Preces Quotidianae
Prayer for Clergy and People
A prayer for God to send faithful workers into the harvest and to grant clergy and laity wisdom, obedience, and mutual submission.
O Lord of the harvest, send into Your harvest workers whom You have made fit.1 You who are the portion of those who sit in Your temple, grant our clergy that they may rightly divide the word of truth, and that they may walk in it with a straight course.2 Grant that Christ's beloved people may obey them and submit to them.3 "Where? xiii.4 17.
Prayer for Nations and Civil Authorities
A petition for all kingdoms and governments to be strengthened as God's ordinance, referencing Scripture on the divine institution of authority and praying for peace among nations.
O King of the nations, to the ends of the earth: strengthen all the kingdoms and governments of the whole earth, as they are your ordinance.✦ xiii. 2.✦ even a human institution. 1 Pet. ii. 13. Scatter the nations that desire war.
Petition for Peace
A plea for God to remove war from the earth.
End all wars to the very ends of the earth.
Prayer for the Islands and the Region
A prayer invoking God as the support of the islands, asking for deliverance from affliction and danger for the island and surrounding region.
O Lord, support of the Islands and their hope, As.✦5 li.6 5.7 Deliver this Island, and the whole Region in which we live, from every affliction, danger, and8
Intercession for Deliverance
A continuation of the plea for deliverance from extreme necessity, with attributions to the Liturgy and Chrysostom.
Ascription to the King of Kings
A closing address to God as Lord of lords and King of kings.
O Lord of lords, and King of kings,
Read the original Latin
O Domine messis, Mitte operarios idoneos a Τὸ factos in messem Tuam. Tu qui sors es eorum, qui assident in Templo tuo, Concede Clero nostro, Ut recte dividant verbum veritatis, e& Ut recto pede incedant in ea. Concede Populo Christi dilecto Obtemperare his et se subjicere. “Ποῦ, xiii. 17.
O Rex Nationum, usque ad terminos terre, Robora omnia totius Terre Regna et Politias, utpote ordinationem tuam, Aom. xiu. 2. etsi humanam creaturam. 1 Pef. n. 13. Dissipa gentes quz bella volunt.
Tolle bella usque ad terminos terre.
O Domine, sustentatio Insularum et earum spes, As. li. 5. Libera Insulam hanc, et totam Regionem in qua habitamus, ab omni afflictione, periculo, et
extrema necessitate. Liturg. Chrysost.
O Domine Dominorum, et Rex Regum,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.13.2 — Therefore the one who resists the authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive judgment on themselves.
- ↩Rom.13.2 — Therefore the one who resists the authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive judgment on themselves.
- ↩Isa.51.5 — My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone out, and my arm will judge the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads "a Τὸ factos"; most plausible intended Latin is "a Te factos" ("made by You"). Greek Τὸ is treated as a corrupted Te/te.
- 2 ↩Source "e&" read as "et" ("and").
- 3 ↩"his" most naturally points back to the clergy just prayed for (obey them), not merely abstract teachings.
- 4 ↩Fragmentary citation/apparatus: Greek Ποῦ plus roman numeral xiii. Sense and target reference are uncertain; left as incomplete source text rather than silently completed.
- 5 ↩Terminal 'As.' reads as the start of a broken source citation continued in s2–s3 (As. / li. / 5.), not as prayer prose.
- 6 ↩Non-prose fragment; almost certainly middle of a source reference begun at s1 ('As.') and finished at s3 ('5.').
- 7 ↩Numeric citation fragment; with s1–s2 may complete a reference (possibly Is. li. 5), but the supplied reading is 'As. li. 5.', not restored here.
- 8 ↩Sentence is syntactically incomplete in the source (ends on 'et'); the following section continues with 'extrema necessitate.'
- 9 ↩Ablative phrase completing the preceding petition: 'ab omni afflictione, periculo, et extrema necessitate' — from every affliction, danger, and extreme necessity.
- 10 ↩Abbreviated source rubric Liturg. expanded as 'Liturgy'; with Chrysost. it marks the Liturgy of Chrysostom as the prayer's source.
- 11 ↩Abbreviated source rubric Chrysost. expanded as 'Chrysostom' (St. John Chrysostom); pairs with Liturg. as 'Liturgy of Chrysostom'.
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