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Adoro te devote

Language: Latin

Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, quae sub his figuris vere latitas: 
tibi se cor meum totum subiicit, 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, Iesu Domine, me immundum munda tuo sanguine; 
cuius una stilla salvum facere totum mundum quit ab omni scelere. 
Iesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio, oro fiat illud quod tam sitio; 
ut te revelata cernens facie, visu sim beatus tuae gloriae. Amen.


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Date added to the website: 2008-08-09.

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