Preces Quotidianae
Opening Adoration to the Father
The prayer opens as an act of adoration addressed to God the Father, who created all things, sustains them, and gave His Only-Begotten for us.
An Act of Adoration.1 God, Father of heaven, who wonderfully created the world from nothing, who govern and sustain heaven and earth by your power, who handed over your Only-Begotten for us to death.2
Adoration of Christ the Redeemer
Christ is adored as the incarnate Redeemer whose precious blood washes away sin and whose resurrection and ascension reveal His victory.
Son, Redeemer of the world, God, who chose to take on human flesh from the Virgin, who washed away our sins with Your precious blood3 .4 157.]5 who, rising from the dead as the victor, ascended into heaven.
Praise of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is praised as the One who descended on Jesus at His baptism and came upon the apostles in fiery tongues, strengthening the saints by grace.
Holy Spirit, Paraclete, God, who came down upon Jesus in the form of a dove,✦6 who came upon the Apostles and appeared in tongues of fire, who visit and strengthen the hearts of the saints with your grace.7
The Ineffable Blessed Trinity
The closing lines turn from addressing each person to praising the whole Trinity, naming the ineffable Majesty and moving into reverent contemplation of His glory.
Sacred, supreme, everlasting, Blessed, blessed Trinity, always worthy of praise, yet always beyond all words: good Father, loving Son, kind Spirit. Ineffable Majesty, whose Power is beyond compare, Goodness beyond all measure; work, life, whose love, grace,8 Contemplation, glory.9
Read the original Latin
Actus Adoraltionis. Pater, de colis, Deus, qui mundum mirabiliter de nihilo creasti, qui ccelum et terram virtute 'Tua gubernas et sustentas, qui Unigenitum Tuum pro nobis ad mortem tradidisti.
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, qui de Virgine incarnari voluisti, qui sanguine Tuo pretioso nos a peccatis abluisti, D Jb. . 157.] qui surgens a mortuis victor in coelum ascendisti.
Spiritus Sancte, Paraclete, Deus, qui in Columb:w specie super Jesum descendisti,
qui super Apostolos veniens in linguis igneis apparuisti, qui corda Sanctorum 'Tua gratia visitas et confirmas. Sacra, summa, sempiterna, Beata, benedicta "Trinitas, semper laudabilis, semper tamen ineffabilis : Pater bone, Fili pie, Spiritus benigne. Majestas ineffabilis, Cujus 4 Potestas incomparabilis, Bonitas in:stimabilis, opus vita, Cujus 4 amor gratia,
contemplatio gloria.
Scripture echoes
- ↩John.1.32 — And John testified, saying, 'I have seen the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.'
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads 'Adoraltionis'; treated as a typo/OCR error for 'Adorationis' (adoration).
- 2 ↩Normalized several clear print/OCR corruptions: 'de colis' → 'de coelis' (of heaven); 'ccelum' → 'coelum' (heaven); stray apostrophe before 'Tua' ignored as 'virtute Tua'.
- 3 ↩Trailing source tokens "D Jb." look like OCR or print debris (citation/margin fragment), not continuous prayer Latin; omitted from the rendering rather than guessed.
- 4 ↩Source is only a lone period; almost certainly print/OCR debris between continuous relative clauses, not a sentence.
- 5 ↩Source "157.]" appears to be a page or section marker from the printed witness, not prayer text.
- 6 ↩Source reads «Columb:w specie»; translated as the standard baptism formula «in columbae specie» (“in the form of a dove”).
- 7 ↩Normalized reading treats the stray mark before Tua ('Tua) as noise; sense is ablative Tua gratia, 'with your grace'.
- 8 ↩Reading Bonitas in:stimabilis as Bonitas inaestimabilis (inestimable/beyond measure). Cujus 4 twice treated as Cujus plus OCR garbage (likely a page or line numeral).
- 9 ↩Latin is a bare two-word fragment (contemplatio gloria) with no connective or clear syntax. Rendered as two titles in the surrounding litany of divine names/attributes; could also be intended as contemplatio gloriae ('contemplation of glory').
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