Sequence: Corde, voce pulsa caelos

Church of the Gentiles! sing with heart and voice thy hymn of triumph, and make the heavens echo.

Paul, the Doctor of the Gentiles, has finished his course, and triumphs in glory.

This is he that was the youthful Benjamin, the ravenous wolf, the devourer of the prey, the enemy of the Faithful.

He was a wolf in the morning, but in the evening, a lamb. The night was past, the day-star rose, and he preaches the Gospel.

This is he that marched in the road of death, but was stayed, as he goes to Damascus, by Him who is the Way of Life.

He had breathed forth threats, but at length he yields; he prostrates, and obeys; he is made captive, and goes whither he is led.

He is sent to Ananias--the wolf to the lamb: his stormy heart is calm.

He receives the sacrament of the font; its saving waters turn the venom of his soul into the fragrance of love.

He becomes a sacred vessel, a vessel divine, a vessel that gives forth to men the sweet wine of the grace of doctrine.

He visits the ѕуηαgσgυєs, and proves the christian faith by unfolding the prophets.

He preaches the cross of Christ; and for that Cross' sake himself does bear the cross, dying a thousand deaths.

Yet dies not, but is a living victim, conquering every pain by unconquered courage.

He is set apart by God as the teacher of the Gentiles; and by the wisdom of God he overcomes the wise ones of the world.

Rapt to the third heaven, he sees the Father and Son in one substance.

The mighty Rome, and the learned Greece-- both bow down their heads, and learn the Mysteries, and embrace the Faith of Christ.

The Cross triumphs! Then does Nero rage to see this Paul spreading the Faith by his preaching, and sentences him to die by the sword.

Thus disburthened from the flesh, Paul sees the true Sun, the Only Begotten of the Father.

He sees the Light in Light, by whose almighty power we shun the pains of hell. Amen