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Preces Quotidianae

Prayer Ascending to God

The opening petitions that prayer may rise, enter, appear, find grace, come near, and be heard by God.

A devout prayer.1 . Let prayer rise.2 Let it reach You, 2 Chronicles.3 30. 27. Let it enter, Psalm4 88. 2. [Unreadable source: E op won]5 . Let it appear before Your face, Psalm.6 cxh.7 2. May it find grace, (8 . Let it come near, Ps.9 119. 169. And I ask that it not return to me empty, but as you know, and can, and will.10 . Hear, Ps.11 119.

Petitions for God's Attention

A series of pleas asking God to incline His ear, give heed, understand, hear, and remember.

149. . Incline your ear, Ps. 36.12 11.13 . Give heed and consider, Ps. 61.14 1.✦ . Understand, . Hear, Ps.15 64.16 1.✦ . Remember, so that you may act.

Deprecation: Pleas for Mercy

A collection of negative petitions asking God not to turn away, hide His face, forsake, or withdraw mercy.

Deprecation.17 Do not turn away in anger, Ps.✦18 27. 10. Do not turn your eye away, (2 Chron.19 30. 9.] Do not hide your face, Job.20 xiii.✦21 24. do not set a cloud before you, Lamentations✦22 iii.23 do not close your ear, 56.✦ do not forsake me, Psalm24 xxxviii. 21. Do not forsake me forever, Psalm.25 27.26 9. do not despise me, ibid.✦27 do not keep silent, Psalm.28 39. 13. do not sleep, Matthew. 8.✦29 24. go farther away, Ps.30 35. 22. cast me off, Ps.3132 44. 23. Take away mercy — Ps.33 89. 33.

Read the original Latin

PIUEORATIO. . Ascendat oratio, ( . Perveniat ad Te, 2 Paralip. xxx. 27.

Intret, Psal. lxxxviii. 2.

E op won

. Appareat in conspectu Tuo, Psal. cxh. 2.

Gratiam inveniat, (

. Appropinquet, Psal. cxix. 169. Et peto ne revertatur ad me vacua, Sed sicut scis, et potes, et vis. . Audi, Psal. cxix.

149. . Inclina aurem, Psal. ]xxxvi. 1l.

. Intende et considera, Psal. lxi. 1.

. Intellige,

. Exaudi, Psal. lxiv. 1.

. Recordare ut facias.

DEPRECATIO. declines in ira, Psal. xxvii. 10. avertas oculum, (2 Paral. xxx. 9.] abscondas faciem, Joó.

xin. 24. opponas nubem, 7/ren. 111. occludas aurem, 56. deseras, Psal. xxxviii. 21.

ΝΕ ὁ derelinquas in finem, Psal. xxvn. 9. despicias, bid. silleas, Psal. xxxix. 13. dormias, Matt.

viu. 24. discedas longius, Psal. xxxv. 22. repellas, Psa/. xliv. 23.

auferas misericordiam, — Psa/. lxxxix. 33.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.61.1 — To the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. Of David.
  2. ↩Ps.64.1 — To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
  3. ↩Ps.26.9;Ps.28.9-Ps.28.10 — Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men. Ps.28.9 — Save your people, and bless your inheritance; shepherd them, and carry them forever.
  4. ↩Job.13.24 — Why do You hide Your face and count me as Your enemy?
  5. ↩Lam.3.44 — You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
  6. ↩Lam.3.56 — You heard my voice; do not hide Your ear from my cry, from my plea.
  7. ↩Ps.27.9 — Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not forsake me, and do not abandon me, God of my salvation.
  8. ↩Matt.8.24 — And behold, a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was sleeping.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source surface PIUEORATIO. is almost certainly a spacing/OCR collapse of Pia oratio (devout/pious prayer), a common rubric heading.
  2. 2 ↩Trailing open parenthesis and stray period in source (Ascendat oratio, ( .) look like print/OCR damage; sense taken as the jussive clause alone.
  3. 3 ↩Paralip. = Paralipomenon (Chronicles). Citation continues in the following numeral sentences as ch. 30, v. 27.
  4. 4 ↩Incipit of a psalm verse (likely Vulgate Ps 88:2, 'Intret in conspectu tuo oratio mea'); only the lemma Intret is supplied, so the English keeps that terse cue rather than expanding the verse.
  5. 5 ↩The supplied Latin ('E op won') is not intelligible Latin and has no markup_spans or reliable glosses. Neighboring sections are psalm-cue fragments (e.g. 'Intret, Psal. lxxxviii. 2.' / 'Appareat in conspectu Tuo, Psal.…'), but this reading cannot be restored from the payload alone without inventing wording.
  6. 6 ↩Appareat has no expressed subject in this fragment; liturgical usage often supplies 'my prayer' (oratio mea). Rendered with a neutral 'it' to avoid inventing an unstated subject.
  7. 7 ↩Source reading 'cxh.' is not intelligible Latin; likely OCR/corruption of a psalm or verse siglum (neighboring 'Psal.' and following '2.' suggest a citation stub).
  8. 8 ↩Source ends mid-unit with an open parenthesis after 'Gratiam inveniat'; the rest of the line is missing in the supplied witness.
  9. 9 ↩Appropinquet is a jussive subjunctive used here as a Psalm incipit cue (likely Ps 119/Vulg. 118:169, Appropinquet deprecatio mea); rendered as 'Let it come near' rather than as an imperative.
  10. 10 ↩vacua is feminine and implies the petition/prayer (deprecatio/oratio) just invoked; scis / potes / vis is the traditional triadic formula of divine knowledge, power, and will.
  11. 11 ↩Audi is an imperative used as a Psalm incipit cue; the next section begins with 149, which points to Ps 119:149 (Vulg. 118:149, Audi vocem meam).
  12. 12 ↩Normalized from raw “]xxxvi.”; leading “]” treated as scanning/bracketing noise, not lexical content. Vulgate psalm number left as 36 pending later reference resolution.
  13. 13 ↩Raw “1l.” most plausibly a broken verse numeral “11.” (1 + misread 1/l); less likely a lone “1.” with trailing noise. Rendered as 11. pending source check.
  14. 14 ↩Latin 'lxi.' is Vulgate Roman-numeral psalm number 61.
  15. 15 ↩Exaudi is the imperative ‘hear’/‘give ear,’ almost certainly a psalm incipit or cue-word in this rubrical daily-prayer context, not a free-standing petition sentence.
  16. 16 ↩lxiv rendered as Arabic 64. Psalm numbering (Vulgate vs Hebrew/Protestant) is unresolved and belongs to later reference resolution.
  17. 17 ↩DEPRECATIO is a section heading: a prayer of entreaty asking God not to cast the suppliant off. 'Deprecation' keeps the traditional Anglican private-devotion label; sense is petition against rejection, not the modern sense of 'apology'.
  18. 18 ↩Lemma is fragmentary (declines in ira). Read as the common deprecatory petition ne declines in ira; the bare subjunctive is expanded to the negative petition implied by the DEPRECATIO heading.
  19. 19 ↩avertas oculum is a bare subjunctive lemma; rendered as the negative deprecatory petition implied by the section heading. 2 Paral. modernized to 2 Chron.
  20. 20 ↩Joó is treated as a corrupted book label for Job (Iob/Job); abscondas faciem is a bare subjunctive lemma expanded to the negative deprecatory petition.
  21. 21 ↩Source 'xin.' is almost certainly OCR/print corruption of Roman 'xiii.', completing the Job citation begun in the previous section (abscondas faciem, Job…).
  22. 22 ↩'7/ren.' is treated as corrupt 'Thren.' (Threni = Lamentations). 'opponas nubem' is a deprecatory petition in the ongoing 'do not…' series (ne understood from the DEPRECATIO context).
  23. 23 ↩Source '111.' is read as Roman 'iii.' (chapter of Lamentations), not Arabic one-hundred-eleven.
  24. 24 ↩'deseras' has no explicit object in the Latin fragment; 'me' is supplied from the deprecation series and from Ps 38:21 Vulgate sense (ne derelinquas me…).
  25. 25 ↩Source opens with garbled Greek letters (ΝΕ ὁ) before Latin derelinquas; read as Latin Ne (negative particle of petition). 'in finem' rendered 'forever' (to the end).
  26. 26 ↩Source 'xxvn.' treated as Roman numeral xxvii (27); n is a plausible OCR corruption of ii.
  27. 27 ↩Source 'bid.' read as abbreviated ibid. (ibidem), matching citation shorthand in this chapter.
  28. 28 ↩Source 'silleas' corrected to sileas (2nd-person subjunctive of silere, 'be silent').
  29. 29 ↩Source reading "viu." is corrupt; taken as Roman viii (8), continuing the Matthew citation opened by "dormias, Matt." in the previous section (likely Matt. 8:24).
  30. 30 ↩Bare subjunctive "discedas" continues the governing "Ne…" chain from the previous section (do not go farther away).
  31. 31 ↩Source "Psa/." is a print/OCR corruption of "Psal."
  32. 32 ↩Bare subjunctive "repellas" continues the governing "Ne…" chain (do not cast me off / drive me away); object "me" supplied from the usual psalm petition sense.
  33. 33 ↩Source abbreviation 'Psa/.' is treated as 'Psalm' (Ps.), matching the surrounding citation style; the fragment may continue a series of negative petitions (cf. nearby 'Ne auferas…').

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