Preces Quotidianae
Litany of the Saints
The prayer invokes the honored Senate of Patriarchs, the Choir of Prophets, the twelve Apostles, the army of Evangelists and Martyrs, Confessors, Doctors, Ascetics, the beauty of virgins, and the Innocents with their varied virtues and sacrifices.
the most honored Senate of the Patriarchs, the ever-venerable Choir of the Prophets, the most celebrated company of the twelve Apostles, the renowned army of Evangelists and Martyrs, for the sake of of the Confessors, the company of the Doctors, of the Ascetics, the beauty of virgins, Of the Innocents: the delights of the world, faith, zeal, hope, diligence, labors, tears, truth, purity, blood, beauty;✦1
Glory for the Saints
The prayer gives glory to God for having glorified the saints and confesses that through them we also glorify God.
Glory to you, Lord; glory to you; glory to you, who have glorified them,2 In them, we also glorify you.
Praise to the Holy God
The prayer declares the greatness and justice of God's works and ways, calls for universal fear and worship, and affirms that God's judgments are revealed, citing Revelation 15:3-4.
Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty.3 Just and true are your ways, King of the Saints.4 Who will not fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? for you alone are holy.5 For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your judgments have been made plain.✦ .6 Apoc.✦7 15. 3, 4.8
Read the original Latin
Patriarcharum honoratissimum Senatum, Prophetarum semper venerandum Chorum,
Apostolorum duodecim celeberrimum Coetum,
Evangelistarum, Martyrum inclytum Exercitum, Propter
Confessorum,
Doctorum Coetum,
Ascetarum,
Virginum pulchritudinem,
Innocentium delicias mundi, Fidem, Zelum, Spem, Studium, Labores, Lacrymas, Veritatem, Puritatem, Sanguinem, Decorem ;
Glora tibi, Domine, gloria tibi, Gloria tibi, qui illos glorificasti,
in quibus et nos te glorificamus.
Magna et mirabiha sunt opera tua, Domine, Deus omnipotens. Justze et verz sunt vie tuze, Rex Sanctorum. Quis non timebit te, Domine ? et magnificabit nomen tuum ? quia solus pius es. Quoniam omnes gentes venient, et adorabunt in conspectu tuo.
Quoniam judicia tua manifesta sunt. . 4poc. xv. 9, 4.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.2.16-Matt.2.18 — Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all its region who were two years old and under, according to the time he had carefully determined from the wise men. Matt.2.17 — Then was fulfilled what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Matt.2.18 — A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are not.
- ↩Rev.15.3-Rev.15.4 — And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages — of the nations." Rev.15.4 — Who will not fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.
- ↩Rev.15.3-Rev.15.4 — And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages — of the nations." Rev.15.4 — Who will not fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.
Notes
- 1 ↩‘delicias mundi’ is listed under the genitive header ‘Innocentium’ without a governing verb; rendered as the first commemorated item (worldly delights), not as an apposition equating the Innocents with the world’s delights. ‘Studium’ is ‘diligence/earnest endeavor’ to distinguish it from ‘Zelum’ (zeal).
- 2 ↩Source opens with 'Glora'; treated as a corrupt/typo reading of 'Gloria' (parallel to the repeated 'gloria/Gloria tibi' that follows).
- 3 ↩Source mirabiha read as mirabilia (marvelous/wonderful); clear OCR/type corruption.
- 4 ↩Source Justze et verz sunt vie tuze read as Justae et verae sunt viae tuae (just and true are your ways).
- 5 ↩Latin pius in this biblical canticle is rendered holy (standard sense of Rev 15:4 / Vulgate solus pius es), not merely devout or dutiful.
- 6 ↩Source sentence is only a bare period; treated as a non-lexical separator before the citation fragments that follow.
- 7 ↩Normalized '4poc.' as the common OCR corruption of 'Apoc.' (Apocalypse), matching the scripture-citation pattern in neighboring sections.
- 8 ↩Source has '9, 4.'; most plausible intended citation is '3, 4' for Apocalypse 15:3–4, matching the preceding Latin canticle. '9' is treated as a likely OCR error for '3'.
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