O sacrum convivium

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O sacrum convivium ( Latin for 'O holy feast') is an antiphon about the mystery of the Eucharist . It serves as an antiphon to the Magnificat of the second Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi , but is also used independently of it. Like all parts of the solid offiziums at Corpus Christi, the O sacrum convivium to St. Thomas Aquinas returned.

O sacrum convivium has often been set to music as a motet , for example by Tomás Luis de Victoria , William Byrd , Andrea Gabrieli , Jacobus Gallus , Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Michel Pignolet de Montéclair , later by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and in the 20th century by Olivier Messiaen , Rolande Falcinelli and others like Alwin Michael Schronen (for male choir a cappella).

Before the time of Pietism and the Enlightenment , it was, like other medieval texts ( e.g. Membra Jesu Nostri or Anima Christi ), also widespread in Lutheranism and was sung by the choir during the distribution of the Lord's Supper as Musica sub communione or as a motet on Maundy Thursday .

The text says:

Latin

O sacrum convivium,
in quo Christ sumitur:
recolitur memoria passionis eius,
mens impletur gratia
et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.
Alleluia.

deutsch

O holy banquet
at which Christ is consumed:
the memory of his suffering is renewed,
the spirit is filled with grace
and we are given a pledge of future glory.
Alleluia.

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