Preces Quotidianae
Intercessions for Places and People
The opening petitions lift up specific dioceses, households, and those recommended to the Lord.
Chichester; three dioceses. 4.1 Eleopolis,2 Vente of the Simeni; the household; relatives; mercy.3 those who provide support, those who minister, neighbors, friends,4 Those recommended to me.5
Commendation of Self
The soul, body, senses, words, works, life, and death are offered to God.
I commend to you, Lord, my soul and my body, my mind and my thoughts, my vows and my prayers, my senses and limbs, My words and works, My life and death,
Intercessions for Others
A litany of intercession for family, benefactors, neighbors, country, and all Christian people.
Brothers and sisters, their children, Benefactors, Well-wishers, Relatives, Neighbors, Our country, All the Christian people.
Commendation of Undertakings
The Nisus and all things begun are entrusted to the Lord.
Read the original Latin
Cicestriz, Dieceses tres 4. Eleopolis,
Vente Simenorum, Domum, Cognatos, Misericordiam. exhibentes, Mmistrantes, Vicinos, Amicos,
Recommendatos.
Commendo tibi, Domine, Animam, et corpus meum, Mentem, et cogitationes, Vota, et orationes,
Sensus et membra,
Verba et opera,
Vitam et mortem meam,
Fratres et sorores, Liberos ipsorum,
Benefactores,
Benevolos,
Propinquos,
Vicinos,
Patriam,
Omnem Populum Christianum.
. Commendo tibi, Domine, Nisus,
' Copta,
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin Cicestriz is treated as Cicestria (Chichester); Dieceses as Dioeceses (dioceses). The trailing 4 is kept as printed; it may be a list or page marker rather than part of the prayer wording.
- 2 ↩Eleopolis is left as a proper name; no secure identification (possible corruption of another place-name) without inventing meaning.
- 3 ↩Vente Simenorum is opaque in the supplied text (likely a place-name or ethnonym continuing the previous section’s toponyms). Rendered as a proper name pending better witness; Domum/Cognatos/Misericordiam are clear intercession categories.
- 4 ↩Mmistrantes read as Ministrantes (those who minister/serve). exhibentes taken as people who furnish/provide support (ecclesiastical sense of exhibeo), not mere 'displayers'.
- 5 ↩Recommendatos (acc. pl.) is a list-item noun in the surrounding intercession series (household, kin, neighbors, friends). In private-devotion usage it most naturally means people recommended for prayer / entrusted to the petitioner’s intercession; less likely, those simply ‘commended’ in a general sense.
- 6 ↩Nisus is left as a proper name/group label; in context it appears to continue an intercession list of Christian peoples (cf. previous 'Omnem Populum Christianum' and next 'Copta'), but the exact ethnonym is uncertain and may be corrupt or abbreviated.
- 7 ↩Source surface is the isolated fragment "' Copta,". In context after Commendo tibi, Domine, Nisus and before Proposita / Conatus, the most plausible intended reading is Latin coepta / cœpta (things begun, undertakings begun), with the leading mark treated as noise.
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