Preces Quotidianae
Communion of Saints and Eternal Hope
The believer asks for mutual participation in the communion of saints, forgiveness of sins, and the hope of resurrection and eternal life.
mutual participation, for the Communion of saints and the forgiveness of sins in the present, for the hope of the Resurrection and of our being carried over12 to eternal life.3
Prayer for Faith
The believer confesses faith in God as Father, Almighty, and faithful Creator, and asks the Lord to supply the defects of that faith.
I believe, Lord; make good the defects of my faith, that I may love You as Father and revere You as Almighty, and entrust my soul to You as the faithful Creator.✦✦4
Thanksgiving to Christ the Advocate
The believer gives thanks without ceasing to Christ for His incarnation, passion, resurrection, ascension, and role as Advocate.
That I may give thanks without ceasing, in remembrance, to Your Word and only Son; to the cleanser of our nature, in His conception and birth; to the liberator of persons, in His Passion, Cross, and Death; to the one who triumphed over hell, in His descent, and over death, in His resurrection; to our forerunner, in His ascension;✦56 To our Advocate,✦
Read the original Latin
reciprocam participationem, Ad ᾿ Communionem sanctorum, et Remissionem peccatorum, in presente, Ad spem Resurrectionis et translationis
ad vitam :eternam.
Credo, Domine; supple defectus fidei mes; Ut Te Patrem diligam, Omnipotentem reverear; Tibi, ut Creatori fideli, commendem animam meam. Ut Verbo Tuo et Filio unico Indesinenter memoria gratias agam, Ut mundatori natur: nostre, conceptione et { nativitate ; Ut liberatori personarum, in Passionibus, Cruce, Morte ; Ut triumphatori de inferno, in descensu ; de morte, in resurrectione; Ut prezcursori nostro, in ascensione ;
Advocato nostro,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Mark.9.24 — Immediately the father of the child cried out, 'I believe; help my unbelief!'
- ↩1Pet.4.19 — So then, let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
- ↩Heb.6.20 — where Jesus has entered on our behalf as a forerunner, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
- ↩1John.2.1 — My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source has a stray mark after the first Ad (Ad ᾿ Communionem); treated as noise and ignored.
- 2 ↩translationis, with the following section ad vitam aeternam, is rendered as being carried over (passage/transfer into eternal life), not as literary translation.
- 3 ↩Source reads “ad vitam :eternam.” with a stray colon and classical spelling eternam; rendered as the intended ad vitam aeternam (“to eternal life”), completing the creed sequence in the neighboring context (Communion of saints, remission of sins, hope of resurrection).
- 4 ↩Source reading 'mes' is treated as corrupt for 'meae' (my faith).
- 5 ↩Normalized corruptions: 'natur: nostre' → naturae nostrae; 'prezcursori' → praecursori; OCR brace '{' ignored.
- 6 ↩'liberatori personarum' rendered as 'liberator of persons' (human beings); if a tighter technical sense is intended, review against the fuller prayer sequence beginning at the next section's 'Advocato nostro'.
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