So Many Blessings and Miracles from Our Godhead!

 

Godhead Here in Hiding - Thomas Aquinas from 1227AD

I love this song attributed to Thomas Aquinas from 1227AV, it has been around for almost 800 years. It is beautiful and a real tribute to God, putting Him on high! The song was fitting for mass this week as it is The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe! It was a beautiful and special mass with incense and all! At the end a young Latina girl was celebrating her Quincenera, 15th birthday, she was all decked out in a hoop red dress, typical of Latinas. Very nice. The priest did a special prayer for her. I hope you enjoy this song and the message.  I love the 4th verse of this song:

 "I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,

But can plainly call thee Lord and God as he;

Let me to a deeper faith daily nearer move,

Daily make me harder hope and dearer love."

Praying to be more Christlike each day. As I receive communion I always ask as I receive Jesus, the host, that it help me be more like Jesus each day. While not there yet, hoping each day to get closer. None of us are perfect, but if we can work each day to try and be more like Jesus Christ, love everybody always, be slow to anger, forgive, have compassion and love for all, and just keep trying and asking God to help us be more like Jesus when he was on this Earth in human form. I love when it says, "daily make me harder hope and dearer love," this made me cry today as we sang it! 

This song is a beautiful old song and I love when they sing it at church!  It is a miracle and blessing and God worked through Thomas Aquinas to create it, we all need to give complete homage to God, this song really does justice! Enjoy!  

Here is the song in its entirety:

1. Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,

Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,

See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart

Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

2. Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived:

How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;

What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;

Truth himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.

3. On the cross thy godhead made no sign to men,

Here thy very manhood steals from human ken:

Both are my confession, both are my belief,

And I pray the prayer of the dying thief.

4. I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,

But can plainly call thee Lord and God as he;

Let me to a deeper faith daily nearer move,

Daily make me harder hope and dearer love.

5. O thou our reminder of Christ crucified,

Living Bread, the life of us for whom he died,

Lend this life to me then: feed and feast my mind,

There be thou the sweetness man was meant to find.

6. Bring the tender tale true of the Pelican;

Bathe me, Jesu Lord, in what thy bosom ran---

Blood whereof a single drop has power to win

All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

7. Jesu, whom I look at shrouded here below,

I beseech thee send me what I thirst for so,

Some day to gaze on thee face to face in light

And be blest for ever with thy glory's sight.

Amen.