Preces Quotidianae
Preces Quotidianae
fall asleep in death. Verse.✦ 3. 4. Lest my enemy ever say, "I have prevailed against him."✦1 — Verse. 4. Those who trouble me will rejoice if I am shaken.✦ 5. But I have put my hope in your mercy. Versicle. 5. Root out from me everything ungodly and profane, everything superstitious, and hypocrisy. Idolatry and devil-worship,2 Rash swearing and cursing, withdrawal from the worship of God, indecency in worship,34 Pride and carelessness, Quarreling and anger, Disordered passion and corruption,5 Idleness and evil deceit, Lying and insult, every wicked thought, every impure imagination, every shameful desire, Every unseemly thought. Grant me piety and devotion, adoration and worship, blessing and the sacred keeping of oaths, a fitting profession in the public assembly, natural affection and dutiful obedience,67 Patience and amiability —
Read the original Latin
obdormiam in morte: Vers. 3. 4. Nequando dicat mimicus meus, Prevalui adversus eum. — Vers. 4. Qui tribulant me, exsultabunt, si motus fuero.
5. Ego autem in misericordia tua speravi. Vers. 5.
Extermina de me Omne impium, et profanum, Omne superstitiosum, et hypocrisin, 2. Idololatriam, et 1diolatriam, 3. Jusjurandum temerarium, et exsecrationem, Subtractionem a j I cultu, Indecentiam in 5. Fastum, et incuriam, 6. Contentionem, et iram, 7. Passionem, et corruptionem, 8. Otium, et dolum malum, 9. Mendacium, et contumeliam, Omnem cogitationem pravam, Omnem imaginationem impuram, Omnem concupiscentiam turpem,
Omnem cogitationem indecoram.
Largire mihi Pietatem, et devotionem, Adorationem, et cultum, Benedictionem, et juramenti religionem, Professionem decentem im coetu publico, Naturalem affectum, et obsequium,
Patientiam, et amabilitatem,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.13.4;Ps.14.3 — Look at me, answer me, O LORD my God; give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death. Ps.14.3 — Everyone has turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- ↩Ps.13.5;Ps.14.4 — But I trust in your steadfast love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. Ps.14.4 — Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
- ↩Ps.13.5;Ps.14.4 — But I trust in your steadfast love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. Ps.14.4 — Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
Notes
- 1 ↩Source 'mimicus' read as intended 'inimicus' (enemy); 'prevalui' as 'praevalui' (I have prevailed).
- 2 ↩Source reads '1diolatriam' (likely OCR/print corruption). Rendered as devil-worship on the plausible intended reading diabololatriam/diolatria; could also be a mangled second idololatria.
- 3 ↩Source 'Subtractionem a j I cultu' is corrupt; translated as withdrawal from the worship of God (most plausible: a Dei cultu / a divino cultu).
- 4 ↩'Indecentiam in' lacks a clear complement before the glued numeral '5.'; rendered as indecency in worship by contextual continuation after cultu.
- 5 ↩Passio here is moral/appetitive passion in a vice list, not the Passion of Christ.
- 6 ↩Normalized reading treats Adorationsem as Adorationem and im as in (in coetu publico).
- 7 ↩juramenti religionem rendered as sacred faithfulness to oaths (the binding religious force of an oath), not generic 'religion'.
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