Sing My Tongue
May 2, 2025 - 9:00am — ronsue
1 )Sing, my tongue, in exultation
of our banner and device!
Make a solemn proclamation
of a triumph and its price:
how the Savior of creation
conquered by his sacrifice!
2 )For, when Adam first offended,
eating that forbidden fruit,
not all hope of glory ended
with the serpent at the root:
broken nature would be mended
by a second tree and shoot.
3 )Thus the tempter was outwitted
by a wisdom deeper still:
remedy and ailment fitted,
means to cure and means to kill;
that the world might be acquitted,
Christ would do the Father’s will.
4 )So the Father, out of pity
for our self-inflicted doom,
sent him from the heav’nly city
when the holy time had come:
he, the Son and the Almighty,
took our flesh in Mary’s womb.
5 )So he came, the long-expected,
not in glory, not to reign;
only born to be rejected,
choosing hunger, toil, and pain,
till the scaffold was erected
and the Paschal Lamb was slain.
6 )Let us give ourselves completely
To the Holy Spirit’s will
That we be made holy
And with His grace be all filled
And pure true disciples be
Living in the Father’s will
7 )Wisdom, pow’r, and adoration
to the blessed Trinity
for redemption and salvation
through the Paschal Mystery,
now, in ev’ry generation,
and for all eternity. Amen.
Text: Pange, lingua, gloriosi, prœlium certaminis, Venantius Fortunatus, ca. 530-600
Translation: from The Roman Missal © 2010 ICEL
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- The Hymn celebrates the victory of the Trinity over the evil one in the paschal mystery!
1 )Sing, my tongue, in exultation
of our banner and device!
Make a solemn proclamation
of a triumph and its price:
how the Savior of creation
conquered by his sacrifice!
2 )For, when Adam first offended,
eating that forbidden fruit,
not all hope of glory ended
with the serpent at the root:
broken nature would be mended
by a second tree and shoot.
3 )Thus the tempter was outwitted
by a wisdom deeper still:
remedy and ailment fitted,
means to cure and means to kill;
that the world might be acquitted,
Christ would do the Father’s will.
4 )So the Father, out of pity
for our self-inflicted doom,
sent him from the heav’nly city
when the holy time had come:
he, the Son and the Almighty,
took our flesh in Mary’s womb.
5 )So he came, the long-expected,
not in glory, not to reign;
only born to be rejected,
choosing hunger, toil, and pain,
till the scaffold was erected
and the Paschal Lamb was slain.
6 )Let us give ourselves completely
To the Holy Spirit’s will
That we be made holy
And with His grace be all filled
And pure true disciples be
Living in the Father’s will
7 )Wisdom, pow’r, and adoration
to the blessed Trinity
for redemption and salvation
through the Paschal Mystery,
now, in ev’ry generation,
and for all eternity. Amen.
Text: Pange, lingua, gloriosi, prœlium certaminis, Venantius Fortunatus, ca. 530-600
Translation: from The Roman Missal © 2010 ICEL
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