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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

You approve the children of light and Your peace and love.✦1 Grant us, Lord, our God. Remember, Lord God, all spirits and all flesh of those we have mentioned, and of those we haven't. But for us, O Lord, O Lord, guide a Christian end of life, acceptable to you and, if it seems good, free from pain, in peace, gathering us under the feet of your elect, when you will and how you will, only without shame.2 and sins.3 May the splendor of our Lord rest upon us, and direct the work of our hands for us,✦ And direct the work of our hands. O Lord, be within.4 Outside.5 strengthen, keep, protect from above; before Place6 Lead me down; call me back,7 Surround on every side; fortify,8

Read the original Latin

Filios lucis comprobans, Tuamque Pacem et Charitatem

Concede nobis Domine, Deus noster.

Memento, Domine Deus, omnium spirituum, et omnis carnis

quorum mentionem habuimus, et quorum non habuimus.

Nobis autem exitus Vitce Christianos, tibi acceptos et (si videbitur) doloris expertes, in pace dirige, Domine, Domine, Colligens nos sub pedes electorum tuorum, cum vis, et quomodo vis, duntaxat sine pudore

et peccatis.

Sit splendor Domini nostri super nos, Et opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos,

Et opus manuum nostrarum dirige.

Esto, Domine, Intra

Extra

confortes, custodias, Supra protegas, Ante

Pone

Infra deducas, revoces,

Circumcirca | undique communias,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Eph.5.8;1Thess.5.5;Luke.16.8 — For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light. 1Thess.5.5 — For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Luke.16.8 — And the master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the people of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the people of light.
  2. ↩Ps.89.17;Ps.90.17 — In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they are exalted. Ps.90.17 — And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands; yes, the work of our hands, establish it.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Participial fragment without a finite verb in this section; comprobans is rendered as a present participle continuing the prayer address. Tuam primarily agrees with Pacem; Charitatem is treated as co-object of the same petitionary line.
  2. 2 ↩Source reading 'Vitce' is treated as a corruption of 'vitae' ('of life'); sense translated as 'end of life'.
  3. 3 ↩Fragment continues the preceding petition: sine pudore et peccatis — 'without shame and sins.' The force of sine is carried from PrecesPriv.1.62.5.
  4. 4 ↩Latin is only 'Esto, Domine, Intra'—likely a truncated petition or a heading paired with the following section 'Extra'. Rendered as a solemn imperative address; full intended sense may require neighboring source reconstruction.
  5. 5 ↩Standalone directional adverb in a prayer series with Intra / Supra / Ante; rendered as spatial 'Outside' (not 'without' as lacking), matching modern sense against the older exterior sense of extra.
  6. 6 ↩Standalone imperative of pono. Neighboring Latin frames it as Ante Pone… Infra deducas (place before… lead below), the classic directional petition for divine protection.
  7. 7 ↩Latin is a telegraphic pair of second-person subjunctives with no expressed object (Infra deducas, revoces). English supplies 'me' as the natural private-prayer addressee; if the larger collect intends a different object (us, them, the soul), revise accordingly.
  8. 8 ↩communias is read as 2nd sg. subjunctive of communio, -ire ('fortify, secure'), matching the petitionary subjunctives in the neighboring fragment (deducas, revoces). Less likely: a corrupt or rare form related to communio 'share/fellowship'.

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