Lyrics
Sense Guide for Chanting
1. _Adóro te _ devote, _latens déitas,
1. I adore you devoutly, hidden God,
Quae, _ sub __ his __figures, ____ vere _látitas.
Who, beneath these appearances, truly are hidden.
_ Tibi __se___ cor __meum _ totum súbjicit,
To you itself the heart of mine _whole submits,
(My whole heart submits to you)
_ Quia, _ te contémplans, ____totum____ déficit.
Because you contemplating, completely surrenders.
(____, by contemplating you, it_________________itself)
2. Visus, tactus, gustus, in te fállitur,
2. Sight, _touch, _taste,_in you fail.
Sed audítu solo _tuto créditur.
But _ear alone _all to believe (is enough).
_Credo _ quidquid ____ dixit _Dei _Fílius.
I believe everything (that) said God the Son.
_ Nil _____ hoc verbo veritátis _ vérius.
Nothing like this word of truth _is truer.
3. In _ cruce ___ latébat ___sola déitas,
3. On the cross was hidden only divinity,
At _ hic _latet simul__ et humánitas.
But here hides as well___ humanity.
Ambo tamen _ credens atque cónfitens,
Both, however I believe _ and _confess,
Peto quod petívit ________ latro pénitens.
I ask what asked for by the thief repenting.
4. _ Plagas, __sicut Thomas, non intúeor.
4. The wounds, like Thomas, I cannot see.
_______ (as opposed to Thomas)______
Deum tamen _ meum _ te confíteor.
God _however of mine I confess you.
Fac _ me _ tibi _semper _ magis crédere,
Make me in you always __ more believe
____________________ (believe more)
In_te _spem habére, te _dilígere.
In you hope _to have, you to love.
(_ to hope in you, ___ to love you)
5. Oh memoriále _ mortis ____ Dómini,
5. O memorial _ of the death of the Lord,
Panis vivus __ vitam __praestans hómini,
Bread living that life____ gives __ to man,
Praesta meae menti _ de te __ vívere,
_Grant __ my soul __ on you _to live,
Et __ te illi semper _ dulce _sápere.
And you__ always __sweet to taste.
6._Pie pellicáne, Iesu, Dómine,
6. Pious pelican, Jesus, Lord,
(in classical mythology, the pelican tears its chest apart with his beak so that its breed drink his blood).
Me inmúndum munda _ tuo sánguine,
Me, _ filthy, __ clean _with your blood,
_Cuius _ una stilla salvum fácere
Of which _ a drop __save __can
__________________(can save)
Totum mundum quit ab _ omni scélere.
_ All _ the world__ from __ every _sin.
7. Iesu, quem _velátum nunc aspício,
7. Jesus, whom hidden _now_ I see,
Oro ___ fiat __ illud _quod tam ___ sítio:
I pray be done this __that so much I thirst:
Ut ___ te, ___reveláta cernens fácie,
That of yours, unveiled I see_ the face,
(that when I'll see your face,)
Visu_______sim__ beatus___ tuae gloriae.
Thru the sight may I be happy_of your glory.
(I may be happy in seeing your glory.)
Amen.
Amen.
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