Adoro Te Devote Prayer Lyrics

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.

Jesu, Eternal Shepherd! Hear Our Cry;
Increase The Faith Of All Whose Souls On Thee Rely.

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.

Ave Jesu, Pastor Fidélium;
Adáuge Fidem Ómnium In Te Credéntium.

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.

Ave Jesu, Pastor Fidélium;
Adáuge Fidem Ómnium In Te Credéntium.

Thy Wounds, As Thomas Saw, I Do Not See;
Yet Thee Confess My Lord And God To Be;
Make Me Believe Thee Evermore And More;
In Thee My Hope, In Thee My Love To Store.

Ave Jesu, Pastor Fidélium;
Adáuge Fidem Ómnium In Te Credéntium.

O Thou Memorial Of Our Lord’s Own Dying!
O Living Bread, To Mortals Life Supplying!
Make Thou My Soul Henceforth On Thee To Live,
Ever A Taste Of Heavenly Sweetness Give.

Ave Jesu, Pastor Fidélium;
Adáuge Fidem Ómnium In Te Credéntium.

O Loving Pelican! O Jesus Lord!
Unclean I Am, But Cleanse Me In Thy Blood!
Of Which A Single Drop, For Sinners Split,
Can Purge The Entire World From All Its Guilt.

Ave Jesu, Pastor Fidélium;
Adáuge Fidem Ómnium In Te Credéntium.

Jesus, Whom, For The Present, Veil’d I See,
What I So Thirst For, Oh! Vouchsafe To Me;
That I May See Thy Contenance Unfolding,
And May Be Blest Thy Glory In Beholding.

Ave Jesu, Pastor Fidélium;
Adáuge Fidem Ómnium In Te Credéntium.