{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec65.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec65.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec65.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nCanon for Ascension Day\nby S. Joseph of the Studium\n\u1f38\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 \u1f41 \u03b6\u03c9\u03bf\u03b4\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2.\nJ\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0esus, Lord of Life Eternal,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taking those He lov\u2019d the best,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stood upon the Mount of Olives,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And His Own the last time blest:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then, though He had never left it,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sought again his Father's breast.\nK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nit is now our flesh to Godhead,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Knit in everlasting bands:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Call the world to highest festal:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Floods and oceans, clap your hands:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Angels, raise the song of triumph!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Make response, ye distant lands\nL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oosing Death with all its terrors\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thou ascended\u2019st up on high;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And to mortals, now Immortal,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gavest immortality:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As Thine own Disciples saw Thee\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mounting victor to the sky\nCatavas\u00eda.\nM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0onarch of monarchs, Sole of Sole, to Thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Word, Glorious in Thy Father's Majesty,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And sending Thy co-equal Spirit bright\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To teach, to comfort, and to guide aright,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thine own Apostles sang: All glory to Thy might!","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Joseph of the Studium: Ca...","type":"page"}