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Preces Quotidianae

Intercession for All Estates

Prayer for neighboring churches and every rank of society, from rulers to common folk.

Neighboring churches,1 This church of ours; princes, kings, the devout; this king of ours; counselors, judges, nobles, soldiers by land and sea; the common people and their children; the magistracies; courtiers, townsfolk, and country folk,23

For Ministers and Souls

Prayer for those who minister and for the souls of the faithful.

Those who minister For the souls,4

For Bodily Needs

Prayer for bodies, food, clothing, medicine, and all necessities.

For the bodies, Food and clothing, Medicine. Necessities,5

For Nature and Virtue

Prayer for nature, beneficence, and the entrusting of faith.

Nature, Beneficence, Entrusting the faith,

For Temporal and Relational Graces

Prayer for the present moment, friendship, charity, neighborliness, promise, and mutual duty.

Once, for now,6 Friendship, charity. Neighborliness,7 Promise, Mutual duty,8

For the Hindered and Destitute

Prayer for those hindered, left destitute, and in extremity.

Those who are hindered,9 Those who are left destitute.10 In their extremity,11

Prayer for Divine Keeping

A series of petitions for the Lord's protection, drawn from the Psalms, for body, soul, and all comings and goings.

May the Lord keep me, The Lord is my protection over my right hand.✦ May the Lord keep me from every evil,✦ May the Lord keep my soul.✦ May the Lord watch over my going out✦ and my coming in, from now on✦12 and forever.✦13

Confidence in God's Knowledge, Power, and Will

A concluding affirmation that the Lord knows, can, and will act.

O Lord, you know, and you can, and you will.

Read the original Latin

Vicinas, . Hanc nostram, Principes, Reges, Pios, Hunc nostrum, Consiliarios, Judices, Magnates, Milites, Terra, Marique, Plebem, Sobolem, Magisteria, Aulicos, Urbanos, Rusticos,

Qui ministrant

Animabus,

Corporibus,

Cibum, Vestitum,

Medicinam,

Necessarià,

Natura,

Beneficentia,

Fidei commissio,

{ olim, in presens,

Amicitia, Charitas,

Vieinitas,

Promissum,

Offieeum mutuum,

Impedini,

Destitutos ᾿ pese. In extremis,

Dominus custodiat me,

Dominus protectio mea super manum dexteram meam. Custodiat me Dominus ab omni malo,

Custodiat animam meam Dominus.

Dominus custodiat exitum meum

et introitum meum,

ex hoe nunc

et usque in szculum.

O Domine, tu scis, et potes, et vis

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.121.5 — The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
  2. ↩Ps.121.7 — The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your soul.
  3. ↩Ps.121.7;Ps.122.7 — The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your soul. Ps.122.7 — May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity within your citadels.
  4. ↩Ps.121.8;Ps.122.8 — The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. Ps.122.8 — For the sake of my brothers and my companions, I will now speak peace to you.
  5. ↩Ps.121.8;Ps.122.8 — The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. Ps.122.8 — For the sake of my brothers and my companions, I will now speak peace to you.
  6. ↩Ps.113.2 — Blessed be the name of the LORD, from this time forth and forever.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Latin is only Vicinas with corrupt trailing punctuation. Taken as feminine accusative plural continuing the prior ecclesial list (Christianas → Vicinas), i.e. neighboring churches.
  2. 2 ↩Hanc nostram / Hunc nostrum lack explicit nouns in the source. Feminine hanc nostram is rendered as this church of ours (continuing the ecclesial series); masculine hunc nostrum as this king of ours (head of the civil list that follows). Alternatives: this land of ours / this prince of ours.
  3. 3 ↩Magisteria rendered as magistracies (civil offices). Could also mean teaching offices / authorities in a school or clerical sense.
  4. 4 ↩Standalone dative/ablative plural Animabus; in this daily-prayer list context, rendered as a prayer-target dative (“for the souls”). Neighboring fragments (Qui ministrant … Corporibus) may imply a longer phrase such as “who minister to souls / bodies,” but the printed section is only this word.
  5. 5 ↩Source reads «Necessarià» with a grave accent; treated as Latin «Necessaria» (necessary things / necessities), matching the single-word list form of neighboring sections (Medicinam, Natura).
  6. 6 ↩Source reads `presens` (normalized without ae); rendered as Latin praesens, 'for the present / at present'. Leading `{` treated as markup noise, not translated.
  7. 7 ↩Source reading Vieinitas is not a standard Latin lemma; translated as Vicinitas (neighborliness / nearness to neighbors), the most plausible correction from the neighboring list of single-word prayer topics (Amicitia, Charitas … Promissum).
  8. 8 ↩Source reads Offieeum; translated as Officium (office/duty), the most plausible correction of an obvious typographical corruption.
  9. 9 ↩Source reads 'Impedini,' which is not standard Latin. In this chapter’s brief intercession-style headings (cf. neighboring 'Offieeum mutuum,' 'Destitutos,' 'In extremis'), the most plausible intended form is Impediti/Impeditos, 'those who are hindered/prevented' (e.g. from duty, worship, or help).
  10. 10 ↩Latin reads 'Destitutos ᾿ pese.' Destitutos is clear (acc. pl. of destitutus: forsaken/abandoned/left destitute). The sequence '᾿ pese' is unintelligible and looks corrupt (possible OCR/encoding debris); not rendered into English.
  11. 11 ↩In extremis is a set devotional phrase: extremity/last need, often near death. Rendered as plain English 'In extremity' rather than kept as Latin; if the line is a heading for dying-hour prayers, 'At the point of death' would also be faithful.
  12. 12 ↩Source reads 'ex hoe nunc'; translated as the intended liturgical formula 'ex hoc nunc' ('from now on' / 'from this time forth'). 'hoe' is almost certainly a typo or OCR error for 'hoc'.
  13. 13 ↩Source reading `szculum` is almost certainly corrupt for `saeculum` (saeculum/sæculum); rendered as the standard liturgical close of `ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum`.

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