Adoro Te Devote (Humbly We Adore Thee)

I devoutly adore you, O hidden God, truly hidden beneath these appearances. My whole heart submits to you, and in contemplating you, it surrenders itself completely. Sight, touch, and taste in you are each deceived; the ear alone most safely believes. I believe all that the Son of God has spoken; there is nothing truer than this word of Truth. On the cross only the Divinity was hidden, but here the Humanity is also concealed. Yet believing and confessing both, I ask for what the repentant thief requested. I do not see wounds as Thomas did, but I confess you as my God. Make me believe ever more in you, hope in you, and love you. O memorial of the Lord's death! Living Bread that gives life to man! Grant that my soul may live on you, and that it may always taste your sweetness. Loving pelican, Jesus my Lord, cleanse me, an unclean one, by your Blood, of which one drop can free the whole world from all its sins. Jesus, whom I now see hidden, I pray that what I so desire may come to pass — that seeing you at last unveiled, I may be blessed by the vision of your glory. Amen.