Today's sound file is a Eucharistic hymn: "My God, Thy Table Now Is Spread," from the cd "O Bread of Life."  The text was penned by Philip Doderidge and the tune, "Rockingham," which was written by Edward Miller and adapted by Samuel Webbe. The organist is Br. Nathanael Deward Rahm, BSG.
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TEXT
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1 My God, thy table now is spread,
thy cup with love doth overflow;
be all thy children thither led,
and let them thy sweet mercies know.
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2 O let thy table honored be,
and furnished well with joyful guests:
and may each soul salvation see,
that here its sacred pledges tastes.
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3 Drawn by thy quickening grace, O Lord,
in countless numbers let them come
and gather from their Father's board
the Bread that lives beyond the tomb.
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4 Nor let thy spreading Gospel rest
till through the world thy truth has run,
till with this Bread all men be blest
who see the light or feel the sun.

O Bread Of Life

My God, Thy Table Now is Spread

Sound track- The Passion Of The Christ

the passion of the christ(I am here)

Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer – New York City
James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

O salutaris hostia
James D. Wetzel (b. 1987)

O salutaris hostia, 
quae caeli pandis ostium: 
bella premunt hostilia, 
da robur, fer auxilium.

Uni trinoque Domino 
sit sempiterna gloria, 
qui vitam sine termino 
nobis donet in patria.  Amen.

O saving Victim, 
who opens the gate of heaven, 
hostile wars press on us:
your strength bestow, your aid supply.

To the Lord One in Three, 
may there be sempiternal glory; 
for life without end 
he gives to us in our homeland.  Amen.
~Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Recorded live during the Solemn Mass of Lent I at Saint Vincent Ferrer, 2021

My God, Thy Table Now is Spread

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