June 22, 2025
Corpus Christi
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Prelude: Eat This Bread (RS 1033)
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Entrance Hymn: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (RS 717)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
And with fear and trembling stand;
Ponder nothing earthly minded,
For with blessing in his hand
Christ our God to earth descending,
Our full homage to demand.
King of kings, yet born of Mary,
As of old on earth he stood,
Lord of lords in human vesture,
In the Body and the Blood
He will give to all the faithful
His own self for heav’nly food.
Rank on rank the host of heaven
Spreads its vanguard on the way,
As the Light of Light descending
From the realms of endless day,
That the pow’rs of hell may vanish
As the darkness clears away.
At his feet the six-winged seraph,
Cherubim with sleepless eye,
Veil their faces to the Presence,
As with ceaseless voice they cry,
‘Alleluia, alleluia,
Alleluia, Lord, most high!’
Text: Liturgy of St. James, 5th C.; para. by Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885
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Scripture Readings (external link): Corpus Christi
Responsorial: Psalm 110
R: You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.
Preparation Hymn: Bread of Life from Heaven (RS 1035)
Bread of life from heaven, your blood and body given,
we eat this bread and drink this cup until you come again.
Break now the bread of Christ’s sacrifice;
Giving thanks, hungry ones gather round.
Eat, all of you, and be satisfied;
In Christ’s presence the loaves will abound.
Seek not the food that will pass away;
Set your hearts on the food that endures.
Come, learn the true and the living way,
That the fullness of life may be yours.
Love as the One who, in love for you,
Gave himself for the life of the world.
Come to the One who is food for you,
That your hunger and thirst be no more.
Take in the light that will never dim,
Taste the life that is stronger than death.
Live in the One who will come and then
Raise you up at the last with the blest.
Dwell in the One who now dwells in you;
Make your home in the life-giving Word.
Know only Christ, Holy One of God,
And believe in the truth you have heard.
Drink of this cup and declare his death;
Eat this bread and believe Easter morn;
Trust his return and, with ev’ry breath,
Praise the One in whom you are reborn.
Text: Based on John 6; adapt. by Susan R. Briehl, b.1952; Spanish by Jaime Cortez, b.1963, © 2001, GIA Publications, Inc.
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Communion Hymn: This Is Jesus
This is Jesus
Emmanuel God is with us
In this sacrament
Come receive Him adore Him
This is Jesus our Lord
Bright Star of David
Radiance of God
Now become the living bread
The body of the Lord
Come in adoration
Receive with trembling hands
The sacrament most holy
The banquet of the Lamb
Drink of living waters
Flowing from the Lord
Taste the cup of blessing
Partake of precious blood
River of salvation
Holy cleansing tide
Fountain of redemption
Flowing from the Savior’s side
Priest of highest honor
King and Sov’reign Lord
Unblemished Lamb of sacrifice
Your very life outpoured
Royal Paschal victim
True begotten Son
Offered as our ransom
By the Holy One
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Concluding Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (RS 1030)
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!
His the scepter, his the throne.
Alleluia! His the triumph,
His the victory alone.
Hark! The songs of peaceful Zion
Thunder like a mighty flood:
“Jesus out of ev’ry nation
Has redeemed us by his blood.”
Alleluia! Not as orphans
Are we left in sorrow now;
Alleluia! He is near us;
Faith believes, nor questions how.
Though the cloud from sight received him
When the forty days were o’er,
Shall our hearts forget his promise,
“I am with you evermore”?
Alleluia! Bread of angels,
Here on earth our food, our stay!
Alleluia! Here the sinful
Flee to you from day to day.
Intercessor, friend of sinners,
Earth’s redeemer, plead for me,
Where the songs of all the sinless
Sweep across the crystal sea.
Alleluia! King eternal,
You the Lord of lords we own;
Alleluia! Born of Mary,
Earth your footstool, heav’n your throne.
You within the veil, have entered,
Robed in flesh, our great high priest;
Here on earth both priest and victim
In the eucharistic feast.
Text: Revelation 5:9; William C. Dix, 1837-1898
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Alternate Hymn: You Satisfy the Hungry Heart (RS 1028)
You satisfy the hungry heart
With gift of finest wheat;
Come give to us, O saving Lord,
The bread of life to eat.
As when the shepherd calls his sheep,
They know and heed his voice;
So when you call your fam’ly, Lord,
We follow and rejoice.
With joyful lips we sing to you
Our praise and gratitude,
That you should count us worthy, Lord,
To share this heav’nly food.
Is not the cup we bless and share
The blood of Christ outpoured?
Do not one cup, one loaf, declare
Our oneness in the Lord?
The myst’ry of your presence, Lord,
No mortal tongue can tell:
Whom all the world cannot contain
Comes in our hearts to dwell.
You give yourself to us, O Lord;
Then selfless let us be,
To serve each other in your name
In truth and charity.
Text: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1998, © 1977, Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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Alternate Hymn: I Am the Bread of Life (RS 1029)
I am the Bread of life.
You who come to me shall not hunger;
and who believe in me shall not thirst.
No one can come to me
unless the Father beckons.
And I will raise you up,
and I will raise you up,
and I will raise you up on the last day.
The bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world,
and if you eat of this bread,
you shall live for ever,
you shall live for ever.
Unless you eat
of the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink of his blood,
and drink of his blood,
you shall not have life within you.
I am the Resurrection,
I am the life.
If you believe in me,
even though you die,
you shall live for ever.
Yes, Lord, I believe
that you are the Christ,
the Son of God,
Who has come
into the world.
Text: John 6 and 11; Suzanne Toolan, RSM, b.1927 © 1966, 1970, 1986, 1993, 2005, GIA Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Alternate Hymn: Taste and See (RS 1031)
Taste and see, taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
O taste and see, taste and see the goodness of the Lord, of the Lord.
I will bless the Lord at all times. Praise shall always be on my lips;
my soul shall glory in the Lord for God has been so good to me.
Glorify the Lord with me. Together let us all praise God’s name.
I called the Lord who answered me; from all my troubles I was set free.
Worship the Lord, all you people. You’ll want for nothing if you ask.
Taste and see that the Lord is good; in God we need put all our trust.
Text: Psalm 34; James E. Moore, Jr., b.1951, © 1983, GIA Publications, Inc.
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