{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec48.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec48.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec48.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nby S. Theophanes\nAt this period of the year the weeks are named, not from the Sundays that precede, but from those that follow them. Quinquagesima is termed Tyrophagus, because up to that time, but not beyond, cheese is allowed. The Friday previous is appropriated to the Commemoration of All Holy Ascetes; in order, as the Synaxarion says, that, by the remembrance of their conflict, we may be invigorated for the race that is set before us.\n\u0394\u03b5\u1fe6\u03c4\u03b5 \u1f03\u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03af.\nHither, and with one accord,\n Sing the servants of the Lord:\n Sing each great ascetic sire:\u2014\n Anthony shall lead the choir: p. 161\n Let Euthymius next him stand;\n Then in order all the band.\n Make we joyous celebration\n Of their heavenly conversation;\n Of their glory, how they rise,\n Like another Paradise;\n These the trees our God hath plac\u2019d,\n Trees, with fruit immortal grac\u2019d;\n Bringing forth, for Christ on high,\n Flowers of Life that cannot die;\n With the sweetness that they fling\n Mortal spirits nourishing.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Filled with God, and ever blest,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For our pardon make request!\nEgypt, hail, thou faithful strand!\n Hail, thou holy Libyan land!\n Nurturing for the realm on high\n Such a glorious company! p. 162\n They by many a toil intense,\n Chastity and continence,\n Perfect men to God upreared,\n Stars to guide us have appeared:\n They, by many a glorious sign,\n Many a beam of Power Divine,\n To the earth's remotest shore\n Far and wide their radiance pour.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Holy Fathers, bright and blest,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For our pardon make request!\nBy what skill of mortal tongue\n Shall your wondrous acts be sung?\n All the conflicts of the soul,\n All your struggles towards the goal;\n And your virtues' prize immense,\n And your victories over sense,\n How perpetual watch ye kept\n Over passion, prayed and wept: p. 163\n Yea, every angels came,\n Visible in earthly frame,\n And with Satan girt for fight\n Utterly o\u2019erthrew his might.\n Fam\u2019d for signs and wonders rare,\n Join to ours, great Saints, your prayer:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ask that we, ye ever blest,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0May attain the Land of Rest!","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Theophanes: Idiomela on F...","type":"page"}