Preces Quotidianae
Psalms of the Morning
The opening of daily prayer with psalm citations and petitions acknowledging God's lordship over day and night.
Psalm. 74.1 16.2 Lord, Yours is the day, and Yours is the night; You fashioned the dawn and the sun.3 119.4 91.5 By Your ordering the day continues, for all things serve You. [illegible]6 MA. Evening, morning, and noon I will pray earnestly, and You, Lord, will hear the voice of my prayer.7 v. 9. To You, Lord, I will pray; in the morning I will stand before You, and You will hear my voice. Blessed are You, Lord, who turn darkness into morning and renew the face of the earth.8 91.9 5.
Deliverance from the Night
A thanksgiving for protection from the perils of night and for the gift of waking.
You who have delivered us from the terror of the night, from the peril that walks about in the dark; You who have given light to our eyes, so that they will not fall asleep in death. 134.10 4. You who have made sleep pass from our eyes, and drowsiness from our eyelids.11
Blot Out Our Sins
A prayer for forgiveness based on Isaiah 44:22, asking God to remove iniquities like a cloud.
Is.12 44. 292.13 Blot out, Lord, our iniquities like a cloud of night, and our sins like the morning mist.✦
Children of Light
Petitions to be made children of the day and to walk chastely, reflecting 1 Thessalonians 5.
1 Thess. 5.14 Ὁ.15 Make us children of the day, and of the light.✦ Grant that we may walk chastely and soberly, as in the day.
Te Deum for the Day
A closing hymn (Te Deum) and a petition for God to keep us without sin today.
(Te Deum.)16 Be pleased, Lord, to keep us today without sin.17 sin; keep us.18
Read the original Latin
Psal. xxiv. 6. DowiNE, Tuus est dies, et 'Tua est nox, "Tu fabricatus es auroram et solem. exix. 8l. Ordinatione Tua perseverat dies, nam omnia 'Tibi serviunt. qw.
MA. Vespere, mane, et meridie, orabo, idque imstanter, et Tu, Domine, exaudies vocem orationis me:ze. v. 9. Ad Te, Domine, orabo, mane astabo Tibi, et exaudies vocem meam. Benedietus es Tu, Domine, qui convertis in mane tenebras, et renovas faciem terrz. xci. 5.
Qui liberasti nos a terrore nocturno, a negotio perambulante in tenebris ; Qui illuminasti oculos nostros, ne obdormiant in morte. exxxiv. 4, X Qui transire fecisti somnum ab oculis nostris, et dormitationem ἃ palpebris nostris.
Js. xliv. 292. Dele, Domine, ut nubem noctis iniquitates nostras, et quasi matutinam nebulam peccata nostra.
1 Thess. v. Ὁ. Fac nos filios diei, et lucis.
Da, ut caste ac sobrie ambulemus, sicut in die.
(Te Deum.) Dignare, Domine, nos hodie absque pec-
cato custodire.
Scripture echoes
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads xxiv.; the following verse is Psalm 74:16 (Vulgate 73:16), so the intended numeral is almost certainly lxxiv (74), with leading l lost in OCR.
- 2 ↩Source reads 6.; the following text is Psalm 74:16 / Vulgate 73:16, so the intended verse number is almost certainly 16 with a lost leading 1.
- 3 ↩Corrected OCR DowiNE to Domine; ignored stray quotation marks in the source line.
- 4 ↩Source reads exix.; intended citation is almost certainly cxix (Psalm 119 / Vulgate 118), matching the following verse.
- 5 ↩Source reads 8l.; intended verse is almost certainly 91, matching Psalm 119:91 (Vulgate 118:91).
- 6 ↩Source reading qw. is unintelligible OCR; no secure expansion. Left as illegible rather than inventing a citation.
- 7 ↩Normalized OCR forms: imstanter→instanter; me:ze→meae (vocem orationis meae).
- 8 ↩Normalized OCR forms: Benedietus→Benedictus; terrz→terrae.
- 9 ↩Rendered Roman numeral psalm marker xci. as Arabic 91 for modern readability.
- 10 ↩Source reads 'exxxiv.'; treated as a Roman-numeral scripture citation, most likely cxxxiv (134), with probable OCR confusion of c/e.
- 11 ↩Normalized reading takes Greek ἃ as corrupt Latin a before palpebris; leading 'X' before Qui is untreated as sense and may be ornamental, a printer's mark, or OCR noise.
- 12 ↩Source abbreviation Js. is treated as archaic/typographic Is. (Isaiah/Isaias), following older I/J interchange in Latin print.
- 13 ↩Printed numeral 292. does not match expected Isaiah 44:22 for the following petition; left as printed rather than silently emended to 22.
- 14 ↩Source 'v.' is treated as the Roman chapter numeral 5 (1 Thess. 5), matching the neighboring citation style (e.g. xliv.).
- 15 ↩Greek 'Ὁ.' does not form Latin prose; likely an edition siglum, page/item marker, or corrupt fragment. Left as found.
- 16 ↩Parenthetical liturgical cue naming the Te Deum hymn (or its use at this point in the daily prayers), not a prose sentence to paraphrase.
- 17 ↩Source ends mid-word at line break: 'pec-'. Neighboring next section supplies 'cato custodire.', yielding the standard Te Deum petition 'Dignare, Domine, nos hodie absque peccato custodire.' The infinitive custodire is completed from that neighbor, not present in this printed section alone.
- 18 ↩The printed section is a line-break fragment: previous section ends mid-word with 'absque pec-' and this continues as 'cato custodire.' The intended reading is the Te Deum petition close 'absque peccato custodire' ('…without sin; keep us'). Rendered as the completion of that line.
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