Preces Quotidianae

Opening Ablative Petitions

A series of brief invocations appealing to preservation, governance, learning, civility, and religion.

(¹ Preservation,² By governance, Learning, Civility, Religion.

The Mysteries of Redemption

A litany of Christ's redemptive acts from the Incarnation to his life and suffering, each introduced by 'By'.

By the Redemption, (³ By the great mystery of godliness, By His self-emptying,^✦⁴ By humiliation, By taking hold of Abraham's seed,⁵ By the union with that,⁶ By the offering of His life,⁷ By the sacrifice of his death.⁸ by the good works he did from the manger as far as⁹ the evils he suffered, even to the cross.¹⁰ By the whole economy of salvation,¹¹ By the holy Incarnation, By the poor Nativity, By being laid in a manger, By His circumcision, He subjected Himself to the Law,¹² By the firstfruits of his blood,¹³ By the beloved name of JESUS, By the Manifestation to sinners from the Gentiles,¹⁴ By the Presentation in the Temple, by the Flight into Egypt,¹⁵

Offering and Disciplined Desires

A concluding unit that briefly names offering of life, then enumerates numbered steps of spiritual discipline: craving to hear, eagerness to seek, and humility in obedience.

By the offering of life,¹⁶ 1. By a craving to hear, 2. With eagerness to seek,¹⁷ 9. By humility in obeying parents.^✦

Read the original Latin

(. Conservatione,

Gubernatione,

Eruditione,

Civilitate,

Religione.

Redemptione, (

Mysterio magno pietatis,

Exinanitione,

Humiliatione,

Apprehensione seminis Abraham,

Unione ad illud,

Oblatione vitz,

Sacnficio mortis. bonis, quxe fecit a presepl usque

malis, quz& passus id ad crucem.

Universa oeconomia,

Sancta Incarnatione,

Paupere Nativitate,

Reclinatione in presepe,

Cireumcisione, subjiciente Legi,

Primitis sanguinis,

Amabili nomine JESU,

Manifestatione peccatoribus de Gentibus,

hj 113 Presentatione in Templo, Fuga in /Egyptum, (

Oblatione vit:ze,

1. Cupiditate audiendi,

2. Aviditate quzrendi,

9. Humilitate parendi parentibus.

Scripture echoes

↩Phil.2.7 — but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness, and appearing as a human being.
↩Exod.20.12;Eph.6.1-Eph.6.2 — Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Eph.6.1 — Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Eph.6.2 — Honor your father and mother—this is the first commandment with a promise—

Notes

1 ↩Source reading is only '(.' — almost certainly corrupt or a fragment of punctuation/list markup, not a full Latin sentence. Rendered as a bare open parenthesis without inventing content.
2 ↩Ablative Conservatione, in a daily-prayer list (neighboring Gubernatione). Rendered as a list noun matching the classic creation/preservation/governance petition pattern; could also be instrumental ('by preservation') if later context supplies a governing verb.
3 ↩Latin is a bare ablative fragment Redemptione with a trailing open parenthesis; neighboring sections are also ablatives (Religione / Mysterio magno pietatis), so this is rendered as a litany-style instrumental phrase. The incomplete parenthesis is preserved from the source.
4 ↩Latin exinanitio is the traditional term for Christ's kenosis (Phil 2:7, se exinanivit). Rendered 'self-emptying' rather than archaic 'exinanition' to keep Modern Readable register while preserving the doctrinal sense.
5 ↩Latin apprehensio with seminis Abraham almost certainly echoes Heb 2:16 (semen Abrahae apprehendit): the Incarnation as Christ taking on Abraham's line, not mere mental 'apprehension.'
6 ↩Ablative litany fragment: Unione ad illud. illud is a neuter deictic whose antecedent is not named in this section; neighboring Apprehensione seminis Abraham (semen is neuter) makes 'that [seed]' a plausible referent, but the English keeps the source's demonstrative.
7 ↩Source reads 'vitz'; most plausible intended reading is 'vitæ/vitae' (of life), parallel to neighboring ablatives of Christ's life and death.
8 ↩Source reads 'Sacnficio'; most plausible intended form is ablative 'Sacrificio' (by/with the sacrifice), matching the preceding 'Oblatione vitæ' pattern.
9 ↩Normalized plausible reading: 'bonis, quæ fecit a præsepi usque' (OCR: 'quxe', 'presepl'). Clause is incomplete and continues into the next section.
10 ↩Source is clearly corrupt OCR/print garble: 'malis, quz& passus id ad crucem.' Read with neighboring context as the Passion parallel to the previous fragment (bonis, quae fecit a praesepio usque…): 'malis, quae passus [est] usque ad crucem' — the evils/sufferings he endured even to the cross. 'quz&' taken as 'quae'; 'id' taken as 'usque'.
11 ↩Latin oeconomia (θεολ. οἰκονομία) is the divine dispensation/plan of salvation; rendered as 'economy of salvation' rather than bare 'economy' or archaic 'dispensation.' Ablative force ('by…') is inferred from the neighboring litany line Sancta Incarnatione and the chapter's daily-prayer form.
12 ↩Source prints Cireumcisione; translated as Circumcisione (Circumcision), the only plausible reading in this litany of Christ’s infancy mysteries.
13 ↩Latin Primitis is taken as ablative of primitiae (firstfruits), the standard Circumcision devotion phrase primitiae sanguinis—Christ’s first shedding of blood—matching the neighboring Circumcision and Holy Name invocations.
14 ↩Manifestatione points to the Epiphany (Christ made known to the nations); kept as Manifestation to preserve the serial ablative mystery-list cadence with neighboring sections.
15 ↩Source line is badly corrupted: leading 'hj 113', slash before Egyptum, and trailing '(' look like OCR/page junk, not liturgical Latin. Translated as ablative mystery titles matching the neighboring series (… Manifestatione … / Presentatione … Fuga … / Oblatione …).
16 ↩Source reads 'Oblatione vit:ze,'. Most plausible correction is 'Oblatione vitae,' (ablative list item: 'by/with the offering of life'). 'vit:ze' looks like OCR corruption of 'vitae'/'vitæ'.
17 ↩Source reads 'quzrendi'; treated as intended 'quaerendi' (of seeking), parallel to neighboring ablative-gerund items (Cupiditate audiendi; Humilitate parendi).

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