Preces Quotidianae
Trust in God's Daily Provision
We ask God to open His hand and bless every living creature with food in due season.
food in due season. Open Your hand, and fill Every living creature, with blessing.
A Cry for Mercy and Forgiveness
We appeal to God's great mercy to blot out our sins.
. Have mercy on us, O God, according to your great mercy.1 your mercy, and according to the multitude of your mercies✦2 of Your mercies, blot out our sins.✦3
Protection from the Enemy and Evil
We pray that the enemy may not prevail and that evils and scourges may not come near us.
.4 Never let the enemy prevail against us, nor the son5 of iniquity set about to harm us.✦6 May evils not come upon us, and may it not draw near7 the scourge to our homes.8
God's Name as Our Fortress and His Will for Nations
We ask that God's name be a stronghold, and we pray for righteous kings and submission to His counsel.
. May Your name be a fortified stronghold for us, As we run toward it, may we be lifted up. Through You kings reign; like channels of water, their hearts are in Your hand, to turn wherever You will.✦✦ Turn them toward the good, O Lord. Let there not be many plans in our hearts; but may Your counsel remain, and be done, O Lord.✦ 19:2. 1}
Prayer for Contentment and Moderation
We ask for neither riches nor poverty, but only what is necessary and sufficient.
. Two things I have asked of You; do not deny them to me before I die.✦ Don't give me riches or poverty; grant me what's necessary and enough.
Confession of Sin and Plea for Healing
We acknowledge our sinfulness and ask God to be merciful and heal our souls.
Who can say with confidence, "I am clean from sin"?✦9 Be merciful to your servants who have sinned against you, and heal their souls. 9; Psalm 41.10 [b.]11
Guarding Against the Occasion of Sin
We ask God to keep our path far from the occasion of sinning, especially from the doors of the temptress.
. Keep my path far from the occasion of sinning: lest12 I approach the doors of her house.✦13
Shelter from the Cruel Angel and All Evils
We pray that God not send a cruel angel and that all evils be removed from our homes.
.14 Don't send us a cruel angel, but rather...15 May all evils be taken away from our homes.
Final Editorial Notes
The chapter concludes with a set of editorial numbers.
17. 11. 13.]16
Read the original Latin
escam in tempore. Aperi Tu manum Tuam, et imple
omne animal benedictione.
. Miserere, Ο Deus, nostri, secundum magnam miseri-
cordiam Tuam, et secundum multitudinem misera-
tionum Tuarum dele peccata nostra.
. Nequando proficiat inimicus in nobis, neque fihus
iniquitatis apponat nocere nobis. Ne veniant super nos mala, et ne appropinquet
flagellum tabernaculis nostris.
. Sit nomen Tuum arx munita nobis,
currentes ad illud exaltemur. Per Te reges regnant; ut deductiones aquarum, corda eorum in manu Τὰ, quo vis inclinare. Flecte ad bonum, O Domine. Ne sint mult: cogitationes in cordibus nostris; sed consilium Tuum maneat, et fiat, O Domine. xix 2. 1}
. Duo rogavi Te; ne deneges mihi antequam moriar.
Divitias et mendicitatem ne des mihi; tribue mihi necessaria et sufficientia.
Quis cum fiducia dicere potest, Mundus sum a peecato ? Misericors esto servis Tuis, qui peccaverunt Tibi: et sana animas eorum. 9; Psal xli. b.]
. Longe fac ab occasione peccandi viam meam: ne
appropinquem ad ostia domus ejus.
. Ne mittas nobis Angelum crudelem: sed longe
amoveantur à domibus nostris omnia mala.
xvii. 11. 13.]
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.51.3;Ps.52.1 — Be gracious to me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. Ps.52.1 — To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David.
- ↩Ps.51.3 — Be gracious to me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.
- ↩Ps.89.23 — No enemy will extort him, and no child of wickedness will afflict him.
- ↩Prov.8.15 — By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just.
- ↩Prov.21.1 — The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he wills.
- ↩Prov.19.21 — Many are the plans in a person's heart, but the counsel of the LORD—that will stand.
- ↩Prov.30.8 — Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread allotted to me.
- ↩Prov.20.9 — Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
- ↩Prov.5.8 — Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source ends mid-word at line break: miseri-. Completed as misericordiam from the following section’s cordiam Tuam; possessive your is supplied from that continuation (Tuam) and the standard psalm formula.
- 2 ↩Printed line is a hyphenated mid-phrase fragment: prior line ends in 'magnam miseri-' and the next begins 'tionum Tuarum'. Rendered as the intended mid-clause 'misericordiam Tuam, et secundum multitudinem miserationum'.
- 3 ↩Section opens mid-word as 'tionum'; with previous context ('misera-') the intended form is miserationum Tuarum ('of Your mercies').
- 4 ↩Source sentence is only a period ('.'); almost certainly a split/segmentation artifact with no recoverable Latin content in this unit.
- 5 ↩Reading 'fihus' as 'filius' (son); the printed form looks like a typographical corruption. The clause is incomplete here and continues in the next section with 'iniquitatis apponat nocere nobis'.
- 6 ↩Clause fragment continuing the previous section’s ‘neque filius’ (neighboring text has typo ‘fihus’ for ‘filius’): full sense is ‘nor may the son of iniquity set about to harm us.’ ‘Apponat nocere’ is the set-about-to-do construction.
- 7 ↩Sentence is cut mid-clause; subject of ‘appropinquet’ is supplied in the next section as ‘flagellum’ (‘the scourge’). English keeps the incomplete syntax so the following section can finish the petition.
- 8 ↩Fragment completes the preceding petition (ne appropinquet …). tabernaculis can mean tents or dwellings; dwellings is used for natural modern prayer English, with a likely Psalm 91 cadence in view.
- 9 ↩Source peecato is treated as peccato (sin); almost certainly a typographical corruption.
- 10 ↩Fragmentary citation only (Psal xli = Psalm 41 in Vulgate numbering); verse or note marker 9 is unclear without fuller apparatus.
- 11 ↩Source is an isolated editorial/apparatus fragment (b.]), not continuous Latin prose.
- 12 ↩Latin ends mid-clause on ne; the following section continues with appropinquem ad ostia domus ejus. Rendering preserves the incomplete clause boundary rather than inventing a full stop.
- 13 ↩Continues previous section's ne (lest): full sense is 'lest I approach the doors of her house.' ejus is feminine in the likely Proverbs 5:8 echo (the adulteress); rendered 'her' accordingly.
- 14 ↩Source sentence is only a period ('.') with no recoverable Latin wording.
- 15 ↩Latin ends mid-clause at 'sed longe'; sense is incomplete as printed (likely continues in an adjacent line or is truncated).
- 16 ↩Closing bracket after 13. looks like residual editorial apparatus, not prayer text; left as printed.
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