Traditional Catholic prayer
Adoro Te Devote: Eucharistic Hymn of St. Thomas Aquinas
Adoro Te Devote adores Jesus truly present in the Eucharist and asks for faith, hope, and love. Lasance attributes the hymn to St. Thomas Aquinas and identifies this English translation as Judge O’Hagan’s.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, pages 533-534.
Hidden God, devoutly I adore Thee, Truly present underneath these veils: All my heart subdues itself before Thee, Since it all before Thee faints and fails.
Not to sight, or taste, or touch be credit; Hearing only do we trust secure; I believe, for God the Son hath said it, Word of Truth that ever shall endure.
On the cross was veiled Thy Godhead’s splendor, Here Thy manhood lieth hidden too; Unto both alike my faith I render, And as sued the contrite thief, I sue.
Though I look not on Thy wounds with Thomas, Thee, my Lord, and Thee, my God I call: Make me more and more believe Thy promise, Hope in Thee, and love Thee over all.
O memorial of my Saviour dying, Living Bread that givest life to man; May my soul, its life from Thee supplying, Taste Thy sweetness, as on earth it can.
Deign, O Jesus, Pelican of heaven, Me, a sinner, in Thy blood to lave, To a single drop of which is given All the world from all its sin to save.
Contemplating, Lord, Thy hidden presence, Grant me what I thirst for and implore, In the revelation of Thine essence To behold Thy glory evermore.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, pages 533-534.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- Adoro Te Devote adores Jesus truly present in the Eucharist and asks for faith, hope, and love. Lasance attributes the hymn to St. Thomas Aquinas and identifies this English translation as Judge O’Hagan’s.
- Prayer intention
- Faith in the Eucharist and desire to behold Jesus.
- When to pray
- During Eucharistic adoration or thanksgiving after Communion.
- Connection with a saint
St. Thomas Aquinas: Traditional attribution. With God (1911), page 533, names St. Thomas Aquinas in the heading of this prayer. Read the source.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, pages 533-534. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
Adoro Te Devote: Eucharistic Hymn of St. Thomas Aquinas
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, pages 533-534.
Hidden God, devoutly I adore Thee, Truly present underneath these veils: All my heart subdues itself before Thee, Since it all before Thee faints and fails.
Not to sight, or taste, or touch be credit; Hearing only do we trust secure; I believe, for God the Son hath said it, Word of Truth that ever shall endure.
On the cross was veiled Thy Godhead’s splendor, Here Thy manhood lieth hidden too; Unto both alike my faith I render, And as sued the contrite thief, I sue.
Though I look not on Thy wounds with Thomas, Thee, my Lord, and Thee, my God I call: Make me more and more believe Thy promise, Hope in Thee, and love Thee over all.
O memorial of my Saviour dying, Living Bread that givest life to man; May my soul, its life from Thee supplying, Taste Thy sweetness, as on earth it can.
Deign, O Jesus, Pelican of heaven, Me, a sinner, in Thy blood to lave, To a single drop of which is given All the world from all its sin to save.
Contemplating, Lord, Thy hidden presence, Grant me what I thirst for and implore, In the revelation of Thine essence To behold Thy glory evermore.