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O THOMAS, SHINING SPLENDOR BRIGHT
1. O Thomas, shining splendor bright,
The ray of Mother Church’s light;
We sing your merits, rich with grace,
As in your care our praise we place.
2. With simple heart and simple mind
You spread abroad for all mankind
The vision blest of God alone,
Beyond what was to others known.
3. You gazed on myst’ries, great and deep;
With logic sharp, their truth you reap:
And then, this food to ages gave,
Their minds to fill, their souls to save.
4. Your mind was set to hear the voice
Of God’s inspired Spirit’s choice:
To write with shining words the praise
Of Christ and truth, for endless days.
5. In silence raptur’d, modest, pure,
God’s sacred fellowship made sure
Your teaching, like the midday sun
O’er masters old its course to run.
6. We seek the goal the saints now see,
The Three in One and One in Three:
And grant that these new songs we sing
From age to age anew may ring.
ADORO TE DEVOTE
1. Adóro te devóte, latens Déitas,
Quæ sub his figúris, vere látitas:
Tibi se cor meum, totum súbjicit
Quia te contémplans totum déficit.
2. Visus, tactus, gustus in te fállitur,
Sed audítur solo tuto creditur:
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Fílius:
Nil hoc verbo veritátis vérius.
3. In cruce latébat sola Déitas,
At hic latet simul et humánitas:
Ambo tamen credens atque cónfitens,
Peto quod petívit latro pænitens.
4. Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intúeor
Deum tamen meum te confíteor:
Fac me tibi semper magis crédere,
In te spem habére, te dilígere.
5. O memoriále mortis Dómini,
Panis vivus vitam præstans hómini,
Præsta meæ menti de te vívere,
Et te illi semper dulce sápere.
6. Pie pellicáne Jesu Dómine,
Me immúndum munda tuo sánguine,
Cujus una stilla salvum fácere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scélere.
7. Jesu, quem velátum nunc aspício,
Oro fiat illud quod tam sítio:
Ut te reveláta cernens fácie,
Visu sim beátus tuæ gloriæ. [Amen.]
