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Thomas Aquinas — Adoro Te Devote
By Thomas AquinasSource: Thomas Aquinas - Adoro Te Devote (Eucharistic Hymn, c.1264) - Public Domain61 words
Humbly I adore Thee, hidden Deity, which beneath these figures art concealed from me. Wholly in submission Thee my spirit hails, for in contemplating Thee it wholly fails. Sight and touch and taste are each deceived in Thee, but the hearing only merits faith in me. I believe whatever God's own Son averred: nothing can be truer than Truth's very word.
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