Preces Quotidianae
A Varied Form of the Lord's Prayer
The chapter opens with a heading introducing a varied form of the Lord's Prayer.
A varied version of the Lord's Prayer.1
Hallowing the Name
The prayer begins by asking that God's name be invoked and that He be our protector and great reward.
. May Your Name be invoked by us. . Be our protector, and a very great reward.✦
Submission to God's Word
The prayer asks that every word from God be received without speaking against anything, whether evil or good.
.2 Whatever word comes from You,✦3 May we not speak against anything. evil or good.
Daily Provision
The prayer petitions for bread to eat and clothes to wear, echoing the Lord's Prayer and 1 Timothy 6:8.
Forgiveness and Release from Anxiety
The prayer asks for forgiveness of sin and injustice, and that we not dwell anxiously in our hearts so that evils may not seize us.
.5 And now forgive the sin and the injustice.67 of your servants. . And, O Lord, let us not dwell anxiously. in our hearts all day long. ( so that evils don't take hold of us. (
Blessing the Name
The prayer blesses God's name now and forever.
. May Your Name be blessed, both now and forever.8
Deliverance from Hypocritical Rulers
The prayer asks that no hypocritical men reign over us because of the people's stubbornness, and submits to God's will.
. Because of the people's stubbornness, don't let anyone rule over9 us, men who are hypocrites.✦10 . Lord, let it be just as You see fit.
Fruitfulness of the Land
The prayer asks that nettle and darnel not replace wheat and barley, invoking agricultural blessing.
May nettle not spring up instead of wheat, for barley, not weeds.✦11 .
Confession and Covenant with the Senses
The prayer confesses sin and makes a covenant with the senses to avoid even thinking of evil.
I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O guardian of humankind?✦12 . I will make a covenant with my senses,13 so that I may not even think of evil.
Read the original Latin
ORATIO DOMINICA VXARIATA.
. Invocetur Nomen Tuum a nobis.
. Esto Tu protector noster,
et merces valde magna.
. Quodeunque verbum a Te procedit,
ne sit in nobis contra quicquam dicere
malum vel bonum.
. Da nobis panem ad comedendum,
et vestes ad induendum.
. Et nune dimitte peccatum et injustitiam
servorum Tuorum.
. Et, O Domine, ne sollicite cogitemus
in cordibus nostris tota die. (
ne apprehendant nos mala. (
. Sit Nomen Tuum benedictum,
et nune et in secula.
. Propter morositatem populi ne regnare facias super
nos homines hypocritas.
. Ut Tibi, Domine, videtur, sic fiat.
Pro tritico ne proveniat urtica,
pro hordeo ne lolium.
. Peecavi; quid faciam "Tibij O custos hominum?
. Fedus pangam cum sensibus meis,
ut ne cogitem quidem de malo.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Gen.15.1 — After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, 'Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great.'
- ↩Deut.8.3;Matt.4.4;Isa.55.11 — He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, in order to make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD does man live. Matt.4.4 — But he answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" Isa.55.11 — So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
- ↩Gen.28.20 — Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me and will keep me safe on this journey I am taking, and will give me bread to eat and clothes to wear,
- ↩1Tim.6.8;Matt.6.25-Matt.6.31 — But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. Matt.6.25 — Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat [or what you will drink], nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Matt.6.26 — Look at the birds of the air: they do not reap, nor gather into barns, nor store away grain — and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth far more than they? Matt.6.27 — And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his lifespan? Matt.6.28 — And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil, nor do they spin. Matt.6.29 — Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. Matt.6.30 — If God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Matt.6.31 — Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
- ↩Job.34.30 — that he may not entice a godless man from the snares of the people
- ↩Job.31.40 — Let thorns grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
- ↩Job.7.20 — If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O Watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I have become a burden to myself?" "If I have sinned" better reflects the rhetorical, concessive force in context and avoids making Job sound more confessionally settled than the chapter allows.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source prints VXARIATA; read as VARIATA (varied/paraphrased). Early-modern prayer-book headings often style expanded or paraphrased forms of the Pater Noster as Oratio Dominica variata.
- 2 ↩Source sentence is only a period with no Latin wording; left empty rather than inventing content.
- 3 ↩Reading 'Quodeunque' as intended 'Quodcumque' (whatever).
- 4 ↩Source sentence is only a period ('.') with no recoverable Latin wording; left untranslated rather than inventing content.
- 5 ↩Source sentence is only a bare period ('.') with no lexical content; treated as an empty segmentation artifact rather than a full clause.
- 6 ↩Source reads 'nune'; most plausible intended form is 'nunc' ('now'). Translated on that reading.
- 7 ↩'dimitte' with 'peccatum' is rendered 'forgive' (remit), as in prayer idiom; alternative sense 'dismiss/put away' is possible if the line is not a penitential petition.
- 8 ↩Source reads 'et nune et in secula.' Treated as the standard formula 'et nunc et in saecula' (nune→nunc; secula/saecula).
- 9 ↩Sentence breaks mid-phrase at super; following section continues with 'nos homines hypocritas.' Rendered as an incomplete prayer clause, not closed into a full English sentence.
- 10 ↩Fragment continues the previous section’s petition (ne regnare facias super …). With neighboring Latin, the continuous sense is: do not set hypocritical men to rule over us (echoing the Job 34:30 pattern of God allowing a hypocrite to reign because of the people’s sin).
- 11 ↩Elliptical continuation of the previous petition (ne proveniat): pro hordeo ne [proveniat] lolium. Lolium is darnel (tares), the weed that spoils the grain crop.
- 12 ↩Normalized corrupt/OCR forms Peecavi→Peccavi and Tibij→Tibi; stray opening quote before Tibij ignored as artifact.
- 13 ↩Latin 'Fedus' read as 'Foedus' (covenant/pact); medieval orthography often drops the digraph.
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