Preces Quotidianae
The Heart of Devotion
Charity, truth, and piety form the foundation for a confession of praise.
charity in the heart, truth on the lips,1 piety in life. Confession of Praise.
Thanksgiving for Creation and the Promise
A series of thanksgivings for the works of creation and the promise of redemption after the Fall.
For the waters and the heavens. Versicle.✦2 6. For earth and plants; for the lights (day 4); for fish and birds. Versicle.✦3 20. For wild beasts and cattle; for the holy Sabbath.✦ After deliberation: for the forming of man with His own hands, by the divine breath, in His image; for dominion over the creatures; for the angels' care over him; for his placement in Paradise—though he sinned, yet he was not abandoned.✦✦✦✦4 For the promise of the seed (Gen.✦5 ii.6
Thanksgiving for Revelation and Nurture
Thanksgiving for natural revelation, Scripture, and the gifts of generation and nurture.
15. For what is known of God; for the work of the Law written in hearts; (For✦✦7 For the oracles of the Prophets, the melody of the Psalms, the wisdom of the sayings, and the experience of the histories.8 For generation; for nurture,9
Thanksgiving for All Things
A brief concluding thanksgiving encompassing all that has been mentioned.
For all.
Read the original Latin
in corde chartas, Quorum 4 in ore veritas,
in vita pietas.
CONFESSIO LAUDUM.
Aquis et codo, |Vers. 6.] Terra et plantis, Pro 4 Luminaribus, Piscibus et volatilibus, Vers. 20.] Feris et jumentis, Sabbato sancto. (4-5 A habita deliberatione, Hominis formatione, 1 F ᾿ ἢ manibus suis, Spiraculo divino, ( Imagine, Pro T: d Dominio super creaturas, Cura Angelorum super eum, Locatione in Paradiso, L Peecante, non tamen derelicto. ( Promissione seminis, (Gen. ii.
15.] Illo quod notum est Dei, Opere Legis scripto in cordibus, ( Pro ! Oraculis Prophetarum, Melodia Psalmorum, Sententiarum prudentia, Historiarum experientia. Generatione, Pro ἔν Enutritione,
Pro omnibus
Scripture echoes
- ↩Gen.1.6-Gen.1.10 — And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate waters from waters." Gen.1.7 — And God made the expanse, and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. Gen.1.8 — And God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning — a second day. Gen.1.9 — And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered to one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. Gen.1.10 — And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
- ↩Gen.1.11-Gen.1.23 — And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation—plants yielding seed, fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kinds, whose seed is in them, upon the earth." And it was so. Gen.1.12 — And the earth brought forth vegetation—plants yielding seed according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Gen.1.13 — And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. Gen.1.14 — And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years." Gen.1.15 — and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth — and it was so. Gen.1.16 — And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. Gen.1.17 — And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth, Gen.1.18 — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. Gen.1.19 — And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. Gen.1.20 — And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." Gen.1.21 — And God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Gen.1.22 — And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth." Gen.1.23 — And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifth day.
- ↩Gen.1.24-Gen.2.3 — And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creeping things, and wild animals of the earth, each according to its kind." And it was so. Gen.1.25 — And God made the living creatures of the earth according to their kinds, and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Gen.1.27 — So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Gen.1.28 — And God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.' Gen.1.29 — And God said, "See, I have given you every seed-bearing plant that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food." Gen.1.30 — And to every living creature of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps on the earth in which there is a living soul—every green plant for food. And it was so. Gen.1.31 — And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Gen.2.1 — Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host. Gen.2.2 — And God finished on the seventh day His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. Gen.2.3 — And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God created to do.
- ↩Gen.1.26-Gen.1.27 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Gen.1.27 — So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
- ↩Gen.1.26;Ps.8.6 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Ps.8.6 — You have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.
- ↩Ps.91.11 — For he will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in all your ways.
- ↩Gen.2.8 — And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- ↩Gen.3.15 — I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
- ↩Rom.1.19 — because what can be known about God is plain among them, for God made it plain to them.
- ↩Rom.2.15 — who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or even defending them
Notes
- 1 ↩Reading chartas as caritas (charity): the parallel with in ore veritas and the next section in vita pietas makes a virtue-list almost certain; chartas (papers/sheets) does not fit the grammar or sense. The stray Quorum 4 looks like a catalog marker or copy intrusion from the previous Quorum-clause and is not rendered.
- 2 ↩Source reads codo; most plausible intended form is caelo/cœlo (heavens/sky), following the Genesis creation sequence before earth and plants.
- 3 ↩Pro 4 Luminaribus is read as a day-4 creation marker before luminaribus (the lights), not as an ordinary prepositional phrase alone.
- 4 ↩Source is heavily OCR-garbled (Greek scraps, stray letters, Peecante). Sense restored from the ablative praise-outline and the clearer parallel at PrecesPriv.1.140: prehabita deliberatione; manibus; spiraculum; imago; dominium; cura angelorum; paradisus; non derelictus.
- 5 ↩Promissione seminis is the protoevangelium motif (commonly Gen. 3:15). The citation is cut off mid-parenthesis and continues in the next sentence ref.
- 6 ↩Roman numeral chapter marker continuing the incomplete Gen. citation from s7; neighboring text begins 15.], so the print may intend Gen. ii. 15 (Paradise) rather than the seed-promise locus.
- 7 ↩Closing '( Pro !' appears truncated/corrupt; rendered as open '(For' continuing the petition formula. Illo quod notum est Dei and Opere Legis scripto in cordibus echo Romans 1:19 and 2:15.
- 8 ↩Sententiarum may mean proverbial wisdom-sayings, scholastic Sentences, or biblical maxims; 'sayings' keeps the broad sense.
- 9 ↩Greek ἔν in the source looks like OCR/corruption and is omitted; Generatione taken as ablative topic of thanksgiving (birth/begetting).
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