Eric Choate Three Hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas
T h r e e H y m n s o f S t . T h o m a s A q u i n a s e r i c c h o a t e to Mr. Benjamin Bachmann Adoro Te Devote Text: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Eric Choate (b.1990) Adoro te devote, latens Deitas, Prostrate I adore Thee, Deity unseen, Quæ sub his figuris vere latitas; Who Thy glory hidest 'neath these shadows mean; Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit, Lo, to Thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed, Quia te contemplans totum deficit. Tranced as it beholds Thee, shrined within the cloud. O memoriale mortis Domini! O memorial wondrous of the Lord's own death; Panis vivus, vitam præstans homini! Living Bread, that giveth all Thy creatures breath, Præsta meæ menti de te vívere, Grant my spirit ever by Thy life may live, Et te illi semper dulce sapere. To my taste Thy sweetness never-failing give. Pie Pelicane, Jesu Domine, Pelican of mercy, Jesus, Lord and God, Me immundum munda tuo sanguine: Cleanse me, wretched sinner, in Thy Precious Blood: Cujus una stilla salvum facere Blood where one drop for human-kind outpoured Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere. Might from all transgression have the world restored. Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio, Jesus, whom now veiled, I by faith descry, Oro, fiat illud quod tam sitio: What my soul doth thirst for, do not, Lord, deny, Ut te revelata cernens facie, That thy face unveiled, I at last may see, Visu sim beátus tuæ gloriæ.
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