Verba sponse ad Deum de grato modo effundendi preces coram Deo.
The Wounded Soul's Appeal
The soul approaches God with the humble confidence of a wounded person seeking a physician and a comforter.
Blessed are you, my Creator and Redeemer. Do not be offended if I speak to you as one wounded to a physician, as one in distress to a comforter, as a pauper to one who is rich and abundant. The wounded person says, "O Physician, don't despise me in my injury, for you are my brother!" "O best Comforter, don't look down on me, for I am anxious; instead, give rest to my heart and consolation to my senses!"
The Poverty of the Spirit
The soul acknowledges its spiritual nakedness and hunger before the richness of God.
The poor person says: 'O You who are rich and in need of nothing, look upon me, for I am perishing from hunger; see me, for I am naked, and give me garments to keep me warm!'
Confession and Petition
The soul confesses the vanity of its past life and asks for the healing touch of divine love.
So I say: O most omnipotent and good Lord, I look at the wounds of my sins, by which I have been wounded since childhood, and I groan, because my time has been spent to no purpose; my strength is not enough for the work, because it has been exhausted on vanities. And so, because You are the source of all goodness and mercy, I ask You: have mercy on me, touch my heart with the hand of Your love, for You are the best physician; comfort my soul, for You are a good comforter!
Read the original Latin
"Benedictus sis tu, creator et redemptor meus. Ne indigneris, si loquor ad te, sicut vulneratus ad medicum, sicut tribulatus ad consolatorem, sicut pauper ad diuitem et habundantem.
Vulneratus quippe dicit: 'O, medice, noli abhominari me saucium, quia frater es!' 'O, consolator optime, noli me despicere, quia anxius sum, sed da cordi meo requiem sensibusque meis consolacionem!'
Pauper vero dicit: 'O, tu diues et nullius egens, respice me, quia periclitor fame, vide me, quia nudus sum, et da michi vestes, quibus calefiam!'
Sic ego dico: O, Domine omnipotentissime et optime, ego considero vulnera peccatorum meorum, quibus ab infancia vulnerata sum, et ingemisco, quia tempus consumptum est inutiliter; vires non sufficiunt ad labores, quia exhauste sunt in vanitatibus.
Ideoque, quia tu es fons tocius bonitatis et misericordie, rogo te: miserere mei, tange cor meum manu dileccionis tue, quia medicus es optimus, consolare animam meam, quia consolator es bonus!"
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