Preces Quotidianae
For Neighboring Peoples and Rulers
Prayer for neighboring peoples, the homeland, and civil authorities.
Neighboring nations. Our own. 9. Those whom you have judged it right should be kings.1 Our own. Counselors.2 Judges. Governors.3
For the Ordering of Common Life
Prayer for the armed forces, the people, children, schools, nature, charity, and ministries.
Armed force. The people. Offspring.4 Schools.5 6. Nature. Beneficence.6 Ministries.7
For Those in Need and Places of Care
Prayer for those in need and the communities and pastoral charges entrusted to the worshiper.
Those in need.8 What is committed to my trust (the College).9 The parish.10 Southwell.11 Formerly St. Paul's.12 Westminster. Chichester. Ely.13
For Church, Kingdom, and Holy Friendship
Prayer for ecclesiastical jurisdictions, royal chapels, alms, colleges, and the bond of moral friendship.
(Diocese of Winchester.14 Chapel. Church. now, the Chapel Royal.15 Distribution of the Royal Alms.16 Colleges.17 7. Moral friendship.
Closing Alleluia
A single alleluia closes the daily prayer.
Alleluia.
Read the original Latin
Vicina. — Nostrum. 9. Quos ZEquum censuisti Reges essc. Noster. Consiliarir. Judices. Preesides.
Vis Bellica. Plebs. Soboles. Scholz. 6. Natura. Beneficentia. Ministeria 1n.
necessariis. Fidei commissum ( Collegium. Parcecia. Fons Australis. olim,4 S. Pauli. Westmonasterium. Cicestria. Eleopolis.
( Dicecesis Wintoniensis. Sacellum. Ecclesia. nunc,4 Sacellum Regium. Dispensatio Eleemosynarum Regiarum. Collegia 6. 7. Amicitia Moralis.
Alleluia.
Notes
- 1 ↩Normalized likely reading: Quos aequum censuisti reges esse (source has ZEquum and essc).
- 2 ↩Normalized likely reading: Consiliarii (source Consiliarir).
- 3 ↩Normalized likely reading: Praesides (source Preesides).
- 4 ↩Soboles = offspring/posterity; in an intercession list it may mean the rising generation or children in general.
- 5 ↩Source reads Scholz; treated as corrupt for Scholae (schools), the expected form in this intercession series.
- 6 ↩Beneficentia as a heading may mean doing good / works of kindness, or the virtue of beneficence itself.
- 7 ↩Trailing '1n' looks like OCR/print noise; not translated. Ministeria taken as ministries / offices of service.
- 8 ↩Isolated dative/ablative fragment (necessariis). Neighboring context ends with Ministeria; this may complete a phrase like “ministries for those in need,” but the printed unit stands alone.
- 9 ↩Fidei commissum can mean a legal trust (fideicommissum) or, in Andrewes’s intercession lists, the charge entrusted to him; Collegium is begun after an open parenthesis and may be the first item under that charge.
- 10 ↩Parcecia is a variant/corruption of paroecia (parish).
- 11 ↩Fons Australis is the Latin place-name for Southwell (“southern well/fountain”), a prebend held by Andrewes.
- 12 ↩Embedded numeral “4” after olim is treated as a footnote marker, not part of the Latin wording.
- 13 ↩Eleopolis is a learned Latinization for Ely (often explained via “eel-city”); not the Egyptian Heliopolis.
- 14 ↩Latin Dicecesis is treated as Dioecesis (diocese); opening parenthesis is unmatched in this fragment, matching the list style of the neighboring section.
- 15 ↩The numeral 4 after nunc appears to be a print footnote or index marker, not lexical content; rendered as temporal contrast with Sacellum Regium (Chapel Royal).
- 16 ↩Dispensatio Eleemosynarum Regiarum may name the office of the Royal Almonry; rendered by the literal institutional sense (distribution of royal alms).
- 17 ↩The trailing 6 is treated as a print footnote or enumeration marker rather than the count 'six colleges.'
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