What's the new rite in Tantum Ergo?

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                          St. Thomas Aquinas' hymn *Tantum Ergo*, which is usually sung at Benediction, always seems better in Latin:

>Et antiquum documentum  
>Novo cedat ritui:

Mainly because in both the transliterated and the literal translation it doesn't make a ton of sense:

>And let the old practice   
>Give way to the new rite;

Given this is written over 1000 years after the rite was established, what is this line in the hymn about?

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Dec 7, 2011, 02:00 PM
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What's the new rite in Tantum Ergo?

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