Traditional Catholic prayer
Tantum Ergo
Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Source: The Raccolta: Collection of Indulgenced Prayers and Good Works (1910), Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, page 78.
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, newer rites of grace prevail; faith for all defects supplying, where the feeble senses fail.
To the everlasting Father, and the Son Who reigns on high, with the Holy Ghost proceeding forth from Each eternally, be salvation, honour, blessing, might, and endless majesty.
About this prayer
Prayer source
The Raccolta: Collection of Indulgenced Prayers and Good Works (1910), Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, page 78.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- The Tantum Ergo is the closing part of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Pange Lingua hymn. This page uses the English and Latin printed together in the 1910 Raccolta.
- Prayer intention
- Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
- When to pray
- It may be prayed during the day, in the evening and at any time.
- Languages
- English and Latin
- Latin prayer source
- The Raccolta: Collection of Indulgenced Prayers and Good Works (1910), Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, page 78. View the Latin source.
- English prayer source
- The Raccolta: Collection of Indulgenced Prayers and Good Works (1910), Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, page 78. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
Tantum Ergo
Source: The Raccolta: Collection of Indulgenced Prayers and Good Works (1910), Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, page 78.
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, newer rites of grace prevail; faith for all defects supplying, where the feeble senses fail.
To the everlasting Father, and the Son Who reigns on high, with the Holy Ghost proceeding forth from Each eternally, be salvation, honour, blessing, might, and endless majesty.