Preces Quotidianae
Consolation in Suffering
The apostle Paul testifies that as the sufferings of Christ overflow in him, so too his consolation overflows through Christ.
For just as the sufferings of Christ have abounded in me, so also through Christ abounds✦ my consolation.✦ 2 Cor. 1.✦ 4, 5.
Thanksgiving for Wisdom
Daniel gives thanks to God for granting wisdom and strength and for revealing the word he sought.
To you, God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise you, because you have given me wisdom and strength in some measure; and you have shown me what I asked of you,✦12 and you opened the word to me.✦
Our Identity in Christ
A series of declarations affirming the believer's identity: redeemed by Christ's blood, purchased as a servant, adopted as a son, created as God's work, bearing God's image, sealed by the Name, made a temple of the Spirit, and a member of the Church.
The price of blood.✦ A purchased servant.✦3 An adopted son.✦ Work of hands. Image of the face. Seal of the Name.4 Temple of the Spirit.✦ Member of the Church.5
Structure of Daily Prayer
An outline of the elements of daily prayer, beginning with a division and including address, confession, thanksgiving, lament, intercession, supplication, blessing, and commendation.
Division. Address. Of sin. Let it ascend. Pon. Do not turn away. Joint prayer. Confession. Thanksgiving. Of sins. Rewards. Laments. Intercession. Supplication. For Creation, for the human race, Hope. The Church. Acknowledgment of blessings. The commonwealth. Praise. For our own. Blessing. For ourselves. Thanksgiving. A blessing and a commendation. Supplication.
Read the original Latin
Quoniam sicut abundarunt passiones Christi in me, ita et per Christum abundat
consolatio mea. 2 Cor. 1. 4, 5.
Tibi, Deus patrum meorum, confiteor, "Teque laudo, quia sapientiam et fortitudinem secundum partem aliquam dedisti mihi ; et ostendisti mihi qui rogavi Te,
et sermonem aperuisti mihi.
Pretium sanguinis. Servus emptionis. Filius adoptionis.
Opus manuum.
Imago vultus.
Signaenlum nominis. Templum Spiritus. Membrum Ecclesiz.
Divisio. Compellatio, Pececati, Ascendat, Pon. Ne declines. Comprecatio Confessio Grati:e, Peccatorum, Praemn. Threni, Intercessio Supplicatio. pro Creatura, b ied ed Genere humano, Spel. Ecclesia, Confessio beneficiorum, Politia, Laus, Nostris, Benedictio, Nobis ipsis. Gratiarum actio.
Benedictio, Commendatio.
Deprecatio
Scripture echoes
- ↩2Cor.1.5;2Cor.1.4 — For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 2Cor.1.4 — who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- ↩2Cor.1.4-2Cor.1.5 — who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2Cor.1.5 — For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
- ↩2Cor.1.4 — who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- ↩Dan.2.23 — I give you thanks and praise, O God of my fathers, for you have given me wisdom and power, and now you have made known to us what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.
- ↩Dan.2.23 — I give you thanks and praise, O God of my fathers, for you have given me wisdom and power, and now you have made known to us what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.
- ↩1Pet.1.18-1Pet.1.19;1Cor.6.20 — knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things—silver or gold—from your futile way of life handed down from your fathers, 1Pet.1.19 — but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot 1Cor.6.20 — For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
- ↩1Cor.6.20 — For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
- ↩Rom.8.15;Gal.4.5;Eph.1.5 — For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry, "Abba, Father." Gal.4.5 — in order to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. Eph.1.5 — He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
- ↩1Cor.3.16 — Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Notes
- 1 ↩confiteor rendered as 'I give thanks' (biblical confiteor + dative), not as sacramental confession of sin.
- 2 ↩qui rogavi Te taken as 'what I asked of you' (intended quae/quod); the relative as printed is awkward if read strictly as 'who'.
- 3 ↩emptio = purchase/buying; servus emptionis is the servant who belongs to that purchase—one bought as a slave/servant, not a servant who buys.
- 4 ↩Source reads 'Signaenlum', which is not classical/medieval Latin as printed; most plausible intended form is 'Signaculum' (seal).
- 5 ↩Source 'Ecclesiz' is a clear typographical/OCR corruption of 'Ecclesiae' (genitive of Ecclesia).
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