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Tantum Ergo

The Holy Eucharist

Tantum Ergo
Jan and Hubert van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece · Altarpiece · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Tantum ergo Sacramentumveneremur cernui:et antiquum documentumnovo cedat ritui:praestet fides supplementumsensuum defectui.

Genitori, Genitoquelaus et iubilatio,salus, honor, virtus quoquesit et benedictio:procedenti ab utroquecompar sit laudatio.Amen.

In 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 proceedingForth from Each eternally,Be salvation, honour, blessing,Might and endless majesty.Amen.

English translation by Edward Caswall (1849).