Yearly Archives: 2021

την -ημέραν τήν ψρζχτην. THAT fearful day, that day of speechless dread, When Thou shalt come to judge the quick and dead- I shudder to foresee, O God! what then…

μυστηρίον ξένον. OH, wondrous mystery, full of passing grace! The grot becometh Heaven: the Virgin's breast The bright Cherubic Throne: the stall that place Where He, Who fills all space,…

oi παΐοες ευσέβεια. The Holy Children boldly stand Against the tyrant's dread command: The kindled furnace they defy, — No doom can shake their constancy: They in the midmost flame…

χόπον τε χάΐ χάματον. Art thou weary, art thou languid, Art thou sore distrest? "Come to Me," — saith One, — "and, coming, Be at rest!" Hath He marks to…

'Ράβδος έχ ττ^ς ρίζης. Rod of the Root of Jesse, Thou, Flower of Mary born, From that thick shady mountain Cam'st glorious forth this morn: Of her, the Ever Virgin,…

τψ Tzpd των αΙώνων, Him, of the Father's very Essence Begotten, ere the world began, And, in the latter time, of Mary, Without a human sire, made Man: Unto Him,…

Χριστός Ytwarat' δοξάααεη. ' Christ is born! Tell forth his fame! Christ from Heaven! His love proclaim! Christ on earth! Exalt his Name! Sing to the Lord, O world, with…

^0 Κύριος έρχεται. God comes! — and who shall stand before His fear? Who bide His Presence, when He draweth near? My soul, my soul, prepare To kneel before Him…

μέγα τό μυστήριον. "Christ, we turn our eyes to Thee, And this mighty mystery! Habakkuk exclaimed of old, In the Holy Spirit bold, ‘Thou shalt come in time appointed. For…