Commontide

After Receiving Communion

O Lord Jesus Christ, in this wonderful Sacrament you have given us a memorial of your passion: Grant us, we pray, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of your redemption; who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Hymnal

Angels we have heard on high

Particularly Appropriate During Christmas

№ 22 · GLORIA · Liturgical Year — Christmas

1.Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the plains,
And the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains.
Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo, Gloria in excelsis Deo.

2.Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
which inspire your heav'nly song? Refrain

3.Come to Bethlehem and see
him whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. Refrain