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Preces Quotidianae

A Plea for Mercy

The soul cries out for God to turn away His anger and restore His people with life and joy.

Soften all your anger; turn away from the wrath of your indignation.12 Turn me, O God our Savior, and turn your anger away from us.✦3 Will you be angry with us forever?✦4 Or will you stretch out your anger from generation to generation?✦ Verse.5 5.6 O God, when you turn back, you will give us life, and your people will rejoice in you.✦7 Verse.8 6. Show us, Lord, your mercy,✦ and grant us your salvation.

Works of the Flesh

A catalog of vices that stand opposed to the Spirit, as listed in Galatians 5:19–21.

The works of the flesh.✦ Fornication, Jealousies, Impurity, Anger, Shamelessness, Quarrels, Sensuality, Dissensions, Idolatry, Factions, Sorcery, Envy, Enmities, Murders, Contentions, Drunkenness,9 Carousing, and things like these.✦

Fruit of the Spirit

The nine virtues that the Spirit produces in believers, drawn from Galatians 5:22–23.

The fruit of the Spirit.✦ Love, Patience, Faith,✦ Joy, Kindness, Gentleness,✦ Peace, Goodness, and Self-control.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit

The sevenfold gift of the Spirit—wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord—from Isaiah 11:2–3.

Spirit✦10 of Wisdom, of Counsel, of Knowledge,✦11 Understanding, Fortitude, Piety, Fear of the Lord.

Read the original Latin

Mitiga omnem iram tuam, averte ab ira indignationis tus. Converte me, Deus salutaris noster, et averte iram tuam a nobis. Nunquid in zternum irasceris nobis? aut extendes iram tuam a generatione in generationem? (Vers. 5.] Deus tu conversus vivificabis nos, et plebs tua letabitur in te. (Vers.

6.] Ostende nobis, Domine, misericordiam tuam,

et salutare tuum da nobis.

Opera Carnis.

Fornicatio, 3 ZEmulationes, Immunditia, Ire, Impudicitia, Rixze, Luxuria, Dissensiones, Idolorum servitus, Sectze, Veneficia, Invidize, Inimiciti:ze, Homieidia, Contentiones, Ebrietates,

Comessationes, et his similia.

Fructus Spiritus.

Charitas, - Patientia, Fides,

Gaudium, Benignitas, Mansuetudo,

Pax, Bonitas, Continentia. Spiritus

Sapientize, Consilii, Scientiz,

Intellectus, Fortitudinis, Pietatis,

'"Timoris Domini.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.85.5;Ps.86.4 — Restore us, O God of our salvation, and break off your anger against us. Ps.86.4 — Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
  2. ↩Ps.85.6;Ps.86.5 — Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? Ps.86.5 — For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
  3. ↩Ps.85.6;Ps.86.5 — Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? Ps.86.5 — For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
  4. ↩Ps.85.7;Ps.86.6 — Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? Ps.86.6 — Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
  5. ↩Ps.85.8;Ps.85.7 — Show us, LORD, your steadfast love, and grant us your salvation. Ps.85.7 — Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
  6. ↩Gal.5.19-Gal.5.21 — Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, Gal.5.20 — idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions Gal.5.21 — envies, drunkennesses, revelries, and the like — which things I forewarn you, just as I have already said, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  7. ↩Gal.5.19-Gal.5.21 — Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, Gal.5.20 — idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions Gal.5.21 — envies, drunkennesses, revelries, and the like — which things I forewarn you, just as I have already said, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  8. ↩Gal.5.22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  9. ↩Gal.5.22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  10. ↩Gal.5.22-Gal.5.23 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Gal.5.23 — gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
  11. ↩Isa.11.2 — And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
  12. ↩Isa.11.2 — And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Reading final 'tus' as 'tuae' (your); source looks corrupt.
  2. 2 ↩'averte ab ira indignationis' lacks an explicit object; rendered as turning aside from the wrath of divine indignation. Alternative: 'turn us away from the wrath of your indignation.'
  3. 3 ↩Source has singular 'Converte me' while the parallel psalm wording is often plural 'nos'; translated as given.
  4. 4 ↩Reading 'zternum' as 'aeternum' (forever); clear OCR/type corruption of ae/æ.
  5. 5 ↩Structural liturgical label (Vers.), incomplete in source; not prose for free translation.
  6. 6 ↩Verse number / structural marker, not a prose sentence.
  7. 7 ↩Reading 'letabitur' as 'laetabitur' (will rejoice); common ae→e spelling/OCR form.
  8. 8 ↩Structural liturgical label (Vers.), incomplete in source; not prose for free translation.
  9. 9 ↩Source text is heavily OCR-corrupted (z for æ/ae, broken word boundaries, stray '3', Homieidia for homicidia). Rendered from the most plausible corrected Latin: Fornicatio, aemulationes, immunditia, irae, impudicitia, rixae, luxuria, dissensiones, idolorum servitus, sectae, veneficia, invidiae, inimicitiae, homicidia, contentiones, ebrietates.
  10. 10 ↩Bare nominative Spiritus; neighboring next section opens with genitives of the traditional gifts (Sapientiae, Consilii, Scientiae), so this likely heads a ‘Spirit of…’ gifts series rather than standing as a complete sentence.
  11. 11 ↩Source reads 'Sapientize' and 'Scientiz' (corrupt/garbled). Rendered from the almost certain intended gifts-of-the-Spirit genitives Sapientiae and Scientiae, continuing Spiritus from the previous section and matching Consilii already in the text.

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