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Rh asked that the sequence 'Laus Tibi, Christe,' might be sung in his room.

"When it had been sung, he said, 'What devout words are these!' And he repeated to himself this verse, ruminating upon it,—'What, sick one, could she have possessed, if she had not received it, if the Physician had not been present.'"

1. be to Thee, O, the , the , and the.

2. Of the heaven, the earth, the sea, angels, and men.

3. Whom alone we confess to be and Man.

4. Who didst come that Thou mightest save sinners,

5. Without sin assuming the likeness of sin.

6. From the number of which sinners as Thou didst visit the Canaanitish woman, as also Mary Magdalene,

7. At the same table of the Divine Word, Thou didst refresh the one with crumbs, the other with drink,

8. In the house of Simon the leper, sitting down at the Typical Feast.

9. The Pharisee murmurs, where the woman, conscious of her sin, laments.

10. The sinner despiseth his fellow-sinner: