Tantum Ergo - Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse, Sarah Connolly, & Christopher Maltman, Vasari Singers, Maurice Duruflé

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 cenae

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 iubilatio

Salus, honor, virtus quoque

Sit et benedictio:

Procedenti ab utroque

Compar sit laudatio.

Amen

Pange, tongue, glorious

The mystery of the body

And precious blood

What is the price in the world?

The fruit of the noble belly

The king poured out the nations

Given to us, born to us

From the virgin Virgin

And in the world conversed

Sow the seed of the word

He stayed uninhabited

Mira closed the order

At the last night's dinner

Lying down with his brothers

Please read in full

The food is legal

Food for a crowd of twelve

He gives himself into his own hands

The word is flesh, the true bread

He makes flesh with the Word:

And the blood of Christ becomes pure

And if the meaning fails

To strengthen the sincere heart

Faith alone is sufficient

So the only mystery

Let's worship Cernui:

And an old document

Give way to a new ritual:

Faith provides a supplement

Lack of senses

Father and the Son

Praise and joy

Health, honor, and virtue also

And be a blessing:

Proceeding from both sides

Let it be praise.

Amen