Preces Quotidianae

A Confession of Unworthiness

We confess that our righteousness is as filthy rags and we have fallen like leaves, yet we appeal to God as our Father and the work of His hands, begging Him not to remember our iniquity.

all the righteous deeds^✦¹ ours.^✦ And we have fallen like leaves because of our iniquities; so the wind will carry us away.^✦ And now, Lord, you are our Father; we are just clay, all of us the work of your hands. Do not be too angry with us, and^✦² Don't remember our iniquity any longer.³

A Plea for Mercy

We cry out to the Lord, acknowledging that our iniquities have hindered us, and we ask for mercy for the sake of His name, recalling that He is among us and has called us His own, and we implore Him not to forget us.

But now—look!^✦⁴ Look, Lord—we are all your people.^✦ (Verse⁵ 9.]⁶ Our iniquities have stood in our way,^✦⁷ Lord, show us mercy for the sake of your name,^✦ For many^✦⁸ are our turnings away,^✦⁹ by which we have sinned against you. But you are among us, Lord, and your name has been called over us; do not forget us. (Verse¹⁰ 9.]¹¹ Our hope, Lord—Savior in the time of trouble—why have you become like a stranger in your own land, like a traveler only stopping to stay the night, like a man asleep, like a warrior who cannot save?^✦¹²¹³ —¹⁴ Be merciful, Lord, toward our iniquity, and remember our sins no more.^✦

The Struggle Within

We confess our carnal nature, sold under sin, and acknowledge that good does not dwell in us, for we do not do the good we want but the evil we do not want, yet we delight in God's law.

Lord, I am of the flesh, sold under sin.^✦ Rom.¹⁵ vii.^✦¹⁶ 14. It doesn't dwell in me (¹⁷ that is,^✦¹⁸ in my flesh)^✦ good.¹⁹ Verse²⁰ 18.^✦ For I don't do the good I want,^✦ but I do the evil I don't want.^✦²¹ Verse²² 19.^✦ I consent, and I delight in your law. Verse^✦²³ 16.

Read the original Latin

universz justiti:e. nostrae.

Et decidimus quasi folia propter iniquitates nostras, ita ventus nos auferet.

Et nunc, Domine, Pater noster es Tu, Nos vero lutum, opera manuum tuarum nos omnes, Ne irascaris nobis valde, et

ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostre.

Nune autem, Ecce! respice Domine, Populus tuus omnes nos. (Vers. 9.]

51 iniquitates nostre obstiterint nobis,

Domine, fac nobis misericordiam propter nomen tuum,

Quoniam multz? sunt aversiones nostr:,

quibus tibi peccavimus. Tu autem in nobis es, Domine, et nomen tuum invocatum est super nos, ne obliviscaris nostri. (Vers. 9.] Exspectatio nostra, Domine, Salvator in tempore tribulationis, quare quasi colonus factus es in terra tua, et quasi viator declinans ad manendum, velut vir dormiens, ut fortis qui non potest salvare? —

Propitiare, Domine, iniquitati nostre, et peccata nostra ne memineris amplius.

Domine, ego carnalis, venundatus sub peccato. Kom. vn. 14.

Non habitat in me (A. e. in carne mea)

bonum. Vers. 18.

Non enim, quod volo bonum, hoc facio,

sed quod nolo malum, hoe ago. Vers. 19.

Consentio, et condelector legi tuc, Vers. 16.

Scripture echoes

↩Isa.64.6 — And there is no one who calls on your name, who rouses themselves to hold fast to you; for you have hidden your face from us, and you have dissolved us by the power of our iniquity.
↩Isa.64.6 — And there is no one who calls on your name, who rouses themselves to hold fast to you; for you have hidden your face from us, and you have dissolved us by the power of our iniquity.
↩Isa.64.6 — And there is no one who calls on your name, who rouses themselves to hold fast to you; for you have hidden your face from us, and you have dissolved us by the power of our iniquity.
↩Isa.64.8-Isa.64.9 — But now, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isa.64.9 — The cities of your sanctuary have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness; Jerusalem a desolation.
↩Isa.64.8-Isa.64.9 — But now, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isa.64.9 — The cities of your sanctuary have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness; Jerusalem a desolation.
↩Isa.64.9 — The cities of your sanctuary have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness; Jerusalem a desolation.
↩Isa.59.2;Jer.5.25 — But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he does not hear. Jer.5.25 — Your iniquities have turned these things aside, and your sins have withheld good from you.
↩Ps.79.9;Dan.9.19;Jer.14.7 — Help us, O God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for your name's sake. Dan.9.19 — O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention and do! Do not delay — for your own sake, O my God, because your name is called over your city and your people. Jer.14.7 — Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of your name; for our backslidings are many, and we have sinned against you.
↩Jer.14.7 — Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of your name; for our backslidings are many, and we have sinned against you.
↩Jer.14.7 — Though our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of your name; for our backslidings are many, and we have sinned against you.
↩Jer.14.8-Jer.14.9 — O Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to spend the night? Jer.14.9 — Why should you be like a man stunned, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you are in our midst, O LORD, and your name is called upon us; do not abandon us.
↩Isa.43.25;Jer.31.34;Heb.8.12 — I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and your sins I will not remember. Jer.31.34 — No longer will they teach one another, each saying to his neighbor and each to his brother, 'Know the LORD,' for all of them shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. Heb.8.12 — for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins I will remember no more.
↩Rom.7.14;Rom.7.18 — For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold under sin. Rom.7.18 — For I know that good does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present with me, but the working out of the good is not.
↩Rom.7.14 — For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold under sin.
↩Rom.7.18 — For I know that good does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present with me, but the working out of the good is not.
↩Rom.7.18 — For I know that good does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present with me, but the working out of the good is not.
↩Rom.7.18-Rom.7.19 — For I know that good does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present with me, but the working out of the good is not. Rom.7.19 — For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
↩Rom.7.19 — For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
↩Rom.7.19 — For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
↩Rom.7.19 — For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
↩Rom.7.16;Rom.7.22 — But if what I do not will, this I do, I agree with the law, that it is good. Rom.7.22 — For I delight in the law of God, according to the inner person.

Notes

1 ↩Source reading 'universz justiti:e.' is treated as corrupt OCR for 'universae justitiae' (all the righteousnesses / all the righteous deeds), continuing the Isaiah 64:6 chain from the previous section.
2 ↩The Latin unit ends mid-clause on et; the petition continues in PrecesPriv.1.53.4.
3 ↩Source reading `nostre` is treated as `nostrae` (our), genitive with `iniquitatis`.
4 ↩Source reads 'Nune'; treated as corrupt for 'Nunc' (now), the only plausible reading in this prayer continuum.
5 ↩Editorial/rubric fragment, likely the start of a versicle label ('Vers.'), not prose to translate; surface preserved.
6 ↩Orphaned numbering/bracket fragment, probably the close of a verse or versicle reference split from s3; surface preserved.
7 ↩Leading '51' is treated as a verse/line number, not spoken text. Medieval spelling nostre = nostrae. obstiterint is formally perfect subjunctive of obstare; in this confessional prayer sequence it is rendered as a perfect (have stood), matching the sense that our sins have blocked us before the plea for mercy that follows.
8 ↩Source 'Quoniam multz?' is almost certainly corrupt OCR for 'Quoniam multae' (For many), continuing the penitential petition from the previous section and completing with s2; the trailing '?' is treated as garble, not a real interrogative.
9 ↩Source 'sunt aversiones nostr:,' is read as 'sunt aversiones nostrae,'; 'aversiones' kept as 'turnings away' (defections/backslidings from God), not a weaker paraphrase.
10 ↩Incomplete liturgical rubric (Vers. = versicle); rendered as a structural label, not prose.
11 ↩Printed verse/section number marker retained as structure, not translated as prose.
12 ↩colonus rendered as "stranger" (sojourner/tenant on the land); alternatives: sojourner, settler, tenant farmer.
13 ↩ut before fortis taken as comparative ("like"), parallel to quasi/velut, not purpose.
14 ↩Em dash retained as a printed separator, not prose.
15 ↩Source reads 'Kom.'; most plausible intended reading is the biblical book abbreviation 'Rom.' (Romans), given s1's Rom 7:14 content and the following 'vn. 14.' citation fragments.
16 ↩Source reads 'vn.'; most plausible as Roman-numeral chapter marker vii (7), completing a 'Rom. vii. 14.' citation with s2 and s4.
17 ↩Fragment of Rom 7:18; the logical subject is bonum, which appears only in the following section (PrecesPriv.1.53.13). Translated as supplied, without importing that word.
18 ↩Source token 'e.' is almost certainly the remainder of an abbreviation for hoc est / id est (often printed 'h. e.' or 'i. e.'), corrupted or split after '(A.' in s1. Rendered as the parenthetical 'that is,' of Rom 7:18.
19 ↩Completes the preceding Romans 7:18 clause: 'Non habitat in me (i.e., in my flesh) good.'
20 ↩Latin Vers. is the rubric abbreviation for Versus/Verse introducing a numbered scriptural citation.
21 ↩Source reads 'hoe'; treated as corrupt for 'hoc' (this), matching the Romans 7:19 pairing with the previous section's 'hoc facio'.
22 ↩Liturgical abbreviation 'Vers.' expanded as Versicle (versus); may mark the next prayer line rather than carry independent prose sense.
23 ↩Source reading 'legi tuc' is almost certainly corrupt. Most plausible corrections are 'legi tuae'/'legi tue' (your law, second-person address in prayer) or, under the Rom 7:22 continuation that follows, 'legi Dei' (God's law). Rendered as 'your law'.

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