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Preces Quotidianae

The Prayer of Humility

The opening petitions ask for the grace to avoid pride and to embrace poverty of spirit, echoing the first Beatitude.

Let him avoid pride. 1 John✦ 2. 16.✦ To the one who sets aside every impulse of flesh or spirit that conflicts with your holy will—to be poor in spirit,1

The Beatitudes as Daily Petitions

The prayer continues by asking for the graces of mourning, meekness, hunger for righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, and readiness to suffer persecution, each tied to its promised reward.

so that I may have a share in the kingdom of heaven.2 To mourn, that I may be comforted; to be meek, that I may possess the earth; to hunger and thirst3 for righteousness; to be merciful, so that I may obtain mercy—4 [Unreadable source fragment: quar; i Fens.]5 7.6 To be pure in heart, so that I may see God; to be a peacemaker, so that I may be called a child of God.7 To be ready to suffer persecution and insults for the sake of righteousness, so that my reward may be in heaven. Versicle.✦8 10, 12.9

The Cry for Grace

A brief, direct plea for the Lord to grant the graces just requested.

Give me, Lord.

Confession of Faith

The prayer moves into a series of scriptural affirmations of faith: that God rewards those who seek him, that the Redeemer lives, that Jesus is the Christ and Savior of the world, and that salvation comes through his grace.

As I come to God, I believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.✦ I know that my Redeemer lives, Job.10 19.✦ 25.✦ that he is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Matt.11 16.✦ 16.✦ for this is truly the Savior of the world, John. 4.✦ 42.✦ who came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the first.✦ 1 Tim.✦12 1.✦ 15.✦ Through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we believe we are saved,✦

Salvation by Grace

The confession concludes with the affirmation that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as the fathers were, with a citation to Acts.

just as our fathers also were.✦ cf. 15. ll. .

Heading: Daily Prayers

The chapter concludes with the heading 'Daily Prayers', marking the beginning of a new section.

138. Daily Prayers.13

Read the original Latin

Superbiam vitet, 1 Jo. ii. 16. Omnem sive carnis seu spiritus motum, voluntati tuze sancte discrepantem, deponenti, Pauperem esse spiritu,

ut contingat mihi pars in regno Colorum.

Lugere, ] ( consoler; ( Mitem esse, 1 - terram possideam ; Esurire et sitire

justitiam, ) e Misericordem esse, Ὶ 1 misericordiam conse-

quar; i Fens. 7.

Mundo esse corde, Γ ἵν videam Deum ; Pacificum esse, J filius Dei vocer;

Paratum esse ad patiendum persecutiones et maledicta propter justitiam, ut mihi merces sit i Coeli, Vers. 10, 12.

Da mihi, Domine.

ACCEDENS ad Deum, Credo quia est, et inquirentibus se remunerator fit. Scio, quod Redemptor meus vivit, Jo. xix. 25. quod est Christus, Filus Dei vivi, Mat. xvi. 16. quia hic est vere Salvator mundi, Jo.

iv. 42. quod venit in hunc mundum peccatores salvos facere, quorum primus ego sum. 1 777m. i. 15. Per gratiam Domini Jesu Christi credimus salvari,

quemadmodum et Patres nostri. cf. xv. ll. .

138 ETXAI KAOHMEPINAT.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩1John.2.16 — For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  2. ↩1John.2.16 — For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  3. ↩Matt.5.10;Matt.5.11-Matt.5.12 — Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matt.5.11 — Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say every kind of evil against you falsely on my account. Matt.5.12 — Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in the heavens; for in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  4. ↩Heb.11.6 — And without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
  5. ↩Job.19.25 — But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the dust." "Dust" better links to mortality and verse 26 while remaining clear.
  6. ↩Job.19.25 — But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the dust." "Dust" better links to mortality and verse 26 while remaining clear.
  7. ↩Matt.16.16 — Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  8. ↩Matt.16.16 — Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  9. ↩John.4.42 — and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of your word that we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world."
  10. ↩John.4.42 — and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of your word that we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world."
  11. ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
  12. ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
  13. ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
  14. ↩1Tim.1.15 — The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
  15. ↩Acts.15.11 — But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we are saved, just as they are.
  16. ↩Acts.15.11 — But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus we are saved, just as they are.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Reading tuze as tuae (your) and taking sancte with voluntati as sanctae (holy will); the printed forms look like typographic/OCR corruption.
  2. 2 ↩Source reads Colorum; almost certainly a corruption of caelorum ('of heaven'), which fits both the Beatitude context (poor in spirit → kingdom of heaven) and standard Latin.
  3. 3 ↩Source line is heavily corrupt OCR (brackets, stray numerals, broken punctuation). Reading reconstructed as parallel Beatitude petitions: Lugere, [ut] consoler; Mitem esse, [ut] terram possideam; Esurire et sitire — continued by justitiam in the next section.
  4. 4 ↩Source is heavily corrupt OCR. Reading is reconstructed from neighboring Beatitude petitions (previous: Esurire et sitire; first-person pattern terram possideam) as the justice clause of Mt 5:6 plus the merciful petition of Mt 5:7: justitiam; Misericordem esse … misericordiam conse[quar/consequentur].
  5. 5 ↩Normalized Latin is not a recoverable sentence; neighboring sections suggest Beatitude material (mercy / pure in heart), but this span itself cannot be restored from the supplied text alone.
  6. 6 ↩Source is only the numeral '7.'; treated as a list or section marker in Preces Quotidianae, not as prose.
  7. 7 ↩Source has garbled tokens «Γ ἵν» and «J» between the infinitives and purpose clauses. Reading as purpose «ut» (so that) in both places: «Mundo esse corde, ut videam Deum; Pacificum esse, ut filius Dei vocer.» The Greek-looking «ἵν» is treated as a corrupted ἵνα/ut; «J» as a siglum or OCR error, not lexical content.
  8. 8 ↩Source reads 'ut mihi merces sit i Coeli, Vers.' The token 'i' is almost certainly a corrupt or truncated 'in' (in coelis / in heaven), matching the Beatitudes cadence of Matt 5:10–12 (persecution for righteousness; reward in heaven). 'Vers.' is taken as the liturgical rubric Versicle.
  9. 9 ↩Bare verse numbers following the Versicle; in context they almost certainly point to the Beatitudes verses just echoed (likely Matt 5:10, 12), but the source does not name the book.
  10. 10 ↩Latin wording is Job 19:25. Source ends with 'Jo.', usually John; rendered Job to match the quoted text, with xix./25. continuing that citation.
  11. 11 ↩Source reads 'Filus'; translated as the intended 'Filius' (Son).
  12. 12 ↩Source '1 777m.' is corrupt; most plausible reading is the book abbreviation '1 Tim.' (1 Timothy), given the preceding verse wording and the following 'i. 15.'
  13. 13 ↩Source line is not Latin prose. 'ETXAI KAOHMEPINAT' is best read as garbled Greek Εὐχαὶ καθημεριναί ('Daily Prayers'), matching the chapter title Preces Quotidianae. Rendered as a heading with the numeral retained.

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