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Preces Quotidianae

The Lord's Mercy

The Lord is patient and merciful, taking away iniquity and wickedness.

The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity—1 iniquity and wickedness.2

The Name of the Father

Invoking the Father's name, with references to Christ's ascension and the prodigal son, and a plea for His great name.

The Name of the Father. I am ascending to My Father and your Father. Father of the prodigal son.3 .4 And what will become of Your great name?

The Name of Christ

A litany of Christ's titles: Lamb, Redeemer, Savior, with scriptural affirmations.

The name of Christ. The Lamb in a figure.5 Behold, the Lamb of God!✦ Redeemer. I know that my Redeemer lives.✦ Savior.6 We know that this is truly the Savior of the world.✦

Christ Our Mediator and Advocate

Christ is invoked as Mediator, Advocate, Intercessor, and High Priest, with supporting scripture references.

Mediator. One Mediator between God and human beings. 1 Tim.✦7 2.8 5.9 Advocate. We have an Advocate with the Father. Intercessor. (10 High Priest.11 (12

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is invoked as Dove, Anointing, and Comforter, with scriptural allusions.

The Dove, as a type.13 He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove. Ointment, or Anointing.14 As the Anointing teaches you. 1 John 11✦15 27 The Comforter. If I don't go away, the Paraclete won't come.16

God's Faithful Promise

God's promise is recalled with scriptural citations from Psalms, Titus, and Hebrews, emphasizing His faithfulness.

God's promise. Remember your word to your servant, in which you have given me hope. Ps. 119. 49. which God, who does not lie, promised. Tit.✦17 1. 2. With an oath interposed, Heb.✦ 6. 17.18

Read the original Latin

Dominus patiens et mult; misericordiz, auferens ini-

quitatem et scelera.

Nomen Patris.

Ascendo ad Patrem Meum, et Patrem vestrum. Pater fili prodigi. .

Et quid fiet nomini magno Tuo?

Nomen Christi. Agnus in typo. Ecce Agnus Dei! Redemptor. Scio quod Redemptor meus vivit. Servator. Scimus quia hic est vere Salvator mundi.

Mediator. Unus Mediator Dei et hominum. 1 7n. ii. 5. Advocatus. Advocatum habemus apud Patrem.

Intercessor. (

Pontifex. ( :

Columba in typo. Vidit Spiritum Dei descendentem sicut columbam. Unguentum, sive Unctio. Sicut Unctio vos docet. 1 Jo. 11. 27.

Consolator. Sinon abiero, Paracletus non veniet.

Promissum Dei. Memor esto verbi Tui servo Tuo, in quo mihi spem dedisti, Psal. cxix. 49. Quam promisit qui non mentitur Deus, 771. i. 2.

Interposito jurejurando, Heb. vi. l7.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩John.1.29 — The next day he sees Jesus coming toward him and says, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
  2. ↩Job.19.25 — But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the dust." "Dust" better links to mortality and verse 26 while remaining clear.
  3. ↩John.4.42 — and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of your word that we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world."
  4. ↩1Tim.2.5 — For there is one God and one mediator between God and humankind, the man Christ Jesus,
  5. ↩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.
  6. ↩Titus.1.2 — in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began,
  7. ↩Heb.6.17;Ps.119.49;Titus.1.2 — In this way, because God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he confirmed it with an oath. Ps.119.49 — Remember your word to your servant, upon which you have given me hope. Titus.1.2 — in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began,

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source line is truncated and corrupted: 'Dominus patiens et mult; misericordiz, auferens ini-'. Restored for sense as 'Dominus patiens et multae misericordiae, auferens ini-' (i.e., multae misericordiae; ini- continues as iniquitatem in the next section). Closely matches the Vulgate cadence of Num 14:18 / related mercy formulas.
  2. 2 ↩Section text is a line-break fragment. With previous section PrecesPriv.1.156.1 (…auferens ini-), the intended reading is iniquitatem et scelera, completing the liturgical/biblical formula Dominus patiens et multae misericordiae, auferens iniquitatem et scelera.
  3. 3 ↩Read as a divine title/invocation in a litany of the Father's name (genitive fili prodigi), not as address to the son.
  4. 4 ↩Source sentence is only a bare period with no lexical content; no English clause can be recovered.
  5. 5 ↩typo = type/figure (typology): the Lamb foreshadowed under an Old Testament figure, not a printing 'typo'.
  6. 6 ↩Servator can mean Savior or Preserver; rendered Savior as a Christological title parallel to Salvator in s7.
  7. 7 ↩Source reads '1 7n.'; in sequence after 1 Tim 2:5 wording, this is most plausibly a corrupt citation of '1 Tim.'
  8. 8 ↩Source is the bare roman numeral 'ii.', almost certainly the chapter number in a citation (1 Tim. 2:5).
  9. 9 ↩Source is the bare numeral '5.', almost certainly the verse number completing a citation (1 Tim. 2:5).
  10. 10 ↩Source unit is only an opening parenthesis; likely a fragmented parenthetical (scripture citation or gloss) split across sections. No continuous Latin clause is present to translate.
  11. 11 ↩Latin Pontifex in this title-list context is rendered as High Priest (Christological/priestly office), not as papal Pontiff.
  12. 12 ↩Source fragment is '( :'—almost certainly a broken opening parenthesis for a citation or gloss, not a full sentence. Rendered as an opening parenthesis only; no invented content.
  13. 13 ↩in typo = as a type/figure (typus), not a textual corruption; title for the Spirit under the baptismal dove-image.
  14. 14 ↩Unguentum/Unctio are Spirit titles (unction); Unctio kept as Anointing for the Johannine unction in the next line.
  15. 15 ↩Printed '11.' is hard to reconcile with 1 John (only 5 chapters). Likely OCR/print confusion of chapter 'ii' (2) as '11', yielding intended 1 John 2:27 with the next line.
  16. 16 ↩Source reads 'Sinon' as one word; treated as the intended 'Si non' ('If I do not').
  17. 17 ↩Source reads "771." after the quotation; parallel citation structure (book abbrev. + chapter + verse) and the wording of Titus 1:2 make "Tit." the most plausible intended reading (likely OCR/type corruption of Tit.).
  18. 18 ↩Source reads 'l7.'; treated as OCR/type corruption of verse number 17 (Hebrews 6:17), consistent with 'Heb. vi.' immediately preceding.

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