benediction

Eucharistic hymn and incensation

Toward the end the priest or deacon goes to the altar, genuflects, and kneels. As a hymn or other eucharistic song is sung, the minister, while kneeling, incenses the sacrament if the exposition has taken place with the monstrance. (One of the following hymns may be sung:)

* Tantum ergo sacraméntum venerémur cernui, et antíquum documéntum novo cedat rítui; præstet fides supleméntum sensuum deféctui.

Genitóri Genitóque laus et iubilátio, salus, honor, virtus quoque sit et benedictio; procedénti ab utróque compar sit laudátio. Amen.

or:

Bowing low, then, offer homage To a Sacrament so great! Here is new and perfect worship; All the old must terminate. Senses cannot grasp this marvel: Faith must serve to compensate.

Praise and glorify the Father, Bless His Son’s life-giving name, Singing their eternal Godhead, Power, majesty and fame, Offering their Holy Spirit Equal worship and acclaim. Amen.

℣. Panem de cælo præstitísti eis. (T.P. Alleluia).

℟. Omne delectamentum in se habentem. (T.P. Alleluia).

℣. You have given them Bread from heaven (P.T. Alleluia).

℟. Having all sweetness within it (P.T. Alleluia).

Prayer

Afterward the minister rises and sings or says:

Oremus.

Deus qui nobis sub sacramento mirábili, passionis tuæ memoriam reliquísti: *

tríbue quǽsumus, *

ita nos córporis et sánguinis tui sacra mysteria venerári, ut redemptiónis tuæ fructum in nobis iúgiter sentiámus. * Qui vivis et regnas in sǽcula sæculorum.

℟. Amen.

or:

Let us pray.

Lord Jesus Christ, you gave us the Eucharist as the memorial of your suffering and death. May our worship of this sacrament of your body and blood help us to experience the salvation you won for us and the peace of the kingdom where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

℟. Amen.

Eucharistic Blessing

After the prayer the priest or deacon puts on the humeral veil, genuflects, and takes the monstrance or ciborium. He makes the sign of the cross over the people with the monstrance or ciborium, in silence. (Afterwards, the divine praises may be said:)

Blessed be God. Blessed be His Holy Name. Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Blessed be the Name of Jesus. Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart. Blessed be His Most Precious Blood. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy. Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be her glorious Assumption. Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother. Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse. Blessed be God in His Angels and in His saints. Amen.

Reposition

After that the priest or deacon who gave the blessing, or another priest or deacon, replaces the blessed sacrament in the tabernacle and genuflects. Meanwhile the people may sing or say an acclamation, and the minister then leaves. (One of the following songs may be sung:)

O Sacrament Most Holy O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving Be every moment Thine, Be every moment Thine.

or:

Holy God, we praise thy name! Lord of all, we bow before thee; All on earth thy scepter claim, All in heav’n above adore thee; Infinite thy vast domain, Everlasting is thy reign.

or:

Laudáte Dóminum omnes gentes; Laudáte eum omnes pópuli. Quóniam confirmáta est super nos misericórdia eius; Et véritas Dómini manet in ætérnum. Glória Patri . . .