Hoc corpus

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General information

Hoc corpus is the communion antiphon for Passion Sunday (Maundy Thursday in the Ordinary Form) and Corpus Christi (Year C).
Source of text is 1 Corinthians 11:24,25.
The Gregorian melody is in the eighth mode.

Settings by composers

Gregorian chant
Heinrich Isaac SATB
Nobuaki Izawa SATB
Melchor Robledo SATB
Antoni Milà, at his Cathedral's choirbook SATB

Text and translations

Latin text

Hoc corpus quod pro vobis tradetur:
hic calix novi testamenti est in meo sanguine, dicit Dominus:
hoc facite quotiescumque sumitis, in meam commemorationem.

German translation

(Das ist) der Leib, der für euch hingegeben wird:
Das ist der Kelch des neuen Bundes in meinem Blut, spricht der Herr:
Tut dies, sooft ihr davon nehmt, zu meinem Gedächtnis.

English translation

This is my body which is given for you;
this cup is the new testament in my blood, saith the Lord:
do this, as oft as ye shall meet together in remembrance of me.