Preces Quotidianae
Night's Humble Trust
From acknowledging our mortal dust to entrusting our spirit to God's redeeming hands, this prayer moves through humility to peaceful hope.
Bedding for worms, a covering of dust. In peace I will both sleep and rest, because You alone, Lord, have set me in hope.1 Into Your hands, Lord, I commit my spirit, because You have redeemed me.
Read the original Latin
Stramentum vermium, Operimentum pulveris. In pace in idipsum dormiam et requiescam ; Quia Tu, Domine, singulariter in spe constituisti me. — - In manus Tuas, Domine, Commendo spiritum meum, quia Tu redemisti me,
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin in idipsum (Vulgate Psalm idiom) is rendered by both with dormiam et requiescam; it marks rest as complete/together, not a separate place.
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