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"Lauda Sion" is a

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prescribed for the

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for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was written by St. Thomas Aquinas around 1264, at the request of

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for the new Mass of this feast, along with Pange lingua, Sacris solemniis, and Verbum supernum prodiens, which are used in the Divine Office.

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The Gregorian melody of the Lauda Sion is borrowed from the eleventh-century sequence ''Laetabundi iubilemus'' attributed to Adam of Saint Victor. The hymn tells of the institution of the

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and clearly expresses the belief of the Roman Catholic Church in

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and in

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, that is, that the bread and wine truly become permanently and irreversibly the Body and Blood of Christ when consecrated by a validly-ordained priest or bishop during the Mass. The fact that the hymn had been composed for the Holy Mass is testified by the sixth stanza: ''Dies enim solemnis agitur / In qua mensæ prima recolitur / Hujus institutio'' - On this festival divine / Which records the origin / Of the glorious Eucharist. Lauda Sion is one of only four medieval sequences which were preserved in the

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published in 1570 following the

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(1545–1563) by Will of Saint Pius V—the others being

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(Easter), Veni Sancte Spiritus (Pentecost), and Dies irae (requiem masses). (A fifth, Stabat Mater, would later be added in 1727.) Before Trent, many feasts had their own sequences. The existing versions were unified in the

promulgated in 1570. The Lauda Sion is still sung today as a solemn Eucharistic hymn, though its use as a sequence is optional in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Before the reform of 1970, it was sung on Corpus Christi as a sequence between the

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''Oculi omnium'' and the Gospel of the day, after the verse of the

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. The sequence's English title is ''Sing forth, O Zion, sweetly sing'' or, as below, ''Sion, lift up thy voice and sing''. As with Aquinas's other three Eucharistic hymns, the last few stanzas of the Lauda Sion are often used alone, in this case, to form the Ecce panis Angelorum.

Text

Another translation is used in the 1981 Lectionary approved for Australia and New Zealand (Volume 1, pages 601-603). It is by James Ambrose Dominic Aylward OP (1813-1872) and was published in Annus Sanctus in 1884, pages 194-196. A 1773 translation into German, " Deinem Heiland, deinem Lehrer", by is a procession hymn for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Reception

According to Dom Guéranger, Lauda Sion:

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* * * (with music sheet and translation) {{Authority control Christian hymns in Latin 13th-century poems 13th-century Latin literature Medieval literature Hymns by Thomas Aquinas Eucharist in the Catholic Church

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