Preces Quotidianae
Do Not Destroy Your Creature
Addressing the triune God as Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator, the worshipper begs not to be destroyed and asks that neither personal nor ancestral sins be remembered.
Father Creator, you created me; Son Redeemer, you redeemed me; Spirit Regenerator, you regenerated me: do not destroy me.1 Do not, Lord, remember my sins, Nor the sins of my ancestors,2
Spare Us, O Lord
The prayer becomes a litany of sparing: spare us, spare your people, and let your anger not continue forever.
NUM.3 ...—and do not take vengeance for our sins, for mine.4 (118) Spare us, Lord; spare me.56 Spare your people, and, among your people, your servant, redeemed by your precious blood, and do not be angry with us forever.✦✦7 Be gracious, be gracious; spare us, Lord, and do not be angry with us forever. Be gracious, be gracious; have mercy on us, Lord, and do not be too angry with us.
According to Your Great Mercy
The plea concludes by asking not to be repaid according to sins but according to God's great and manifold mercy.
Do not, Lord — do not deal with me according to my iniquities, and do not repay me according to my sins; but deal with me according to your great mercy, and repay me according to the multitude of your mercies. According to this great mercy, and8 According to that multitude of mercies,
Read the original Latin
PATER Creator, quem creasti, Fi Redemptor, quem redemisti, Spiritus Regenerator, quem regenerasti, Ne corrumpas. Ne Domine, ne memineris peccatorum meorum,
Neque peccatorum majorum meorum,
NUM . feorum, Neque vindictam sume de peccatis nostris, meis. ; 118, Parce nobis, Domine, IE mihi.
Parce populo tuo, Et, in populo, servo tuo, Pretioso tuo sanguine redempto, et neirascaris nobis in seculum. Propitius, propitius esto, parce nobis, Domine, Et ne irascaris nobis in seculum. Propitius, propitius esto, miserere nobis, Domine, Et ne irascaris nobis nimis. Ne, Domine, Ne facias mihi secundum iniquitates meas, Neque secundum peccata mea retribuas mihi, Sed secundum magnam misericordiam tuam facias mihi, Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum retribuas mihi. Secundum magnam istam misericordiam, et
Secundum multitudinem istam miserationum,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Joel.2.17 — Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep. And let them say, 'Spare your people, O LORD, and do not make your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, "Where is their God?"'
- ↩1Pet.1.18-1Pet.1.19 — knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things—silver or gold—from your futile way of life handed down from your fathers, 1Pet.1.19 — but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin Fi is taken as Fili (Son). corrumpas is rendered destroy (ruin/undo the work of creation, redemption, and regeneration); corrupt is also possible.
- 2 ↩majorum can mean 'ancestors/forefathers' (majores) or 'greater' modifying peccatorum. Taken as ancestors because it continues the prior petition Ne memineris peccatorum meorum and matches the familiar liturgical pair 'our sins / the sins of our fathers.'
- 3 ↩Source is only the token string 'NUM .' with no continuous Latin sense. Treated as a non-prose marker (numeral/heading residue), not as the Latin interrogative particle num.
- 4 ↩Leading token 'feorum' is almost certainly corrupt segmentation/OCR debris (preceding context ends 'Neque peccatorum majorum meorum,'). Translation follows the clear imperative clause: Neque vindictam sume de peccatis nostris, meis.
- 5 ↩Source 'IE mihi' is corrupt. Read as a second person-directed petition parallel to 'Parce nobis' (likely 'et mihi' or a repeated 'parce mihi'); rendered 'spare me' to preserve the us/me turn already present in the Latin.
- 6 ↩Inline '118' is retained as a reference marker (likely Psalm 118 Vulgate numbering or a similar index mark), not translated as prose.
- 7 ↩Source joins neirascaris as one token; reading as ne irascaris (do not be angry), matching the parallel petitions in s2–s3.
- 8 ↩Sentence is a clause fragment; neighboring next section continues Secundum multitudinem istam miserationum.
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