Hymn by St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Jesu Dulcis Memoria

One more post to honor today's saint: one of the beautiful hymns composed by St. Bernard of Clairvaux in a Gregorian chant setting.

I found an English version that is beautiful ... the translator took some "poetic license" but nonetheless, it remains very reverently done and the singer has a voice of angelic beauty.

Please enjoy and prayerfully consider Christ's passion and Eucharistic presence, which our saint honored so well.



Jesu Dulcis Memoria
(English Translation)

Jesus, the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills the breast!
Yet sweeter far Thy face to see
And in Thy Presence rest.

No voice can sing, no heart can frame,
Nor can the memory find,
A sweeter sound than Jesus' Name,
The Savior of mankind.

O hope of every contrite heart!
O joy of all the meek!
To those who fall, how kind Thou art!
How good to those who seek!

But what to those who find? Ah! this
Nor tongue nor pen can show
The love of Jesus, what it is,
None but His loved ones know.

Jesus! our only hope be Thou,
As Thou our prize shalt be;
In Thee be all our glory now,
And through eternity. Amen.