The Catholic's pocket prayer-book/Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
O SALUTARIS HOSTIA.
O saving Victim, slain to bless,
Who openest heaven's bright gates to all;
The attacks of many a foe oppress;
Give strength in strife, and help in fall.
To God, the Three in One, ascend
All thanks and praise forevermore;
He grant the life that shall not end,
Upon the heavenly country's shore.
Amen.
TANTUM ERGO.
Therefore, we, before it bending,
This great Sacrament adore:
Types and shadows have their ending
In the new rite evermore:
Faith, our outward sense amending,
Maketh good defects before.
Honor, laud, and praise addressing
To the Father and the Son,
Might ascribe we, virtue, blessing,
And eternal benison.
Holy Ghost from both progressing,
Equal laud to thee be done. Amen.
Thou hast given them bread from heaven. Alleluia.
Replenished with all sweetness and delight. Alleluia.
Let us pray.
O God, who hast left us in this wonderful Sacrament a perpetual memorial of thy passion: grant us, we beseech thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of thy body and blood, that we may continually find in our souls the fruit of thy redemption. Thou who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.
