Showing posts with label Adoro Te Devote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adoro Te Devote. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2019
"Adoro Te Devote" - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Libera - "Adoro Te Devote"
From Thomas Aquinas' hymn 'Adoro Te Devote', arranged by Robert Prizeman.
- Prostrate I adore Thee, Deity unseen,
- Who Thy glory hidest 'neath these shadows mean;
- Lo, to Thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed,
- Tranced as it beholds Thee, shrined within the cloud.
- Taste, and touch, and vision, to discern Thee fail;
- Faith, that comes by hearing, pierces through the veil.
- I believe whate'er the Son of God hath told;
- What the Truth hath spoken, that for truth I hold.
- On the Cross lay hidden but thy Deity,
- Here is hidden also Thy Humanity:
- But in both believing and confessing, Lord,
- Ask I what the dying thief of Thee implored.
- Thy dread wounds, like Thomas, though I cannot see,
- His be my confession, Lord and God, of Thee,
- Make my faith unfeigned ever-more increase,
- Give me hope unfading, love that cannot cease.
- O memorial wondrous of the Lord's own death;
- Living Bread, that giveth all Thy creatures breath,
- Grant my spirit ever by Thy life may live,
- To my taste Thy sweetness never-failing give.
- Pelican of mercy, Jesu, Lord and God,
- Cleanse me, wretched sinner, in Thy Precious Blood:
- Blood where one drop for human-kind outpoured
- Might from all transgression have the world restored.
- Jesu, whom now veiled, I by faith descry,
- What my soul doth thirst for, do not, Lord, deny,
- That thy face unveiled, I at last may see,
- With the blissful vision blest, my God, of Thee. Amen
Sunday, April 3, 2011
'AdoroTe Devote' by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Devoutly I Adore Thee
O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore Thee,
Who truly art within the forms before me;
To Thee my heart I bow with bended knee,
As failing quite in contemplating Thee.
Sight, touch, and taste in Thee are each deceived;
The ear alone most safely is believed:
I believe all the Son of God has spoken,
Than Truth's own word there is no truer token.
God only on the Cross lay hid from view;
But here lies hid at once the Manhood too;
And I, in both professing my belief,
Make the same prayer as the repentant thief.
Thy wounds, as Thomas saw, I do not see;
Yet Thee confess my Lord and God to be:
Make me believe Thee ever more and more;
In Thee my hope, in Thee my love to store.
O thou Memorial of our Lord's own dying!
O Bread that living art and vivifying!
Make ever Thou my soul on Thee to live;
Ever a taste of Heavenly sweetness give.
O loving Pelican! O Jesu, Lord!
Unclean I am, but cleanse me in Thy Blood;
Of which a single drop, for sinners spilt,
Is ransom for a world's entire guilt.
Jesu! Whom for the present veil'd I see,
What I so thirst for, O vouchsafe to me:
That I may see Thy countenance unfolding,
And may be blest Thy glory in beholding. Amen.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, translated by E. Caswall
Who truly art within the forms before me;
To Thee my heart I bow with bended knee,
As failing quite in contemplating Thee.
Sight, touch, and taste in Thee are each deceived;
The ear alone most safely is believed:
I believe all the Son of God has spoken,
Than Truth's own word there is no truer token.
God only on the Cross lay hid from view;
But here lies hid at once the Manhood too;
And I, in both professing my belief,
Make the same prayer as the repentant thief.
Thy wounds, as Thomas saw, I do not see;
Yet Thee confess my Lord and God to be:
Make me believe Thee ever more and more;
In Thee my hope, in Thee my love to store.
O thou Memorial of our Lord's own dying!
O Bread that living art and vivifying!
Make ever Thou my soul on Thee to live;
Ever a taste of Heavenly sweetness give.
O loving Pelican! O Jesu, Lord!
Unclean I am, but cleanse me in Thy Blood;
Of which a single drop, for sinners spilt,
Is ransom for a world's entire guilt.
Jesu! Whom for the present veil'd I see,
What I so thirst for, O vouchsafe to me:
That I may see Thy countenance unfolding,
And may be blest Thy glory in beholding. Amen.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, translated by E. Caswall
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