Preces Quotidianae
The Seventh Day Invocation
Opening the seventh day with a plea for mercy and salvation drawn from Isaiah.
For the seventh day.1 Lord, have mercy on us, for we have waited for You.✦ Be our arm in the morning, and our Salvation in the time of trouble.✦ Is.✦2 31.3 2.
The Blessing of Creation Rest
Blessing God who rested on the seventh day, with the supporting Genesis citation.
Blessed are you, Lord, who rested on the seventh day from all your work, and you blessed and sanctified it✦ it.✦4 Genesis ii5 2, 8.✦6
Sabbath Reflections
Considering the Sabbath, Christ's death, ceasing from sin, and the faithful departed.
Matters concerning the Sabbath,7 Likewise, concerning our rest as a substitute; concerning the things of Christ's death,89 and of ceasing from sins; Of those who have rested before.1011
Confession of Unworthiness
A humble confession of multiplying sins from youth to the present day.
My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to face you, because my sins have piled up over my head and my offenses have reached up to heaven.✦12 From my youth I have been deep in sin,✦ even to this day,13
Read the original Latin
DIEI SEPTIM EF.
DOMINE, miserere nostri, Te enim exspectavimus.
Esto brachium nostrum in mane, et Salus nostra in tempore tribulationis. se. xxxi. 2.
Benedictus es, Domine, Qui requievisti die septimo
ab omni opere tuo, et benedixisti, et sanctificasti
jlum. Gen. n. 2, 8.
Qu:e ad Sabbatum spectant,
De requie pariter nostra succedanea ; De emortualibus Christi,
et cessatione a peccatis;
De 115 qui prius requieverimt.
Deus meus, confundor, et erubesco levare faciem meam ad te, Quoniam iniquitates me:x multiplicat€ sunt super caput meum, et delicta mea creverunt usque ad coelum. À diebus juventutis sum in delicto magno,
usque ad diem hane,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Isa.33.2 — Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
- ↩Isa.33.2 — Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
- ↩Isa.33.2 — Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
- ↩Gen.2.2-Gen.2.3 — And God finished on the seventh day His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. Gen.2.3 — And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God created to do.
- ↩Gen.2.3 — And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God created to do.
- ↩Gen.2.8;Gen.2.2-Gen.2.3 — And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Gen.2.2 — And God finished on the seventh day His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. Gen.2.3 — And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God created to do.
- ↩Ezra.9.6 — And I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have multiplied above our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.'
- ↩Job.13.26;Ps.25.7 — For You write down bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. Ps.25.7 — Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O LORD.
Notes
- 1 ↩Read as a daily-prayer rubric heading: DIEI SEPTIM(AE) = of/for the seventh day. Trailing EF. is unresolved (likely print/OCR damage, an abbreviation, or a mangled SEPTIMÆ); sense taken as a day label only.
- 2 ↩Source reads only 'se.'; treated as a broken book-label for the Isaiah citation (Is.), not as Latin prose.
- 3 ↩Printed chapter numeral xxxi (31). The quoted petition corresponds to Vulgate Isaiah 33:2 (xxxiii), so the source chapter may be misnumbered.
- 4 ↩Source reads “jlum.”; in context after “sanctificasti,” the most plausible intended form is “illum” (“it,” i.e. the day God blessed and set apart).
- 5 ↩Source reads bare “n.”; in older citation style this is most plausibly a mangled roman chapter numeral “ii” (or similar), not a free-standing Latin word.
- 6 ↩Neighboring Sabbath wording points to Genesis 2:2–3; the printed “2, 8” may be a genuine Gen 2:8 citation or a corrupt “2, 3.” Left as printed.
- 7 ↩Source reads 'Qu:e'; treated as early-modern abbreviation of 'Quae' (which things).
- 8 ↩succedanea (with requie) is taken as 'substitute/successive' rest—our rest standing in the place of, or following after, the Sabbath rest in view from the previous section.
- 9 ↩emortualibus is rare; rendered as 'things of ... death' (death-related observances/matters). If the intended form was nearer to mortualibus, the sense is still the death of Christ and what belongs to it.
- 10 ↩Source reads 'requieverimt'; translated as the intended 'requieverunt' (they have rested/reposed).
- 11 ↩Opaque token '115' is left unrendered in the English. It may be a print/section reference, a corrupt reading (e.g. of 'his' in 'De his qui…'), or another non-prose mark; sense taken from 'De … qui prius requieverunt' as a heading-style rubric.
- 12 ↩Normalized reading treats OCR/corrupt forms me:x and multiplicat€ as meae multiplicatae (with sunt): 'my iniquities have been multiplied.'
- 13 ↩Source surface 'hane' is almost certainly a misreading of 'hanc' (agreeing with diem); translated as usque ad diem hanc.
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