Preces Quotidianae
Purity of Speech and the Communion of Saints
A prayer asking for freedom from insulting speech and for inclusion in the Church's holy communion.
May I never treat anyone with insults.1 That we may be among those called in Your Catholic Church—living members, by vow and by will; that we may share in the holy communion of holy persons, actions, prayers, and liturgies; unto faith in the forgiveness of sins,23
Hope in Resurrection and Eternal Life
A brief invitation to hope in the Resurrection and eternal life, with a mention of the Feast of the Translation.
of the Resurrection, unto hope4 For eternal life.5 Of the Translation,6
A Prayer for Living Faith
A petition for a faith like a mustard seed that works through love, followed by the closing Amen.
Lord, increase my faith, like a mustard seed—not a dead, temporary, hypocritical faith that destroys the Law, but a faith that works through love, cooperates with works, ministers virtue, and is living, pure, and most holy.7 Amen.
Read the original Latin
Contumelis unquam Afficiam. Ut in Ecclesia Tua simus vocati Catholica, partes quzedam Viventes, voto et voluntate ; Sancte communionis simus participes, Sanctarum personarum, Actionum, Precum, Liturgiarum, Ad fidem remissionis peccatorum,
Resurrectionis, Ad spem 1
nut Pad vitam seternam. Translationis,
Domine, adauge mihi fidem, ut granum sinapis; non mortuam, temporariam, hypocriticam, destruentem Legem ; Sed fidem per charitatem operantem, operibus cooperantem, subministratorem virtutis, viventem, mundam, sanctissimam.
Amen.
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin as given lacks an explicit negative; unquam with affirmative force is odd, and the most plausible prayer-resolution sense is never (cf. nunquam). Object of afficiam is unstated and supplied as 'anyone'.
- 2 ↩quzedam read as quaedam; Sancte communionis read as Sanctae communionis (genitive with participes).
- 3 ↩Sanctae communionis with genitives of persons, actions, prayers, and liturgies is primarily communio sanctorum (communion of the saints), not Eucharistic Communion alone; 'holy communion' keeps the Latin surface while that sense is in view.
- 4 ↩Trailing numeral '1' in the source looks like a page mark, note cue, or OCR artifact rather than part of the prayer; it is not rendered.
- 5 ↩Source reads 'nut Pad vitam seternam.' Most plausible corrected reading is 'Ad vitam aeternam,' by parallel with the previous heading 'Ad spem' and the obvious OCR error seternam → aeternam.
- 6 ↩Latin Translationis is a genitive rubric (parallel to Resurrectionis in the previous section). In devotional calendars it often names a saint’s Translatio (transfer of relics); less commonly it can mark transfer/assumption language. Rendering keeps the traditional heading term 'Translation.'
- 7 ↩subministratorem virtutis is rendered as “ministers virtue” (faith as a helper/supplier that fosters virtue); alternatives include “a servant of virtue” or “that supplies virtue.”
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