Preces Quotidianae
Hope in God from the Fathers and from Youth
The prayer recalls how the fathers hoped in God and were delivered, and how the psalmist has hoped from youth, citing Psalms 22 and 71.
O you in whom our fathers hoped, and you delivered them; in whom they hoped, and they were not put to shame. Psalm 22. 4, 5. O my hope from my youth. Psalm 71. 4. from my mother's breasts; into whom I was cast from the womb. Psalm1 22.
A Personal Plea for Hope and Trust
The prayer asks God to be a continual hope and portion, reflects on God's nature and work, and pleads not to be put to shame in that hope.
9, 10. Be my hope now and always, and my portion in the land of the living.✦2 Psalm cxlu.3 5. Your nature, By types, [corrupt reading], by the Word, by the Work—my hope.4 Do not put me to shame in this my5 hope.6
Hope for All Creation and Mercy for All People
The prayer expands hope to the ends of the earth, remembers all creation for good, asks for mercy on all humanity, and concludes with Christ's death and resurrection.
O Hope of all the ends of the earth, Psalm7 65. 5. Remember all your creation for good;8 Visit the world in your mercy. O Guardian of humankind, O Lord, lover of humankind, remember our whole race; and you who have confined all people in unbelief, Lord, have mercy on all. O you who died and rose again for this purpose,✦9
Read the original Latin
O in quem speraverunt Patres nostri, et liberasti eos, in quem speraverunt, et non sunt confusi, Psal. xxii. 4, 5. O spes mea a juventute, Psal. lxxi. 4. ab uberibus matris mesze, In quem projectus sum ex utero, Psal. xxii.
9, 10. Esto tu spes mea dehine et semper, Et sors mea in terra viventium. Psal. cxlu. 5. Natura tua,
Typis, Iu4- ἡ Verbo, Opere, Spes mea. Non confundas me ab hac mea
exspectatione.
O spes omnium finium terre, Psal. lxv. 5. Memento omnis Creaturz tu:x in bonum ;
Visita Mundum in misericordia tua.
O Custos hominum, O Domine amator hominum, Memento generis nostri universi ; Et qui conclusisti omnes in incredulitate,
Omnium miserere, o Domine.
O qui in hoec mortuus es et resurrexisti,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.142.6;Ps.143.5 — I cried out to you, O LORD; I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." Ps.143.5 — I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works; I ponder the work of your hands.
- ↩Rom.14.9 — For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source 'mesze' is almost certainly a corruption of 'meae' (my); translated as 'my'.
- 2 ↩Reading dehine as dehinc (‘from now on / henceforth’); the printed form looks like a typographic corruption.
- 3 ↩Printed roman numeral ‘cxlu’ is not a standard form; most plausible intended readings are cxli (141) or cxlii (142), matching the ‘spes mea… terra viventium’ petition above.
- 4 ↩Source line is badly damaged: 'Iu4- ἡ' is not readable Latin (likely OCR/print garble, with a Greek ἡ residual). Readable items treated as ablatives of means: Typis, Verbo, Opere; Spes mea as appositive/vocative 'my hope.' Previous context ends 'Natura tua,' which may continue into this line, but the joint reading is too uncertain to force.
- 5 ↩Sentence is incomplete in this section; neighboring next text supplies 'exspectatione,' yielding the full petition 'Non confundas me ab hac mea exspectatione'—do not put me to shame in this hope/expectation of mine. Rendered here without importing the next section's word into the main line.
- 6 ↩Standalone ablative fragment; completes the preceding petition (PrecesPriv.1.24.3): 'Non confundas me ab hac mea exspectatione' — 'Do not put me to shame concerning this hope of mine.'
- 7 ↩Reading 'terre' as 'terrae' (of the earth), the standard form of this psalm phrase.
- 8 ↩Normalized corrupted forms 'Creaturz' → 'creaturae' and 'tu:x' → 'tuae' as the most plausible intended reading of a standard petition formula.
- 9 ↩Source reads 'hoec'; treated as intended 'hoc' ('for this' / 'to this end'), matching the Rom 14:9 sense continued in the next section (ut et mortuorum et vivorum domineris).
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