With cheerful hearts let us sing to our God, Who, when His Church is become weak in her sins, reneweth her alway, and, although a pale little thing, lighteth her with the radiance of the True Sun, and hath brought her out from the fiery ovens of the land of Mesraim: and Who in every trial heareth her, moreover sustaineth her with heavenly bread and teacheth her His worship!
Indeed He satisfieth her with sweet honey from the rock.
