O suavitas et dulcedo

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• Philippe de Monte SATTTTBB
• Flaminio Noceti SSATTB

Text and translations

Latin text O suavitas et dulcedo humani generis, Iesu Christe, qui pro nostra salute in cruce extensus fuisti, per omnia membra et ossa corporis tui, quae distenta in te et numerata fuerunt, rogo to, piissime Iesu, ut me miserum sic tibi iungas, quod per prospera et adversa huius saeculi a te nunquam possim separari. Amen.

English translation Oh, the sweetness, and delight of the human race, Jesus Christ, you who for our salvation were stretched out on the Cross, by all the limbs and bones of your body, which were stretched out in you, and were numbered, I ask you, O most merciful Jesus, to join my unhappy self to you thus, that through prosperity or adversity of this world, I may never be separated from you. Amen. Translation by Edward Tambling