Preces Quotidianae
Prayer for the Whole Creation and the Church
The prayer begins by asking God to visit all creation, the world, empires, and the Catholic Church, then pauses to reflect on each in turn.
Do good, Lord; in your mercy, visit all your creation—the world, all of humanity, the inhabited earth.1 the empires of the world, the Catholic Church, Christianity, the churches A TN23 And one by one: the empires, the Church,4 . : :
Prayer for the Homeland and Its Orders
These sentences shift from the universal to the particular, listing concrete institutions, persons, and places that are the focus of daily intercession.
Among us: the homeland, the realm.5 The orders of both kinds; the persons in those orders; the priesthood; the King; the Prince; the City; the parish in which I was baptized; All Saints; the two schools; the Academy; the College; the parish entrusted to me; St. Giles; Pembroke Hall; Southwark; the three churches of St. Paul,6 Westminster.7
Read the original Latin
B&NEFAC, DOMINE, Visita in misericordia tua Creaturam tuam universam, Mundum, Omne genus nostrum, Terram habitalem,
Imperia mundi,
Catholicam Ecclesiam, Chnristianismum, Ecclesias A TN
E sigillatim, Imperia Ecclesiam? . : :
: in nobis, Patriam, Imperium
Ordines utriusque, In ordinibus personas, Sacerdotium, Regis, Principis, Urbem, Pareciam, in qua baptizatus sum, 33ttkíng Omnium, Sanctorum, Scholas duas, Academiam, Collegium, Pareciam, qu: mihi concredita est, S. /Egidii, Aulam Pembrochianam, Seoutbtocll, Ecclesias tres 4 S. Pauli,
Westmonasterli,
Notes
- 1 ↩Read B&NEFAC as BENEFAC (benefac, imperative of benefacio: ‘do good / show favor’); habitalem as habitabilem (‘habitable’).
- 2 ↩Source Chnristianismum is almost certainly a typo for Christianismum (Christianity/Christendom); rendered as Christianity.
- 3 ↩Trailing A TN is opaque in the supplied Latin (likely truncation, abbreviation, or OCR damage) and is left as found.
- 4 ↩Opening 'E' is treated as a likely fragment of 'Et' ('And'), given list-style prayer intentions in neighboring context; raw surface is only 'E'.
- 5 ↩Source is a bare list fragment opening with a colon (': in nobis, Patriam, Imperium'). Rendered as intercession categories in a daily-prayer litany: 'in nobis' as 'among us'; 'Patriam' as 'homeland/country'; 'Imperium' as 'realm' (political dominion rather than abstract 'empire' alone). Neighboring sections also list public and ecclesial objects of prayer.
- 6 ↩Source line is a prayer-intercession list with heavy OCR damage. Reconstructed as: Ordines utriusque; in ordinibus personas; Sacerdotium; Regis; Principis; Urbem; Pareciam (paroeciam) in qua baptizatus sum; Omnium Sanctorum; Scholas duas; Academiam; Collegium; Pareciam quae mihi concredita est; S. Egidii; Aulam Pembrochianam; Southwark; Ecclesias tres S. Pauli. Unreadable residual tokens left out of the main rendering: “33ttkíng” before Omnium Sanctorum; “4” before S. Pauli; “qu:” read as quae; “S. /Egidii” as S. Egidii; “Seoutbtocll” as Southwark.
- 7 ↩Source form Westmonasterli is almost certainly a corrupt reading of Westmonasterii (of/for Westminster), continuing the litany of places from the previous section.
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