Preces Quotidianae

The Path of Christ's Mysteries

Meditating on Christ's death, burial, descent, resurrection, ascension, session, return, and judgment, we apply these mysteries to our own spiritual death and renewal.

Through His death, put the flesh to death.^✦ Burial — bury evil thoughts through good works, The descent into hell by frequent meditation—¹ to descend,^✦² Resurrection: rising again to a new life.³ Ascension: to set your mind on the things that are above,^✦⁴ The Session: setting the better things at the right hand,^✦⁵ His return; the fear of the second coming.⁶ Judgment: that I may judge myself beforehand.⁷ I am judged.^✦⁸

The Church's Gifts and Our Hope

Petitioning for the Spirit's grace, participation in the Church's vocation and sanctification, and the gifts of the sacraments, prayers, and afflictions leading to confidence in forgiveness and hope of resurrection.

That I may receive from the Spirit⁹ the inspiration of saving grace,¹⁰ May I share in the Church's calling and in holy sanctification.¹¹ Of the Catholic distribution¹² and of Communion of the Sacraments, of prayers, of fasts, of sighs, of vigils, of tears, Of afflictions! Toward confidence in the forgiveness of sins, The hope of the Resurrection for eternal life.¹³

Hope for All the World

Concluding with a reference to the Translation and a psalm verse that calls God the hope of all the ends of the earth and those far off on the sea.

Of the Translation.¹⁴ O hope of all the ends of the earth,^✦¹⁵ and of those who are far off on the sea, Ps. 65. 5.

Read the original Latin

Mortem Mortificare carnem,

Sepulturam Sepelire per opera bona malas cogitationes,

Descensum Crebra meditatione in infer-

num descendere,

Resurrectionem Ad vitze novitatem resurgere,

Ascensionem Sapere ea quie sursum sunt,

Sessionem Locando a dextris quz» melnora sunt,

Reditum Timorem adventus secundi,

Judicium Me ipsum judicare antequam

judicer. A Spiritu recipiam

Spirationem gratie salutaris,

Ecclesia Vocationis utin«4 Sancta Sanetificationis » particeps fiam. Catholica Distributionis

et Communionis

Sacramentorum, Orationum, Jejuniorum, Suspiriorum, Vigiliarum, Lacrymarum,

Afflictionum ! Ad fiduciam Remissionis peccatorum,

Resurrectionis í spem ad vitam :eternam.

Translationis

O spes omnium finium terrc,

et eorum qui sunt in mari longe, Psal. lxv. 5.

Scripture echoes

↩Rom.8.13;Col.3.5;Rom.6.3-Rom.6.11 — For if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Col.3.5 — Put to death, therefore, the parts of you that belong to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. Rom.6.3 — Or are you unaware that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Rom.6.4 — Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life. Rom.6.5 — For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection. Rom.6.6 — We know this: our old self was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we might no longer be enslaved to sin. Rom.6.7 — For the one who has died has been justified from sin. Rom.6.8 — Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. Rom.6.9 — knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no longer; death no longer has dominion over him. Rom.6.10 — For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. Rom.6.11 — So also you, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
↩1Pet.3.19;Eph.4.9 — in which also he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, Eph.4.9 — Now "he ascended"—what does it mean except that he also descended into the lower regions, the earth?
↩Col.3.2;Col.3.1-Col.3.2 — Set your minds on the things above, not on the things on the earth. Col.3.1 — If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Col.3.2 — Set your minds on the things above, not on the things on the earth.
↩Mark.16.19;Heb.1.3;Ps.110.1;Col.3.1-Col.3.2 — So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. Heb.1.3 — He is the radiance of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's own being, and he upholds all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Ps.110.1 — The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." Col.3.1 — If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Col.3.2 — Set your minds on the things above, not on the things on the earth.
↩1Cor.11.31 — But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.
↩Ps.66.5 — Come and see the works of God, awesome in deed toward the children of man.

Notes

1 ↩Source ends mid-word at line break: 'in infer-'. Reading completed as 'in infernum' (into hell) from the following section's 'num descendere' and the clear sense of the phrase.
2 ↩This section opens mid-word: 'num' completes the previous section's 'infer-' as 'infernum' (hell / the underworld). The full clause across PrecesPriv.1.23.3–4 is 'Descensum Crebra meditatione in infernum descendere' — roughly, 'The Descent: by frequent meditation to descend into hell.'
3 ↩Source surface 'vitze' is almost certainly a corruption of 'vitae'; translated as 'of life' / 'life's'.
4 ↩Source reading 'quie' is almost certainly a corruption of 'quae' ('those things which'); translated on that corrected sense. Neighboring items treat the Ascension mystery as a parallel infinitive devotion (cf. Resurrection / Session).
5 ↩Source is clearly damaged/OCR-corrupted: reading 'quz» melnora' as 'quae meliora' (which are better), parallel to the previous section's 'ea quae sursum sunt'.
6 ↩Latin is a bare accusative pair, almost certainly a daily-prayer heading/list item rather than a full clause: Reditum (return) and Timorem adventus secundi (fear of the second coming). Rendered as parallel meditation heads; implied subject is Christ's return.
7 ↩Printed section ends mid-clause; neighboring next section continues with judicer, completing the sense ‘before I am judged.’
8 ↩Subjunctive passive fragment (judicer) completing the prior petition: Me ipsum judicare antequam judicer — 'that I may judge myself before I am judged.'
9 ↩Incomplete petition; object continues in the next section (Spirationem gratie salutaris).
10 ↩Spirationem may mean the Spirit’s breathing/breath or interior inspiration; with the preceding A Spiritu recipiam, inspiration (Spirit-given breathing in) is the intended sense. gratie is standard medieval orthography for gratiae.
11 ↩Source is corrupt/garbled: 'utin«4' read as utinam; 'Sanetificationis' corrected to Sanctificationis; genitives taken as objects of particeps fiam (Ecclesiae vocationis, Sanctae sanctificationis).
12 ↩Genitive fragment; with neighboring 'et Communionis', likely the Church's Catholic distribution of the sacrament/grace, not a free-standing sentence.
13 ↩Source reads 'Resurrectionis í spem ad vitam :eternam.' — treated as intended 'Resurrectionis spem ad vitam aeternam' (hope of the Resurrection for eternal life). The stray 'í' and the colon before 'eternam' look like corruption/OCR noise; 'eternam' is taken as 'aeternam'.
14 ↩Bare genitive fragment (Translationis). In liturgical Latin this often names a feast of a saint’s Translation (removal/transfer of relics), or less commonly Mary’s Assumption as Translatio; the governing syntax is not present in this section.
15 ↩Source reads 'terrc'; treated as corrupt for 'terrae' (of the earth), matching the psalm verse continued in the next section.

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