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by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225? - 1274)

Adoro te devote
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  DUT
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, 
quae 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 paenitens.

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 praestans homini!
praesta meae menti de te vivere 
et te illi semper dulce sapere.
 
Pie pellicane, Jesu Domine, 
me immundum munda tuo sanguine; 
cuius 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 tuae gloriae. Amen.

Text Authorship:

  • by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225? - 1274), "Adoro te devote", written 1264 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Ik aanbid vol eerbied U", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (John O'Hagan) , "The Adoro te devote of St. Thomas"
  • ENG English (Richard Crashaw) , "Adoro te: Hymn in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament"


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Lau Kanen [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-08-09
Line count: 28
Word count: 149

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