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Preces Quotidianae

God's Mercy and Atonement

A meditation on God's mercy, forgiveness, and the propitiation through Christ, supported by scriptural citations.

God Himself.✦ I blot out iniquities for My own sake.✦ Is.✦ 42.✦ 25. Hear; give heed; do not delay, for Your own sake.✦ He whom God set forth as a propitiation.✦ — Rom. 3.1 25.✦ Look upon the face of Your Christ.✦ Ps.2 84. 9.

Christ, the Anointed One

Prayers and allusions focusing on Christ as the Anointed, the Son of David, and the mercy shown through David's oath to Shimei.

Do not turn away the face of Your Christ. Ps. 131.3 10. Of the lineage.4 Have mercy on me, Son of David.✦ And David said to Shimei, You will not die,✦ And he swore to him.

Christ's Saving Mission

A liturgical passage proclaiming Christ's anointing, his mission to heal, call sinners, and save the world, with citations from Luke, Isaiah, and John.

From the Office.5 The Spirit of God is upon Me, because he has anointed me.6 18.✦ 61.7 1.✦ The Lord has sent Me to proclaim good news to the meek, so that I might heal the brokenhearted.8 I have come to call sinners. God sent the Son so that the world might be saved. through Him.✦ John 3.9 17.✦

Confession of Praise and Glory

A confession of praise that culminates in Christ's prayer for glorification with the glory he had before the world existed.

Confession of Praise. Because of10 Excellence11 of Majesty.12 Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had before the world existed.

Melchizedek, Priest of God Most High

A single scriptural allusion to Melchizedek as a priest of God Most High, prefiguring Christ's eternal priesthood.

Melchizedek was a priest of God Most High.✦

Read the original Latin

Zpse Deus. Deleo iniquitates propter Me. 7s. xlii. 25. Exaudi, attende, ne moreris propter Temetipsum. Ipse quem proposuit Deus propitiationem. — Rom.

111. 25. Respice in faciem Christi Tui. sal. lxxxiv. 9.

Non avertas faciem Christi Tui. Pso/ cxxxn. 10.

Ex genere. Miserere mei, Fili David. Et dixit David Shemei, Non morieris,

juravitque ei.

Ex officio. Spiritus Dei super Me, eo quod unxerit. 18. lxi. 1. Dominus ad annunciandum mansuetis misit Me, ut mederer contritis corde. Veni vocare peccatores. Misit Deus Filium, ut salvetur mundus

per Ipsum. Jo. in. 17.

CONFESSIO LAUDIS.

PROPTER

Ewcellentiam |. M ajestatis. Clarifica Me, Pater, apud Teipsum, claritate quam habui, priusquam mundus esset.

Melchisedech erat Sacerdos Dei altissimi.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Isa.43.25 — I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and your sins I will not remember.
  2. ↩Isa.43.25 — I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and your sins I will not remember.
  3. ↩Isa.43.25 — I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and your sins I will not remember.
  4. ↩Isa.43.25 — I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and your sins I will not remember.
  5. ↩Dan.9.19 — O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention and do! Do not delay — for your own sake, O my God, because your name is called over your city and your people.
  6. ↩Rom.3.25 — whom God put forward as a mercy seat through faith in His blood, to show His righteousness because of the passing over of sins previously committed
  7. ↩Rom.3.25 — whom God put forward as a mercy seat through faith in His blood, to show His righteousness because of the passing over of sins previously committed
  8. ↩Ps.85.9 — I will listen to what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people and to his faithful ones, but let them not turn back to folly.
  9. ↩Matt.9.27;Mark.10.47-Mark.10.48;Luke.18.38-Luke.18.39 — And as Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." Mark.10.47 — And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, 'Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!' Mark.10.48 — And many were rebuking him, so that he would be silent. But he cried out all the more, 'Son of David, have mercy on me!' Luke.18.38 — and he cried out, saying, 'Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.' Luke.18.39 — And those who were in front were rebuking him so that he would be quiet, but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me."
  10. ↩2Sam.19.23 — Then David said, "What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be to me today as an adversary? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that today I am king over Israel?"
  11. ↩Luke.4.18 — "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to announce good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send the oppressed away in freedom."
  12. ↩Isa.61.1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and release to prisoners.
  13. ↩John.3.17 — For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
  14. ↩John.3.17 — For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
  15. ↩Gen.14.18 — And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; and he was priest of God Most High.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reads "111."; given the previous section’s trailing "— Rom." and the propitiation wording of Rom. 3:25, this is almost certainly a corruption of "III." (chapter 3).
  2. 2 ↩Source "sal." is treated as the standard psalm abbreviation "Ps." / "Psal."; neighboring sections show the same apparatus pattern ("7s.", "Pso/").
  3. 3 ↩Source 'Pso/ cxxxn.' is a damaged abbreviation. Read as Psalm reference Ps./Psa. cxxxi (131), matching the Vulgate text of the preceding petition and the citation pattern in the neighboring section (sal. + Roman numeral + verse).
  4. 4 ↩Fragmentary rubric/heading: Ex genere can mean 'of the stock/lineage/kindred.' Rendered as a lineage heading in light of the following Davidic petitions; sense may be more specific if a fuller lemma is recovered.
  5. 5 ↩Ex officio can mean 'from the (Daily) Office' as a liturgical rubric, or 'by virtue of office.' In Preces Quotidianae the Office reading is the more natural sense.
  6. 6 ↩Latin ends at unxerit without an expressed object; Me is supplied from the earlier Me and the standard Isaiah/Luke wording.
  7. 7 ↩Roman numeral lxi rendered as Arabic 61 for modern readability.
  8. 8 ↩ad annunciandum has no expressed object in the Latin; 'good news' is the natural sense of this Isaiah/Luke oracle and is supplied for readable English.
  9. 9 ↩Source prints 'in.'; read as Roman-numeral chapter 'iii.' (3) in the citation Jo. iii. 17, matching the preceding John 3:17 sense.
  10. 10 ↩Standalone PROPTER appears to be a truncated rubric/heading that continues in the next section (Excellentiam / Majestatis). Rendered as the natural prepositional head 'Because of'; it may belong with 'the excellence of majesty' that follows.
  11. 11 ↩Source reads 'Ewcellentiam |.' — treated as corrupt for Latin Excellentiam (excellence); the pipe is likely a printing/OCR artifact.
  12. 12 ↩Source reads 'M ajestatis.' — treated as split/corrupt for Majestatis (of Majesty).

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