- Pange, lingua, gloriosi
- Corporis mysterium,
- Sanguinisque pretiosi,
- quem in mundi pretium
- fructus ventris generosi
- Rex effudit Gentium.
- Nobis datus, nobis natus
- ex intacta Virgine,
- et in mundo conversatus,
- sparso verbi semine,
- sui moras incolatus
- miro clausit ordine.
- In supremae nocte coenae
- recumbens cum fratribus
- observata lege plene
- cibis in legalibus,
- cibum turbae duodenae
- se dat suis manibus.
- Verbum caro, panem verum
- verbo carnem efficit:
- fitque sanguis Christi merum,
- et si sensus deficit,
- ad firmandum cor sincerum
- sola fides sufficit.
- Tantum ergo Sacramentum
- veneremur cernui:
- et antiquum documentum
- novo cedat ritui:
- praestet fides supplementum
- sensuum defectui.
- Genitori, Genitoque
- laus et jubilatio,
- salus, honor, virtus quoque
- sit et benedictio:
- Procedenti ab utroque
- compar sit laudatio.
- Amen. Alleluja.
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- Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory,
- of His Flesh, the mystery sing;
- of the Blood, all price exceeding,
- shed by our Immortal King,
- destined, for the world's redemption,
- from a noble Womb to spring.
- Of a pure and spotless Virgin
- born for us on earth below,
- He, as Man, with man conversing,
- stayed, the seeds of truth to sow;
- then He closed in solemn order
- wond'rously His Life of woe.
- On the night of that Last Supper,
- seated with His chosen band,
- He, the Paschal Victim eating,
- first fulfils the Law's command;
- then as Food to His Apostles
- gives Himself with His own Hand.
- Word-made-Flesh, the bread of nature
- by His Word to Flesh He turns;
- wine into His Blood He changes;
- what though sense no change discerns?
- Only be the heart in earnest,
- faith her lesson quickly learns.
- Down in adoration falling,
- This great Sacrament we hail,
- O'er ancient forms of worship
- Newer rites of grace prevail;
- Faith will tell us Christ is present,
- When our human senses fail.
- To the Everlasting Father,
- And the Son who made us free
- And the Spirit, God proceeding
- From them Each eternally,
- Be salvation, honour, blessing,
- Might and endless majesty.
- Amen. Alleluia.
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- Strike, tongue, the mystery
- of the Glorious Body:
- and of the Precious Blood,
- the price which the King,
- the noble Fruit of the Womb,
- poured out for the nations.
- Given to us, born for us
- from an untouched Virgin,
- and engaged in the world;
- he broadcast the seed of the Word,
- and His long-awaited coming
- marvelously closed the Law.
- In the night of that final Supper,
- reclining with His brothers,
- He carries out the full Law
- with the food of the Law.
- He gives himself as Food to the Twelve
- with His own Hands.
- The Incarnate Word
- makes true bread Flesh by a Word,
- and makes wine the Blood of Christ.
- And if the senses are not enough
- to strengthen the sincere heart,
- faith alone shall suffice.
- So, then, we venerate
- the seen Sacrament,
- and the old dispensation
- gives way to a new rite.
- Faith, being superior,
- strengthens the inadequate senses.
- To the Begetter and the Begotten,
- praise and rejoicing;
- health, to Them, honour, strength too,
- and blessing.
- And, to the Proceeder from the Others,
- be like praise.
- Amen, Alleluia.
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