Preces Quotidianae

Confession and Mercy

The prayer opens with a confession of sin, invoking God's name and appealing to His mercy through Christ the Advocate.

because your name has been invoked over your servant.^✦ (In many things we all stumble; Jas.^✦¹ 2.^✦ 2.) Lord, let your mercy triumph over your judgment in our offenses.^✦ If I say that I have no sin, I deceive myself, and the truth is not in me.^✦² But I confess my many and heavy sins, and you are faithful and just, Lord, so that you may forgive my sins as I confess them.^✦ And for this I also have an Advocate before you, with you—1 John.^✦³

God's Unfailing Mercy

The meditation begins with a scriptural citation (1 John 2:1–2), then poses a series of rhetorical questions about God's enduring mercy, ending with a declaration of trust in the Most High's change.

ii.^✦⁴ 1.^✦ your only-begotten Son, the Righteous One: may He Himself be the propitiation for my sins,^✦ He is also for the whole world.^✦⁵ Will he cast off forever?⁶ the Lord—or will he not be favorable again? Or will he cut off his mercy forever? Has he brought his word to an end from generation to generation?⁷ Or will God forget to show mercy? Or will he hold back his mercies in his anger? And I said, "Now I have begun."⁸ This is the change of the right hand of the Most High.⁹

Putting Away Sin

A concluding list of sins to be renounced, including the sin that surrounds, all impurity, wickedness, fleshly desires, and lust of the eyes.

[Unrecoverable source: ndus τὸ ΟΥΠΒΒΙΡΟ : puo.]¹⁰ [Unrecoverable source: xi d.]¹¹ and the sin that surrounds me,^✦¹² All impurity:^✦ — James 1.^✦ and the excess of wickedness, of the flesh,¹³ the lust of the eyes,¹⁴

Read the original Latin

quia nomen tuum invocatum est super servum tuum. ( In multis offendimus ommes; Jac. ii. 2. Domine, superexultet misericordia tua judicium tuum in offensis nostris. 81 dixero, quia peccatum non habeo, ipse me seduco, et veritas in me non est. Sed confiteor peccata mea multa et gravia, et tu fidelis es et justus, Domine, ut confitenti mihi remittas peccata mea. Ad quod etiam Advocatum ad te apud te habeo, 1 Jo.

11. 1. Filium tuum unigenitum, Justum : Sit Ipse propitiatio pro peccatis meis, . qui est pro totius etiam mundi. Nunquid in zeternum projiciet. Dominus, aut non apponet, ut complacitior sit adhuc ? Áut in finem misericordiam suam abscindet ? Consummavit verbum a generatione in generationem?

Aut obliviscetur misereri Deus ? aut continebit in ira sua misericordias suas? Et dixi, Nune copi.

Hac mutatio dextere Exeelsi.

ndus τὸ ΟΥΠΒΒΙΡΟ : puo. xi d. et cireumstans me peccatum,

Omnem immunditiam :

- Jac: 1. Οἱ et superfluitatem nequitie,

carnis,

Concupiscentiam 1 oculorum,

Scripture echoes

↩Deut.28.10;Isa.43.7;Acts.15.17 — And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the LORD is called upon you, and they will fear you. Isa.43.7 — Everyone who is called by my name, and for my glory I created him, I formed him, I even made him. Acts.15.17 — so that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the nations upon whom my name has been called, says the Lord, who does these things—
↩Jas.3.2 — For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
↩Jas.3.2 — For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
↩Jas.2.13 — For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; but mercy triumphs over judgment.
↩1John.1.8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
↩1John.1.9 — If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
↩1John.2.1 — My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
↩1John.2.1 — My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
↩1John.2.1 — My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One.
↩1John.2.1-1John.2.2 — My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One. 1John.2.2 — And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
↩1John.2.2 — And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
↩Heb.12.1 — Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us.
↩Jas.1.21 — Therefore, having put away all filthiness and the abundance of evil, receive with meekness the implanted word that is able to save your souls.
↩Jas.1.21 — Therefore, having put away all filthiness and the abundance of evil, receive with meekness the implanted word that is able to save your souls.

Notes

1 ↩Source reads ommes; translated as omnes (all), the required reading of James 3:2.
2 ↩Source begins 81 dixero; read as Si dixero (If I say), matching 1 John 1:8 adapted to the singular.
3 ↩ad te apud te is slightly redundant; rendered as before you, with you, awaiting the next section's identification of the Advocate as the only-begotten Son, the Righteous One (1 John 2:1).
4 ↩Source prints '11.' immediately after '1 Jo.'; treated as the chapter numeral ii. (1 John 2), the usual OCR/print confusion of roman ii with arabic 11.
5 ↩Latin is elliptical (qui est pro totius etiam mundi), echoing 1 John 2:2 without restating 'peccatis'; sense is that He is propitiation for the whole world as well, not for the speaker alone.
6 ↩Source 'zeternum' corrected as 'aeternum' (aeternum / æternum OCR corruption).
7 ↩'Consummavit verbum' in this psalm series is taken as finishing/ending the covenant word or promise (not merely 'completing a sentence').
8 ↩Source reads 'Nune copi'; most plausible intended reading is 'Nunc coepi' (Vulg. Ps 76:11), confirmed by the next section's 'Hac mutatio dextere Exeelsi' (= Haec mutatio dexterae Excelsi).
9 ↩Source text appears corrupt/OCR-damaged: 'Hac mutatio dextere Exeelsi.' Read as Vulgate Ps 76:11 'Haec mutatio dexterae Excelsi,' continuing the prior 'Et dixi: Nunc coepi.'
10 ↩The supplied Latin is not readable as continuous Latin (or Greek): mixed Latin fragments, Greek characters, and non-words. No plausible normalized reading can be reconstructed from this section alone without inventing sense.
11 ↩Fragment 'xi d.' has no recoverable Latin sense in context; likely truncated or OCR-damaged remains of a longer line.
12 ↩Reading source 'cireumstans' as intended 'circumstans' (standing around / surrounding).
13 ↩Standalone genitive carnis (of flesh/the flesh). Neighboring sections point to a renunciation list (cf. Jac. 1 superfluity of wickedness; then lust of the eyes), so this is likely the fragment of a fuller phrase such as concupiscentia carnis rather than a free-standing clause.
14 ↩The numeral “1” in the Latin is treated as a note or reference marker (likely toward 1 John 2:16), not as part of the sentence wording.

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