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Preces Quotidianae

Confession of Sin

The soul confesses its sin openly before God, acknowledging that nothing is hidden from Him and refusing to make excuses.

Confession of Sin. God, You know my foolishness, and my offenses from You✦12 are not.✦ hidden.✦ I know it too, and my sin is against me Always.✦3 Psalm.4 h.5 ὃ.6 I don't hide my sin like Adam did. I don't turn my heart to malicious words to invent excuses.78 excuses for sins.9 But I confess my injustice against myself.

The Cry of the Whole Self

The psalmist calls upon every part of his being—his inward parts and his bones—to join in confession and praise.

And all that is within me, Psalm 103.10 1. And all my bones say, Psalm 35. 10.

Acknowledging Transgression

The penitent repeatedly confesses 'I have sinned' against the Lord, echoing the language of the Psalms.

I have sinned, Ps.11 106. 6. I have sinned against You, Lord.

Wandering and Returning

Using vivid images from Scripture—a lost sheep, an untamed heifer, a dog returning to its vomit, a washed sow in the mud—the soul confesses its waywardness and then turns to give glory to God.

I have gone astray like a sheep that was lost.12 I was willful, like an untamed heifer.✦13 767. 31. 18. I have gone back like a dog to its vomit: Prov.✦ 26. 11.14 Like a pig that has been washed, returning to wallow in the mud.✦ 2 Pet.✦15 n.16 22. I give You glory, Lord, and I confess,

A Plea for Deliverance

The prayer concludes with a cry for rescue from the deep and the pit, and a final offering of all desire before the Lord.

And don't let the deep swallow me, And don't let the pit close its mouth over me. Ps.17 According to18 Lord, all my desire is before You.

Read the original Latin

CONFESSIO PECCATI.

Dkus, Tu scis insipientiam meam, et delicta mea a Te

non sunt. abscondita.

Cognosco et ego, et peccatum meum contra me est

semper. Psal. h. ὃ.

Non abscondo peccatum, sicut Adam. Non declino cor meum in verba malitiz:, ad excusandas

excusationes in peccatis.

Sed confiteor adversum me injustitiam meam.

Et omnia qui intra me sunt, Psal ciii. 1.

Et omnia ossa mea dicunt, Psal xxxv. 10.

Peecavi, Psal. cvi. 6. Peccavi Tibi, Domine.

Erravi sicut ovis quze periit. ( Protervus fui, sicut juvenca indomita. 767. xxxi. 18. Reversus sum sicut canis ad vomitum: Prov. xxvi. 1].

Sicut sus lota, in volutabro luti. 2 Pef. n. 22. Do Tibi gloriam, Domine, et confiteor,

Neque absorbeat me profundum,

Neque occludat super me puteus os suum. Psa/. iux

Domine, ante Te omne desiderium meum,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.69.6;Ps.70.5 — God, you know my folly; my sins are not hidden from you. Ps.70.5 — But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, "God is great!"
  2. ↩Ps.69.6;Ps.70.5 — God, you know my folly; my sins are not hidden from you. Ps.70.5 — But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, "God is great!"
  3. ↩Ps.69.6;Ps.70.5 — God, you know my folly; my sins are not hidden from you. Ps.70.5 — But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, "God is great!"
  4. ↩Ps.51.5;Ps.52.3 — For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Ps.52.3 — You who boast in evil, mighty one—God's steadfast love endures all the day.
  5. ↩Jer.31.18 — I have surely heard Ephraim lamenting: 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you are the LORD my God.'
  6. ↩2Pet.2.22 — It has happened to them according to the true proverb: 'A dog returns to its own vomit,' and 'A sow, after washing herself, returns to wallowing in the mud.'
  7. ↩2Pet.2.22;Prov.26.11 — It has happened to them according to the true proverb: 'A dog returns to its own vomit,' and 'A sow, after washing herself, returns to wallowing in the mud.' Prov.26.11 — As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
  8. ↩2Pet.2.22 — It has happened to them according to the true proverb: 'A dog returns to its own vomit,' and 'A sow, after washing herself, returns to wallowing in the mud.'

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source surface Dkus is treated as Deus (God); likely abbreviation/OCR corruption.
  2. 2 ↩Clause appears incomplete and continues into the next section (non sunt / abscondita); sense is the psalmic line that my offenses are not hidden from God.
  3. 3 ↩Fragment completes the previous unit (PrecesPriv.1.198.4.s1): 'et peccatum meum contra me est semper' — 'and my sin is always before me.' Printed alone as 'semper.' here.
  4. 4 ↩Abbreviated citation label 'Psal.' rendered as 'Psalm.'; chapter/verse digits appear corrupted in the following units.
  5. 5 ↩Opaque single-letter fragment after 'Psal.'; may be a corrupted psalm number (e.g. li / 50 / 51) but cannot be safely reconstructed from the supplied reading.
  6. 6 ↩Greek character ὃ in an otherwise Latin private-devotion citation block; almost certainly OCR/print corruption of a numeral or mark, not intentional Greek wording.
  7. 7 ↩Source 'malitiz:' treated as corrupt for 'malitiae' (of malice/wickedness), matching the Psalm 140/141 wording behind this prayer line.
  8. 8 ↩Clause is incomplete in this section; next section supplies 'excusationes in peccatis.' Rendering keeps the purpose phrase open: 'to invent excuses…'.
  9. 9 ↩This unit completes the previous clause (ad excusandas…), yielding the psalmic phrase ‘to invent excuses for sins’ (cf. Vulgate Ps 140:4).
  10. 10 ↩Source has 'qui' with neuter 'omnia'; classical/psalm wording is usually 'quae' (omnia quae intra me sunt). Sense is unaffected: 'all that is within me.'
  11. 11 ↩Source reads Peecavi; treated as the obvious typo for Peccavi (“I have sinned”), matching the following confession line.
  12. 12 ↩Source reads quze; translated as quae ("that/which"), the expected relative pronoun in this confession formula.
  13. 13 ↩Leading parenthesis in the source is treated as editorial/print markup, not translated.
  14. 14 ↩Source reads 1].; translated as 11., the expected verse for the dog-to-vomit proverb (Prov 26:11), with the bracket treated as citation markup.
  15. 15 ↩Source reads '2 Pef.'; treated as a corrupt abbreviation of '2 Pet.' (2 Peter), matching the sow/mire citation of 2 Pet 2:22.
  16. 16 ↩Bare 'n.' is opaque in isolation; likely a broken citation element (possibly chapter 'ii.' or a printer/OCR garble) in a 2 Pet. … 22 reference chain.
  17. 17 ↩Manuscript/print abbreviation 'Psa/.' treated as a Psalm citation marker (Psalmus/Psalm), not continuous prayer prose.
  18. 18 ↩Incomplete surface 'iux' most plausibly expands to iuxta ('according to'), a common liturgical/reference abbreviation; object of the phrase is missing in this section.

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