Preces Quotidianae
Prayer for Restraint and Approach
A plea to be kept from vanity and compelled to draw near to God, with a scriptural reference.
Lest I find a way to pursue vanity. With bit and bridle bind my jaws when I do not draw near to you.1 Ps.2 31.3 9. O Lord, compel me to come in to you.
Trinitarian Confession of Faith
A brief confession of belief in the Father, the Word (Son), and the Spirit.
I believe, Lord, the Father In you, the one Word who is God.4 the Spirit.
Creation by Fatherly Love and Power
Acknowledges that all creation comes from God's fatherly affection and power.
[corrupt fragment: l.]5 From your fatherly affection and power all things were created.
The Work of Christ from Incarnation to Judgment
Recounts the salvific acts of Christ: restoration, incarnation, birth, passion, descent, resurrection, ascension, session, and return for judgment.
2. By your kindness and love for the human race, all things were restored in your Word: who for us human beings and for our salvation6 was made flesh, Conceived, born, Suffered, Crucified, Died, Buried, He descended, He rose again, He ascended, sat at the right hand, will return, and will repay each one.
The Spirit and the Gathering of God's People
Attributes the gathering of saints to the illumination and work of the Holy Spirit, forming a people for God's possession.
9. Through the illumination and work of Your Spirit. to be called saints from all over the world✦7 a people who belong to you, into fellowship,8
Read the original Latin
ne inveniam viam ad vanitatem sectandam. In camo et frzno constringe maxillas meas, quando non approximo ad te. JPsae/. xxxu. 9.
O Domine compelle me intrare ad te.
CREDO, DOMINE,
Patrem
In te4 Verbum unum Deum. Spiritum
l. A tua paterna affectione ac potentia
creata omnia.
2. A tua benignitate ac humani generis amore instaurata omnia, in Verbo tuo: Quod propter nos homines salutemque nostram
Caro factum est,
Conceptum, Natum,
Passum, Crucifixum, Mortuum, Sepultum,
Descendit, Resurrexit,
Ascendit, Consedit ad dextram, Redibit, Reddet cuique.
9. Ab illuminatione et operatione Spiritus tui. Saneti, vocari ex universo
populum acquisitionis in societatem,
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Pet.2.9 — But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads 'frzno'; translated as the intended 'freno' (bridle/bit), pairing with 'camo' in the standard biblical collocation.
- 2 ↩Corrupt citation token 'JPsae/.' rendered as the standard Psalm abbreviation matching the preceding verse's biblical form and the following numeral pair.
- 3 ↩Corrupt numeral 'xxxu.' rendered as Vulgate Psalm 31, the chapter of the 'camo et freno' verse.
- 4 ↩Source surface `te4` is treated as `te` plus an intrusive numeral/footnote marker (not part of the Latin sense).
- 5 ↩Source is only the character sequence 'l.' with no recoverable Latin word or syntax. Neighboring context (…Spiritum / A tua paterna affectione…) does not securely restore a full form; left uninvented.
- 6 ↩Clause breaks mid-creedal formula; neighboring section continues with 'Caro factum est' (was made flesh). 'Quod' takes its antecedent from 'Verbo' (the Word).
- 7 ↩Source reads 'Saneti'; most plausible intended form is 'Sancti' (saints/holy ones). Rendered accordingly.
- 8 ↩populum acquisitionis is the Vulgate idiom (cf. 1 Pet 2:9) for a people acquired as God’s own possession; societas here is fellowship/company, not a civic society.
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