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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

6. To give up the spirit,✦ 7. His side to be pierced by a spear, 8. To be blasphemed when dead (Matthew 27:63).✦1 27. 63.] 9. To be called a deceiver, (2 Through Your sufferings, which I, unworthy, here call to mind,3 Free my soul from the pains of hell. It is finished. Father, forgive.✦ 3. Woman, behold your son!4 The Seven Words | 3. Today you will be with Me in Paradise.✦ | Luke. 23. Of Christ 4.5 Eli, Eli...6 The final words, 5.7 I thirst. Father, into your hands, etc.✦ 1. You who chose to have your glorious head wounded: by that wound, forgive whatever wrong I have done with the senses of my head. 9. You who chose to have your sacred hands pierced: by them, forgive whatever I have done through illicit touch or illicit action.8 3. You who chose to have your precious side pierced: by that wound, forgive whatever I have done through illicit thoughts in the heat of lust.9 4. You who chose to have your blessed feet nailed: by them, forgive whatever I have done through the walking of my feet.10 quick to do evil.✦11

Read the original Latin

6. Spiritum emittere,

7. Latus lancea perforari,

8. Mortuum blasphemari |Mafft. xxvii. 63.] 9. IIXavov vocari, (

Per poemas Tuas, quas ego indignus hic recolo,

Animam meam a poenis inferni libera.

Consummatum est.

1, Pater, dimitte. 3. Mulier, ecce filum! Septem verba | 3. Hodie Mecum eris in Paradiso. | Luc. xxiii. Christi 4.

Eli, ἘΠ. novissima, 5. Sitio.

Pater, in manus Tuas, etc.

1. Qui gloriosum caput vulnerari voluisti, ignosce per illud, quicquid capitis mei sensibus deliqui. 9. Qui sacras manus fodi, ignosce per illas, quicquid per tactum illicitum, operationem illicitam. 3. Qui pretiosum latus perforari, ignosce per illud, quicquid per illicitas cogitationes in ardore libidinis. 4. Qui beatos pedes suffigi, ignosce per illos, quiequid per incessum pedum

velocium ad malum.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩John.19.30 — When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, 'It is finished,' and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.
  2. ↩Matt.27.63 — Saying, 'Sir, we remember that while he was still alive, that deceiver said, "After three days I am raised.'
  3. ↩Luke.23.34 — Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments by casting lots.
  4. ↩Luke.23.43 — And he said to him, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
  5. ↩Luke.23.46;Ps.31.5 — And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last. Ps.31.5 — Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
  6. ↩Prov.1.16;Isa.59.7;Rom.3.15 — For their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood. Isa.59.7 — Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; destruction and ruin are in their highways. Rom.3.15 — Their feet are swift to shed blood,

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source '|Mafft.' is treated as a garbled Matthew citation marker ('| Matt.'); Passion-litany context and the following 'xxvii. 63' support this reading.
  2. 2 ↩Source 'IIXavov' is treated as garbled Greek Πλάνον ('deceiver'/'impostor'), the term echoed in Matt. 27:63; 'vocari' is clear Latin passive infinitive 'to be called'.
  3. 3 ↩Source reads poemas; translated as poenas (sufferings/pains), the expected form in this Passion/hell-pains prayer sequence (cf. next section poenis).
  4. 4 ↩Source has filum ("thread"); almost certainly a corruption of filium ("son"), the Johannine word from the cross (John 19:26).
  5. 5 ↩Fragmentary genitive heading Christi 4.; likely indexes the fourth of Christ's Seven Words in this daily-prayer outline.
  6. 6 ↩Source reads “Eli, ἘΠ.” In the surrounding Seven Last Words outline (cf. PrecesPriv.1.178.7–9), this is the opening of Christ’s cry from the cross (Mt 27:46 / Mk 15:34). The Greek fragment “ἘΠ.” is treated as a garbled or abbreviated remainder of that saying, not as freestanding Greek sense.
  7. 7 ↩“novissima” in this outline most naturally means the last (words of Christ), numbered “5.”, not “the last things” in the eschatological sense.
  8. 8 ↩Parallel to s2 supplies elided voluisti after fodi (passive infinitive of fodere) and a finite verb of sinning after quicquid; the Latin is elliptical: Qui sacras manus fodi, ignosce per illas, quicquid per tactum illicitum, operationem illicitam.
  9. 9 ↩As in the neighboring wound petitions, voluisti and a finite verb after quicquid are elided; sense follows the established litany pattern.
  10. 10 ↩quiequid is read as quicquid (standard litany form). The clause is incomplete in this section and continues in the next (velocium ad malum).
  11. 11 ↩Clause fragment completing the previous petition (PrecesPriv.1.178.10.s8): quicquid per incessum pedum velocium ad malum — 'whatever through the walking of feet swift to evil.'

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