Preces Quotidianae
The Door of Hope
A series of scriptural affirmations and prayers centered on hope in God, drawing from Job, Romans, and Psalms.
He will have hope in the end. The Valley of Achor is a door of hope. Hope does not disappoint.✦1 We were saved in hope.✦ 5; vii. 24.]✦ May the Lord of hope fill us.✦ Even if he kills me, I will hope.✦2 You who save those who hope in You. In Your holy name we have hoped. .3 ix.4 10.]5 In the shelter of wings, in the shadow, under the feathers. You, Lord, are my hope—my hope is in You—the hope of all the ends of the earth.6 Hope in God.
Unfinished Desires
Brief, broken expressions of wish, fear, grief, and joy, reflecting the inner movements of the soul in prayer.
I would wish for it, if more.7 I fear lest—8 I grieve that it is not. I would rejoice if.
Read the original Latin
Habebit spem in novissimo. Vallis Achor porta spei. Spes non confundit. Spe salvi facti sumus. 5; vii. 24.] Dominus spei repleat nos. 81 occiderit me, sperabo.
Qui salvos facis sperantes in Te. In nomine Tuo sacro speravimus. . ix. 10.] In tegmine alarum, in umbra, sub pennis. Tu, Domine, spes mea, Spes mea in Te, Spes omnium finium terre. Spera in Deo.
Vellem, si plus. Metuo, ne.
Doleo, quod non. Gauderem, si.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.5.5 — And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- ↩Rom.8.24 — For in hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he already sees?
- ↩Rom.8.24 — For in hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he already sees?
- ↩Rom.15.13 — May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- ↩Job.13.15 — Though he slay me, I will not hope in him; yet my ways I will argue before his face.
Notes
- 1 ↩confundit can mean puts to shame, confounds, or disappoints; modern Pauline usage favors disappoint.
- 2 ↩Printed 81 is treated as corrupt leading matter before occiderit; sense follows the Job hope formula (Etsi/Etiamsi occiderit me, sperabo).
- 3 ↩Source is only a bare period; likely segmentation debris from a citation or line break, not a translatable clause.
- 4 ↩Appears to be a Roman-numeral citation marker (ix.), not a prose sentence.
- 5 ↩Appears to be a verse number with editorial bracket residue (10.]), not a prose sentence.
- 6 ↩Source 'terre' read as terrae (of the earth); standard biblical genitive.
- 7 ↩Elliptical prayer-note fragment: vellem (potential of volo) + incomplete si-clause; object and remainder of the condition are left unstated, as in the neighboring truncated stubs.
- 8 ↩metuo + ne introduces a fear-clause ('I fear that/lest…'); the feared outcome is omitted in the source, so the English keeps an open trailing clause.
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