Preces Quotidianae
Confession of Sin and God's Justice
The penitent confesses receiving what was deserved, acknowledges God's righteousness, and admits personal wickedness.
I did not receive what I deserved. Job✦1 32.✦ 27. And what am I to say now, or with what am I to open my mouth? What can I answer, since I myself have done it? Without excuse, without defense, I am condemned by my own judgment.2 Romans3 1. 20.4 My ruin comes from me.✦ To you, Lord, belongs righteousness; but to me, the shame on my face. And you are just in all that has come upon me, because you have done what is true; but I have acted wickedly.
Hope in the Lord's Mercy
After confession, the soul turns to hope in God alone, pleading that its substance and salvation rest in Him.
.5 And now, what is my hope?6 Is it not you, Lord? Yes. My substance is with you.7 If any hope of salvation still remains for me—if your mercy surpasses the multitude of my sins—remember what my substance is. Psalm89 89. 46.
Plea Based on Creation and Redemption
The penitent reminds God that he is His work, His image, redeemed by Christ's blood, and begs not to be destroyed in vain.
That I am the work of your hands, the image of your face, the price of your blood, a name taken from your name, a sheep of your pasture, a child of the covenant.10 Do not despise the works of your hands.✦ Psalm 138.11 8. Did you establish your image and likeness in vain? In vain — if indeed you destroy me.
Read the original Latin
Non recepi Job. xxxii. 27. Et quid nunc dicam, aut in quo aperiam os meum ? Quid respondebo, quia ipse feci? Inexeusatus, indefensus, proprio judicio condemnatus sum. ARom. i.
l. Perditio mea mihi est ex me. Tibi, Domine, justitia, Mihi autem confusio faciei. Et tu justus es In omnibus qui venerunt super me, Quia veritatem fecisti, Ego autem impie egi. . Et nune qu: est exspectatio mea? Nonne tu, Domine ? Etiam.
Substantia mea &à&pud te est. Si mihi supersit salutis spes, S1 superet clementia tua Multitudinem peccatorum meorum, Memorare quiz mea substantia, Psal. lxxxix. 46. Quod sim opus manuum tuarum, , Lmago vultus, Pretium sanguinis, Nomen de nomine, Ovis pascuz tuz, Filius feederis. Figmenta manuum tuarum ne despice. Psal. exxxviii.
8. Imaginem tuam et similitudinem Nunquid vane constituisti?
Vane; siquidem perdideris.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Job.33.27 — He sings before men and says, 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.'
- ↩Job.33.27 — He sings before men and says, 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.'
- ↩Hos.13.9 — You have destroyed yourself, O Israel, because your help is in me.
- ↩Ps.139.8 — If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.
Notes
- 1 ↩Continues the previous section's Job quotation (ut dignus eram, non recepi). "Job" here is the book citation attached to the quote, not an object of "recepi."
- 2 ↩Source "Inexeusatus" treated as intended "Inexcusatus" (without excuse).
- 3 ↩"ARom." taken as Ad Romanos (Romans), the book citation introducing the next scriptural sequence.
- 4 ↩Source reads only "l." Immediately after the previous section's "ARom. i." and the "without excuse" confession (Rom 1:20), this is treated as a verse-number fragment for Romans 1:20, not prose Latin.
- 5 ↩Source is only a period with no lexical content; treated as a segmentation/print artifact rather than a sentence to translate.
- 6 ↩Normalized from corrupt source "Et nune qu: est exspectatio mea?" as "Et nunc quae est exspectatio mea?"
- 7 ↩Source reads 'Substantia mea &à&pud te est.'; translated as corrected 'Substantia mea apud te est.'
- 8 ↩Restored 'S1' → 'si', 'quiz' → 'quae' (psalm wording; 'quia' also possible), and treated trailing 'Psal.' as the start of the following citation.
- 9 ↩'substantia' kept as 'substance' to preserve the psalm term and continuity with s1; it means one's life/being before God, not material wealth.
- 10 ↩Restored 'Lmago' → 'Imago'; 'pascuz tuz' → 'pascuae tuae'; 'feederis' → 'foederis'. Empty doubled comma ignored.
- 11 ↩Source 'exxxviii.' read as 'cxxxviii.' (138), matching the 'do not despise the works of your hands' petition.
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