Preces Quotidianae

A Prayer for Daily Guidance

The soul petitions God for protection, direction, and holiness in all aspects of life.

Guard my soul, uphold my body, lift my senses, direct my course, order my ways, bless my deeds, fulfill my vows, inspire holy thoughts, pardon what is past, amend what is present, go before me in what is to come,¹²

A Doxology of Divine Power

Glory is ascribed to God, who works beyond all human understanding, echoing the Apostle Paul's prayer.

To him who is able to do far more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, according to the power that is at work in us,^✦ To him be glory in the Church, in Christ through all generations, forever and ever.^✦³ Amen.

Blessing the Holy Name

The Lord's name is blessed and sanctified, with an extended remembrance of every attribute and memory of it.

Lord, may your name be blessed, praised, celebrated, magnified, highly exalted, glorified, and sanctified. remembrance and mention, and every of its⁴ memory,

Read the original Latin

Animam custodi, Corpus subleva, Sensus erige, Cursum dirige, Mores compone, Actus benedic, Vota perfice, Cogitationes sanctas inspira, Preeterita indulge, Praesentia emenda, Futura preveni,

Ei, qui potens est omnia facere superabundanter quam petimus, aut intelligimus, secundum virtutem quae operatur in nobis,

Ipsi Gloria in Ecclesia, in Christo in omnes generationes, secula sxculorum. Amen.

Benedicatur, laudetur, celebretur, magnificetur, superexaltetur, glorificetur, sanctificetur Nomen tuum, Domine,

recordatio et mentio, et omnis ejus

memoria,

Scripture echoes

↩Eph.3.20 — Now to the one who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work within us—
↩Eph.3.20 — Now to the one who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work within us—

Notes

1 ↩preveni = praeveni: not modern 'prevent' as block, but go before / anticipate with grace (prevenient sense).
2 ↩Preeterita is orthographic for praeterita (things past); sense is clear.
3 ↩Source reads 'secula sxculorum'; treated as intended 'saecula saeculorum' (forever and ever / ages of ages). Neighboring section supplies the Ephesians 3:20 opening of this doxology.
4 ↩Fragment continues the previous blessing of the Lord's Name and is completed by the next section's 'memoria' (memory): the intended full sense is 'remembrance and mention, and every memory of it.'

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