Preces Quotidianae
The Suffering of the Body
This section lists the physical torments inflicted on Christ's body, from the crown of thorns to the streaming blood.
. Head crowned with thorns,✦ struck with a reed, . Eyes filled with tears,1 . Ears filled with insults,2 . Mouth given gall and vinegar to drink,✦ . Your face foully smeared with spit,3 . His back furrowed by the scourges,✦ . Neck bowed under the cross, . Hands outstretched, . With knees bent in prayer, . Feet fastened with nails, . Breast troubled by grief,✦ . Heart pierced by a lance,✦ . Blood streaming freely from every side,
The Trial and Condemnation
This section recounts the sorrowful soul of Christ and the judicial proceedings leading to His condemnation.
. A soul in sorrow, and a cry of agony: Eli, Eli. . To be accused before Pilate of sedition,4 to be denied by His own,✦5 . To be set aside for Barabbas.✦6 . To be sent bound to Herod, . To be clothed in a white robe,✦ To be treated with mockery,✦7 . To be sent back to Pilate,✦ . to be urgently demanded for death,✦ . To be condemned to a most shameful death.
The Mockery and Humiliation
This section details the mockery, crowning with thorns, and taunts inflicted on Christ after His condemnation.
To be handed over to the soldiers' will. To be clothed in purple,✦ . To be crowned with thorns✦ . to be mocked with a reed as a scepter, . to be greeted while kneeling, . To be called King as a taunt,8
Read the original Latin
. Caput spinis coronatum,
arundine percussum,
. Oeuli laerymis perfusi,
. Aures conviclis opplete,
. Os felle et aceto potum,
. Facies sputis fede illita,
. Dorsum flagellis exaratum,
. Collum cruce depressum,
. Manus extense,
. Genua flexa ad orandum,
. Pedes clavis suffixi,
. Pectus turbatum moerore, (
. Cor lancea perforatum,
. Sanguis copiose manans undique,
. Anima tristis et vox agonizans, Eli, Eli. . Aceusari apud Pilatum de seditione, . suis negari,
. Barabbs postponi.
. Vinetum ad Herodem mitti,
. Alba veste indui,
Ludibrüs haberi — (//id.]
. Ad Pilatum remitti,
. Ad mortem instanter rogari,
. Morte turpissima condemnari . Voluntati militum tradi, . Purpura indui,
. Spinis coronari
. Arundineo sceptro illudi,
. Genu flexo salutari,
. Rex appellari per scomma, (72id.]
Scripture echoes
- ↩John.19.2 — And the soldiers, having woven a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.
- ↩Matt.27.34;John.19.29;Ps.69.21 — They gave him wine to drink mixed with gall; and when he tasted it, he was not willing to drink. John.19.29 — A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and held it to his mouth. Ps.69.21 — Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick with grief; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found no one.
- ↩Isa.50.6;John.19.1;Matt.27.26 — I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from disgrace and spitting. John.19.1 — Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and had him flogged. Matt.27.26 — Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he had flogged and handed over to be crucified.
- ↩John.12.27 — Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But it was for this very reason that I came to this hour.
- ↩John.19.34 — But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
- ↩John.1.11 — He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
- ↩John.18.39-John.18.40 — Now it is your custom that I release one man for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release the King of the Jews? John.18.40 — So they cried out again, 'Not this man, but Barabbas!' Now Barabbas was a robber.
- ↩Luke.23.11 — And Herod, together with his soldiers, treated him with contempt and mocked him, putting a gorgeous robe on him, and sent him back to Pilate.
- ↩John.19.1-John.19.3 — Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and had him flogged. John.19.2 — And the soldiers, having woven a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe. John.19.3 — And they kept coming up to him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews!' and striking him with their hands." Completes the sentence and gives the repeated action a clearer spoken rhythm.
- ↩Luke.23.11-Luke.23.12 — And Herod, together with his soldiers, treated him with contempt and mocked him, putting a gorgeous robe on him, and sent him back to Pilate. Luke.23.12 — Now Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day; for before this they had been hostile toward one another.
- ↩Mark.15.13-Mark.15.14;Luke.23.18-Luke.23.23;John.19.6 — But they shouted again, "Crucify him!" Mark.15.14 — But Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out all the more, "Crucify him! Luke.23.18 — But they cried out all together, saying, 'Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!' Luke.23.19 — who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection that had arisen in the city, and for murder. Luke.23.20 — Again Pilate addressed them, wanting to release Jesus. Luke.23.21 — but they kept shouting, saying, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Luke.23.22 — And he said to them a third time, "What evil has this man done? I have found in him nothing deserving death. Having disciplined him, therefore, I will release him." Luke.23.23 — But they pressed on with loud voices, demanding that he be crucified, and their voices prevailed. John.19.6 — So when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
- ↩John.19.2 — And the soldiers, having woven a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.
- ↩John.19.2 — And the soldiers, having woven a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.
Notes
- 1 ↩Normalized reading treats OCR-garbled 'Oeuli laerymis' as 'Oculi lacrimis' (eyes…with tears); 'perfusi' retained as perfect participle 'drenched/filled'.
- 2 ↩Normalized reading taken as Aures conviciis oppletae (ears filled with insults/abuse). Source has 'conviclis opplete', which looks like a typo/OCR corruption of conviciis + agreement error on the participle.
- 3 ↩Reading 'fede' as 'foede' (foully/shamefully); the printed form looks like a foede variant or OCR slip common in this Passion litany series.
- 4 ↩Source Aceusari read as Accusari (to be accused); trailing orphan period left untranslated as noise.
- 5 ↩suis is taken as by His own people; context is a Passion litany of sufferings (cf. rejection by His own).
- 6 ↩Source reads 'Barabbs'; almost certainly a corruption of 'Barabbas' (or ablative 'Barabba') in a Passion litany of passive infinitives: Barabbas postponi = to be ranked after / set aside in favor of Barabbas.
- 7 ↩Source surface reads 'Ludibrüs' with trailing junk '— (//id.]'. Translated as intended 'ludibriis haberi' (to be held/treated with mockery), matching the surrounding Passion-litany infinitives.
- 8 ↩Normalized Latin reads 'Rex appellari per scomma, (72id.]'. 'scomma' is taken as Greek loanword scomma (σκῶμμα), 'jibe/taunt', fitting the mock-king Passion sequence after 'Genu flexo salutari'. Trailing '(72id.]' looks like corrupt citation/page residue and is not rendered.
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