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+ circ. A.D. 890.
He is said to have been the friend of S. Joseph; but is only known to us by the "Suppliant Canon to JESUS," to be found at the end of the Paracletice. The following is a Cento formed from it.
7,6,7,6,8,8,7,7
Ihsou glukutate.
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JESU, Name all names above, JESU, best and dearest, JESU, Fount of perfect love, Holiest, tenderest, nearest; JESU, source of grace completest, JESU purest, JESU sweetest, JESU, Well of power Divine, Make me, keep me, seal me Thine! | |
JESU, open me the gate That of old he entered, Who, in that most lost estate, Wholly on Thee ventured; Thou, Whose Wounds are ever pleading, And Thy Passion interceding, From my misery let me rise To a Home in Paradise! | |
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Thou didst call the Prodigal: Thou didst pardon Mary: Thou Whose words can never fall, Love can never vary: LORD, to heal my lost condition, Give--for Thou canst give--contrition, Thou canst pardon all mine ill If Thou wilt: O say, "I will!" | |
Woe, that I have turned aside After fleshly pleasure! Woe, that I have never tried For the Heavenly Treasure! Treasure, safe in Home supernal; Incorruptible, eternal! Treasure no less price hath won Than the Passion of The SON! | |
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JESU, crowned with Thorns for me, Scourged for my transgression, Witnessing, through agony, That Thy good confession! JESU, clad in purple raiment, For my evils making payment; Let not all Thy woe and pain, Let not Calvary, be in vain! | |
When I reach Death's bitter sea And its waves roll higher, Help the more forsaking me As the storm draws nigher: JESU, leave me not to languish, Helpless, hopeless, full of anguish! Tell me,--"Verily I say, Thou shalt be with Me today!" |