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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

And at last, in the light of grace, the light of glory.1 You who give food to all flesh, Ps. 136. 25. You who feed the young of the ravens when they cry out to You, and You have nourished us from our youth, Ps.✦ 71. 5. Fill our hearts with food and joy,✦2 14.✦ 17.✦ And establish our heart with Your grace.✦3 Heb.4 12. 9.✦ You who give evening as the end of the day, so that You may bring the evening of life back to our memory: grant us always to think that as the day flies past, so does life.5 Grant us always to remember the day of darkness, because many, Eccl.✦ xi. 8. that night is coming, when no one can work6 ix. 4. by working, to get ahead of the darkness, so that we are not thrown into the outer darkness. always to cry out to You: Stay with us, Lord.7 xxiv. 99. for evening is coming on, and the day is already far spent of our life.8 The Creator: Justice. The works of the Redeemer: Mercy.9 The Holy Spirit: Holy Spiration.10 The Paraclete — another.11 The Anointing, 1 John n.✦12 27.✦ Seal, Ephesians. 4. 30. Pledge, 2 Corinthians.13 5. 5. and 1. 22.

Read the original Latin

Et tandem in lumine grati: lumen glori:. Qui das escam omni carni, Psal. cxxxvi. 25. Qui pascis pullos corvorum clamantes ad Te, Et enutristi nos a juventute nostra, Psal. lxxi. 5. Imple cibo et letitia corda nostra, «ἀεί.

xiv. 17. Et stabili gratia "Tua cor nostrum. /7eb. xii. 9. Qui vesperum das diei finem, quo vitz vesperum nobis in memoriam redigas, Da semper cogitare, ut diem, sie vitam, transvolare. Da semper meminisse diei tenebrarum, quia multi, Eccl.

xi. 8. Venire noctem, quando nemo potest operari, o. ix. 4. Operando tenebras antevertere, ne in tenebras exteriores ejiciamur. Clamare semper ad Te, Mane nobiscum, Domine, wc. xxiv.

99. quia advesperascit, et inclinata est jam dies

vitz:e nostre.

Creatoris, Justitia. Opera 4 Redemptoris, Misericordia. Spiritus Sancti, Sancta Spiratio.

Paracletus, ἄλλος. Unctio, 1 Jo. n. 27.

Sigillum, | Ephes. iv. 30. Arrhabo, 2 Cor. v. 5. et i. 22.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.71.5 — For you are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
  2. ↩Acts.14.17 — And yet he did not leave himself without witness, doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
  3. ↩Acts.14.17 — And yet he did not leave himself without witness, doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
  4. ↩Acts.14.17 — And yet he did not leave himself without witness, doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
  5. ↩Heb.13.9;Heb.12.9 — Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings. For it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, by which those who walked were not benefited. Heb.12.9 — Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
  6. ↩Heb.13.9 — Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings. For it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, by which those who walked were not benefited.
  7. ↩Eccl.11.8 — For if a person lives many years, let them rejoice in all of them; and let them remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that comes is fleeting.
  8. ↩1John.2.27 — And as for the anointing you received from him, it remains in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and it is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, remain in him.
  9. ↩1John.2.27 — And as for the anointing you received from him, it remains in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and it is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, remain in him.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Reading abbreviated grati: / glori: as genitives gratiae / gloriae: 'in the light of grace, the light of glory.' Continues the light theme of the preceding Psalm citations.
  2. 2 ↩Trailing «ἀεί. is left untranslated as corrupt/garbled source (Greek ἀεί = 'always'); the following section opens with xiv. 17, likely Acts 14:17, which carries this petition in the Vulgate.
  3. 3 ↩Reading stabili as imperative of stabilio ('establish'), with gratia Tua as ablative of means; orphan quotation mark before Tua treated as print/OCR debris. Sense also echoes Hebrews 13:9 (gratia stabilire cor), though the following printed numerals read xii. 9.
  4. 4 ↩Source '/7eb.' treated as OCR corruption of the book abbreviation Heb. (Hebrews), matching the chapter/verse markers that follow (xii. 9).
  5. 5 ↩Reading vitz as vitae and sie as sic (clear OCR/print errors).
  6. 6 ↩Trailing 'o.' looks like OCR/print debris (possibly a broken book abbreviation such as Joh.); not rendered in the English.
  7. 7 ↩Final token 'wc.' is unreadable print/OCR debris and was not translated; neighboring section continues Luke 24:29 ('quia advesperascit…').
  8. 8 ↩Source reading 'vitz:e nostre.' is corrupt/garbled (likely OCR or typesetting damage). Most plausible intended Latin is 'vitae nostrae' ('of our life'), which fits the neighboring evening-prayer and Creator/Redeemer/Spirit outline fragments. Translation follows that corrected sense.
  9. 9 ↩Normalized source reads “Opera 4 Redemptoris”; the digit 4 looks like an intrusive reference or pagination mark, not part of the Latin. Translated as Opera Redemptoris.
  10. 10 ↩Sancta Spiratio is the traditional Trinitarian term for the Spirit’s procession (spiration). Rendered “Holy Spiration” to keep that technical sense rather than flattening to “inspiration” or “breathing.”
  11. 11 ↩Latin Paracletus with Greek ἄλλος (“another”) echoes John 14:16 (ἄλλον παράκλητον / alium Paraclitum): the Spirit as another Advocate/Helper, not a different kind of person from Christ in essence, but another Paraclete.
  12. 12 ↩Fragment of a biblical reference. In parallel with neighboring citation splits (e.g. Ephes. / iv. / 30), this likely continues 1 John toward verse 27; 'n.' may be an abbreviation or a damaged reading of a chapter mark (often ii. for 1 John 2).
  13. 13 ↩Arrhabo (arrabon) is the Spirit as earnest/pledge/guarantee; rendered Pledge for modern readability while keeping the Pauline sense.

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