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Preces Quotidianae

The Creed in Daily Prayer

The prayer begins with affirmations of forgiveness, resurrection, and eternal life.

4. the forgiveness of sins, 5. the resurrection of the body,1 6. Eternal life.

Hope in the Lord

The soul expresses its hope and trust in God, echoing Psalm 39:7 and Psalm 31:2.

And now, what is my hope?2 Is it not You, Lord? And my being is with you.3 Ps.4 39.5 In you, O Lord, I have put my hope,✦ Never let me be put to shame.✦6

Intercession for All Creation

The prayer turns to intercession for the whole world, including creation, humanity, non-Christians, and Christians.

Intercession. Let us pray to the Lord for all creation, for what is healthful, that fruitful and peaceful seasons may be granted.7 For our whole human race.8 For non-Christians, (atheists,9 For the conversion of the ungodly, and for the pagans, the Turks, and the Jews.10 9. For Christians.11 For deliverance from error; for the restoration of those who are struggling.12 from sin13

Read the original Latin

4. Remissionem Peccatorum, 5. Resurrectionem Carnis,

6. Vitam eternam.

Et nunc quie est exspectatio mea?

Nonne Tu, Domine ?

et substantia mea apud te est. |Psal. xxxix.

In te, Domine, speravi,

Ne confundar in czternum !

INTERCESSIO.

OnEMUS Dominum, Pro Creatura universa, salubria, ut indulgeantur tempora 4 fructifera, pacata. Pro Genere nostro universo, 1. Non Christianis,

( Atheorum,

Impiorum, conversione ] Ethnicorum, Turcarum, Judzorum. 9. Christianis, " . f errore restitutione eorum qui laborant.

peccato

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.31.2;Ps.31.1 — In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness, deliver me. Ps.31.1 — To the chief musician. A Psalm of David.
  2. ↩Ps.30.2;Ps.32.1 — I will exalt you, O LORD, for you drew me up and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. Ps.32.1 — Of David. A Maskil. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Latin carnis is literally 'of the flesh'; rendered as 'body' to match ordinary modern Creed English while keeping the same article of faith.
  2. 2 ↩Source reads 'quie'; translated as the expected 'quae' (what), agreeing with 'exspectatio'.
  3. 3 ↩Latin substantia can mean substance, means of support, or what one essentially is. In this Vulgate psalm line it is traditionally rendered 'substance'; some modern versions lean toward 'hope' by the Hebrew behind the Vulgate, but the English here follows the Latin surface.
  4. 4 ↩Source marker |Psal. is a citation label (Psalm), not prose; rendered as a modern abbreviation.
  5. 5 ↩Roman numeral xxxix = 39. Vulgate numbering for this verse is often Ps 38; the source explicitly cites 39 (likely Hebrew/modern numbering or a printed edition's scheme). Final resolution belongs to the reference stage.
  6. 6 ↩Source reads 'czternum'; almost certainly a corruption of 'aeternum' ('forever'). Translated as the familiar prayer-line sense: not forever put to shame = never put to shame.
  7. 7 ↩Source OnEMUS is read as Oremus; the numeral 4 before fructifera is treated as a print/page artifact and not translated.
  8. 8 ↩Trailing numeral 1. is treated as a list/section marker and not rendered in the English.
  9. 9 ↩Fragmentary list item in genitive plural (Atheorum). Neighboring sections frame intercession for non-Christians and for conversion of the ungodly, pagans, Turks, and Jews; rendered as a bare category label to match the Latin list form.
  10. 10 ↩Judzorum is taken as a corrupt form of Judaeorum (Jews). The bracket ] is treated as a list divider, not as spoken text. Ethnicorum is rendered pagans (Gentiles/heathens).
  11. 11 ↩Stray quotation mark and punctuation in Christianis, " . are ignored as source debris; Christianis is read as a dative/heading of intercession (for Christians).
  12. 12 ↩Initial f is opaque (possible fragment of ab/de/ex, or a list letter f.). Translated from the clear Latin errore restitutione eorum qui laborant; laborant can mean labor, suffer, or struggle.
  13. 13 ↩Bare ablative fragment peccato with no surrounding clause in this section. Neighboring prayer-list items (error/restoration; confirmation in truth) support reading it as a petition topic parallel to 'from error'—i.e. (ab) peccato, 'from sin'—but the exact syntactic attachment is not recoverable from the supplied Latin alone.

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