Preces Quotidianae
Prayers for the Afflicted
A series of intercessions for those in various kinds of suffering, from the wounded in spirit to those in danger, especially those who do not pray.
For those wounded in spirit, sick in mind, and perplexed.1 For the dying, the sick, and those taking medicine.2 Those taking medicine.3 For captives, those in prison, and those condemned to death. For the needy, the oppressed, and the desolate. For strangers, orphans, and widows.✦ For pregnant women, women who have just given birth, and infants. For pilgrims, those at sea, travelers, and everyone who is in danger in any way, especially those who do not pray.
The Path of Penance
A devotional sequence on penance, moving from the concept itself through contrition, bitterness, and torn heart, to confession and petition for future grace.
On Penance. Contrition, Bitterness of soul, compunction of heart,4 i.5 37.]6 Torn; a spirit or a heart shattered, contrite.7 Godly sorrow, sobs of the heart,8 Confession, acknowledgment,9 of the past; prayer entreating for what is to come.10
Scriptural Grounds for Humility
A series of scripture citations and reflections that underscore human sinfulness and the futility of self-justification, prompting humble reliance on God.
1. All have sinned; (1.11 If You, Lord, who can stand?12 Psalm 130.13 3. 9. No flesh will be justified. Psalm. 143.14 2. 3. He will not answer one out of a thousand.✦ 2. What then? Is it in vain?15
Read the original Latin
Pro spiritu vulneratis, animo :egris, perplexis. Pro animam agentibus, zegrotantibus, pharmacum su-
mentibus. Pro captivis, incarceratis, capite damnatis.
Pro egenis, oppressis, desolatis.
Pro advenis, orphanis, viduis.
Pro pregnantibus, puerperis, infantibus.
Pro peregrinantibus, navigantibus, itinerantibus, quovis modo periclitantibus,
precipue non orantibus.
De Paenitentia. Contritio,
Amaritudo anims, ( Compunctio cordis, (4c. i. 37.]
scissum, Spiritus seu cor4 confractum,
contritum. Tristitia seeundum Deum, Singultus cordis,
Confessio, Agnitio, . preteritum, Oratio deprecans futurum.
1. Omnes peccaverunt; ( 1. Si Tu, Domine, quis sustinebit? Psal. exxx. 3. 9. Non justificabitur omnis caro.
Psal. cxlhu. 2. 3. Non respondebit unum ad mille.
2. Quid tum? Nunquid in vanum.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Deut.10.18;Ps.146.9;Jas.1.27 — He administers justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. Ps.146.9 — The LORD watches over the sojourner; the orphan and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he makes crooked. Jas.1.27 — Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
- ↩Job.9.3;Job.9.2-Job.9.3 — If someone wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him once in a thousand. Job.9.2 — Truly I know that it is so; but how can a mortal be righteous before God? Job.9.3 — If someone wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him once in a thousand.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reading `:egris` treated as `aegris` (sick/ailing).
- 2 ↩Source `zegrotantibus` treated as `aegrotantibus` (the sick). Incomplete line-end `pharmacum su-` completed from the following section's `mentibus` as `pharmacum sumentibus` (those taking medicine).
- 3 ↩Fragment completes the previous line’s broken pharmacum su- as pharmacum sumentibus (those taking medicine), continuing the intercession for the dying and the sick.
- 4 ↩Reading supplied anims as animi (of the soul). Trailing apparatus '(4c.' is not translated as prose; see s2–s3.
- 5 ↩Source token 'i.' appears to be split editorial/citation apparatus, not a complete Latin sentence; left unrendered as prose.
- 6 ↩Source token '37.]' appears to be split editorial/citation apparatus (numeral and bracket), not a complete Latin sentence; left unrendered as prose.
- 7 ↩Continues the previous fragment (Spiritus seu cor confractum / scissum): a broken spirit or heart, contrite.
- 8 ↩Reading seeundum as secundum (OCR/typo); tristitia secundum Deum is the fixed Pauline phrase.
- 9 ↩Source is a terse heading fragment ending in a stray comma and period (Confessio, Agnitio, .). Rendered as a continuing list; sense completed by s2.
- 10 ↩Read as continuing s1: Agnitio preteritum (acknowledgment of the past) + Oratio deprecans futurum (supplicatory prayer for the future). deprecans may mean entreating or praying against; context of daily private prayers favors earnest petition concerning the future.
- 11 ↩Source ends mid-parenthesis with '( 1.'; likely a truncated citation marker after the scriptural clause.
- 12 ↩Latin is a truncated form of the De profundis line (Vulg. Ps 129:3 / Heb. Ps 130:3), which fully runs Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit? Supplied text omits iniquitates observaveris; English follows the abbreviated source rather than silently restoring the full psalm.
- 13 ↩Source reads 'exxx.'; most plausible intended reading is Roman numeral cxxx (130), i.e. Psalm 130 / Vulgate 129, matching the preceding De profundis line.
- 14 ↩Source reading 'cxlhu.' is not a valid Roman numeral; most plausible recovery is cxliii (143), by OCR/print corruption of the final strokes. The following lemma 'Non respondebit unum ad mille' is the sense of Job 9:3, not a Psalm 143 lemma—citation may be mis-tagged or composite.
- 15 ↩Nunquid often frames a rhetorical question expecting a negative answer ("Surely not in vain?"). Rendered as a plain interrogative to keep the modern cadence; sense of challenge/doubt remains.
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