Adoro Te Devote - Lyrics

Devoutly I adore thee hidden Godhead who truly stayest hidden

under these forms: to thee doth my whole heart subject itself

because in contemplating thee everything else is found lacking.

Sight touch taste fail with regard to thee but only by hearing

does one believe surely; I believe whatever God’s Son said:

nothing is truer than the word of Truth.

On the Cross the Godhead alone was hidden but here hidden

too is the humanity. However believing and confessing both I

ask what the penitent thief asked.

I do not immediately gaze on wounds as Thomas did; yet

nonetheless I confess thee my God. Make me believe in thee

more and more make me put my hope in thee love thee.

O memorial of the Lord’s death! Living bread granting life to

man! Grant to me always to live from thee and that thou mayest

always taste sweet to me.

Kindly pelican Lord Jesus cleanse me the unclean one in thy

blood of which just one drop can save the entire world of all

crime.

Jesus whom now I behold under a veil I pray that that for which

I so thirst may come to pass: that looking intently upon thy

unveiled face I may be blessed with the sight of thy glory.