Preces Quotidianae

Acknowledging Our Mortal Condition

The soul confesses its fallen state, recalling the body of death and the world under the Evil One, and is called to remember this truth.

Now and not immediately—in the body of death. Rom.^✦¹ 6. 6. In a world of corruption, 2 Pet.^✦ 1. 4. set under the Evil One, 1 John^✦ 5. 19.^✦ Remember this.

Confession of Sinful Origin

The penitent confesses personal sin, acknowledging an unclean origin and a nature prone to bitterness and wildness.

Confession of Sins. I have truly sinned, Lord, and I am one of them, for my life makes me plain.² I confess to you, because if I wanted to hide, I couldn't hide from you, Lord. Who can make clean what comes from unclean seed?^✦ Job).^✦³ from unclean seed.^✦ I am a sinner from an unclean womb.⁴ In sins my mother conceived me. —Psalm.^✦⁵ 11.⁶ 5.⁷ A root of bitterness, a shoot of the wild olive.^✦⁸

Confession of Unjust Deeds

The penitent confesses specific acts of injustice, impiety, and lawlessness, citing scriptural precedents.

. I have sinned, I have acted unjustly, I have done what is evil before You.^✦ . I have behaved impiously in the covenant, 1 Eg.⁹¹⁰ vii. 47. . I have cast off the law, 7s.¹¹ v. 24.

Confession of Rejecting Discipline and the Spirit

The penitent confesses rejecting discipline and grieving the Holy Spirit.

. I have rejected discipline, . I oppressed the Spirit. Is.^✦¹² 62.¹³ 10.

Confession of Following Evil Thoughts

The penitent confesses going after their own thoughts and from evil to evil, without fearing God.

. I went after my own thoughts. Jeremiah.^✦¹⁴ 18:12.^✦ . I went from one evil to another, and I didn't fear You.^✦¹⁵

Confession of Impenitence

The penitent confesses failing to turn back, even when called or afflicted.

. Nor did I turn back, Luke. 15. . Not even called back, Jer.¹⁶ 7. 18.^✦ . Nor even when I was afflicted, Jer. 5. [?].¹⁷

Read the original Latin

Nunc et non statim, In corpore mortis, Kom. vi. 6. In mundo corruptionis, 2 Pet. i. 4. in maligno posito, 1 Jo. v.

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Memor esto hujus.

PECCATORUM CONFESSIO. Peccavi Vere, Domine, et ego ex ills sum, nam οὖ vita mea manifestum me facit. Tibi confiteor, quia, si volo abscondere, non possum a Te, Domine. Quis potest facere mundum de immundo semine? Jo).

ex immundo semine. Peccator sum 1 ) ex immundo utero. In peccatis concepit me mater, Psaj. 11. 5. Radix amaritudinis, ( Oleastri surculus.

. Peccavi, injuste egi, inique feci coram Te.

. Impie me gessi in federe, 1 eg. vii. 47.

. Projeci legem, 7s. v. 24.

. Rejeci disciplinam,

. Oppressi Spiritum, | Zs. lxii. 10.

. Post cogitationes ivi, Jer. xviii 12.

. De malo in malum transivij Nec Te metui,

. Nec sum reversus, Luc. xv.

. Ne revocatus quidem, Jer. vii. 18.

. Nec vel afflictus, Jer. v. ὃ.

Scripture echoes

↩Rom.7.24 — Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
↩2Pet.1.4 — Through these he has granted to us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
↩1John.5.19 — We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.
↩1John.5.19 — We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.
↩Job.14.4 — Who can bring what is clean out of what is unclean? Not one.
↩Job.14.4 — Who can bring what is clean out of what is unclean? Not one.
↩Job.14.4 — Who can bring what is clean out of what is unclean? Not one.
↩Ps.51.7;Ps.51.5 — Behold, in iniquity I was brought forth, and in sin my mother conceived me. Ps.51.5 — For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
↩Heb.12.15;Deut.29.18 — Watch carefully, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and through it many become defiled. Deut.29.18 — And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'Peace will be to me, for in the stubbornness of my heart I walk' — so that the moist is added to the thirsty.
↩1Kgs.8.47;2Chr.6.37;Dan.9.5 — and they bring it back to their hearts in the land where they were taken captive, and they return and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly.' 2Chr.6.37 — and they return to their heart in the land where they were taken captive, and they turn and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned, we have acted perversely, and we have done wickedly.' Dan.9.5 — we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, and have turned aside from your commandments and your ordinances
↩Eph.4.30 — And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
↩Jer.18.12 — And they say, 'It is hopeless! For we will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil heart.'
↩Jer.18.12 — And they say, 'It is hopeless! For we will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil heart.'
↩Jer.9.3;Jer.18.12 — Guard yourselves, each one, against your neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother deals deceitfully, and every neighbor spreads slander. Jer.18.12 — And they say, 'It is hopeless! For we will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil heart.'
↩Jer.7.18 — The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.

Notes

1 ↩Source ends with 'Kom.'; treated as a near-certain OCR/print corruption of 'Rom.' (Romans), matching the following chapter/verse markers and the surrounding citation pattern.
2 ↩Source reads 'ills' (likely for 'illis', 'of them/those') and inserts Greek 'οὖ' before 'vita'; translated as the plausible confessional sense 'I am one of them, for my life makes me plain,' without inventing a fuller clause for the corrupt Greek token.
3 ↩Fragmentary citation label only ('Jo).'); not a full Latin sentence. Kept as Job with the source's closing parenthesis.
4 ↩Normalized source has '1 )' between sum and ex; treated as print/footnote debris, not translated as content.
5 ↩'Psaj.' read as a broken Psalm citation tag (Ps./Psal.), not as a Latin word.
6 ↩Bare numeral; almost certainly a detached verse or page citation, not prose content.
7 ↩Bare numeral; almost certainly a detached verse citation (e.g. with preceding Psalm material), not prose content.
8 ↩Source has an unmatched opening parenthesis before 'Oleastri'; treated as print noise and not reproduced.
9 ↩Source federe is read as foedere (covenant); medieval e for oe.
10 ↩Trailing citation '1 eg.' is an unresolved biblical book abbreviation (possibly 1 Esdr./Ezra or similar); left as printed '1 Eg.' for later resolution with vii. 47.
11 ↩Latin Projeci legem is clear (I have cast off / thrown away the law). Trailing 7s. looks like a broken biblical citation (cf. previous section’s 1 eg. / vii. / 47 pattern), not part of the confession itself.
12 ↩Source 'Zs.' is almost certainly a corrupt or mis-set form of 'Is.' (Isaiah), matching the neighboring confessional citation style (cf. next section's Jer.).
13 ↩Source has Roman 'lxii' (62). The classic 'afflicted/grieved his Holy Spirit' verse is usually Isaiah 63:10; keep the printed numeral unless a better witness corrects it.
14 ↩Latin ivi is first-person singular; Vulgate Jer 18:12 has ibimus ('we will go'). Rendered as personal confession ('I went'), matching private-devotion adaptation rather than the plural biblical wording.
15 ↩Reading 'transivij' as 'transivi' (I passed/went over); the printed form looks like a typo/variant.
16 ↩revocatus is a passive participle without an explicit finite verb (cf. previous Nec sum reversus); rendered as elliptical 'called back/recalled.' Sense may be confessional self-description in the surrounding litany.
17 ↩Source reading «ὃ.» looks corrupt (Greek character where a verse numeral is expected in the Jer. citation pattern). No safe verse number can be restored from this section alone; placeholder retained pending source correction.

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