LUMEN HILARE
Venite, Audite, Gaudete!
Anima Christi
This well known Catholic prayer dates to the early fourteenth century and was possibly written by Pope John XXII , but its authorship remains uncertain. The prayer takes its name from its Latin incipit, meaning "Soul of Christ". The Anima Christi was popularly believed to have been composed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, as he puts it at the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises and often refers to it. However, it has been found in a number of prayer books printed during Ignatius' youth and is in manuscripts which were written a hundred years before his birth.
Many may know the translated and paraphrased prayer set to music by Edward Caswall In the early nineteenth century as Soul of my Saviour, Sanctify my Breast.
The arranger has here set the prayer to a well known piece for solo piano by Franz Schubert, Impromptu, Op. 142, #3 in B flat Major.
Anima Christi, sanctifica me.
Corpus Christi, salva me.
Sanguis Christi, inebria me.
Aqua lateris Christi, lava me.
Passio Christi, conforta me.
O bone Iesu, exaudi me.
Intra tua vulnera absconde me.
Ne permittas me separari a te.
Ab hoste maligno defende me.
In hora mortis meae voca me.
Et iube me venire ad te,
Ut cum Sanctis tuis laudem tein saecula saeculorum.
Amen.
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within Thy wounds, hide me.
Separated from Thee let me never be.
From the malignant enemy, defend me.
At the hour of death, call me.
To come to Thee, bid me,
That I may praise Thee in the company Of Thy Saints, for all eternity.
Amen