Preces Quotidianae

The Seven Works of Mercy

An introduction to the seven works of mercy, divided into corporal and spiritual categories.

The Seven Works of Mercy. Corporal. Spiritual.

Daily Petitions for Mercy

A series of numbered petitions asking for God's mercy in actions such as visiting, feeding, redeeming, covering, gathering, storing up, and praying.

1. I visit, 1.¹ Counsel,² 2. I drink, 29.³ Punish,⁴ 9. Feed, 3.⁵ Teach, 4. Redeem, 4.⁶ Comfort, 5. Cover me, 5.⁷ Forgive, 6. I gather, 6.⁸ Bear,⁹ 7. I store up.¹⁰ 7. Pray.

Meditation on the Lord's Prayer

A devotional reflection on the opening petitions of the Lord's Prayer, including confession of failure and a plea for grace to hallow God's name and enter His kingdom.

Our Father. 1.^✦¹¹ You are holy; holy is your name above every name—holy, and to be held with all reverence by everyone, and by some more than by others, and by me first of all, above many.¹² Yet I have not held it so; nor have I tried to do what was within my reach.¹³ Woe to me, a wretched man, that I have not—I freely confess—¹⁴ with heart, with mind, with soul,¹⁵ I grieve from my heart. I ask for pardon as a suppliant; I ask for grace as a suppliant—and I ask that I may speak, act, and live so that your name is hallowed, and I wish that others would hallow it because of me, too! 9.¹⁶ Your kingdom, the greatest of my vows,¹⁷ so that I may come to it in a state of glory,¹⁸

Read the original Latin

Septem Opera Misericordie.

Corporalia. Spiritualia.

1. Visito, 1. Consule,

2. Poto, 29. Plecte,

9. Cibo, 3. Doce,

4. Redimo, 4. Solare,

5. Tego, 5. Remitte,

6. Colligo, 6. Fer,

7. Condo. 7. Ora.

Ilarép ἡμῶν, 1. Αγιος εἶ σὺ, er » , € N » αγίον τὸ OVOULG σου ὑπερ σαν ονομαᾶ, sancte et cum omni veneratione habendum ab omnibus, et a quibusdam plus magis aliis, meque imprimis super multos. Non habui tamen: nec quod juxta me fuit conatus sum facere. Va mihi misero, quod non, ingenue fateor. καρδίᾳ, pA νοΐ, ψυχῇ,

Ex animo doleo

Supplex veniam posco, supplex gratiam, Dehinc ut sic loquar, faciam, vivam, ut sanctificetur nomen Tuum, utinam et ab aliis propter me! 9. Regnum Tuum, votorum meorum caput,

Quo ego perveniam ad illud in statu gloriz,

Scripture echoes

↩Matt.6.9;Luke.11.2 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come."

Notes

1 ↩Visito is 1st-person present ('I visit'); in this list context it may function as a brief title for a visitation prayer. The trailing '1.' is retained as a source reference/number (page, section, or cross-ref), not as prose.
2 ↩Consule is the 2nd-person singular imperative of consulo ('counsel / give counsel'). Rendered as the bare heading 'Counsel' to match the list register; if a fuller spiritual work of mercy is intended, 'Counsel the doubtful' would be interpretive expansion not present in this fragment.
3 ↩Poto is 1st person singular present of potare, 'I drink.' In this heading-like fragment it may function as a petition label rather than a full clause; the trailing 29. looks like a cross-reference or item number.
4 ↩Plecte is the singular imperative of plectere, 'to punish/strike/chastise.' Rendered 'Punish' as the plainest petition sense; 'Chastise' or 'Strike' are also possible.
5 ↩Latin Cibo may be read as imperative/lemma 'feed' (cibare), 1st person 'I feed,' or ablative of cibus 'with food.' Neighboring bare imperatives (Doce, Solare, Plecte) support a petition/lemma reading 'Feed.'
6 ↩Latin surface is Redimo (1st person present, 'I redeem'). Neighboring daily-prayer petitions (Doce, Solare, Remitte) are imperatives, so the intended form is likely Redime, 'Redeem.' Rendered as a petition to match that pattern.
7 ↩Latin Tego is 1st-person present of tego (I cover); the classical imperative is tege. In this numbered daily-prayer series it is read as a petition, ‘cover/protect me,’ parallel to neighboring imperatives (Solare, Remitte, Fer).
8 ↩Colligo is 1st-person present of colligere (I gather/collect). In private-devotion rubrics it may mean gathering the next petitions, or recollecting oneself; neighboring fragments (Tego, Remitte, Condo, Ora) are likewise telegraphic.
9 ↩Fer is the imperative of ferre (bear/bring/carry). Trailing comma suggests an incomplete cue or truncated line in the source witness.
10 ↩Condo may mean 'I store up/lay up,' 'I found/establish,' or 'I compose.' Neighboring daily-prayer fragments (Colligo, Fer, Ora) favor a first-person act of devotion; 'I store up' is the most natural general sense.
11 ↩Source 'Ilarép ἡμῶν' is treated as corrupted Greek for Πάτερ ἡμῶν (Our Father), the heading that opens this Lord's Prayer petition series; the printed '1.' marks the first petition.
12 ↩Greek mid-clause is badly OCR-mangled ('er » , € N » αγίον τὸ OVOULG σου ὑπερ σαν ονομαᾶ'). Reconstructed as ἅγιον τὸ ὄνομά σου ὑπὲρ πᾶν ὄνομα ('holy is your name above every name'), then continued by the clear Latin gerundive clause.
13 ↩'Non habui' has no expressed object; from the preceding clause it means I have not so held/kept the holy Name. 'quod juxta me fuit' is rendered as what lay within my reach/power.
14 ↩Incomplete clause: 'quod non' lacks its finite completion in this sentence; the sense continues into the following datives (heart, mind, soul) and the next section's 'Ex animo doleo'. 'Va' taken as 'Vae'.
15 ↩Greek datives of manner/instrument; 'pA' is treated as OCR debris for καὶ ('and') between καρδίᾳ and νοΐ. Trailing comma preserved as open continuation into the next section.
16 ↩Printed section or petition number rather than continuous prose; left as the numeral.
17 ↩votorum can mean vows, devout wishes, or prayers; 'vows' keeps the Latin's stronger sense of vowed desire. caput = head/chief/principal aim.
18 ↩Source surface 'gloriz' is treated as corrupt for 'gloriae' (of glory), matching the repeated 'in statu…' prayer diction in the neighboring Lord's-Prayer expansion.

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