God-Jesus, everlasting King of Kings.
King of the everlasting ages, Light of God,
Illumine me;
Out of thy boundless fitness shed abroad
Thy love in me;
Father, and Son, and Spirit, One in Three,
In power and substance One, Lord look on me.
The hymn “Sancti Venite” was intended for communion service. Dr Neale has rendered it into English. A legend relates how Patrick and his nephew Sechnall heard a company of angels once rehearsing it; and declares, “So that from that time to the present, that hymn is chanted in Eirinn when the body of Christ is received”:—
Sancti Venite.
Take the blessed Bread and Wine,