"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of miue enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."-Ps. xxiii. 5. 118 MY God, and is Thy Table spread, And doth Thy cup with love o'erflow! Thither be all Thy children led, And let them all Thy sweetness know. 2. Hail, holy feast, which Jesus makes, Rich banquet of His Flesh and Blood! Thrice happy he who here partakes That sacred stream, that heav'nly Food. 3. O! let Thy Table honoured be, And furnish'd well with joyful guests; Dwell in our souls, and they shall live, 5. To God the Father glory be, And to His Sole-begotten Son; Amen. "This do in remembrance of Me."-S. Luke, xxii. 19. 119 God, unseen, yet ever near, And thus, inspired with holy fear, 2. Here may Thy faithful people know The Streams that through the desert flow, 3. We come, obedient to Thy word, 5. Praise to the Father, and the Son, Festivals and Seasons. FESTIVALS. CONVERSION OF S. PAUL. "And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? And I answered, Who art Thou, Lord? And He said unto me, I am Jesus on Nazareth, Whom thou persecutest."-Acts, xxii. 7, 8. 120 SMITTEN is the Shepherd good; And the wolf athirst for blood; But the eye that never sleeps, 4. Shepherd good, defend Thy fold, Amen. THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE, COMMONLY CALLED THE PURIFICATION OF S. MARY THE VIRGIN. "The Lord, Whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple."-Mal. iii. 1. 121 IN His temple now behold Him, 'Tis th' Incarnate God most High. Thou Who cam'st in lowly mien, To Thy Father pure and clean. By the world Thou didst redeem; Lord of Majesty supreme! Amen. THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. "For He hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden; for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed."-S. Luke, i. 48 OD left His everlasting throne, 122 GOD To succour and to save His own; And when th' appointed time was come 2. To-day the Angel nam'd her blest, 3. Thenceforth the Church from shore to shore Proclaims her blessed evermore; The stem of Jesse's promis'd Rod,S. Luke, i. 35, 43. S. Matt. 4. Glory to God the Father be ; i. 23. From earthly choirs and heav'nly host! "Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men, and was found in fashion as a Man."— Phil. ii. 6, 7, 8. 123 CAST out from Eden's happy home, Through earth's bleak wilderness to In deepest gloom our guilty race [roam, Wander'd afar from light and grace. 2. Lo, heav'n's own King doth heav'n forsake! And thus to lead the exiles Hɔme, |