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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

10. Putting off of excellence; the hairshirt.1 11. Fasting (12.2 Prayer, Devotion, Commemoration. 13. Works of mercy.3 Grant that I may always grieve,4 and always to find joy in that sorrow.5 Have mercy. Look on me and have mercy. Don't despise me. Remember Your mercy. Let Your mercies quickly go before us. Don't be angry. Don't look on my sins and grow indignant. Grant grace.✦✦67 Hold back Your anger. Put off Your anger.8 Do not set it up.9 Do not hold it against me.10 Do not remember it.11 Do not mark them. Do not enter into judgment. Do not despise me. Do not cast me away from Your face.✦✦✦1213 How long? 29.14 5.15 Will it be forever? Be propitious; be most excellent (Psalm16 27.17 7.18 Do not let Your anger come upon me, But may Your grace, I beg You, go before me.19

Read the original Latin

10. Depositio excellentiv, Cilicium. 11. Jejunium, ( 12. Oratio, Devotio, Commemoratio. 13. Misericordiz: opera. ( Da semper dolere,

et semper de dolore gaudere.

Miserere. Respice me et miserere, Ne despice me, Recordare misericordiw, Cito anticipent nos misericordie, Ne irascere, Ne respice peccata mea, et indignare, Gratiam fae, χάρισαι. Iram contine. Differ iram. Ne statuas, Μὴ στήσῃς. Ne imputes, μὴ Xoyícg. Ne memineris, μὴ μνησθῆς. ( Ne observes, Ne intres in judicium, Ne despicias, Ne projicias a facie.

Usque quo? xxix. 5.] Nunquid in finem? placabilis, Esto 4 prwstabilis, isses (Psal. ]xxvii. 7.] Ne ira Tua veniat super me,

Sed gratia Tua, quiso, preveniat me.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.25.16 — Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am alone and afflicted.
  2. ↩Ps.25.6;Ps.79.8 — Remember your compassions, LORD, and your covenant-loves, for they are from eternity. Ps.79.8 — Do not hold against us the sins of former times; let your compassion come swiftly to meet us, for we are brought very low.
  3. ↩Ps.130.3 — If you kept watch over iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?
  4. ↩Ps.143.2 — And do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
  5. ↩Ps.51.13 — Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reads excellentiv; translated as excellentiae (of excellence / high rank), the most plausible correction of the corrupt ending.
  2. 2 ↩Sentence is segmentation-fragmented: Jejunium closes item 11, then an open parenthesis and the next number 12 appear mid-line.
  3. 3 ↩Source reads Misericordiz: opera; translated as the standard phrase Misericordiae opera (works of mercy).
  4. 4 ↩Da + infinitive as petition to God: grant me always to grieve. Continues in the next section with et semper de dolore gaudere.
  5. 5 ↩Continues the prior petition Da semper dolere…: not joy instead of sorrow, but joy from/in the sorrow of compunction itself.
  6. 6 ↩Normalized corrupted forms misericordiw/misericordie as misericordiae (mercy/mercies), and fae as fac (grant/make). Greek χάρισαι restates the same petition: be gracious / grant favor.
  7. 7 ↩Ne respice peccata mea, et indignare is read as a continued prohibition (do not look on my sins and [do not] be indignant), not as a positive command to be indignant.
  8. 8 ↩Differ iram: differre as postpone/defer wrath (hold judgment back), not 'differ' in the modern English sense of unlikeness.
  9. 9 ↩Object of statuas is elided in the source; Greek Μὴ στήσῃς is a parallel 'do not set/establish.' In this wrath-mercy sequence it most likely means do not fix/set judgment or anger against the petitioner.
  10. 10 ↩Greek μὴ Xoyícg is treated as OCR corruption of μὴ λογίσῃ ('do not reckon/impute'), restating Ne imputes.
  11. 11 ↩Object of memineris is elided; in this penitential chain it most naturally means do not remember my sins (not a request that God forget the petitioner).
  12. 12 ↩Leading parenthesis in the source is treated as a print/OCR artifact, not part of the prayer text.
  13. 13 ↩Several verbs lack expressed objects (observes, despicias, projicias). Rendered from standard psalm-petition sense: do not mark [iniquities], do not despise [me], do not cast [me] from your face.
  14. 14 ↩Roman numeral xxix. appears to be a psalm citation marker (Psalm 29), not prose to translate.
  15. 15 ↩Bracketed 5.] is editorial/verse apparatus, not continuous prayer prose.
  16. 16 ↩Normalized source is badly corrupt: 'placabilis, Esto 4 prwstabilis, isses (Psal.' Read most plausibly as Esto placabilis and praestabilis (w for ae), with stray '4', unintelligible 'isses', and an opened psalm citation.
  17. 17 ↩]xxvii. continues the incomplete '(Psal.' citation from the previous sentence as Psalm 27.
  18. 18 ↩Bracketed 7.] is likely a verse marker completing the Psalm 27 citation.
  19. 19 ↩Source reads 'quiso'; treated as 'quaeso' (I beg / please). 'preveniat' taken as medieval spelling of 'praeveniat' (may go before / prevent, in the sense of prevenient grace).

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