Preces Quotidianae
A Cry for Mercy in Every Trial
The petitioner pleads for deliverance from evil, sickness, death, and judgment, invoking God's mercy and the example of the fathers.
as you did our fathers in former ages—by whatever is sweet or dear to you—from every evil and adversity, in every time of distress.1 Snatch me away from this evil and adversity in this time; save me.2 Deliver me, Lord, and do not destroy me. In the bed of sickness, in the hour of death, on the Day of Judgment, on that dreadful and terrible day—snatch me away, Lord, and save me.3 May I not look upon the Judge's stern face, be set on the left, or hear the dreadful voice, "Depart from me"; may I not be bound with chains of darkness, cast into outer darkness, or tormented in the lake of fire and sulfur, where the smoke of the torments rises forever.4 Be gracious, be gracious: spare us, have mercy on us, O Lord, and do not destroy us forever.
Section Heading: Daily Prayers
A brief heading introducing the next set of daily prayers.
202. Daily Prayers.5
Read the original Latin
sicut prioribus szculis Patres nostros, Per quodeunque tibi dulce, aut charum, Ab omni malo et adverso, In omni angustie tempore. Ab hoe malo et adverso In hoc tempore, Eripe, salva me. Libera me, Domine, Et, ne corrumpas. cubili infirmitatis, In4 hora mortis, die Judicii, in tremenda et terribili die illa, Eripe, Domine, et salva me. Vultum Judicis tristem aspiciam, a sinistris collocer, horrendam vocem audiam, Ne Discedite a me; Catenis caliginis vinciar, In tenebras exteriores ejiciar, in stagno ignis et sulphuris torquear, Ubi fumus tormentorum, Ascendit in seculum. Propitius, propitius esto: Parce nobis, Miserere nobis, O Domine, Et ne corrumpas nos in seculum,
202 ETXAI KAOGHMEPINAT.
Notes
- 1 ↩Normalized corrupt forms: szculis → saeculis; quodeunque → quodcunque; angustie → angustiae (angustiae tempore, “time of distress”). The clause is fragmentary and likely continues the preceding petition.
- 2 ↩Reading hoe as hoc (“this”).
- 3 ↩Treated In4 as corrupted In (likely OCR/page artifact).
- 4 ↩The Latin gives a string of present subjunctives with Ne only immediately before Discedite a me. Sense taken as a litany of dreaded judgment outcomes the speaker prays to be spared (parallel to the surrounding Eripe/salva petitions), with Discedite a me as the Judge’s sentence.
- 5 ↩Source string is not Latin prose. ETXAI KAOGHMEPINAT is best read as Greek Εὐχαὶ Καθημεριναί (‘Daily Prayers’), matching the chapter title Preces Quotidianae; 202 is retained as the printed number (page/item).
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