Verses on Various Occasions · Character

Jesu

Another name for Jesus, used in Latin hymns.

minor

Also known as Lux alma Jesu

First appearance: epigraph

Jesu shows up with force in Reverence. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The speaker bows at Jesu's name, recognizing it as the sign of mercy toward a guilty line.

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In Reverence: The speaker bows at Jesu's name, recognizing it as the sign of mercy toward a guilty line. Later, in Lauds—Tuesday: Jesu is…

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The emotional and psychological peak occurs in the stanza’s shift from defensive rebuke (“O rail not”) to a pr…

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Reverence
The speaker bows at Jesu's name, recognizing it as the sign of mercy toward a guilty line.
Lauds—Tuesday
Jesu is invoked to break the fetters of night and melt the night to sinless light.
Advent—Vespers
Addressed as the light of faithful souls and the medicine for a sick world.
CLV: The Transfiguration—Lauds
Addressed as 'Light of the anxious heart' and 'Sweet Light of our eternal home,' the central divine figure in the hymn.
St. Philip in His God
Invoked in the final stanza to grant Philip's sons gentleness, compassion, and patience.
For the Dead
Implored to help and aid the suffering souls.
The Dream of Gerontius
Called upon by Gerontius for mercy and help in his extremity, and addressed in the soul's prayer for deliverance.
§ 6
Addressed by the Angel of the Agony, recalling His suffering in Gethsemane and pleading for souls.

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