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"Reconciliation's plan devising, "Fellow-sharer of the FATHER's Throne, "Thee, O CHRIST, we, very early rising, "Tender lover of our spirits, own!" | |
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When Thy Friends, with deep dismay confounded, Stood amazed, and knew not where to fly, All the darkness that their souls surrounded Thou didst scatter with Thy drawing nigh. | |
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Touch how aweful, how consolatory! When, O Thomas, thou didst stretch thine hand, And that Side, resplendent in its glory, Didst explore, because He gave command! | |
Unbelief of Thomas was the Mother Of Thy Church's most unshaken Creed: Thou, O SAVIOUR, wise above all other, Had'st, before the world was, thus decreed. |
Catavasia. "Let us rise in early morning." (p. 100.)