translated as prose.
  4. 4 ↩Trailing Greek 'ΤῸ' is not integrated into the English; it looks like OCR residue or an unfinished Greek fragment, not part of the Latin petition.
  5. 5 ↩propter nos homines, et propter salutem nostram echoes the Nicene Creed; Alta nocte frames the Nativity night scene ahead of the Luke 2:8 citation.
  6. 6 ↩Trailing citation fragment 77/. is almost certainly a corrupt reading of Tit. (Titus), completed by the following 111. 5. as Titus 3:5.
  7. 7 ↩Printed/OCR 111. read as iii. (chapter 3), completing Tit. iii. 5.
  8. 8 ↩in virum perfectum keeps the biblical 'perfect/mature man' sense (Eph 4:13), not mere moral perfectionism.
  9. 9 ↩Source has vitze; translated as vitae ('of life'), the only plausible reading with novitatem.
  10. 10 ↩Source has poenitentiz; translated as poenitentiae ('of repentance/penance').

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