Ideas from The Liturgy of the Hours:
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ [Corpus Christi]
+ Morning Prayer +
Latin Hymn Verbum supernum prodiens including O salutaris hostia
Psalmody
- Psalm 63:2-9
Antiphon You fed your people with the food of angels; you gave them bread from heaven, alleluia.
- Daniel 3:57-88,56
Antiphon Holy priests will offer incense and bread to God, alleluia.
- Psalm 149
Antiphon I will give to the one who is victorious the hidden bread and a new name, alleluia.
Reading Malachi 1:11
Responsory
[excerpt] You bring forth bread from the earth, and wine which gives warmth to men's hearts, alleluia, alleluia.
Benedictus Antiphon
I am the living bread come down from heaven; anyone who eats this bread will live forever, alleluia.
Intercessions
[response] Happy are those who are called to your heavenly banquet.
+ Daytime Prayer +
Midmorning
- Antiphon: I have longed to eat this meal with you before I suffer, alleluia.
- Reading: Wisdom 16:20
- Response: I will go to the altar of God. My food is Christ who restores my youth, alleluia.
Midday
- Antiphon: While they were at supper, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, alleluia.
- Reading: Proverbs 9:1-2
- Response: You gave them bread from heaven to be their food, and this bread contained all goodness, alleluia.
Midafternoon
- Antiphon: They recognized the Lord Jesus in the breaking of the bread, alleluia.
- Reading: Acts of the Apostles 2:42,47
- Response: Stay with us Lord, for darkness is almost upon us, alleluia.
+ Evening Prayer II +
Latin Hymn Pange lingua gloriosi including Tantum ergo sacramentum
Psalmody
- Psalm 110:1-5,7
Antiphon Christ the Lord is a priest for ever in the line of Melchisedek; he offered up bread and wine.
- Psalm 116:10-19
Antiphon I will take up the cup of salvation, and I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
- Revelation 19:1-7
Antiphon You are the way, the truth and the life of the world, O Lord.
Reading I Corinthians 11:23-25
Responsory
[excerpt] He gave them bread from heaven.
Man has eaten the bread of angels, alleluia, alleluia.
Magnificat Antiphon
How holy this feast in which Christ is our food;
his passion is recalled; grace fills our hearts;
we receive a pledge of the glory to come, alleluia. (O sacrum convivium)
Intercessions
[response] Christ, the bread of heaven, grant us everlasting life.
The English translation of the Antiphons, Responsories, and Intercession Responses are from: The Divine Office: The Liturgy of the Hours, © Copyright 1970, 1973, 1975 International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from the Readings are taken from the New American Standard Bible ® © Copyright 1973 The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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