"O Sacred Banquet In Which Christ Is Received"

"...See today before us laid

The living and life-giving Bread, 

Theme for praise and joy profound:

The same which at the sacred table

Was, by our incarnate Lord,

Giv'n to his apostles round.

Let the praise be loud and high;

Sweet and tranquil be the joy

Felt today in every breast;

On this festival divine,

Which records the origin

Of the glorious Eucharist.

On this table of the King,

Our new paschal offering

Brings to end the olden rite.

Here, for empty shadows fled,

Is reality instead;

Here, instead of darkness, light..."


(From the Sequence Lauda Sion for Corpus Christi)