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Preces Quotidianae

Angelic Choirs

Invoking the angelic orders—Dominions, Principalities, Powers, Cherubim, and Seraphim—and the perseverance of the morning stars, leading to the desire to join their choirs.

whether Dominions, or Principalities, or Powers.✦ Cherubim shining with knowledge—He set Cherubim before Paradise.✦ Gen. 3.1 24.✦ Seraphim burning with love—Seraphim stood above it: six wings, with two.✦2 Is.3 6. 2. Morning stars, rulers of the world, lovers of humankind, highest ministers of the divine will—the perseverance of the angels, climbing from virtue to virtue,4 to be joined to their choirs.

The Company of Saints

A litany of the faithful: patriarchs, prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, doctors, ascetics, virgins, and holy innocents, culminating in a declaration of their strong faith and proven life.

the faith of the Patriarchs, the hope of the Prophets, the labors of the Apostles, the Evangelists5 the blood of the martyrs, the zeal of the confessors, the studies of the doctors, the ascetics6 [Unreadable source: Therapeutze j Wu]7 Flowers of purity,8 Heavenly virgin gems, companions of the spotless Lamb.✦9 Beauty,10 Flowers of the Church,11 Innocent ones12 Watchtower of the virtues, ardor of the Holy Spirit.1314 Whose faith is strong and whose life is proven.15

Read the original Latin

sive Dominationes, sive Principatus, sive Potestates. Cherubim lucentibus cognitione, Collocavit ante Paradisum Cherubim. Gen». iu. 24. Seraphim ardentibus dilectione, Seraphim stabant super illud : sex ale, duabus. /s. vi.

2. Astra matutina, Rectores orbis, Amatores hominum, Summi ministri diving voluntatis, Perseverantiam Angelorum, de virtute in virtutem scandendo,

eorum choris sociari.

Patriarchze Fidem, Propheta Spem, Apostoli Labores, Evangelistze

Martyres Sanguis, Confessores Zelus, Doctores Studia, Asceto

Therapeutze j Wu

Flores munditize,

Virgines Gemm:e coelestes, Consortes Agni immaculati.

f Decor,

Flores Ecclesiz,

Innocentes ἡ

Specula virtutum, ard Spiritus Sancti.

Quorum fides fortis, ct vita probata.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩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.
  2. ↩Gen.3.24 — So he drove out the man, and he settled east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword that turns every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  3. ↩Gen.3.24 — So he drove out the man, and he settled east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword that turns every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  4. ↩Isa.6.2 — Seraphim were standing above him; each one had six wings: with two each covered his face, with two each covered his feet, and with two each would fly.
  5. ↩1Pet.1.19;Rev.14.4 — but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot Rev.14.4 — These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among mankind as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source 'iu.' is treated as a corrupt/fragmented Roman numeral for chapter 3 (iii.), matching Gen 3:24 with the neighboring Cherubim-before-Paradise allusion.
  2. 2 ↩Source 'ale' read as alae ('wings'); the clause is incomplete, matching Isaiah 6:2's 'with two [he covered his face]' pattern.
  3. 3 ↩Source '/s.' treated as a corrupt abbreviation for Isaiah (Is.), pairing with the preceding Seraphim clause and following 'vi.'.
  4. 4 ↩Source reads 'diving voluntatis'; translated as intended 'divinae voluntatis' ('of the divine will').
  5. 5 ↩Latin surfaces Patriarchze / Evangelistze are almost certainly corrupt for Patriarchæ / Evangelistæ (OCR æ → ze). Propheta is read as Prophetæ to match the parallel saint-rank list. Evangelistæ has no paired attribute in this section (unlike Fidem, Spem, Labores), and the next section begins with Martyres.
  6. 6 ↩Asceto is almost certainly a truncated or corrupt form (likely Ascetae / Asceti), with its paired virtue missing, as in the incomplete neighboring sections. Rendered as 'the ascetics' pending a cleaner witness.
  7. 7 ↩The supplied Latin is not intelligible classical/medieval Latin; it appears corrupt or OCR-garbled. Neighboring sections suggest a litany of saintly orders/virtues (Martyres Sanguis… Asceto… Flores munditiae), but no secure restoration of this unit is possible from the given reading alone.
  8. 8 ↩Source reads 'munditize', almost certainly a corrupt/OCR form of 'munditiæ' (of purity/cleanness). Rendered on that corrected reading.
  9. 9 ↩Source reading 'Gemm:e' is treated as corrupt for 'Gemmæ' (gems), yielding 'Virgines Gemmæ coelestes'.
  10. 10 ↩Source reads 'f Decor,'. The stray 'f' looks like OCR/print damage rather than a Latin word; rendered as the vocative epithet Decor (beauty/adornment) in series with neighboring virgin-litany titles.
  11. 11 ↩Latin surface 'Ecclesiz' is almost certainly corrupt for genitive 'Ecclesiae' (of the Church); translated on that reading.
  12. 12 ↩Source ends with Greek ἡ after Latin Innocentes; treated as likely corruption/OCR debris and left untranslated. Sense taken from Innocentes alone in the surrounding litany-style epithet series.
  13. 13 ↩Source reads 'ard'; most plausible intended reading is 'ardor' (ardor/fervor), parallel to 'Specula' as a litany epithet with genitive 'Spiritus Sancti'.
  14. 14 ↩Latin 'specula' is watchtower/lookout (not 'speculum', mirror). Rendered as 'Watchtower' for fidelity; if the witness intends the common Marian/devotional title type, 'Mirror of the virtues' would be the usual English cadence.
  15. 15 ↩Source reads 'ct'; taken as a typo for 'et' ('and'), which fits the litany cadence and yields the only coherent sense.

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