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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

And my groaning is not hidden from You. —Ps.1 You know, Lord, that I speak the truth in Your Christ, and I do not lie—my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—for there is sadness in me, and pain in my heart, that I have sinned against You so; that I have become a burden to myself; that my sorrow is not greater. A contrite heart.2 Ps. h.3 17. What I pray of You: groans that cannot be put into words.4 Tears of blood. Luke 22. 44. from dryness.5 18. 24. 16. Woe to me because of the hardness of my heart.6 from the dryness of my eyes.7 Lord, I repent—I repent, Lord. Help my impenitence, and still more, more and more, crush and tear open my heart; pierce it with compunction.89 Strike my heart.10 Look, Lord, That I myself am indignant at myself, 2 Cor.✦11 7.12 11.13 Foolish, useless—because of the desire of the flesh.14 It's harmful and dangerous.15

Read the original Latin

Et gemitus meus a Te non est absconditus. —Psa/.

Nosti, Domine, quia veritatem loquor in Christo Tuo, et non mentior, Testimonium mihi perhibente conscientia mea in Spiritu Sancto, ( Quoniam tristitia mihi est, et dolor cordi meo, quod sic peccavi Tibi; Quod factus sum mihi gravis, quod non sit major mihi dolor; ( Cor contritum. Psal. h. 17. Quod precor a Te 4 Gemitus inenarrabiles. Lacrymas sanguineas. | Luc. xxii.

44. ab ariditate. 18. xxiv. 16. Vie mihi4 a cordis duritia. ab oculorum siccitate. Domine, pemnitet, poenitet, Domine, Adjuva impoeenitentiam meam, Et magis adhuc magisque J eontere scinde cor meum, compunge

pereute

Ecce, Domine,

Quod indignor egomet mihi, 2 Cor. vii. ll.

stultum inutile des] : propter à r desiderium carnis τηρῶ. nocivum ἰ periculosum

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩2Cor.7.11 — For behold, this very thing—being grieved in a godly way—what earnestness it has produced in you, but also what defense, but also indignation, but also fear, but also longing, but also zeal, but also vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source form '—Psa/.' treated as a Psalm citation abbreviation (Psa./Ps.), with the slash read as a printing or OCR artifact.
  2. 2 ↩quod non sit major mihi dolor is rendered as grief over insufficient contrition (that my sorrow is not greater), the usual penitential force of the subjunctive here.
  3. 3 ↩Printed 'h.' is unclear; may be a corrupted chapter mark (e.g. li. for Ps 51 / Vulgate Ps 50) before verse 17 with 'Cor contritum'.
  4. 4 ↩Printed numeral '4' treated as a non-spoken apparatus/footnote mark (as elsewhere in this chapter), not as part of the prayer wording.
  5. 5 ↩ab ariditate: spiritual aridity / dryness of devotion, in parallel with hardness of heart and dry eyes below.
  6. 6 ↩Normalized Vie → Vae (woe); mihi4 read as mihi with a print footnote marker 4, not part of the Latin.
  7. 7 ↩oculorum siccitas: inability to weep / dry eyes in penitential devotion, paired with heart’s hardness and spiritual aridity.
  8. 8 ↩Corrected plausible OCR: pemnitet → poenitet; impoeenitentiam → impoenitentiam; J eontere → contere. Double poenitet kept as emphatic repetition.
  9. 9 ↩Adjuva impoenitentiam meam rendered ‘Help my impenitence’ (classic private-devotion sense: help me against / out of my lack of true repentance).
  10. 10 ↩Source reading `pereute` is not Latin. Read as `percute` (imperative of percutio, “strike”), a paleographically close corruption (c/e) continuing the preceding petition: crush, tear, pierce, strike my heart.
  11. 11 ↩indignor + mihi: self-directed indignation (I am angry/indignant at myself), likely echoing the godly-sorrow 'indignatio' of 2 Cor 7:11; kept as 'indignant' rather than mere anger to preserve that scriptural register.
  12. 12 ↩Latin 'vii.' is the chapter numeral of the 2 Cor. citation begun in s1; rendered as Arabic 7.
  13. 13 ↩Source reading 'll.' is almost certainly a corrupt OCR of verse number '11' (or Roman 'xi'), completing 2 Cor. 7:11; translated as the intended verse number, not the surface letters.
  14. 14 ↩Source is heavily garbled (des], à r, and Greek τηρῶ). Rendered from the clearest recoverable sense: stultum/inutile as paired judgments, propter desiderium carnis as the cause. τηρῶ (I keep/observe) left untranslated as an unresolved fragment rather than silently integrated.
  15. 15 ↩Intervening ἰ treated as noise/corruption between paired adjectives nocivum and periculosum.

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