Te Deum Laudamus (Latin for “We Praise You, God”) is one of the oldest Christian hymns still used in the Church today.
We praise you, O God: we acknowledge you to be the Lord. All the earth worships you, the Father everlasting. To you all angels cry aloud: the heavens, and all the powers therein. To you cherubim and seraphim continually cry, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of the majesty of your glory.” The glorious company of the apostles praise you. The noble fellowship of the prophets praise you. The white-robed army of martyrs praise you. The holy Church throughout all the world does acknowledge you: the Father of an infinite majesty; your honorable, true, and only Son; also the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.
You are the King of glory, O Christ; you are the everlasting Son of the Father. When you took it upon yourself to deliver man, you did not abhor the Virgin’s womb. When you had overcome the sharpness of death, you opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. You sit at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father. We believe that you shall come to be our Judge. We therefore ask you, help your servants, whom you have redeemed with your precious blood. Make us to be numbered with your saints in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save your people, and help your heritage. Govern us, and lift us up forever. Day by day we magnify you; and we worship your name forever, world without end. Graciously grant, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us; have mercy upon us. O Lord, let your mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is in you. O Lord, in you have I trusted: let me never be confounded.