Preces Quotidianae
Opening Plea for Grace
The prayer begins by asking the Father to be gracious and for God to declare salvation to the soul.
Make the Father gracious toward us; give us what You Yourself are. Say to my soul: I am your salvation.1
Paul's Testimony of Grace
The prayer recalls the Apostle Paul's trustworthy saying that Christ came to save sinners and that grace abounded where sin abounded.
Nor had Your Apostle spoken in vain,✦ 1 Timothy 1 15✦2 This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and I am the foremost of them.✦ Rom.✦ 5.✦3 20.✦ Where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more.✦
God's Mercy to All
The prayer cites that God has shut all under sin so that He may have mercy on all.
xi. 932. God has shut everyone under sin, so that he may have mercy on all.✦
Christ's Love for Enemies
The prayer recalls that Christ died for us while we were still sinners and enemies of God.
v. 10. In this, God proves His love for us, because while we were still sinners—indeed, His enemies—Christ for us✦✦45 He died.✦
Peter's Witness of Atonement
The prayer invokes Peter's testimony that Christ died once for sins to bring us to God.
Nor does another Apostle speak in vain, 1 Pet. n.6 18. Christ died once for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might offer us to God.✦
James on Mercy
The prayer cites James that mercy triumphs over judgment.
James n. 18. Mercy triumphs over judgment.✦
John's Assurance of Advocacy
The prayer recalls John's words that we have an Advocate, Jesus Christ, who is the atoning sacrifice for the whole world.
Nor does the fourth [evangelist] speak in vain, 1 John ch. 2. If anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins—not for ours only, but also for✦ the sins of the whole world.✦
Christ's Invitation to the Weary
The prayer concludes with Christ's own invitation to come to Him for rest.
Nor did You Yourself speak in vain, Matt. 11. 25.7 — Come to Me, you who labor and are burdened are, and I will refresh you.
Read the original Latin
Redde Patrem nobis propitium, Da nobis quod Ipse es,
Die animx mez, Salus tua sum.
Nec frustra dixerat Apostolus Tuus,
1 Tim. i. lo. Fidelis sermo et omni acceptatione dignus; Quod Jesus Christus venit in mundum peccatores salvos facere, quorum ego primus.
Rom. v. 20. Ubi abundavit delictum, superabundavit gratia.
xi. 932. — Conclusit Deus omnes sub peccato, ut omnium misereatur.
v. 10. | Commendat in hoc Deus charitatem suam erga nos, quia eum interim peccatores, imo inimici Ejus essemus, Christus pro nobis
mortuus est.
Nec frustra alter Apostolus, 1 Pet. ni. 18. Christus semel pro peccatis nostris mortuus est, justus pro injustis, ut nos offerret Deo.
Jac. n. 18. Superavit misericordia judicium.
Nec frustra quartus, I Je n. 2. 8i quis peccaverit, Advocatum habemus apud Patrem, Jesum Christum justum; et Ipse est propitiatio pro peccatis nostris ; Non pro nostris autem tantum, sed pro
peccatis totius mundi.
Nec frustra Ipse dixeris, Matt. xi. 25. — Venite ad Me, qui laboratis et onerati
estis, et Ego reficiam vos.
Scripture echoes
- ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
- ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
- ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
- ↩Rom.5.20 — The law came in alongside so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.
- ↩Rom.5.20 — The law came in alongside so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.
- ↩Rom.5.20 — The law came in alongside so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.
- ↩Rom.5.20 — The law came in alongside so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.
- ↩Rom.11.32;Gal.3.22 — For God has consigned all to disobedience, so that he may have mercy on all. Gal.3.22 — But the Scripture has locked up everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
- ↩Rom.5.8 — But God demonstrates his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- ↩Rom.5.10 — For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- ↩Rom.5.8 — But God demonstrates his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- ↩1Pet.3.18 — For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God — put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit.
- ↩Jas.2.13 — For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; but mercy triumphs over judgment.
- ↩1John.2.1-1John.2.2 — 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. 1John.2.2 — And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
- ↩1John.2.1-1John.2.2 — 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. 1John.2.2 — And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads 'Die animx mez, Salus tua sum.' Treated as corrupt OCR/encoding for 'Dic animae meae: Salus tua sum.' (Die→Dic; animx→animae; mez→meae).
- 2 ↩Source reads 'lo.'; context and the following verse text match 1 Timothy 1:15, so this is rendered as verse 15 (likely a typesetting/OCR corruption of '15.').
- 3 ↩Latin 'v.' is the Roman numeral for chapter 5 in the citation Rom. 5:20.
- 4 ↩Source reads «quia eum interim peccatores… essemus». «eum» does not parse cleanly with first-person «essemus»; the intended reading is almost certainly «cum» (while/when), as in the Rom 5:8 pattern. Translated as «while».
- 5 ↩«charitatem» rendered as «love» per default lexeme policy; theological-virtue «charity» is also viable.
- 6 ↩Source reads 'ni.'; treated as the citation marker 'n.' (as in the neighboring Jac. n. 18 pattern), not as independent Latin.
- 7 ↩Printed verse number is 25, but the Latin quotation that follows is the wording of Matthew 11:28, not 11:25.
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