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Tantum Ergo

The concluding stanzas of Pange lingua, sung at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui; et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui; praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui.

Genitori Genitoque laus et iubilatio, salus, honor, virtus quoque sit et benedictio; procedenti ab utroque compar sit laudatio. Amen.

V. Panem de caelo praestitisti eis. R. Omne delectamentum in se habentem.

Deus, qui nobis sub Sacramento mirabili passionis tuae memoriam reliquisti: tribue, quaesumus, ita nos Corporis et Sanguinis tui sacra mysteria venerari, ut redemptionis tuae fructum in nobis iugiter sentiamus. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

English

Down in adoration falling, lo, the sacred Host we hail; lo, o’er ancient forms departing newer rites of grace prevail; faith for all defects supplying where the feeble senses fail.

To the everlasting Father and the Son who reigns on high, with the Holy Ghost proceeding forth from each eternally, be salvation, honour, blessing, might and endless majesty. Amen.

V. Thou hast given them bread from heaven. R. Having in itself all delight.

O God, who in this wondrous Sacrament hast left us a memorial of Thy Passion, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so venerate the sacred mysteries of Thy Body and Blood as always to experience within us the fruit of Thy redemption. Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.

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