Sacris solemniis iuncta sint gaudia

Let us with hearts renew’d,
Our grateful homage pay;
And welcome with triumphant songs
This ever-blessed day.

Upon this hallow’d night
Christ with his brethren ate,
Obedient to the olden law,
The Pasch before Him set.

Which done, Himself entire,
The true Incarnate God,
Alike on each, alike on all,
His sacred hands bestow’d.

He gave his Flesh; He gave
His precious Blood; and said,
“Receive, and drink ye all of this,
For your salvation shed.”

Thus did the Lord appoint
This Sacrifice sublime,
And made his Priests its ministers
Through all the bounds of time.

Farewell to types! Henceforth
We feed on Angels’ food:
The guilty slave—oh, wonder! — eats
The Body of his God!

O Blessed Three in One!
Visit our hearts, we pray;
And lead us on through thine own paths
To thy eternal Day.