For those worried about the authorship of Adoro Te, the overwhelming consensus today is that Thomas is in fact the author. If you want to review the argument, you can consult Jean-Pierre Torrell's St. Thomas Aquinas, vol. 1: The Person and His Work, pp. 132-136.

...the divergences in thought...

Interesting!
Could you elaborate for one who is not a Summa scholar?

Interesting!
Could you elaborate for one who is not a Summa scholar?

I was referring to Connelly in the quote from his book, I am not a scholar of the Summa either, but recognise that Connelly had read all of the scholarly works on Hymns before starting his master piece.

The quote is below, until someone can explain these divergences AND explain why a Missal reference attributing the 'Adoro te' to St. Thomas is relevant in a section full of other mistakes...

Some have also thought that there are divergencies of thought and expression between the Summa of St. Thomas and the 'Adoro te'. The theologian who wrote 'In hoc sacramento null set deceptio' and 'In hoc sacramento veritatis sensus non decipitur circa ea quorum judicium ad ipsum pertinet' would they think scarcely have written, even in poetry, 'Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur'. On the other hand there is the strictest possible correspondence between the Summa and the 'Lauda Sion'.
Moreover the workmanship seems different from that of St. Thomas, and the feeling of the hymn, beautiful though it is, seems to reflect quite a different soul from that of the writer of the last verses of each of St. Thomas's compositions.

Hey there.... Beginning with v. 1.

So, beginning with v. 1 -
Adoro te devote latens Veritas (or Deitas)
Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen
Te quae sub his formis vere latitas (or ...sub figuris...)
Who thy glory hidest 'neath these shadows mean
Tibi se cor meum totum subicit
Lo, to thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed,
Quia te contemplans totum defict.
Tranced as it beholds thee, shrined within the cloud.

I don't pretend to be the Latin scholar that our honourable Kathy is, but it doesn't seem to me that, with the possible exception of the liberty taken with 'lo, to thee surrendered', 'tranced', and 'shrined within the cloud', this is lacking in faithfulness to the Latin. It is admirably graceful and mirrors beautifully the original - whoever wrote it.

I do believe that veritas is considered the better reading than deitas, and that, obviously, 'verity' is a more profound reading than the rather dull and generic 'deity', or maybe even 'Godhead', though 'Godhead', although it's a little clunky, is certainly better than 'deity'.

While I genuinely like GMH's version, it seems to me that the Douglas-Pusey version ('Humbly...') is a more gracious and musical one. Though I regard this as objectively true and self-evident, I'll begrudgingly grant that perhaps that's because I grew up with it and it just rolls naturally from my lips. But, I would never say a bad word about GMH's.

DYTTWCEB?

Hmmm.
Now I'm curious, Kathy.
I didn't know that there was another 'Humbly'.
(Humph! An imposter? a poseur?)
Where did the one you know come from?
Can you quote it?

(This Douglas-Pusey version that I quote is from no. 204 in The Hymnal 1940.)

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Shadows versus figures -
Hmmm -
Who thy glory hidest 'neath these shadows mean
or
Who thy glory hidest 'neath these figures mean

Don't you think that shadows is rhythmically smoother and more euphonius - and sings better?
You're right, though, that shadows does seem weaker than figures?
But, try singing ...'neath these figures mean. It just doesn't ring right to me.
Hmm. Perhaps there is yet a better word? It's that ugly and stumbly '-igures' that bothers me.

Thanks for ferreting this out, Orgelmeister -
I have the Collected Hymns, Sequences... of JMN, so you'd think I would have checked it.

I'll quote Neale's version here. One will note that it is quite different from the Pusey-Douglas version that I quoted above and which is in The Hymnal 1940.

Here are both, Pusey-Douglas vs. Neale, for line by line comparison, Neale's being the italicised lines -

Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen
Humbly I adore thee, hidden Deity,
Who thy glory hidest 'neath these shadows mean
Which beneath these figures art concealed from me
Lo, to thee surrendered, my whole heart is bowed
Wholly in submission thee my spirit hails
Tranced as it beholds thee, shrined within the cloud.
For in contemplating thee it wholly fails.

Giving Neale his well-deserved due, I think it fairly apparent that Pusey's work is remarkably more sensitive, musical, and graceful.

...it doesn't sound right...

Right you are, Kyle!
...because it is without literary merit.
It has but one virtue: it does manage, in verse, to be an almost exact translation.
But that does not redeem its incredibly pedestrian, almost infantile syntax.
It's rather like reading an artless rhyme from a Dick and Jane primer.
Too, this version, as it appears at no. 556 in Worship IV, has the syllabification of the third line utterly wrong, obviously to accommodate the gratuitous omission of a neume and one of the podatuses found in the authentic melody.

GIA and ICEL were literally 'scraping the bottom' with this unlettered version.
They also get an 'F' for what they have done to the authentic melody and syllable placement in the third line.
And! It wasn't even necessary!

Yes, Kyle, it is.
I hadn't thought of it as 4/4, but I suppose you've uncovered their remarkably, brazenly, presumptuous and untutored rationale.
It is plainchant, after all!
Only a Catholic publisher (an important one, yet!) would perpetrate something so unscholarly as this and publish it with a straight face in what they vainly imagine to be a hymnal of note. Pity those unwitting souls who will cluelessly sing it.

Were I thinking of teaching children 5 hymns, I would want selections that offered a bit of versatility, since 5 hymns is probably near the total number you can reliable get a large group to commit to memory. Conveniently, I think there are listed on this thread a number of selections that will do quite nicely for all purposes for communion, for post-communion hymns of thanksgiving, and for Eucharistic hymns during adoration/processions. I will only say I would tend to pick mostly hymns that work well in English and also in Latin, thus opening the door to the Latin even if you begin with the English. Also, since we are speaking of children, I would pick things that have language and concepts that will make at least some sense to the children even at a young age, but offer enough depth that the meaning will unfold more deeply as they mature, thus giving them something of life long value.

Our school c.1980s sang lots of English Hymns, mainly Marian. I remember them when I hear them, but don't get the chance to sing them.

As for communion hymns, I am sure my parish sang, c.1980
Soul of my Saviour
O Sacrament Most Holy

We have also been asked to sing, after Mass,
Jesus, Thou Art Coming

We sing at the E.F. so don't get the chance to sing in English more than a few times a year. The 50 children at our Sunday Mass are growing up with chant instead.

1. Some form of Taste and See
2. Gift of Finest Wheat
3. Some form of Adoro Te Devote in English
4. Eat This Bread (Taize) - can be used to teach harmony or introduce those not familiar with antiphonal singing. Also ideal for singing while in the communion line. Also many parishes in the US are familiar with this hymn. Widely used.
5. Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
6. Bonus suggestion- Panis Angelicus- perhaps Lambillotte

1. Soul of my Saviour (Pope John XXII, tr. Fr. E. Caswall, to ANIMA CHRISTI)
2. Godhead here in hiding (St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fr. G. M. Hopkins SJ, to ADORO TE)
3. Draw nigh and take/Draw near and take (modern version) (tr. J. M. Neale, to GUSTATE)
4. Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all (Fr. F. W. Faber, to SWEET SACRAMENT)
5. Sweet Sacrament divine (Fr. F. Stanfield, to DIVINE MYSTERIES)
6. Let all mortal flesh keep silence (tr. G. Moultrie, to PICARDY)
7. O Bread of Heaven (St. Alphonsus de Liguori, tr. Fr. E. Vaughan CSsR, to ST CATHERINE)
8. I heard the voice of Jesus say (H. Bonar, to KINGSFOLD)
9. Firmly I believe and truly (St. John Henry Newman, to DRAKES BROUGHTON)

If you are in Australia, I would add this classic J. MacAuley (text)/R. Connolly (tune) hymn:
10. By your priestly power, O risen Lord (J. MacAuley, to TRAVALLI)

How about "Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor" sung to ST OSMUND by Healey Willan!