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Audi benigne conditor
Nostras preces cum fletibus
In hoc sacro jejunio
Fusas quatragenario
Scrutator alme cordium
Infirma tu scis virium
Ad te reversis exhibe
Remissionis gratiam.
Multum quidem peccavimus
Poenasque comparavimus
Sed cuncta qui solus potes
Confer medelam languidis
Sic corpus extra conferi
Dona per abstinentiam
Jejunet ut mens sobria
A labe prorsus criminum.
English translation
Hear, O loving Creator,
our prayers poured forth
with tears in this sacred forty-day fast.
Loving searcher of hearts,
thou knowest the weakess of our powers:
grant us, who have turned back to thee,
the grace of pardon.
Much, indeed, have we sinned,
but spare those who confess:
for the glory of thy name,
grant a remedy to the weak.
Let the body be outwardly humbled through abstinence;
let the mind also fast entirely from falling into sin.
Grant, O blessed Trinity and single Unity,
that the rewards of fasting may be profitable to thy servants. Translation by St Ann choir