Pie Pellicane

"Pie Pelicane, Jesu Domine,

Me immundum munda tuo Sanguine:

Cujus una stilla salvum facere

Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere."

 

'Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,

clean me, the unclean, with Your Blood,

One drop of which can heal

the entire world of all its sins.'

– from the Eucharistic hymn, 'Adoro Te devote' by St Thomas Aquinas.

 

Enamel of a Pelican in piety from a tabernacle door in the Rosary Basilica, Lourdes.

 

July is the month of the Precious Blood.

 

Done