Preces Quotidianae
Invocation of Divine Attributes
The soul calls upon God through a litany of divine titles and attributes, beginning with faith and moving through divinity, piety, power, providence, salvation, anointing, adoption, and dominion.
Faith, Divinity, Piety, Power, Providence; Salvation, Anointing, Adoption, Dominion;
The Mysteries of Christ
A sequence of Christ's saving acts from conception to final judgment, encapsulating the core events of the gospel.
Conception, Nativity, Passion, Cross, Death, Burial, Descent, Resurrection, Ascension, Session, Return, Judgment;1
The Holy Spirit and the Call
A brief invocation of the Holy Spirit's spiration and holiness, followed by the incomplete phrase 'Calling forth from,' which likely continues the theme of divine action.
Communion of Saints and Eternal Life
A creedal progression from sanctification in the communion of saints, through forgiveness of sins and resurrection, to eternal life.
For everyone: sanctification in the Communion of Saints, and4 Of the saints, the forgiveness of sins,✦5 The Resurrection, Eternal life.✦6
A Prayer for Hope
A direct petition asking Christ to be the hope of all the earth and of those far off at sea.
Be my hope, O Hope of all the ends of the earth,7 and of those far off on the sea.8
Intercessions for the Church and the World
A series of intercessory petitions covering creation, Britain, the episcopate, clergy, the church, and the Christian commonwealths of East and West.
Creation; Britain. The people; the episcopate; those for whom the priesthood is struggling. The clergy; the Church; the Christian people. The Catholic Church; the Eastern commonwealths throughout the whole world. The Western, the Christian,9
Read the original Latin
FIDES,
Divinitas, Pietas, Potentia, Providentia ; Salus, Unctio, Adoptio,
Dominatio ;
Conceptio, Nativitas, Passio,
Crux, Mors, Sepultura, Descensus, Resurrectio, Ascensus, Sessio, Reditus, Judicium ;
Spiratio et Sanctitas,
Evocatio ex
d dot Universo, Sanctificatio in Communio Sanctorum et
Sanctitatum, Remissio Peccatorum,
Resurrectio,
Vita seterna.
Esto mihi spes, O spes omnium finium terrz,
et in man longe.
CREATURAM, Britannicam. Homines, Episcopatum, Quibus Presbyterium, male est. Clerum, Ecclesiam Christianum Populum. Catholicam, Respublicas Orientalem, per Orbem universum,
Occidentalem, Christianas,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Acts.2.38;Luke.24.47 — Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’ Luke.24.47 — and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem
- ↩John.17.3 — And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and the one you sent, Jesus Christ.
Notes
- 1 ↩Sessio here is Christ's session (sitting at the Father's right hand); Reditus is his return; Descensus is the Descent (into the realm of the dead).
- 2 ↩Spiratio is rendered as Spiration (the theological term for the Spirit’s breathing forth / procession). A plainer alternative is “Breathing,” if a less technical list-register is preferred.
- 3 ↩Fragment only: Evocatio ex continues into the next section; neighboring text also looks corrupt (d dot Universo).
- 4 ↩Source opens with opaque tokens “d.dot” (likely a list marker or OCR debris, e.g. “d.”). Treated as non-lexical and not rendered. “Communio” is nominative where ablative “Communione” would be expected after “in”; sense taken as the creed formula “Communion of Saints.” Sentence is a hanging fragment continued by the next section (“Sanctitatum, Remissio Peccatorum”).
- 5 ↩Sanctitatum is genitive plural ('of the saints' / 'of holinesses'). Neighboring fragments point to Apostles' Creed sequence (Communio Sanctorum → Remissio Peccatorum → Resurrectio); Sanctitatum may be a corrupt or truncated heading rather than a free-standing article.
- 6 ↩Source reads 'Vita seterna.'; most plausible intended form is 'Vita aeterna' (eternal life), with 'seterna' as a typographic/OCR corruption of 'aeterna'.
- 7 ↩Source surface 'terrz' is almost certainly corrupt for 'terrae' (of the earth); translated on that corrected reading.
- 8 ↩Source reads 'et in man longe.' Most plausible intended reading is Vulgate Ps 64:6 (65:5) 'et in mari longe,' continuing the previous petition 'spes omnium finium terrae' ('hope of all the ends of the earth'). Translated from that corrected sense.
- 9 ↩Fragmentary accusatives continuing the preceding intercession list (Catholicam / Respublicas Orientalem / per Orbem universum). Occidentalem is singular; Christianas is plural—likely list items for Western and Christian commonwealths/churches, not a full clause.
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