Preces Quotidianae
For Benefactors
Asks God to grant long life and blessing to benefactors, protecting them from the will of their enemies as promised in Psalm 41.
Grant them long and blessed lives on earth, and never hand them over.1 to the will of their enemies.✦ Ps.2 41.3 2.✦
Peace Upon the Household
Prays for the whole household, grounding the duty of care in Scripture and asking for the peace that rests on a house through a son of peace.
You who said that anyone who does not care for his household is worse than an unbeliever — 1 Timothy verse 8 In your good pleasure, remember everyone in my household. Peace to my house,✦ May a son of peace be upon all who are in it.
Love for Friends and Their Children
Requests the surpassing righteousness that loves friends faithfully and asks God never to abandon the children of one's friends.
You who want our righteousness to exceed the righteousness of sinners—Matt.✦ v. 20. Grant me, Lord, to love back those who love me—Vers. 46. My friends and those of my father.4 and never abandon the children of my friends.
Mercy for Our Enemies
Asks mercy for enemies, using Christ's command to pray for persecutors and longing for their entry into the heavenly Kingdom.
You who commanded us to overcome evil with good, and to pray for those who slander and persecute us, | Matt.✦ v.✦5 44.]6 Have mercy on our enemies, Lord, as also on me myself, and lead them into the Kingdom7 your heavenly Kingdom, and me as well.8
Remembering Those Who Remember Us
Asks God to remember for good all who keep the worshiper in mind in their prayers.
You who receive the prayers of your servants for one another: remember, Lord, for good, and grant mercy to all who keep me in mind. in their prayers;
Read the original Latin
Long:evos et beatos in terra fac eos, et ne tradas unquam
voluntati inimicorum. Psal. xh. 2.
Qui domesticorum curam non habentem infideli deteriorem notasti, 1 7m. v. ὃ. Memor esto in beneplacito tuo omnium in familia mea. Pax domui me,
Filius pacis super omnibus in ea.
Qui vis justitiam nostram excedere justitiam peccatorum, Mat. v. 20. Redamare mei amantes Da mihi Domine, Vers. 46. Amicos meos et patris mei
Et amicorum liberos nunquam derelinquere.
Qui mandasti nobis vincere in bono malum, Et orare pro calumniantibus et persequentibus, | Mat. v. 44.] Miserere inimicorum nostrorum, Domine, Sicut et mel ipsius, et perduc eos in Regnum
tuum coeleste, sicut et me.
Qui accipis preces servorum tuorum pro se invicem, Memento, Domine, in bonum, et da misericordiam omnibus qui me in memoria habent
in precibus suis;
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.41.2;Ps.41.3 — Blessed is the one who has regard for the poor; in the day of trouble, the LORD delivers him. Ps.41.3 — The LORD will keep him alive and preserve him; he will be called blessed in the land. Do not give him over to the will of his enemies.
- ↩Ps.41.2 — Blessed is the one who has regard for the poor; in the day of trouble, the LORD delivers him.
- ↩Luke.10.6 — And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him; but if not, it will return to you.
- ↩Matt.5.20 — For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
- ↩Matt.5.44 — But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- ↩Matt.5.44 — But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source surface 'Long:evos' is treated as corrupt for longevos ('long-lived'); sense reconstructed from morphology and neighboring petition context (PrecesPriv.1.28.10 → 1.29.2).
- 2 ↩Abbreviated scripture citation label (Psal.); rendered as modern short form Ps.
- 3 ↩Source reads 'xh.'; most plausible intended reading is Roman 'xli' (41), matching Psalm 41:2 and the preceding petition language. Rendered as 41 with review flag.
- 4 ↩Elliptical object phrase: amicos meos et patris mei most naturally means my friends and my father's friends. The petition continues in the next section with never abandoning the children of friends.
- 5 ↩Printed citation fragment (verse abbreviation), not continuous prose.
- 6 ↩Printed verse number with closing bracket from the source apparatus, not continuous prose.
- 7 ↩Printed 'mel ipsius' is almost certainly a corruption of 'mei ipsius' (genitive after miserere, parallel to inimicorum nostrorum): 'as also on me myself.' 'Honey of him/it' yields no coherent prayer sense. Following section continues 'tuum coeleste, sicut et me.'
- 8 ↩Printed unit is a clause-fragment continuing PrecesPriv.1.29.7.s4 (…et perduc eos in Regnum). 'Regnum' is supplied only from that preceding line; 'tuum coeleste' agrees with it.
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