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1- A living word in practice,
A living word in bloom,
Buried in fertile soil
As a pure seed of corn;
Ava Anthony heard it read
And retained it as said.
2- For as much as I wished to hear,
As much as I longed to see,
Jesus Christ in person
He would bless me and say:
Blessed are your eyes that see,
Blessed are your ears that hear.
3- A rich man went to Him,
But walked out feeling sorry.
St. Anthony the Great
Just listened to the story
In church where it was read,
And retained it as said.
4- The heart is well prepared,
With prayers sanctified;
The word thus bore the fruit,
With the help of the Spirit.
Not just as thirty 'n sixty,
But up to a hundredfold.
5- Christ in your life,
We hear Him in your acts;
Because you have His thought,
Image that we venerate;
With zeal and meditation,
Strength and consecration.
6- A true vivid example,
A holy open book,
Devotion of an ascetic,
The more we hear and look,
A great part is yet untold
Of a life as pure as gold.
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