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Preces Quotidianae

How to Pray

A guide to the intention and context of prayer, setting the heart and mind on Christian charity and the needs of others.

Christian charity. Physical proximity. A promise. Do not destroy.1 Mutual duty. The weight of business.2 A shortage of intercessors.3 In earthly things.4 Those who are at the point of death. Those who have some important work in hand.5 Those scandalized by me. who have ever been.6

Postures of Humility

A catalog of humble bodily postures for prayer, including genuflection, prostration, bowing, and striking the breast, each expressing contrition and reverence.

Circumstances of prayer.7 . Genuflection. Humbling.8 To fall to one's knees. Prostrate yourself face down. My soul is brought low in the dust: My belly clings to the earth. .9 Bowing of the head. Lowering the face. Shame.10 . Striking the breast. Indignation.11 . Horror. Fear.

Gestures of Supplication

Further prayerful gestures and inward dispositions, including sighing, clapping, lifting eyes and hands, and self-reproach, concluding with a reflection on punishment.

. Sighing.12 Clapping of the hands. Sorrow. Lifting up! Of the eyes.13 (Ps. cxxiii.14 1.)15 Desire. Hands.16 . Self-reproach.17 Punishment.18 2.

Read the original Latin

Christiana Caritas.

Loci vicinitas.

Promissum. Ne corrumpas. Mutuum officium. ἔων Hosanna Negotiorüm moles. p of excelsis Intercessorum inopia. in , terrenis.

Qui in extremis sunt. Qui insigne aliquod opus prz manibus habent. À me scandalizati

unquam fuerant.

ORATIONIS CIRCUMSTANTLE.

. Genuflexio. Humiliatio.

Procumbere in genua.

Prosterni super faciem.

Humiliata est in pulvere anima mea:

Conglutinatus est in terra venter meus. . Capitis inclinatio.

Vultus demissio. | Confusio. . Pectoris plangor. Indignatio. . Horror. ( Timor.

. Gematus.

Manuum complosio. Dolor. Elevatio! Oculorum. (Ps. exxiu. 1.] Desiderium.

lManuum.

. Suggillatio. Vindicta. 2.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Ne corrumpas is also the Vulgate superscription for several Psalms ('Destroy not'); as a brief intercession heading it is rendered as a direct prohibition.
  2. 2 ↩Source line is corrupt: 'ἔων Hosanna Negotiorüm moles.' Translated from the legible Latin core negotiorum moles; Greek fragment and Hosanna treated as OCR/noise, not as part of the sense.
  3. 3 ↩Source line is corrupt: 'p of excelsis Intercessorum inopia.' Translated from Intercessorum inopia; 'p of excelsis' looks like garbled in excelsis (possibly stray liturgical matter) and was not forced into the English.
  4. 4 ↩Source has broken punctuation: 'in , terrenis.' Sense taken as in terrenis.
  5. 5 ↩Source has corrupt token 'prz'; most plausible reading is prae (prae manibus = 'in hand' / underway).
  6. 6 ↩Fragment almost certainly continues the previous intention: «À me scandalizati unquam fuerant» — those who have ever been scandalized by me. Translated as a relative clause dependent on that prior head.
  7. 7 ↩Source surface CIRCUMSTANTLE is not standard Latin; most plausible intended reading is CIRCUMSTANTIAE (circumstances), yielding the heading Orationis circumstantiae.
  8. 8 ↩Latin humiliatio here is the devotional act of self-humbling (posture/disposition before God), not social embarrassment.
  9. 9 ↩Source sentence is only a bare period ('.'); treated as a non-lexical structural fragment between the psalm line and the following gesture list.
  10. 10 ↩Latin confusio here is the penitential sense of abashment/shame before God (not mere bewilderment). Leading pipe in source is treated as a structural mark, not spoken text.
  11. 11 ↩Indignatio here is penitential self-indignation at sin, not anger at others.
  12. 12 ↩Printed form Gematus is almost certainly a corruption of gemitus (sigh / groan), fitting the surrounding catalogue of penitent gestures and affections (downcast face, shame, breast-beating, indignation, horror, fear).
  13. 13 ↩Segment appears to complete the preceding label as Elevatio oculorum ('lifting of the eyes'); kept separate to match the printed sentence split.
  14. 14 ↩Source reading 'exxiu.' is corrupt; rendered as the most plausible Roman-numeral Psalm number cxxiii in light of Elevatio oculorum (cf. Vulgate Ps 122 / Hebrew Ps 123, Ad te levavi oculos meos).
  15. 15 ↩Source has '1.]'; treated as the verse marker closing the broken '(Ps. …' citation, normalized to '1.)'.
  16. 16 ↩Source reads lManuum.; leading l- is treated as a corruption. Most plausible intended form is Manuum (gen. pl. of manus), matching the surrounding gesture/affection labels (e.g. Manuum complosio in the previous section).
  17. 17 ↩Suggillatio literally means a bruise/black eye; in penitential prayer headings it is the self-accusation or self-reproach section. Alternatives: Self-accusation, Reproach.
  18. 18 ↩Vindicta can mean vengeance, retribution, or punishment. In a penitential prayer heading, Punishment best captures acknowledged divine chastening without archaic or blood-vengeance coloring.

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