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Preces Quotidianae

Christ Our Defender

A litany of petitions naming Christ as the one who opposes every enemy of the soul—destroyer, adversary, devil, slanderer, accuser, and captor.

Who stands as Savior against the destroyer,✦1 Abaddon, Jesus.✦ Against Satan the Adversary: the Mediator.✦ Against the Devil. Against the slanderer, an Advocate.✦2 Against the accuser, an Intercessor.✦✦ To the one who leads us captive, a Redeemer.

Prayer for Transformation and Grace

Petitions for Christ to be formed in us, for remembrance of His intercession and judgment, and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and love.

That Christ Himself may be formed in us, and that we may become conformed to His image.✦✦ When I am cold in prayer and need some grace, or heavenly consolation, remember the appearing and intercession of Your throne.3 When I am burning with passion and evil desire, never forget Your dread and terrible judgment seat.4 And let the sound of the last trumpet ring unceasingly in my ears.✦5 That for the sake of Your Christ we may receive from You, anointing Father, Your anointing—saving grace, Your unspeakable gift of the Holy Spirit—with saving compunction, clear knowledge, and fervent prayer,✦67 through the outpouring of love,

Read the original Latin

Qui sese perditori opponit Servatorem,

Abaddon, JESUM.

Satanz Adversario P Mediatorem. Diabolo

Calumniatori ) Advocatum. Accusatori Intercessorem.

Captivos nos ducenti Redemptorem. Ut Ipse Christus formetur in nobis, fiamus conformes imagini Ejus. ( Cum frigidus sum in oratione, et indigeo gratiw€ alicujus, vel consolationis coelestis, Meminisse Cathedre Tu:e apparitionis et intercessionis. Cum fervidus sum in affectu et concupiscentia mala, Nunquam oblivisci tremendi Tui et horrendi tribunalis. Et indesinenter auribus meis insonare sonum tub: ultimze. Ut propter Christum Tuum, a Te, Pater ungens, accipiamus unctionem "Tuam, gratiam salutiferam, Spiritus Sancti ineffabile Tuum donum, salutari compunctione, liquida scientia, "ἢ ἢ fervida oratione,

diffusione charitatis,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Rev.9.11 — They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
  2. ↩Rev.9.11 — They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
  3. ↩1Tim.2.5 — For there is one God and one mediator between God and humankind, the man Christ Jesus,
  4. ↩1John.2.1 — My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
  5. ↩Rev.12.10 — Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—the one who accuses them before our God day and night.
  6. ↩Rom.8.34;Heb.7.25 — Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus—the one who died, and more than that, was raised—who is also at the right hand of God, and who also intercedes for us. Heb.7.25 — Therefore he is able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them.
  7. ↩Gal.4.19 — My children, for whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you—
  8. ↩Rom.8.29 — For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
  9. ↩1Cor.15.52;1Thess.4.16 — in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet—for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 1Thess.4.16 — For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
  10. ↩1John.2.20 — And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Reading sese ... Servatorem as object with apposition (himself as Savior), not as two separate objects. Fits the next line's Abaddon / Jesus pairing.
  2. 2 ↩Source has a stray closing parenthesis after Calumniatori (Calumniatori ) Advocatum.); rendered as a dative-of-opponent + title pair in the surrounding litany pattern.
  3. 3 ↩Normalized from corrupt OCR: gratiw€ → gratiae; Cathedre Tu:e → Cathedrae Tuae. Cathedrae rendered as throne/seat in parallel with the tribunal of the next sentence.
  4. 4 ↩affectu et concupiscentia mala: affectu rendered as passion (disordered affection); concupiscentia mala as evil desire, not mere appetite.
  5. 5 ↩Normalized from corrupt OCR: tub: ultimze → tubae ultimae (of the last trumpet).
  6. 6 ↩Stray quote marks and garbled Greek-like OCR ("ἢ ἢ) treated as noise between list items; series continues into the next section (diffusione charitatis).
  7. 7 ↩liquida scientia rendered as clear knowledge (limpid/unclouded understanding), not fluid or watery knowledge.

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