Preces Quotidianae
Conscience in Obedience
A prayer to submit to civil authority not only from fear of punishment but for the sake of conscience.
to be subject to authority, not only because of wrath, but also✦ because of conscience.
Prayer for All Vocations
Intercession for farmers, shepherds, seamen, fishermen, merchants, craftsmen, and even beggars, that each may receive God's provision and work faithfully.
For farmers and shepherds, a fruitful year; for sailors and...1 For fishermen: a favorable voyage; for merchants: that none cheat one another; for craftsmen: that they do their work lawfully—even down to the lowly trades,23 even as far as beggars.
Blessing for Children
A prayer that children may grow in wisdom and grace before God and all people, citing Luke 2:52.
O God, not only ours, but also of our offspring: bless our little children among us, so that just as they grow in age, they may also grow in wisdom and grace✦4 before you and all people.✦5 Luke✦ 26 52.
Prayer for Relatives
A prayer for relatives according to the flesh, asking God to remember them and grant the speaker peaceable speech and a desire for their good.
You who will that we take care of our own,7 v. 8. and you hate those who are without natural affection. Be mindful, Lord, of my relatives according to the flesh; Rom.✦89 ix. 3. And grant me to speak of them peaceably, and to seek their good.
Gratitude for Benefactors
A prayer to remember and repay all who have done good, asking God to be mindful of them.
You who want us to repay our benefactors: remember for good, Lord, all who have done me good:
Read the original Latin
subjici potestati, non solum propter iram, sed et
propter Conscientiam.
AGRICOLIS et Pastoribus, anni fertilitatem, Classiariis et. Piscatoribus, secundam navigationem ; Mereatoribus, alium alios non circumvenire, Artificibus, legitime operari operas suas; etiam usque ad artes sordidas,
etiam usque ad mendicantes.
O DEUS non solum noster, sed et seminis nostri ; Benedie puerulis nostris inter nos, ut sicut setate, sapientia etiam proficiant, et gratia
apud te et omnes homines. Luc. n. 52.
Qui euram nostrorum vis habere nos, 1 77m. v. 8. et odisti eos qui sine affectione naturali sunt, Memor esto, Domine, meorum secundum carnem propinquorum; Aom. ix. 3. Et da mihi pacifice de illis loqui,
et illorum bona querere.
Qui vis nos retribuere benefactoribus nostris, Memor esto in bonum, Domine, omnium
qui de me bene meriti sunt :
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.13.5 — Therefore one must submit, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.
- ↩Luke.2.52 — And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
- ↩Luke.2.52 — And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
- ↩Luke.2.52 — And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
- ↩Rom.1.31 — senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source ends mid-phrase at 'Classiariis et.' with no petition object and a dangling additive 'et'; the English leaves the break visible rather than inventing the missing words.
- 2 ↩Source 'Mereatoribus' is almost certainly 'Mercatoribus' (merchants); translated as merchants.
- 3 ↩'secundam navigationem': 'secundus' taken as favorable/prosperous rather than 'second,' which fits a petition for fishermen and seafarers.
- 4 ↩Normalized corrupt forms: Benedie → Benedic (imperative of benedicere); setate → aetate (abl. of aetas). The clause mirrors Luke 2:52 (wisdom, age, grace) and continues into the next section (apud te et omnes homines).
- 5 ↩Continues the previous petition (et gratia…): children growing in grace before God and others, in the cadence of Luke 2:52 (gratia apud Deum et homines).
- 6 ↩Source token is 'n.'; in context of Luc. … 52 and the Luke 2:52 echo of the prayer, this is almost certainly a corrupt or misread chapter marker for 2 (classically ii.). Rendered as 2; verify against the witness.
- 7 ↩Reading euram as curam (care); the trailing '1 77m' is treated as a damaged start of a scripture citation, most likely '1 Tim.'
- 8 ↩Reading Aom as Rom. (Romans), parallel to the following ix. 3 citation.
- 9 ↩sine affectione naturali rendered 'without natural affection' to keep the Romans 1:31 familial sense of affectio; 'heartless' is a possible modern alternate.
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