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He who with full face looks to this propitiatory by looking upon Him

suspended on the cross in faith, hope, and charity, in devotion, wonder,

exultation, appreciation, praise, and jubilation, makes a passover - that

is, the phase or passage [Exod., 12, 11] with Him - that he may pass over

the Red Sea by the staff of the cross from Egypt into the Desert, where he

may taste the hidden manna and with Christ may rest in the tomb as if

outwardly dead, yet knowing, as far as possible in our earthly condition,

what was said on the cross to the thief cleaving to Christ: ''Today thou

shalt be with me in Paradise."