{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec34.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec34.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec34.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\n\"S. Thomas's Sunday\"\nby S. John Damascene.\n\u03bc\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1 \u03c4\u1f78 \u03bc\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd.\n\"'Christ, we turn our eyes to Thee,\n \"'And this mighty mystery!'\n \"Habakkuk exclaimed of old,\n \"In the Holy Spirit bold:\n \"'Thou shalt come in time appointed,\n \"For the help of Thine anointed!\"\nTaste of myrrh He deign\u2019d to know,\n Who redeemed the source of woe:\n Now He bids all sickness cease\n Through the honey-comb of peace:\n And to this world deigns to give\n That sweet food by which we live.\nPatient Lord! with loving eye\n Thou invitest Thomas nigh,\n Showing Him that Wounded Side:\n While the world is certified,\n Flow the third day, from the grave,\n Jesus Christ arose to save.\nBlest, O Didymus, the tongue\n Where that first confession hung:\n First the Saviour to proclaim\n First the Lord of Life to name:\n Such the graces it supplied,\n \u2014That dear touch of Jesu's side!\nCatavasia. \"Stand on thy watch-tower, Habakkuk the Seer.\" (p. 98.)","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. John Damascene: S. Thomas's Sunday, Ode IV","type":"page"}