Preces Quotidianae
Confession and Recognition of God's Works
A confession of sin and penitence, acknowledging God's creation, nurture, and governance.
Confession of sin. Per.1 Profession of penitence. Creation. Petition for pardon.2 Nurture. Governance.
Divine Preservation and Redemption
Acknowledging God's preservation and disposition, and the redemptive work through Christ's conception and nativity.
Preservation, Disposition, Because, Redemption. On account of, or Through.3 Conception, According to.4 Nativity,
Proclamation of Christ's Life and Passion
Proclaiming Christ's life, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension, along with a confession of weakness and inspiration.
And I will proclaim. Life, Passion and Death; or thus: Resurrection, profession of purpose, vow, Ascension.5 Confession of weakness; Inspiration.
Petition for Grace
A brief petition for grace.
Petition for grace.6
Daily Discipline and Thanksgiving
Daily or nightly discipline of penitence for sins, followed by thanksgiving for good things.
Daily or nightly discipline: penitence for sins7 Thanksgiving for good things.
Personal Particulars
A personal note on age, vocation, and status.
Details: age—an old man; vocation—51, with 4 years in the clergy; status—bishop.
Confession and Gratitude
A confession of sin and a profession of gratitude.
Scriptural Prayer of Humility
A prayer of humility quoting Genesis 32:10, acknowledging unworthiness and God's faithfulness.
O Lord, I am not worthy of all Your mercies, and10 and Your truth, which You have fulfilled for Your servant.✦11 Gen. 32✦12 10.✦
Read the original Latin
Confessio peccati, Per. Professio poenitentiz, Creatio, Petitio veniz. Enutritio, Gubernatio,
Conservatio, Dispositio,
Quia, Redemptio. Propter vel Per. Conceptio, Secundum. Nativitas,
Et annunciabo. Vita,
Passio et Mors, Vel sic, Resurrectio, Professio propositi, votum, Ascensio. Confessio infirmitatis, Inspiratio.
Petitio gratiz.
"Ασκησις Diurna seu Nocturna, Pomnitentie de malis,
Gratitudinis pro bonis.
Peculiaris ZEtatis, senex ; Vocationis, 51 4 in Clero; Status, Episcopus.
CONFESSIO PECCATI et
Protestatio Graltitudinis.
Ὁ Domine, minor sum omnibus miserationibus 'Tuis, et
veritate 'Tua quam explevisti servo Tuo. Gez, xxxii. 10.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Gen.32.10 — And Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do good with you.'"
- ↩Gen.32.10 — And Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do good with you.'"
- ↩Gen.32.10 — And Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will do good with you.'"
Notes
- 1 ↩Trailing 'Per.' is obscure: it may be a truncated list-item, an abbreviation, or a printer/OCR fragment. Left unexpanded rather than inventing a full lemma.
- 2 ↩Normalized 'poenitentiz' and 'veniz' as poenitentiae and veniae (œ/ae → z OCR corruption).
- 3 ↩Propter and Per are alternative prepositions often used in petition formulas ('because of / for the sake of' vs. 'through'); kept as the bare alternative pair.
- 4 ↩Secundum may mean 'according to' as a preposition-heading, or stand as a list marker ('second'); rendered 'According to' as the ordinary lexical sense of the bare form.
- 5 ↩Vel sic is taken as the common rubrical alternative formula ('or thus' / 'or as follows'), introducing the following topics rather than as part of a continuous narrative clause. Professio propositi is rendered as 'profession of purpose' for the religious resolve/intention (propositum); 'profession of one's resolve' would also be faithful.
- 6 ↩Source reads 'gratiz'; translated as intended 'gratiae' (grace), matching the surrounding prayer-topic headings.
- 7 ↩Source reads «Pomnitentie»; taken as corrupt for «Poenitentiae» (penitence). «Ασκησις» is Greek askēsis, rendered as Discipline rather than left untranslated.
- 8 ↩Source ends with additive et and no continuation in this section; rendered as a heading fragment. Neighboring titles suggest a section heading, not a full sentence.
- 9 ↩Source reads Graltitudinis; translated as the almost certain intended Gratitudinis (“of gratitude”).
- 10 ↩Source opens with Greek Ὁ and has a stray quote before Tuis ('Tuis); treated as vocative O Domine and Tuis. The line breaks mid-clause at et; the continuation is in the next section (Gen 32:10).
- 11 ↩Continues the previous clause ('I am less than all Your mercies, and…'). Latin veritas here carries the sense of God's faithful truth/covenant faithfulness shown to the servant, not abstract correctness.
- 12 ↩Source reads 'Gez, xxxii.' — almost certainly a damaged or abbreviated form of Gen. (Genesis) 32; rendered as the intended biblical book/chapter citation, not as a Latin word.
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