Preces Quotidianae
A Prayer for Grace and Lowliness
The soul asks for grace to be something in God's earthly kingdom, even the lowest place among the saints.
May it come to me here in the state of grace.1 In the earthly kingdom, may I here by Your grace amount to something, so that there in the kingdom of heaven I may reach some place—even the lowest place, under the feet of Your saints.23 of the flesh4
Renouncing Self-Will
The worshiper numbers the petition and prays for the departure of fleshly will.
Thy Will Be Done
The prayer asks that God's holy will be done on earth as in heaven.
May Your holy will be done on this earth; may Your just and gracious will be done on this earth where I am, as it is in heaven.✦
Petitions for Daily Bread and Heavenly Food
The worshiper asks for health, sustenance, and the bread of angels for eternal salvation.
Health. 4. Give peace and enough to live on. Give the bread of the angels for eternal salvation.✦
A Cry for Mercy and Forgiveness
The soul confesses its debts and relapses, acknowledges God's righteousness and its own shame, and pleads for mercy.
5. Forgive me my debts—an enormous load of debts, foul falls, frequent relapses, long wallowings in sin.✦ To You, Lord, belongs righteousness, and to me the shame on my face.✦ My ruin is mine; it comes from me.✦ If You kept account of iniquities, Lord—Lord, who could stand?✦
Confidence in God's Redemption
The prayer affirms that with God there is propitiation, mercy, and abundant redemption, and that He will deliver from all iniquities.
But with You there is propitiation; with God there is mercy; with God there is abundant redemption, And he will deliver from all iniquities.
Read the original Latin
Adveniat mihi hic in statu ρου δύ. In regno terrenorum hie aliquid per Tuam gratiam pr:eestem, Quo in regno coelorum illic, ad aliquem locum perveniam, vel novissimum subter pedes sanctorum '"Tuorum. carnis
9. Voluntas f Ἐ facessant a me.
sancta a terra hac, Voluntas Tua4 justa fiat gratiosa de terra hae, quie ego sum, sicut in ccelis. sanitatem, 4. Da qu: ad 4 pacem, sufficientiam, Da panem Angelorum ad salutem eternam. 5. Dimitte mihi debita, ws ingens debitorum, prolapsiones fodas, recidivas crebras, volutabra diutina. Tibi, Domine, justitia, et mihi confusio faciei. Perditio mea mihi a me est. Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit?
sed apud Te propitiatio, Apud Deum misericordia, Copiosa apud Deum redemptio,
Et liberabit ab omnibus iniquitatibus.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.6.10 — Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
- ↩Ps.78.25;Ps.78.25 — Man ate the bread of the mighty; provisions he sent them to the full. Ps.78.25 — Man ate the bread of the mighty; provisions he sent them to the full.
- ↩Matt.6.12 — And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- ↩Dan.9.7 — O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us, shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the countries where you have driven them, because of the treachery they have committed against you.
- ↩Hos.13.9 — You have destroyed yourself, O Israel, because your help is in me.
- ↩Ps.130.3 — If you kept watch over iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?
Notes
- 1 ↩Source ends with non-Latin garbage 'ρου δύ' after 'in statu'. Previous section has parallel 'in statu gloriz' (= gloriae). The classic pair status gratiae / status gloriae makes 'gratiae' the most plausible restoration; translation follows that reading.
- 2 ↩Normalized source is OCR-damaged: 'hie'→hic; 'pr:eestem' read as praestem (from praesto: perform / prove / amount to); stray quotes before 'Tuorum' dropped. 'aliquid praestem' is taken as 'be of some account / amount to something,' paralleling 'ad aliquem locum perveniam' ('reach some place').
- 3 ↩If 'pr:eestem' is instead praeessem/praesim (be set over), the sense would be 'may I have charge of something' rather than 'amount to something'; either fits the humility parallel with 'novissimum' (the last/lowest).
- 4 ↩Standalone genitive fragment 'carnis'. Neighboring next section begins 'Voluntas f Ἐ facessant a me,' almost certainly 'Voluntates carnis facessant a me' (let the desires of the flesh depart from me). This token likely belongs to that sentence, not a free-standing clause.
- 5 ↩Source reads "9."; in this Lord’s Prayer expansion the item sits between the Kingdom petition and the later numbered petitions 4 (daily bread) and 5 (forgiveness), so the intended heading is almost certainly "3." (Fiat voluntas), with 3 misread as 9 in the OCR.
- 6 ↩Supplied Latin is corrupt: "Voluntas f Ἐ facessant a me." Previous section ends with orphan "carnis"; next material is the Fiat voluntas petition. Most plausible intended sense is a renunciation of the flesh’s will (cf. voluntas carnis + facesso a me). Verb is plural (facessant), so the original may have listed more than one will (e.g. flesh and related desires); singular English keeps the clear core petition without inventing the missing co-subjects.
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