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Preces Quotidianae

Daily Petitions for Purity and Guidance

A series of numbered petitions (13–22) asking for divine guidance, purification, restraint, and protection from temptation.

13. Direct my steps. 14. Burn my loins.✦ 15. Pierce my flesh. 16. Draw me after You.✦ 17. Restrain me with a bridle.1 18. Set me beside You. 19. Do not let me go back to the vomit.2 20. Let no temptation come upon me except what is human. 21. Don't let the enemy succeed. 22. Don't let it drown me.3

Prayers for Protection and Mercy

Scripture-inspired petitions for protection from sin and a prayer acknowledging God's mercy and compassion.

.4 lxix.5 15.]6 Hedge me about with thorns.✦7 Remove the occasions.8 scandals. Rest of the soul.9 Sin is still keeping watch at the door.✦10 I wouldn't destroy it for the sake of ten. The Lord will provide on the mountain.✦ Sovereign Lord, Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and full of compassion, and true, who keeps mercy for thousands, who takes away iniquity, crimes, and sins.

Penitential Hope and Consolation

Penitential reflections on affliction, confession, and God's covenant faithfulness, concluding with a psalm of consolation.

They will be afflicted until they confess. Lev.11 26. 29. When they are ashamed, then they will pray. 41.✦ And I will remember my covenant. 42. When evils come upon you, and, led by the penitence of your heart, you turn back to God, he will have mercy on you and bless you, and he will circumcise your heart so that you may love the Lord.12 Deut. 30:1,13 Why are you so sad,14 my soul, and why do you unsettle me?15

Read the original Latin

13. Dirige gressus, "IOvvov ἴχνη. l4. Ure renes, νεφρούς. 15. Confige carnes, σάρκας. 16. Trahe me post Te, εἷλξον.

( 17. In eamo constringe. 18. Pone me juxta Te. 19. Ne ad vomitum, é£épaua. 20. Ne tentatio, nisi humana.

21. Ne proficiat inimicus. 22. Ne me immergat. . lxix. 15.]

Sepi spinis.

occasiones, Amove

scandala.

Quies anime.

Adhue peceatum excubat pre foribus.

Non delerem propter decem.

In monte providebit Dominus.

Dominator, Dominus Deus, misericors et clemens, patiens, et multe miserationis, ac verax, qui custodis misericordiam in millia, qui aufers iniquitatem et scelera atque peccata.

Affigentur, donec confiteantur, Lev. xxvi. 29.

Cum erubescent, tunc orabunt, 41.

Et recordabor foederis mei. 42.

Cum venerint super te mala, et ductus paonitudine cordis tui reversus fueris ad Deum, miserebitur tui, et benedicet tibi, et cireumcidet cor tuum, ut diligas Dominum. JDeutoxxxe i,

Quare tristis. es, anima mea, ect quare conturbas me?

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.26.2;Ps.27.2 — Examine me, O LORD, and test me; refine my kidneys and my heart. Ps.27.2 — When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh—my enemies and foes who pressed in on me—they stumbled and fell.
  2. ↩Song.1.3 — The fragrance of your oils is good; your name is poured oil; therefore young women love you.
  3. ↩Hos.2.6 — And I will not have mercy on her children, for they are children of whoredom.
  4. ↩Gen.4.7 — If you do well, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.
  5. ↩Gen.22.14 — Abraham called the name of that place 'The LORD Will Be Seen,' as it is said to this day, 'On the mountain the LORD will be seen.'
  6. ↩Lev.26.41 — then I too will walk with them in hostility, and I will bring them into the land of their enemies. Then their uncircumcised heart will be humbled, and then they will accept their iniquity.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized source reads 'In eamo constringe.' Most plausible intended Latin is 'In camo constringe' (camus = bit/bridle), echoing the biblical petition to curb the ungoverned creature (cf. Ps 32:9 Vulgate 31:9).
  2. 2 ↩Trailing token 'é£épaua' is garbled Greek (likely ἐξέραμα, 'vomit'), parallel to Latin 'vomitum'; left untranslated as a source gloss, not as English.
  3. 3 ↩Latin has no explicit subject for immergat; following lxix.15 points to the flood/deep of Psalm 69, so 'it' rather than 'he' (the enemy of the previous petition).
  4. 4 ↩Source sentence is only a period; likely a print/segmentation artifact between the petition and the psalm citation.
  5. 5 ↩Roman-numeral psalm citation, almost certainly Psalm 69 (Vulgate numbering may differ); left in source form for later reference resolution.
  6. 6 ↩Verse marker with closing bracket; likely closes a citation range or editorial bracket begun earlier in the print source.
  7. 7 ↩Latin has no explicit object: sepi is 2nd-person singular imperative of sepio (‘fence/hedge in’), spinis ablative of means. In this petition sequence (with me-prayers before and ‘occasions, remove’ after), the implied object is the speaker; renderings such as ‘Hedge it about with thorns’ are possible if a different object is meant.
  8. 8 ↩Latin occasiones in private-devotion usage often implies occasiones peccati (occasions of sin); the bare noun is kept unless context forces the fuller phrase. The capitalized imperative Amove and the trailing comma mark this as a mid-petition fragment continuing from Sepi spinis and into scandala.
  9. 9 ↩Latin anime is taken as medieval spelling of animae (genitive of anima): 'of the soul.' Less likely as vocative of animus ('O soul'), which would yield a different address form.
  10. 10 ↩Normalized from corrupt/erratic forms Adhue peceatum…pre foribus to the intended Adhuc peccatum…prae foribus (still / sin / keeps watch / before the doors).
  11. 11 ↩Latin Affigentur is read as intended Affligentur (they will be afflicted); Affigentur from affigo (they will be fastened/fixed) is less plausible beside donec confiteantur in a Leviticus citation.
  12. 12 ↩Reading paonitudine as poenitudine (penitence) and cireumcidet as circumcidet (will circumcise); both look like OCR/print corruptions of standard Deuteronomic wording.
  13. 13 ↩Source reading JDeutoxxxe i, is corrupt; treated as a scripture citation marker, most plausibly Deut. 30:1 (xxx = 30, i = 1), matching the preceding Deuteronomic paraphrase.
  14. 14 ↩Printed/OCR split breaks the psalm verse mid-clause after 'tristis'; 'es' belongs grammatically with this question and appears as the first word of s2. Rendered as the natural English opening of the full verse Quare tristis es…
  15. 15 ↩Source 'ect' corrected to 'et' (and); clear OCR/print corruption in a standard psalm wording.

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