Domine, hominem non habeo

This sacred motet by Diogo Dias Melgás is scored for SATB choir and is set in Latin. It is suitable for liturgical use, perhaps during the penitential seasons of the church's year. The text, drawn from the Gospel of John, reflects on the healing waters of the Pool of Bethesda. The narrator expresses a longing for divine intervention, lamenting the absence of anyone to lower him into the water when it is stirred, and the frustration of being left behind as others are healed before he can reach it. Melgás's setting would likely offer a poignant and devotional musical expression of this plea for help and spiritual renewal.