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Text:O Saving Victim (O Saving Lamb)
Author:St. Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274
Author (refrain):Tom Booth, b. 1961
Translator:Edward Caswall, 1814-1878
Tune:DUGUET
Arranger:Rick Modlin, b. 1966
Composer (attributed to):Abbé Dieudonne Duguet, 1794-1849
Composer (refrain):Tom Booth

565. O Saving Victim (O Saving Lamb)

Text Information
First Line: O Saving Victim, open wide
Title: O Saving Victim (O Saving Lamb)
Latin Title: O salutaris hostia
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274
Translator: Edward Caswall, 1814-1878
Author (refrain): Tom Booth, b. 1961
Refrain First Line: O Saving Lamb, please take my hand
Language: English
Publication Date: 2012
Topic: Devotional; Devotions: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; The Liturgical Year: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
Copyright: Refrain © 2008, Tom Booth, Published by spiritandsong.com, a division of OCP
Tune Information
Name: DUGUET
Composer (attributed to): Abbé Dieudonne Duguet, 1794-1849
Composer (refrain): Tom Booth
Arranger: Rick Modlin, b. 1966
Meter: LM
Key: D Major
Copyright: Arr. and refrain © 2008, 2010, Tom Booth. Published by spiritandsong.com, a division of OCP



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