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Preces Quotidianae

Christ Our Intercessor and Judge

A series of petitions asking for Christ's intercession, his return, his reception of us, his judgment, and the consummation of all things.

And may he intercede for us.✦ 11. That he will return from there,✦1 May he receive us. 12. That he will be Judge2 Until the end of all things.✦

The Holy Spirit's Power and Gifts

A petition acknowledging the Holy Spirit and his sanctifying power, gifts, and fruits.

3. In the Spirit. Holy—and in Him power from on high that makes holy and gives life for immortality, working in us from without and invisibly, yet effectively and openly: by the illumination of righteousness, by the infusion of grace, in reproof, teaching, endurance, aid, and witness; gifts of grace, fruits,3 of this Spirit.

The Mystical Body of Christ

A petition for the Holy Catholic Church, the mystical body of Christ, called by the Spirit to faith and holiness.

4. The Holy Catholic Church, the mystical Body of Christ the Head—those whom the Spirit calls from the whole world to the faith of divine truth, to holiness of life,✦45 of all the members of this body

Read the original Latin

Et intercedat pro nobis. 11. Inde rediturum, '

Ut recipiat nos. 12. Judicem fore

Ad consummationem omnium.

3. In Spiritum. Sanctum, Et in Eo Potentiam ex alto sanctificantem, Et vivifieantem ad immortalitatem, Extrimsecus et invisibiliter, sed Effieaciter et manifeste in Nos operantem, Iluminatione justitiz, Infusione gratise, In Reprehensione, Doctrina, Tolerantia, Subventione, Contestatione ; Charismata, Fructus,

hujus Spiritus.

4. Sanctam Catholicam Ecclesiam, Corpus mysticum capitis Christi, Eorum quos Spiritus vocat Ex toto mundo, Ad fidem veritatis divine, Ad sanctitatem conversationis,

Membrorum hujus corporis omnium

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Rom.8.34;Heb.7.25 — Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus—the one who died, and more than that, was raised—who is also at the right hand of God, and who also intercedes for us. Heb.7.25 — Therefore he is able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them.
  2. ↩Acts.1.11 — Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way you saw him go into heaven.
  3. ↩Matt.24.3;Heb.9.26 — As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Heb.9.26 — Otherwise he would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now, at the culmination of the ages, he has appeared once for all to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  4. ↩2Thess.2.13-2Thess.2.14;Rom.8.14 — But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth. 2Thess.2.14 — For this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom.8.14 — For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source ends with a stray quote mark after the comma (`Inde rediturum, '`). Treated as editorial noise; sense taken as incomplete ACI fragment continuing into the next section (Judicem fore).
  2. 2 ↩Accusative-and-infinitive fragment (Judicem fore): rendered as a creedal claim that he will be Judge; neighboring Ad consummationem omnium likely completes the sense.
  3. 3 ↩Normalized several obvious print/OCR forms in the source: vivifieantem→vivificantem; Extrimsecus→Extrinsecus; Effieaciter→Efficaciter; Iluminatione→Illuminatione; justitiz→justitiae; gratise→gratiae.
  4. 4 ↩conversationis rendered as 'life' (way of life / conduct), not modern 'conversation' as talk.
  5. 5 ↩veritatis divine read as veritatis divinae ('of divine truth'); surface form looks truncated.

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