Audi, benigne Conditor

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O kind Creator, bow thine ear

To mark the cry, to know the tear

Before thy throne of mercy spent

In this thy holy fast of Lent.

Our hearts are open, Lord, to thee:

Thou knowest our infirmity;

Pour out on all who seek thy face

Abundance of thy pardoning grace.

Our sins are many, this we know;

Spare us, good Lord, thy mercy show;

And for the honour of thy name

Our fainting souls to life reclaim.

Give us the self-control that springs

From discipline of outward things,

That fasting inward secretly

The soul may purely dwell with thee.

We pray thee, Holy Trinity,

One God, unchanging Unity,

That we from this our abstinence

May reap the fruits of penitence.

Amen.

Audi, benígne Cónditor,

Nostras preces cum flétibus,

In hoc sacro ieiúnio

Fusas quadragenário.

Scrutátor alme córdium,

Infírma tu scis vírium:

Ad te revérsis éxhibe

Remissiónis grátiam.

Multum quidem peccávimus,

Sed parce confiténtibus:

Ad nóminis laudem tui

Confer medélam lánguidis.

Concéde nostrum cónteri

Corpus per abstinéntiam;

Culpae ut relínquant pábulum

Ieiúna corda críminum.

Praesta, beáta Trínitas,

Concéde, simplex Únitas;

Ut fructuósa sint tuis

Ieiuniórum múnera.

Amen.