St Thomas Aquinas

O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The other two hymns written by Aquinas for the Feast contain the famous sections Panis angelicus and Tantum ergo.

O saving Victim, opening wide

The gate of Heaven to man below;

Our foes press hard on every side;

Thine aid supply; Thy strength bestow.

All praise and thanks to thee ascend,

For ever more, blest one in three.

O grant us life that shall not end,

In our true native land with thee.

Amen.