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840. Adore Te Devote (Godhead Here in Hiding)

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LATIN -
1 Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,
Quae sub his figuris vere latitas:
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit,
Quia te contemplans totum deficit.

2 Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,
Sed auditu solo tuto creditur:
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius:
Nil hoc verbo Veritátis verius.

3 In Cruce latebat sola Deitas,
At hic latet simul et humanitas:
Ambo tamen credens atque confitens,
Peto quod petivit latro paenitens.

4 Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor:
Deum tamen meum te confiteor:
Fac me tibi semper magis credere,
In te spem habere, te diligere.

5 O memoriale mortis Domini,
Panis vivus, vitam praestans homini,
Praesta meae menti de te vivere,
Et te illi semper dulce sapere.

6 Pie pelicane, Jesu Domine,
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine,
Cujus una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.

7 Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,
Oro fiat illud quod tam sitio:
Ut te revelata cernens facie,
Visu sim beatus tuae gloriae.

ENGLISH -
1 Godhead here in hiding whom I do adore
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more.
See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

2 Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived;
How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.

3 On the cross thy godhead made no sign to men;
Here thy very manhood steals from human ken:
Both are my confession, both are my belief,
And I pray the prayer made by the dying thief.

4 I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,
But I plainly call thee Lord and God as he:
This faith each day deeper be my holding of,
Daily make me harder hope and dearer love.

5 O thou, our reminder of the Crucified,
Living Bread, the life of us for whom he died,
Lend this life to me, then; feed and feast my mind,
There be thou the sweetness man was meant to find.

6 Like what tender tales tell of the Pelican,
Bathe me, Jesus Lord, in what thy bosom ran--
Blood that but one drop of has the pow'r to win
All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

7 Jesus whom I look at shrouded here below,
I beseech thee, send me what I thirst for so,
Some day to gaze on thee face to face in light
And be blest forever with thy glory's sight.

Text Information

• First Line: Adoro te devote, latens Deitas (Godhead here in hiding whom I do adore)
• Title: Adore Te Devote (Godhead Here in Hiding)
• Author: St. Thomas Aquinas, ca. 122r-1274 (alt.)
• Translator: Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, 1844-1899 (alt.)
• Meter: 11 11 11 11
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2012
• Scripture:
  1 Thessalonians 2:19-20
• Topic: Devotional; Devotions: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; Faith; Musical Style: Chant; Rites of the Church: Exposition of the Holy Eucharist (Including Benediction); Sending Forth; The Liturgical Year: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)

Tune Information

• Name: ADORO TE DEVOTE
• Arranger: Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947
• Meter: 11 11 11 11
• Key: D Major
• Source: Chant, Mode V; Paris Processionale, 1697
• Copyright: Arr. © 1990, OCP