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December 26, 2005

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"Christian friends, your voices raise.

Wake the day with gladness.

God Himself to joy and praise

turns our human sadness:

Joy that martyrs won their crown,

opened heaven's bright portal,

when they laid the mortal down

for the life immortal."


Words: Saint Joseph the Hymnographer, 9th Century, translated from the Greek. Tune: the same one as "Good King Wenceslaus"


Posted by MamaT at December 26, 2005 10:47 AM

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