Communion Chant

I picked up this book from our parish library after Mass Friday: "Hymns to Christ in the first millinnium of the Church". Here is a Communion Chant fragment from an ancient liturgy:

Let us invoke Christ.
The sacred Body of Christ!
The lamb of God,
the sacred Body of him
who died for our salvation!

The sacred Body of him
who revealed the mystery of grace
of the new covenant
to his disciples.

The sacred Body which
washed with water
the feet of the apostles,
and with the Spirit
washed their souls.

The sacred Body which
pardoned the penitent woman;
the sacred Body whose blood
makes us clean.

The sacred Body which
received the kiss of betryal;
the sacred Body which
loved the world so much
as to accept even death on a cross.

We bless and glorify your name.

Wonderful isn't it...