I can't say I'm in a much better frame of mind than last week, but I'm trying to improve it. Here's the literal translation for the Latin; there are plenty of poetic translations, but as I sing it in Latin, I prefer the literal.
- I devoutly adore you, O hidden Deity,
- Truly hidden beneath these appearances.
- My whole heart submits to you,
- And in contemplating you,
- It surrenders itself completely.
- Sight, touch, taste are all deceived
- In their judgment of you,
- But hearing suffices firmly to believe.
- I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;
- There is nothing truer than this word of truth.
- On the cross only the divinity was hidden,
- But here the humanity is also hidden.
- I believe and confess both,
- And ask for what the repentant thief asked.
- I do not see the wounds as Thomas did,
- But I confess that you are my God.
- Make me believe more and more in you,
- Hope in you, and love you.
- O memorial of our Lord's death!
- Living bread that gives life to man,
- Grant my soul to live on you,
- And always to savor your sweetness.
- Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,
- wash me clean with your blood,
- One drop of which can free
- the entire world of all its sins.
- Jesus, whom now I see hidden,
- I ask you to fulfill what I so desire:
- That the sight of your face being unveiled
- I may have the happiness of seeing your glory. Amen
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