{"id":3102,"date":"2017-06-15T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/01\/adore-te-devote\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T06:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:21:05","slug":"adore-te-devote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2017\/06\/adore-te-devote\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoro Te Devote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/0128831-e.jpg\" alt=\"0128831-e.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"438\" \/><br \/>\nYearning, I adore you, wondrous hidden God,<br \/>\nBread of Life by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart.<br \/>\nGive me now the faith that sees darkly through the veil,<br \/>\nLet your presence draw me in where my senses fail.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing, touching, tasting, fail to grasp you, Lord.<br \/>\nHearing only stirs up faith; faith clings to your word.<br \/>\nThis is truth enough for me: all that you have said.<br \/>\nFaith alone discerns your Face, radiant Living Bread.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing you upon the Cross, flesh and blood I find;<br \/>\nHere your flesh and blood are hid, veiled in sacred signs.<br \/>\nTrusting in your mercy, like the dying thief,<br \/>\nI confess you, God and Man; this is my belief.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Thomas touching, probing hands and side,<br \/>\nI see not but name you still God and Prince of Life.<br \/>\nHold me in your presence, stronger make my faith,<br \/>\nBolder make my hope in you, fire me with Love\u2019s flame.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful memorial of the Crucified!<br \/>\nSacred Banquet, Bread from heav\u2019n, Dayspring splaying light!<br \/>\nLet your life be life to me, feed and feast my mind,<br \/>\nBe to me the sweetness I was meant to find.<\/p>\n<p>In the wounded Pelican, faith sees something more.<br \/>\nShe with blood sustains her young; you your blood outpoured<br \/>\nAll the world to cleanse of sin. Bathe me in that tide,<br \/>\nThough a single drop makes pure those drawn to your side.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, here your Face is hid, from my sight concealed,<br \/>\nHow I thirst to meet your gaze gloriously revealed!<br \/>\nAfter life\u2019s obscurity, let me wake to see<br \/>\nBeauty shining from your Face for eternity. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Original Latin text: Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)<br \/>\nEnglish translation: M.D.K., 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yearning, I adore you, wondrous hidden God, Bread of Life by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart. Give me now the faith that sees darkly through the veil, Let your presence draw me in where my senses fail. Seeing, touching, tasting, fail to grasp you, Lord. Hearing only stirs up faith; faith clings to your <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eucharistic-face-of-christ","category-holy-eucharist","category-prayers-of-mine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-O2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15777,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/15777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}