{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec35.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec35.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec35.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\n\"S. Thomas's Sunday\"\nby S. John Damascene.\n\u1f10\u03ba \u03bd\u03c5\u03ba\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f40\u03c1\u03b8\u03c1\u03af\u03b6\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2.\n\"Reconciliation's plan devising,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Fellow-sharer of the Father's Throne,\n \"Thee, O Christ, we, very early rising,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Tender lover of our spirits, own!\"\nWhen Thy Friends, with deep dismay confounded,\n \u00a0\u00a0Stood amaz\u2019d, and knew not where to fly,\n All the darkness that their souls surrounded\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou didst scatter with Thy drawing nigh.\nTouch how awful, how consolatory!\n \u00a0\u00a0When, O Thomas, thou didst stretch thine hand, p. 126\n And that Side, resplendent in its glory,\n \u00a0\u00a0Didst explore, because He gave command!\nUnbelief of Thomas was the Mother\n \u00a0\u00a0Of Thy Church's most unshaken Creed:\n Thou, O Saviour, wise above all other,\n Had\u2019st, before the world was, thus decreed.\nCatavasia. \"Let us rise in early morning.\" (p. 100.)","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. John Damascene: S. Thomas's Sunday, Ode V","type":"page"}