2/25/24
O God, devoutly I adore
You hidden in what’s shown
Where contemplation fails, still more
My heart is Yours alone
Where senses fail, my hearing finds
A reason to believe
The Truth, the Word who fills our minds
And never will deceive
While on the Cross, Divinity
Lay hid, yet in belief
I trust here Your Humanity
With that repentant thief
Your wounds, like Thomas, I don’t see
My God I still confess
More faith and hope, more charity
I ask in me to bless
Your death, O Lord, remembered here
Yet Living Bread You give
My soul I ask, while savored dear
Your sweetness, ever live
Good Pelican, Lord Jesus, cleanse
My soul with saving Blood
One drop of which makes full amends
For us, with grace You flood
O Jesus, hidden here, I ask
What deeply now I seek
That seeing You with face unmasked
Eternal bliss I reach
(Poetic translation of Adoro Te Devote by St. Thomas Aquinas)
Pilgrim Poet 