{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec71.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec71.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec71.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nTheoctistus of the Studium.\n+ circ. A.D. 890.\nHe 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.\n\u1f38\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03b3\u03bb\u03c5\u03ba\u03cd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5.\nJesu, Name all names above,\n \u00a0\u00a0Jesu, best and dearest,\n Jesu, Fount of perfect love,\n \u00a0\u00a0Holiest, tenderest, nearest;\n Jesu, source of grace completest,\n Jesu purest, Jesu sweetest,\n \u00a0\u00a0Jesu, Well of power Divine,\n \u00a0\u00a0Make me, keep me, seal me Thine!\nJesu, open me the gate\n \u00a0\u00a0That of old he enter\u2019d,\n Who, in that most lost estate,\n \u00a0\u00a0Wholly on Thee ventur\u2019d;\n Thou, Whose Wounds are ever pleading,\n And Thy Passion interceding,\n \u00a0\u00a0From my misery let me rise\n \u00a0\u00a0To a Home in Paradise!\nThou didst call the Prodigal:\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou didst pardon Mary:\n Thou Whose words can never fall,\n \u00a0\u00a0Love can never vary:\n Lord, to heal my lost condition,\n Give\u2014for Thou canst give\u2014contrition;\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou canst pardon all mine ill\n \u00a0\u00a0If Thou wilt: O say, \"I will!\"\nWoe, that I have turned aside\n \u00a0\u00a0After fleshly pleasure!\n Woe, that I have never tried\n \u00a0\u00a0For the Heavenly Treasure!\n Treasure, safe in Home supernal;\n Incorruptible, eternal!\n \u00a0\u00a0Treasure no less price hath won\n \u00a0\u00a0Than the Passion of The Son!\nJesu, crown\u2019d with Thorns for me,\n \u00a0\u00a0Scourged for my transgression,\n Witnessing, through agony,\n \u00a0\u00a0That Thy good confession!\n Jesu, clad in purple raiment,\n For my evils making payment;\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not all Thy woe and pain,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let not Calvary, be in vain!\nWhen I reach Death's bitter sea\n \u00a0\u00a0And its waves roll higher,\n Help the more forsaking me\n \u00a0\u00a0As the storm draws nigher:\n Jesu, leave me not to languish,\n Helpless, hopeless, full of anguish!\n \u00a0\u00a0Tell me,\u2014\"Verily I say,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou shalt be with Me to-day!\"","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: Theoctistus of the Studium: Theoctistus of the Studium","type":"page"}