Preces Quotidianae
Morning Invocation
The chapter opens with a morning greeting and an offering of glory to God for the gift of sleep.
Morning Office. Glory to you, Lord; glory to you. Glory to you who have given me sleep for the restoration of my weakness, and for rest from my labors.
Petition for a Holy Day
A linked series of prayers asking for holiness, angelic protection, pardon, peace, and a penitent life.
of this frail flesh.1 Grant me, Lord, to spend this day, and every day, perfect, holy, peaceful, healthy, and free from sin. Grant me, Lord, an angel of peace, a faithful guide, a guardian of souls and bodies, who pitches camp around me and always sets before me what leads to salvation.✦ Grant pardon and remission of all sins and of every offense, Lord.2 Grant the good things that benefit our souls, and peace to the world, Lord.3 Grant that we may spend the rest of our life in penitence and reverence, in health and peace, Lord.4
Closing Aspirations
The chapter concludes with an allusion to Philippians 4:8 and fragmentary headings that point toward additional prayers.
Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just,✦5 And.6 Prayers.7 D8
Read the original Latin
OFFICIUM MATUTINUM.
Gloria tibi, Domine, tibi gloria, Gloria, qui mihi somnum dederis In reparationem infirmitatis, Et in requiem laborum
hujus fragilis carnis.
Hanc diem, et omnem, Perfectam, sanctam, placidam, sanam, peccati immunem transigere Concede, Domine. Angelum pacis, fidum ducem, Custodem animarum et corporum, Castrametantem in circuitu meo, Et mihi salutaria semper suggerentem Concede, Domine. Veniam et remissionem Omnium peccatorum Et delictorum omnium Concede, Domaine. Bona, et quie animabus nostris expediunt, Et pacem mundo Concede, Doinine. Reliquum vitz nostre tempus In peenitentia et reverentia, In sanitate et pace transigere Concede, Domine.
Quzcunque vera, quiecunque decora, quicunque justa,
AND. PREQGES. D
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.33.8;Ps.35.7 — Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. Ps.35.7 — For without cause they have hidden for me the pit of their net; without cause they have dug a pit for my life.
- ↩Phil.4.8 — Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise—think on these things.
Notes
- 1 ↩Genitive fragment continuing the previous line (requiem laborum…): with PrecesPriv.1.7.2 it completes ‘rest from the labors of this frail flesh.’ Rendered as a dependent genitive phrase to keep section boundaries intact.
- 2 ↩Source ends with 'Domaine'; translated as the vocative 'Domine' (Lord), the only plausible reading in this litany of petitions.
- 3 ↩Source 'quie' is treated as 'quae' ('which/what'); 'Doinine' as 'Domine'.
- 4 ↩Source 'vitz nostre' and 'peenitentia' treated as vitae nostrae and paenitentia.
- 5 ↩Source reading is corrupt OCR: Quzcunque/quiecunque/quicunque. Translated as intended Quaecumque vera, quaecumque decora, quaecumque justa (neuter plurals with quaecumque).
- 6 ↩Source token is the English-looking fragment AND., likely page furniture or OCR debris rather than continuous Latin prose.
- 7 ↩Normalized PREQGES. is almost certainly corrupt OCR for PRECES ('prayers'), matching the chapter title Preces Quotidianae / book title Preces Privatae.
- 8 ↩Lone letter D has no recoverable full Latin word in this section; may be a cut-off form (e.g. Domine), a signature/page mark, or OCR debris. Left as fragment rather than inventing a completion.
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