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Preces Quotidianae

Gospel Petitions for Healing and Mercy

A series of short prayers drawn from the Gospels, asking for cleansing, healing, forgiveness, and mercy.

Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean; Lord, only say the word, and I will be healed. Matt.1 viii.2 2, 8. Lord, save me.3 Doesn't it matter to you that we're perishing? .4 Say to me: Take heart; your sins are forgiven.5 Jesus, Teacher, have mercy on me.6

Cry for Mercy from the Son of David

A prayer based on the blind beggar's cry to Jesus, 'Son of David, have mercy on me.'

wc.✦7 17. 18. Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. Mark.✦8 10. 47.✦ Jesus, Son of David, Son of David.✦9

Petitions for Healing and Divine Assurance

A collection of prayers asking for physical and spiritual healing, and for the comforting words of God's grace and salvation.

Lord, say to me, "Ephphatha." Mark 7. 34. Lord, I have no one.10 Lord, say to me, "You are freed from your infirmity." Say to my soul: I am your salvation.11 Say to me, "My grace is enough for you."12 How long, Lord, will you be angry forever?13

A Plea for Mercy from the Psalms

A prayer for God's mercy, help, and forgiveness, drawn from Psalm 79, asking for deliverance and the glory of God's name.

Will your jealousy burn like fire? Do not remember our ancient iniquities; May your mercies quickly come before us, Lord,✦14 because we have become exceedingly poor. Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name Lord, free us, and be merciful toward our sins for your name's sake.

A Litany of Sins for Confession

A list of various categories of sins, used as an examination of conscience or a confession of faults.

Faults, debts, Failings, sins, all lapses, misdeeds,15 Offenses, Ignorances, . Lapses, iniquities.

Read the original Latin

Domine, si vis, potes me mundare, Domine, tantum dic verbo, et sanabor, Maff. vin. 2, 8. Domine, salvum fac. Non ad te pertinet quia perimus? . Die mihi, Confide : remittuntur tibi peccata tua. Jesu przceptor, Miserere mei.

wc. xvii. 18. Jesu fih David, Miserere mei, Marc. x. 47. Jesu, fih David, fili David.

Domine, dic mihi, Epphatha, Marc. vii. 34. Domine, hominem non habeo. Domine, dic mihi, Dimissus es ab infirmitate tua. Die anim: mez, Salus tua ego sum. Die mihi, Sufficit tibi gratia mea. Usquequo, Domine, irasceris in finem ?

accendetur, velut ignis, zelus tuus? Ne memineris iniquitatum nostrarum antiquarum ;

cito anticipent nos misericordiz tuz, Domine,

quia pauperes facti sumus nimis. Adjuva nos Deus, Salutaris noster,

propter gloriam nominis tui

Domine, libera nos, Et propitius esto peccatis nostris

propter nomen tuum.

Culpas, Debita,

Defectus, Peccata, Omnes 4 Lapsus, Delicta,

Offensas, Ignorantias,

. Prolapsiones, Iniquitates,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Mark.10.47 — And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, 'Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!'
  2. ↩Mark.10.47;Luke.18.38 — And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, 'Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!' Luke.18.38 — and he cried out, saying, 'Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.'
  3. ↩Mark.10.47 — And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, 'Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!'
  4. ↩Mark.10.47-Mark.10.48;Luke.18.38-Luke.18.39 — And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, 'Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!' Mark.10.48 — And many were rebuking him, so that he would be silent. But he cried out all the more, 'Son of David, have mercy on me!' Luke.18.38 — and he cried out, saying, 'Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.' Luke.18.39 — And those who were in front were rebuking him so that he would be quiet, but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me."
  5. ↩Ps.79.8 — Do not hold against us the sins of former times; let your compassion come swiftly to meet us, for we are brought very low.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Terminal citation "Maff." is treated as a corrupt abbreviation of Matt. (Matthew), matching the Gospel petitions that precede it.
  2. 2 ↩Source "vin." is read as a corrupt chapter numeral viii., completing the Matthew citation for the petitions in s1.
  3. 3 ↩Latin "salvum fac" lacks an explicit object; "me" is supplied as the natural object of this private petition form (cf. liturgical Domine, salvum fac…).
  4. 4 ↩Source is only a period; treated as residual punctuation / segmentation debris, not a verbal sentence.
  5. 5 ↩Source "Die mihi" is read as "Dic mihi" (say to me); "Die" is a very plausible OCR/print error for Dic.
  6. 6 ↩Source "przceptor" is read as præceptor (teacher/master); z stands in for æ/ae in the corrupted print.
  7. 7 ↩Book abbreviation 'wc.' is corrupt or unreadable in the source; left unrestored rather than silently emended. A possible intended reading in this Gospel-prayer series is Luc. (Luke), but that is only a candidate.
  8. 8 ↩Source 'fih' is treated as corrupt for fili ('Son'); confirmed by the corrected form fili in the same section (s7).
  9. 9 ↩Source doubles the address as 'fih David, fili David'; corrupt 'fih' is again read as fili. The doubled 'Son of David' is preserved as an intensified petition, not collapsed.
  10. 10 ↩Latin hominem non habeo is the cry of the sick man at the pool ("I have no man"); rendered "no one" for natural modern English while keeping the helpless petition.
  11. 11 ↩Normalized corrupt Die anim: mez as Dic animae meae ("say to my soul"), the standard psalm formula before Salus tua ego sum.
  12. 12 ↩Source Die mihi read as Dic mihi, matching the section’s repeated Lord, say to me petition pattern.
  13. 13 ↩in finem can mean 'to the end' or 'forever'; forever carries the usual psalm sense of unending anger.
  14. 14 ↩Source reads 'misericordiz tuz'; treated as the intended Vulgate reading 'misericordiae tuae' (your mercies).
  15. 15 ↩Latin reads 'Omnes 4 Lapsus'; the numeral '4' is almost certainly a page or line intrusion, not part of the prayer. Rendered as 'Omnes Lapsus' = 'All Lapses'.

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