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Preces Quotidianae

God's Daily Mercies

A litany of God's merciful acts, from bountiful provision to redeeming captives, interspersed with scripture references.

Bountiful. For an hour's work, a full day's wage.1 Today you will be with me in Paradise. Luke2 23. 43. Lighting the blind, freeing those in chains.3 Clothing the naked, (Matt.4 vi. 30. Raising up the fallen. Upholding those who are slipping, healing the sick.5 Gathering the scattered. Feeding the living. Sustaining the hungry, casting down the proud, lifting up the humble.✦ Redeeming captives,

The Angelic Orders

A confession addressed to the angelic orders, from angels to thrones, concluding with the truth that all things were created through Christ.

Confession in6 To the Angels, who take care of human beings; to the Archangels, who announce greater things by illumination—"with the voice of the archangel," 1 Thess.✦7 4.8 16.9 To the Virtues, who work wonders; to the Virtues made subject to him, 1 Pet.✦10 3.11 22.12 To the Powers, who drive back demons by command; to the Principalities, perfect in government; to the Dominions, who do good by their bounty; to the Thrones, who judge from their seat,13 All things were created by Him, whether14 "Thrones,✦15

Read the original Latin

Munificus. Pro opera horaria mercedem diurnam. Hodie Mecum eris in Paradiso. wc. xxiii. 43. Illuminans ezcos, Solvens compeditos. Vestiens nudos, (Matt.

vi. 30.] Erigens lapsos. Sustinens labentes, Sanans :egros. Colligens dispersos, . Pascens vivos. Sustentans famelicos, Dejiciens superbos, ( Elevans humiles. Redimens captivos,

CONFESSIO in

Angelis, curam hominum agentibus, Archangelis, majora per illuminationem annunciantibus, In voce Archangel, 1 7ess. iv. 16. Virtutibus mira facientibus, Subjectis ei virtutibus, 1 οί. i. 22. Potestatibus arcentibus demones jussione, Principatibus perfectis gubernatione, Dominationibus benefacientibus largitione, 'hronis judicantibus sessione,

Creata sunt ab Eo omnia, sive. "Throni,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Luke.1.52 — He has brought down rulers from their thrones and lifted up the lowly.
  2. ↩1Thess.4.16 — For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
  3. ↩1Pet.3.22 — who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, with angels and authorities and powers having been subjected to him.
  4. ↩Col.1.16 — For in him all things were created, in the heavens and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through him and for him.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Elliptical phrase after Munificus; most naturally read as God's munificence giving a day's wage for hourly labor (cf. vineyard-worker parable), not as a rubrical note about the Divine Office.
  2. 2 ↩Source reads 'wc.'; treated as corrupt book abbreviation for Luc./Lc. (Luke), matching the following chapter-verse and the Paradise saying.
  3. 3 ↩Source 'ezcos' corrected to caecos (the blind); fits illuminans and the Psalm 146/145 pattern.
  4. 4 ↩Citation opens with Matt. but is truncated mid-parenthesis; likely continues into the following section toward Matthew 25 works of mercy.
  5. 5 ↩Normalized ':egros' read as 'aegros' (the sick); colon is treated as OCR/print noise.
  6. 6 ↩Source reads only CONFESSIO in—an incomplete heading/fragment with no following complement. Rendered as the plain English surface of the words present; fuller sense cannot be recovered from this section alone.
  7. 7 ↩Source ends with corrupt "In voce Archangel, 1 7ess."; taken as Vulgate phrase in voce archangeli with citation 1 Thess. (continues in s2–s3 as iv. 16).
  8. 8 ↩Citation fragment (Roman numeral chapter) continuing 1 Thess. from s1; almost certainly 1 Thess 4:16 with s3.
  9. 9 ↩Verse numeral completing the 1 Thess 4:16 citation begun in s1–s2.
  10. 10 ↩Trailing "1 οί." is corrupt OCR; read as 1 Pet. (Vulgate subjectis … virtutibus at 1 Pet 3:22). Chapter numeral continues in s5–s6.
  11. 11 ↩Source has "i."; for the 1 Pet subjectis … virtutibus allusion the intended chapter is almost certainly iii (1 Pet 3:22), not i.
  12. 12 ↩Verse numeral completing the 1 Pet 3:22 citation chain begun in s4–s5.
  13. 13 ↩Source "'hronis" corrected to Thronis (Thrones); next section opens with Throni, confirming the hierarchy continues.
  14. 14 ↩Section ends mid-clause on sive; the enumeration continues in the following section (Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers).
  15. 15 ↩Opening of a quoted list of celestial ranks; punctuation and quotation mark preserved from the source fragment.

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