~ Pange Lingua ~ Today, Catholics are familiar with the Pange Lingua primarily from its use during the procession at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday evening, when the Body of Christ is removed from the tabernacle and transferred to another place to be kept overnight, while the altar is stripped bare. This is a traditional English translation of the Pange Lingua. Pange Lingua Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s glory, of His flesh the mystery sing; of the Blood, all price exceeding, shed

Sing the “Tantum Ergo” in Latin with Pope Leo XIV, the last two verses of “Pange Lingua,” the Eucharistic Hymn written by St. Thomas Aquinas for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. Pope Leo XIV celebrated Holy Mass at St. John Lateran with procession with the Eucharist to St. Mary Major’s Basilica. Latin text: Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui: et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui: praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui. Genitori, Genitoque laus et iubilatio, salus, honor, virtus qu