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325b | Common Praise#326 | 327 |
Text: | The heavenly Word, proceeding forth |
Author: | St Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274 |
Translator: | J. M. Neale |
Translator: | Edward Caswall |
Tune: | VERBUM SUPERNUM |
PART 1 -
1 The heavenly Word, proceeding forth
yet leaving not the Father’s side,
accomplishing his work on earth
had reached at length life’s eventide.
2 By false disciple to be given
to foemen for his life athirst,
himself, the very bread of heaven,
he gave to his disciples first.
*3 He gave himself in either kind,
his precious flesh, his precious blood;
in love's own fullness thus designed
of the whole man to be the food.
*4 By birth their fellow-man was he,
their meat, when sitting at the board;
he died, our ransomer to be;
he ever reigns, their great reward.
PART TWO -
5 O saving Victim, opening wide
the gate of heaven on from every side:
thine aid supply, thy strength bestow.
6 All praise and thanks to thee ascend
for evermore, blest One in Three;
O grant us life that shall not end
in our true native land with thee. Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The heavenly Word, proceeding forth |
Author: | St Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274 |
Translator: | J. M. Neale |
Translator: | Edward Caswall |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Holy Communion; Maundy Thursday |
Notes: | Other translators also |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VERBUM SUPERNUM |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | G Major |