Within Your Wounds Hide Me

      (Intra tua vulnera absconde me)  [i]
 
It is just so 
this flesh and no other
of the whole body or whole hand, 
where nails pierce  – 
you might call it circumstance,
or accident, or Providence, that spot,
where Flesh meets Cross,
but I accept.
 
It is just so, none other –
as if for these cells only
with wood-splinter only
the Junction is
“Thy will be done” –
Exact, precise, where certain cosmic atoms
in path or “crux” pinpoint their target –
and our redemption  [ii]
 
(2010s)  
 

[i]    “Anima Christi”.  Wikipedia.org.  {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Christi} (accessed December 1, 2021).   –  Authorship and Translations

[ii]   “Anima Christi”. Daily Companion”.  Magnificat.  us.magnificat.net. {https://us.magnificat.net/home/}  (accessed December 1, 2021). repeated in each monthly edition,  varying pages.    See Line 7, below: 

1. Anima Christi, sanctifica me.               -  -       Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
2. Corpus Christi, salva me.                       -  -       Body of Christ, save me.
3. Sanguis Christs, inebria me.                -  -        Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
4. Aqua lateris Christi, lava me.             -  -        Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
5. Passio Christi, conforta me.               -  -         Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
6. O Bone Iesu, exaudi me.                      -  -         O good Jesus, hear me.
7. Intra tua vulnera absconde me.      -  -         Within thy wounds hide me.
   
8. Ne permittas me separari a te.       -  -          Suffer me not to be separated from thee.
9. Ab hoste maligno defende me.      -  -           From the malicious enemy defend me.
10. In hora mortis meae voca me.        -  -           In the hour of my death call me
11. Et iube me venire ad te,                     -  -           and bid me come unto thee,
12. Ut cum Sanctis tuis lauden te        -  -            that with thy saints I may praise thee
13. in saecula saeculorum.  Amen.     -  -             for ever and ever.  Amen.