- Jesu dulcis memoria
- dans vera cordis gaudia:
- sed super mel et omnia
- ejus dulcis praesentia.
- Nil canitur suavius,
- nil auditur jucundius,
- nil cogitatur dulcius,
- quam Jesus Dei Filius.
- Jesu, spes paenitentibus,
- quam pius es petentibus!
- quam bonus te quaerentibus!
- sed quid invenientibus?
- Nec lingua valet dicere,
- nec littera exprimere:
- expertus potest credere,
- quid sit Jesum diligere.
- Sis, Jesu, nostrum gaudium,
- qui es futurus praemium:
- sit nostra in te gloria,
- per cuncta semper saecula.
- Amen.
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- The sweet memory of Jesus
- Giving true joy to the heart:
- But more than honey and all things
- His sweet presence.
- Nothing more delightful is sung,
- Nothing more pleasing heard,
- Nothing sweeter thought,
- Than Jesus, the Son of God.
- O Jesus, hope of the penitent,
- How gracious you are to those who ask
- How good to those who seek you;
- But what [are you] to those who find?
- No tongue may tell,
- No letter express;
- He who has experience of it can believe
- What it is to love Jesus.
- O Jesus, may you be our joy,
- You who are our future reward.
- May our glory be in you
- Throughout all eternity.
- Amen
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- Jesus, the very thought of Thee
- With sweetness fills the breast!
- Yet sweeter far Thy face to see
- And in Thy Presence rest.
- No voice can sing, no heart can frame,
- Nor can the memory find,
- A sweeter sound than Jesus' Name,
- The Saviour of mankind.
- O hope of every contrite heart!
- O joy of all the meek!
- To those who fall, how kind Thou art!
- How good to those who seek!
- But what to those who find? Ah! this
- Nor tongue nor pen can show
- The love of Jesus, what it is,
- None but His loved ones know.
- Jesus! our only hope be Thou,
- As Thou our prize shalt be;
- In Thee be all our glory now,
- And through eternity.
- Amen.
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