Ave Verum Corpus natum 

de Maria Virgine. 

Vere passum immolatum 

in cruce pro homine: 

cuius latum perforatum 

aqua fluxit et sanguine. 

Esto nobis praegustatum 

in mortis examine. 



(Translation) 

Hail, true Body, truly born 

of the Virgin Mary mild. 

Truly offered, wracked and torn, 

on the Cross for all defiled, 

from Whose love-pierced, sacred side 

flowed Thy true Blood's saving tide: 

be a foretaste sweet to me 

in my death's great agony