Preces Quotidianae
Opening Confession and Petition
The worshipper confesses ungodliness, asks for lips to be opened, and enters God's house trusting in His mercy.
The words of the wicked have prevailed against me, and you will pardon our ungodliness.✦ O Lord, you will open my lips, And my mouth will declare your praise. — Psalm, h.1 15.✦ But I, in the abundance of your mercy, will come into your house; I will worship toward your holy temple in fear of you.2 Hear, O Lord, the voice of my prayer when I pray to you, as I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.3 Let us receive your mercy, O Lord, in the midst of your house.✦4 Ps. 48.5 9.
Intercessions for the Community
Prayers are offered for brothers present, their diligence, and those absent, asking for mercy.
Remember, O Lord, the brothers who stand around us and pray with us at this hour. Remember their diligence and their zeal. Remember also those who are absent for reasonable causes, and have mercy on them and on us according to the multitude of your mercies, O Lord.6
Commemoration of Founders and Doxology
The worshipper commemorates devout kings, orthodox prelates, and college founders, ending with praise to God who glorified them.
Let us commemorate the devout kings and the orthodox prelates,7 the founders of this sacred College. Glory to you, O Lord; glory to you, Glory to you, who have glorified them, Because of them we too glorify you.
Prayer for Divine Attention
A plea that God's eyes and ears be opened to the prayer offered in this place where His name is invoked.
I pray that your eyes may be opened and your ears attentive to the prayer your servant is making in this place, in which8 Your name has been invoked.
Read the original Latin
Verba iniquorum prevaluerunt super me, et impietatibus nostris tu propitiaberis.
Domine, labia mea aperies,
Et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam. — Psal, h. 15.
Ego autem in multitudine misericordiv€ tuz accedam ad domum tuam, adorabo ad sanctum tuum templum in timore tui.
Exaudi, Domine, vocem orationis mec in tempore quo precor ad te, et attollo manus meas ad sanctum tuum templum.
Suscipiamus, Domine, misericordiam tuam in medio domus tus». Psal. xlvin. 9.
Memor esto, Domine, fratrum nobis circumstantium, et comprecantium nobis hac hora.
Memor esto industrie et studii eorum.
Memor etiam esto eorum, qui propter rationabiles causas absunt, et miserere eorum et nostri secundum multitu- Ὁ dinem misericordiarum tuarum, O Domine.
Celebremus pios Reges, Orthodoxos Pr:esules,
Conditores hujus sacri Collegii. Gloria tibi Domine, tibi Gloria,
Gloria tibi, qui illos glorificasti,
Propter quos et nos te glorificamus.
Aperiantur, quieso, oculi tui, et aures tu: intentze sint ad orationem, quam servus tuus facit in hoc loco, in quo
invocatum est nomen tuum.
Scripture echoes
Notes
- 1 ↩Source citation is abbreviated and likely truncated or corrupt (Psal, h.); left as printed rather than silently expanded to a full psalm number.
- 2 ↩Source reading `misericordiv€ tuz` is corrupt; translated as the intended `misericordiae tuae` (of your mercy).
- 3 ↩Source has corrupt 'mec'; translated as intended 'meae' (of my prayer) in 'vocem orationis meae'.
- 4 ↩Source ends with «domus tus» (corrupt). Translated as intended «domus tuae» (“your house”). Closing guillemet treated as quotation mark from the printed source.
- 5 ↩Source «xlvin.» is not a clean Roman numeral; most plausible correction is «xlviii» (48), possibly OCR/print corruption of «xlviii» or «xlvii».
- 6 ↩Source shows corrupted 'multitu- Ὁ dinem'; treated as intended 'multitudinem' (multitude).
- 7 ↩Source reads “Pr:esules”; translated as the intended “Praesules” (prelates/bishops).
- 8 ↩Normalized from corrupt forms: quieso→quaeso; aures tu:→aures tuae; intentze→intentae. The sentence is truncated mid-clause (in quo …) and continues in PrecesPriv.1.2.15.
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