Preces Quotidianae
Remembering All People
We ask God to remember all his people, including those we have forgotten, and to pour out mercy.
and of those who charge us, unworthy as we are, to remember them in our prayers we might keep in our prayers.1 And remember all Your people, Lord our God, and pour out Your rich mercy upon them all, providing all with what is needed for salvation.2 And those we don't remember—through ignorance, or forgetfulness, or the sheer number of names—remember them Yourself, O God, who know each one's age and name,3 who know each one from his mother's womb.✦4
God Our Helper and Healer
We praise God as the helper of the needy, hope of the despairing, and physician of the sick.
For You, Lord, are the helper of the needy, the hope of those who despair, the savior of those tossed on the waves, and the harbor of those who sail. Physician of the sick: may You Yourself become all things to all.✦5
Petitions for Daily Life and Protection
We present before God the needs of each person, and ask for deliverance from natural and human calamities.
: .6 man and his desire,7 You who know;8 his house and his need,9 Deliver, Lord, this city, and the whole region in which we live from plague, famine, earthquake, flood, fire, the sword, and hostile invasion, and civil war. Restrain the schisms of the Churches; extinguish the uproar of the nations,✦
Church Unity and the Kingdom
We pray for the unity of the Church, peace among nations, and our reception into God's kingdom.
And receive us all into Your Kingdom,
Read the original Latin
et mandantium nobis indignis, ut memoriam illorum in orationibus
nostris haberemus.
Et omnis populi tui memento, Domine, Deus noster, et super omnes effunde divitem tuam misericordiam,
omnibus prebens ad salutem requisita.
Et quorum nos non meminimus, per ignorantiam, aut oblivionem, aut nominum multitudinem, Ipse memento Deus, qui nosti Uniuscujusque zetatem et appellationem,
qui nosti unumquemque ex utero matris cjus.
Tu enim es, Domine, opitulator inopum, et spes desperantium, Fluctuantium servator, Navigantium portus,
ZEgrotantium medicus, Ipse omnibus omnia fias.
: . f hominem et desiderium ejus,
Qui nosti ;
domum et necessitatem ejus,
Libera, Domine, istam civitatem, et
omnem regionem in qua inhabitamus, a peste, fame, terre motu, diluvio, igne, gladio, invasione hostili,
et civili bello.
Compesce schismata Ecclesiarum, Exstingue fremitus Gentium,
Et nos omnes recipe in Regnum tuum,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.139.13;Jer.1.5;Ps.22.10 — For you formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. Jer.1.5 — Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Ps.22.10 — For you are the one who drew me from the womb, who made me trust at my mother's breast.
- ↩1Cor.9.22 — To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.
- ↩Ps.2.1 — Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
Notes
- 1 ↩This unit completes the prior clause: et mandantium nobis indignis, ut memoriam illorum in orationibus nostris haberemus — 'and commanding us who are unworthy that we might keep their memory in our prayers.' nostris continues orationibus; haberemus is the imperfect subjunctive of purpose/result after ut.
- 2 ↩Latin prebens is read as praebens (providing/granting/supplying); omnibus is dative with the participle, and requisita is neuter plural, 'the things required.'
- 3 ↩Source reading 'zetatem' is almost certainly a corruption of 'aetatem' (age); translated as 'age' on that basis.
- 4 ↩Source surface cjus is treated as ejus (his/her); uncorrected cjus is not Latin.
- 5 ↩Source surface ZEgrotantium is almost certainly a typographic/OCR corruption of Aegrotantium (of the sick); translated on that corrected reading.
- 6 ↩Source sentence is only punctuation (': .') with no recoverable Latin lexical content.
- 7 ↩Leading 'f' is almost certainly a corrupted fragment (OCR/scribal debris) and was not translated as a separate word; only the clear phrase 'hominem et desiderium ejus' is rendered.
- 8 ↩Source is only the relative-clause head Qui nosti with a trailing semicolon; neighboring sections supply fragmentary complements (e.g. man/desire; house/need). Rendered as a prayer address fragment pending fuller reconstruction.
- 9 ↩ejus is gender-neutral singular genitive; rendered as 'his' by default. If the antecedent is feminine or impersonal, use 'her' or 'its'.
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