The Roman Missal: Hymns and Devotions (English) 1

The devotions printed with the Mass in the English of the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth's Missal for the use of the Laity (London, 1853): the Prayer for the Queen and the Hymns at Benediction (O Salutaris and Tantum ergo, with the versicle and prayer of the Most Holy Sacrament), the Te Deum, and the Christmas hymn Adeste Fideles, in his metrical English. This is the English only; the Latin is to be added. The words in square brackets are the Missal's own headings. A devotion of the Catholic Church, not scripture.

1[Prayer for the Queen.]

2V. O Lord save Victoria our Queen.

3R. And hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

4[Let us pray.]

5We beseech thee, Almighty God, that thy servant Victoria our Queen, who by thy mercy has undertaken the government of the kingdom, may also receive an increase of all virtues: with which being adorned as it becomes her, she may be enabled to avoid the monsters of vice, and come to thee well pleasing in thy sight, who art the way, the truth, and the life. Through our Lord, &c.

6R. Amen.

7[Hymns at Benediction. O Salutaris.]

8O saving victim, opening wide / The portals of our resting place; / When wars oppress, when ills betide, / O give us strength, and grant us grace.

9To God eternal, three in one, / Be glory and immortal praise; / Who when life's arduous task is done, / Will grant us bliss for endless days. Amen.

10[Tantum ergo.]

11Humbly bending, low adoring, / Love's pure mystery venerate; / High above all shadows soaring, / Rites more noble celebrate; / Faith and heavenly grace imploring / Doubts of senses dissipate.

12Honour, glory, praise abounding / To the Father, to the Son, / To the Holy Ghost resounding, / May we give when time is done: / God's exalted throne surrounding / When our earthly course is run. Amen.

13V. Thou didst give them bread from heaven.

14R. Having in it all that was delicious.

15[Let us pray.]

16O God who in this wonderful sacrament has left us a memorial of thy passion: grant us, we beseech thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of thy body and blood, as ever to perceive within us the fruit of thy redemption. Who livest, &c.