PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSI: SING, MY TONGUE, THE SAVIOR'S GLORY

Then there was this. 

Wikipedia gets us started:

"Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium" (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈpandʒe ˈliŋɡwa ɡloriˈosi ˈkorporis miˈsteri.um]) is a Medieval Latin hymn written by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) for the Feast of Corpus Christi. It is also sung on Maundy Thursday during the procession from the church to the place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday. The last two stanzas (called, separately, Tantum ergo) are sung at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The hymn expresses the doctrine that the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ during the celebration of the Eucharist.

It is often sung in English as the hymn "Of the Glorious Body Telling" to the same tune as the Latin.

The opening words recall another famous Latin sequence from which this hymn is derived: Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis by Venantius Fortunatus.

I am keeping the font size of the text below small so that you can read the English translation side by side with the Latin. 

There are many English translations, of varying rhyme scheme and metre. The following has the Latin text with a doxology in the first column, and an English translation by Edward Caswall in the second.[1] The third column is a more literal rendering.

Pange, lingua, gloriósi

Córporis mystérium,

Sanguinísque pretiósi,

Quem in mundi prétium

Fructus ventris generósi

Rex effúdit géntium.

Nobis datus, nobis natus

Ex intácta Vírgine,

Et in mundo conversátus,

Sparso verbi sémine,

Sui moras incolátus

Miro clausit órdine.

In suprémæ nocte coenæ

Recúmbens cum frátribus

Observáta lege plene

Cibis in legálibus,

Cibum turbæ duodénæ

Se dat suis mánibus.

Verbum caro, panem verum

Verbo carnem éfficit:

Fitque sanguis Christi merum,

Et si sensus déficit,

Ad firmándum cor sincérum

Sola fides súfficit.

Tantum ergo sacraméntum

Venerémur cérnui:

Et antíquum documéntum

Novo cedat rítui:

Præstet fides suppleméntum

Sénsuum deféctui.

Genitóri, Genitóque

Laus et jubilátio,

Salus, honor, virtus quoque

Sit et benedíctio:

Procedénti ab utróque

Compar sit laudátio.

Amen. Alleluja.

Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory,

Of His Flesh, the mystery sing;

Of the Blood, all price exceeding,

Shed by our Immortal King,

Destined, for the world's redemption,

From a noble Womb to spring.

Of a pure and spotless Virgin

Born for us on earth below,

He, as Man, with man conversing,

Stayed, the seeds of truth to sow;

Then He closed in solemn order

Wondrously His Life of woe.

On the night of that Last Supper,

Seated with His chosen band,

He, the Paschal Victim eating,

First fulfils the Law's command;

Then as Food to all his brethren

Gives Himself with His own Hand.

Word-made-Flesh, the bread of nature

By His Word to Flesh He turns;

Wine into His Blood He changes:

What though sense no change discerns.

Only be the heart in earnest,

Faith her lesson quickly learns.

Down in adoration falling,

Lo, the sacred Host we hail,

Lo, o'er ancient forms departing

Newer rites of grace prevail:

Faith for all defects supplying,

When the feeble senses fail.

To the Everlasting Father

And the Son who comes on high

With the Holy Ghost proceeding

Forth from each eternally,

Be salvation, honor, blessing,

Might and endless majesty.

Amen. Alleluia.

PSALM 53 SUNG IN ARAMAIC BY GEORGIAN MONK

Psalm 53 sung in Aramaic by Georgian monk and assistant for Pope Francis. This is stunning.  Some recordings of this have over 3 million views or audits.  This was performed back in 2016, but I offer it up here for Easter 2020 during this abominable COVID-19, government lockdown.  Slate explains that 

The [holy] performance in this video features the choir of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and took place in the Church of St. Simon the Tanner in Tbilisi, Georgia, when Pope Francis visited Sept. 30. While there, he offered a plea for peace for the persecuted and the victims of war—in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere.

The choir was made up of people from Syrian and Iraqi families and was led by their Friar Seraphim. It’s the well-known Psalm 53, “Our Father,” but sung in Aramaic. 

Here is Psalm 53.  Biblical verses, if nothing else, have the power to humble man.  I don't like it.  LOL.

53 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.  

² God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

³ Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

⁵ There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

⁶ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.