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Thanks, Otfried and all who contributed to answering this query. I already suspected that this was a fairly widespread prayer. I directed my questioner to the Corpus Orationum, edited by Brepols. However, I have never used this resource myself. Does anyone have any experience with its use ?
Frans van Liere
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>>> Otfried Lieberknecht <[log in to unmask]> 04/15/08 5:42 AM >>>
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> Gracias ago tibi, domine deus, omnipotens qui trinus et unus es
> semper in omnibus et eras ante omnia et eris per omnia deus benedictus
> per secula, qui me de transacto noctis spacio ad matutinales horas
> deducere dignitatus es. Et nunc queso, domine, ut dons michi hunc diem
> per tuam sanctam misericordiam sine peccato transire quatenus ad
> vesperum. Et semper tibi, domine deo meo, refferre valeam actiones
> graciarum. Per christum dominum. Amen.
Dear Frans
This seems to be a slightly expanded variant of a morning prayer which is fairly widespread and seems to go back to -- at least -- the Gelasian Sacramentary, see the text and some variants in Hennry Austin Wilson, _The Geslasian Sacramentary / Liber Sacramentaorum Romanae Ecclesiae. Edited with introduction, critical notes and appendix_, Oxford: Clarendon, 1894 (available at Google Books, if you are using a US IP or proxy), p.291 LXXXIV (Orationes ad Matutinas):
Gratias tibi agimus, Domine sancte, Pater omnipotens, aeterne Deus, qui nos transacto noctis spatio ad matutinas horas perducere dignatus es; quaesumus, ut dones nobis diem hunc sine peccato transire, quatenus ad vesperum gratias referamus.
Kind regards, O.
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