Preces Quotidianae
The Seal and the Church's Communion
A prayer for the Holy Spirit's seal, for not grieving Him, for membership in the Church, and for trust in forgiveness.
Of the Seal in attestation and of the Earnest.✦ May I never quench the Spirit, nor resist Him, nor grieve Him, nor ever treat Him with insult, Lord.✦✦✦ That we may be called in Your Church; that in the Catholic Church we may be living members, by vow and will; that we may be partakers of the holy Communion—of persons, of actions, of prayers. Liturgize. Toward trust in the forgiveness of sins,
The Resurrection and Translation
A brief meditation on the hope of resurrection and the translation of the faithful.
On the Resurrection: and on the Hope of Eternal Life.1 On the Translation.2
A Living Faith
A prayer for faith that is alive, enduring, sincere, active in love, and holy.
Lord, increase my faith, like a mustard seed, not dead, not temporary, not hypocritical,3 but faith that works through love cooperates with works, supplies virtue, and conquers the world, most holy.
Read the original Latin
Sigilli in contestatione et Arrhabonis. Ne Spiritum exstinguam unquam, Neque obnitar Ei, Neque contrister Ipsum, Neque contumeliis unquam afficiam, Domine. Ut in Ecclesia Tua simus vocati, Ut in Catholica partes quidam viventes, voto et voluntate, Ut in Sancta Communionis simus participes, Personarum, ἜΤ τ Actionum, Precum, . Liturgize, Ad fiduciam Remissionis peccatorum,
Resurrectionis : E ad spem 4 NUT Iz: vitam szeternam. 'Translationis
Domine, adauge mihi fidem,
ut granum sinapis,
non mortuam,
non temporariam,
non hypocritieam,
sed fidem, per charitatem operantem, operibus cooperantem, subministratricem virtutis, vincentem mundum,
sanctissimam.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Eph.1.13-Eph.1.14;2Cor.1.22 — In him you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—in him, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Eph.1.14 — who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory. 2Cor.1.22 — who also sealed us and gave the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts
- ↩1Thess.5.19 — Do not quench the Spirit.
- ↩Eph.4.30 — And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- ↩Acts.7.51 — You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source is severely corrupt/OCR-damaged: 'E' read as 'Et'; 'szeternam' as 'aeternam'. The middle token string '4 NUT Iz' is unintelligible and was treated as noise rather than as recoverable wording; neighboring context (liturgy → confidence of remission of sins) supports a creedal pair with resurrection and eternal life.
- 2 ↩Fragmentary genitive heading only. 'Translatio' may mean translation (of a saint’s body/relics), being taken up/carried over, or another technical sense; no completing words are present in this section.
- 3 ↩Latin surface hypocritieam is almost certainly a corruption of hypocriticam (fem. acc. sg.), parallel to preceding non temporariam and governing the following fidem.
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