- Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,
Quæ sub his figuris vere latitas;
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit,
Quia te contemplans totum deficit.
- Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,
Sed auditu solo, tuto creditur:
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius:
Nil hoc verbo veritatis verius.
- In cruce latebat sola Deitas;
At hic latet simul et humanitas:
Ambo tamen credens, atque confitens,
Peto quod petivit latro pœnitens.
- Plagas sicut Thomas, non intueor,
Deum tamen meum te confiteor:
Fac me tibi semper magis credere,
In te spem habere, te diligere.
- O memoriale mortis Domini,
Panis vivus vitam præstans homini,
Præsta meæ menti de te vivere,
Et te illi semper dulce sapere.
- Pie pellicane Jesu Domine,
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine,
Cujus una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.
- Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,
Oro fiat illud quod tam sitio,
Ut te revelata cernens facie
Visu sim beatus tuæ gloræ.
| - Devoutly I adore Thee, O hidden God,
Truly hidden underneath these veils:
To Thee my whole heart submits,
Since in contemplating Thee it completely fails.
- Sight, touch, and taste, about Thee are deceived,
But hearing only is sufficient to believe;
I believe everything that God the Son has spoken;
Nothing than this Word of Truth is truer.
- On the Cross only Thy Divinity was veiled,
Here Thy humanity lieth hidden too;
Yet both I believe and confess,
I ask that, which asked the contrite thief.
- Thy wounds, not as Thomas do I see,
But I confess Thee as my God:
Make me more and more to believe in Thee,
To Hope in Thee, and love Thee.
- O Memorial of the Lord's death,
Living Bread, that givest life to man;
Grant my soul on Thee to live,
And always Thy sweetness to taste.
- Tender Pelican, Lord Jesus,
Wash me clean in Thy blood,
Of which a single drop can save
the whole world from all that defiles.
- Jesus, whom now I see hidden,
I ask, grant that for which I so thirst,
That on seeing Thee face to face
I may be happy in the vision of Thy glory.
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Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, 2010. (The words of Adore Te Devote are about Christ in the Eucharist.)
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