106. Hymn of St Thomas Aquinas
Who truly art within latitas; the forms before me; Tibi se cor meum totum To Thee my heart I bow subjicit, with bended knee, Quia te contemplans, to- As failing quite in con- tum deficit. templating Thee. Visus, tactus, gustus, in Sight,touch,and taste in te fallitur, Thee are each deceived; Sed auditu solo tuto cre- The ear alone most ditur; safely is believed: 106 Leo XIII, Ind. June 15, 1895. THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Credo quidquid dixit DEI FILIUs, Nil hoc verbo veritatis verius. In cruce latebat sola DEI- TAS, At hic latet simul et hu- manitas: Ambo tamen credens at- que confitens, Peto quod petivit latro peenitens. Plagas sicut Thomas non intueor, Deum tamen meum te confiteor: Fac me tibi semper magis credere, In te spem habere, te dili- gere.
O memoriale mortis Do- MINI, Panis vivus vitam prz- stans homini: Praesta mez menti de te vivere, Et te illi semper dulce sapere. Pie pelicane JESU DoMINE, Me immundum munda tuo sanguine, Cujus una stilla salvum facere Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere. I believe all the Son of Gop has spoken, Than truth's own word there is no truer token. Gop only on the Cross lay hid from view; But here lies hid at once the manhood too: And I, in both profess- ing my belief, | Make the same prayer as the repentant thief. Thy wounds, as Thomas saw, I do not see: Yet thee econtess my Lorp and Gop to be: Make me believe Thee ever more and more; In Thee my hope, in Thee my love to store.
O Thou memorial of our Lonp's own dying!
O living bread, to mor- tals life supplying! Make Thou my soul henceforth on Thee to live; Ever a taste of heavenly sweetness give.
O loving Pelican! OJEsu Lonp! Unclean. "DL anp. buf cleanse me in thy blood! Of which a single drop, for sinners spilt, Can purge the entire world from all its guilt 88 THE BLESSED SACRAMENT jJEsuMquem velatum nunc Jesu! whom for the pre- aspicio, sent veil'd I see, Oro, fiat illud, quod tam What I so thirst for, sitio, oh, vouchsafe to me: Ut te revelata cernens ThatI may see thy coun- facie, tenance unfolding, Visusim beatus tuze glo- And may be blest thy riz. Amen