Hymns of the Eastern Church: tr. by J.M. Neale, Issue 1611863 - 16 pages |
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Page 73
... mortal stain , Willed that His Mother spotless should remain . CHRIST Comes , Incarnate GOD , amongst us now , Begotten of the FATHER ere the day : And He , to Whom the sinless legions bow , Lies cradled , midst unconscious beasts , on ...
... mortal stain , Willed that His Mother spotless should remain . CHRIST Comes , Incarnate GOD , amongst us now , Begotten of the FATHER ere the day : And He , to Whom the sinless legions bow , Lies cradled , midst unconscious beasts , on ...
Page 93
... Mortal spirits nourishing . Filled with GOD , and ever blest , For our pardon make request ! Egypt , hail , thou faithful strand ! Hail , thou holy Libyan land ! Nurturing for the realm on high Such a glorious company ! They by many a ...
... Mortal spirits nourishing . Filled with GOD , and ever blest , For our pardon make request ! Egypt , hail , thou faithful strand ! Hail , thou holy Libyan land ! Nurturing for the realm on high Such a glorious company ! They by many a ...
Page 94
John Mason Neale. By what skill of mortal tongue Shall your wondrous acts be sung ? All the conflicts of the soul , All your struggles towards the goal ; And your virtues ' prize immense , And your victories over sense , How perpetual ...
John Mason Neale. By what skill of mortal tongue Shall your wondrous acts be sung ? All the conflicts of the soul , All your struggles towards the goal ; And your virtues ' prize immense , And your victories over sense , How perpetual ...
Page 112
... mortal weakness is my frame sur- rounded : My life is well nigh o'er : The Judge is at the door : How wilt thou , miserable spirit , fare , What time He sends His summons through the air ? ORTHODOXY SUNDAY . The The first Sunday in Lent ...
... mortal weakness is my frame sur- rounded : My life is well nigh o'er : The Judge is at the door : How wilt thou , miserable spirit , fare , What time He sends His summons through the air ? ORTHODOXY SUNDAY . The The first Sunday in Lent ...
Page 115
... mortal That He vouchsaf'd to take , Long years ago , in Bethlem , Incarnate for our sake . Awake , O Church , and triumph ! Exult , each realm and land ! And open let the houses , The ascetic houses stand ! And let the holy virgins With ...
... mortal That He vouchsaf'd to take , Long years ago , in Bethlem , Incarnate for our sake . Awake , O Church , and triumph ! Exult , each realm and land ! And open let the houses , The ascetic houses stand ! And let the holy virgins With ...
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acrostich Adam adore Anatolius of Constantinople Angel blest called Canon Catavasia Cento CHRIST is risen commemorated compositions Constantine Constantinople Cosmas Council of Nicæa cry with heart's darkness death earth earthly Eastern Church ecclesiastical poetry eternal evermore faith Fathers gladness glorious glory grace Gregory Nazianzen Habakkuk heart heart's endeavour Heav'n heavenly Hirmos Holy art Thou Hymnographers hymns Iconoclasts Icons Idiomela immortality Incarnate JESUS John Damascene King Latin Leo the Armenian light LORD Manichæism Martyrs mercy mighty Monarch Monothelite mortal night o'er Octoechus Pascha peace Pentecostarion poet praise Priest Quinquagesima Resurrection rhymes SACKVILLE COLLEGE Saints SAVIOUR Septuagesima Sequence shalt sing Sion song Sophronius sorrow soul SPIRIT stand stanzas STICHERA sticheron Studium Sunday Synaxarion Thee Thine Thou art bless'd Throne to-day tomb Triodion troparia Troparion verse victory Virgin Wherefore we cry wondrous words ἐκ ἐν καὶ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸν τοῦ τῶν
Popular passages
Page 86 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my guide ? " In His feet and hands are wound-prints And His side.
Page 38 - And, listening to His accents, May hear, so calm and plain, His own "All hail !" and, hearing, May raise the victor-strain.
Page 127 - The cross that Jesus carried he carried as your due: the crown that Jesus weareth he weareth it for you.
Page 129 - SAFE HOME, SAFE HOME IN PORT. (From the Greek.) AFE home, safe home in port ! Rent cordage, shattered deck, Torn sails, provisions short, And only not a wreck...
Page 55 - THOSE eternal bowers Man hath never trod, Those unfading flowers Round the throne of GOD. Who may hope to gain them After weary fight ? Who at length attain them Clad in robes of white ? He, who gladly barters All on earthly ground ; He who, like the martyrs, Says ' I will be crowned ' : He, whose one oblation Is a life of love ; Clinging to the nation Of the blest above.
Page 6 - The toils of day are over: I raise the hymn to Thee, And ask that free from peril The hours of fear may be : O Jesu, keep me in Thy sight, And guard me through the coming night...
Page 58 - Neither might the gates of death, Nor the tomb's dark portal, Nor the watchers, nor the seal, Hold Thee as a mortal : But to-day amidst the Twelve Thou didst stand, bestowing That Thy peace, which evermore Passeth human knowing.
Page 6 - Be Thou my soul's preserver, O GOD ! for Thou dost know How many are the perils Through which I have to go: Lover of men, O hear my call, And guard and save me from them all.
Page 3 - Lower thy crest ! Wail of Euroclydon, Be thou at rest! Sorrow can never be, Darkness must fly, Where saith the Light of Light, "Peace! It is I.
Page xxx - The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together : against the Lord, and against his Anointed. 3 Let us break their bonds asunder : and cast away their cords from us.