Preces Quotidianae
Remembering Those Committed to Prayer
The petitioner asks God to remember those he has promised to pray for, accepting their willing hearts and busy circumstances.
and all those I have promised to keep in memory in my prayers—You who accept a ready will in every good work—those who for a just reason have no leisure,
Mercy for the Extremely Needy
A plea for God to rise and show mercy to those in extreme need, comparing that mercy to honey.
Remember them, Lord, as if they themselves were praying.1 You will rise and have mercy on those in extreme need; for it is time to show them mercy, because the time has come. And you will have mercy, Lord,
Intercession for All Sorts of Sufferers
A comprehensive list of those in need of God's remembrance, from infants to the faint-hearted, including the possessed, despairing, and sick.
as honey also for those set in extremity.2 Remember, Lord, For infants, for the hungry, for children, for the thirsty, for adolescents, for the naked, for young men, for the sick, for grown men, for captives, for the elderly; for travelers, for those who lack lodging due to old age, for the powerful, for the unburied,✦3 Those who are possessed by a demon and driven to take their own lives, They are harassed by unclean spirits, Of those in despair,4 Those who are unwell in mind or body,5 The faint of heart,
Read the original Latin
et omnibus quos pollicitus sum in. memoria habere in precibus meis, Qui voluntatem promptam acceptam habes in omni opere bono, Eorum, quibus justa de causa otium non est,
Memor esto, Domine, tanquam precantium.
Tu exsurgens misereberis eorum, qui in extrema necessitate sunt; Quoniam tempus est miserendi eorum, quia venit tempus; Misereberis autem, Domine,
tanquam et mel in extremis positi.
Memento, Domine,
Infantium, Esunrientium, Puerorum, Sitientium, Adolescentium, Nudorum, Juvenum, ZEgrotantium, Virorum, Captivorum, Senum ; Peregrinorum, Eorum qui ex senio im- Hospitio egentium, potentes, Insepultorum,
Eorum qui daemone obsessi sunt, ut impellantur ad mortem sibi consciscendam,
Ab immundis spiritibus inquietantur,
Desperatorum,
Quibus animo zegre est vel corpore,
Pusillanimorum,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.25.35-Matt.25.36 — For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you welcomed me in; Matt.25.36 — I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin is elliptical: Memor esto… tanquam precantium. In context of intercession for those who lack leisure to pray, tanquam precantium is taken as ‘as of those praying’ / ‘as if they were praying’ (treat them as petitioners), not a free-standing proverb about prayer in general.
- 2 ↩Continues the prior petition (Misereberis autem, Domine…). positi is nominative plural; the intended sense is almost certainly those placed in extreme distress (in extremis), i.e. the objects of mercy, not a second subject parallel to honey.
- 3 ↩Source shows OCR/print corruption: Esunrientium → Esurientium; ZEgrotantium → Aegrotantium/Ægrotantium; im- Hospitio → in hospitio (line-break). potentes is nominative in a genitive litany and may be corrupt (expected potentum or another class); rendered provisionally as “the powerful.”
- 4 ↩Standalone genitive plural Desperatorum (of the despairing / of those who have lost hope). Rendered as a litany-style category in line with neighboring intercession fragments; full governing construction is outside this section.
- 5 ↩Source reads 'zegre'; treated as intended 'aegre' (aegre est = is unwell / finds it hard). Fits the litany series of categories of people prayed for (cf. neighboring Desperatorum / Pusillanimorum).
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