ANTIPHONS AND PSALMS IN THE

OFFICE OF CORPUS CHRISTI

PSALMUS I.

Antiphona: Fructum salutiferum gustandum dedit Dominus mortis suae tempore.

Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentiae non sedit:

Sed in lege Domini voluntas ejus, et in lege ejus meditabitur die ac nocte.

Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo:

Et folium ejus non defluet: et omnia quaecumque faciet prosperabuntur.

Non sic impii, non sic: sed tamquam pulvis quem projicit ventus a facie terrae.

"" BLESSED THE MAN WHO HATH NOT WALKED.”

Antiphon: The Lord brought forth fruit, in the season of His death, to be eaten unto salvation.

Blessed the man who hath not walked

With godless men astray,

Nor in the seat of scorners sat,

Or trod the sinner's way;

But willeth in the law of God
To fix his whole delight,

And makes that law with reverence
His study day and night.

He shall be like a tree that grows

Beside a running stream,

Whose bending branches with the glow.
Of mellowing fruitage gleam.

Thus shall he stand in glorious guise;

His leafage shall not fall;

And whatsoever things he doth,

Behold, they prosper all.

Not so the wicked man, not so;

He passeth, nothing worth,

As dust is blown by summer winds
Above the parched earth.

Ideo non resurgent impii in judicio: neque peccatores in concilio justorum.

Quoniam novit Dominus viam justorum: et iter impiorum peribit.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto:

Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sae

cula saeculorum.

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Therefore the wicked shall not rise

Nor unto judgment trust,

Nor sinners find a place to stand

In council of the just.

Behold, the Lord hath surely known

The pathway of the just;

But ah, the way of sinful men
Shall perish unto dust.

Glory unto the Father be,
And to His only Son,
And to the Spirit Paraclete,
Eternal Three in One:

As 't was in the beginning,
Is now, and still shall be
While all the endless ages run

Throughout eternity!