Come, keep this Feast, who holy things revere,
And with pure minds, your Lord adore with fear.
Lo, to the Jordan on this sacred day,
The Bridegroom from His chamber took His way.
Jordan affrighted, on its course was stayed;
The Baptist heard His voice and was dismayed.
“How can I hold that sacred Head of Thine,
O Word of God, Immortal, and Divine?”
Then, from the Father, in the heaven above,
The Holy Ghost descended as a Dove.
While on the Christ the dove-like form abode,
And Jordan’s parted waters o’er Him flowed.
“This is my Son,” the Father spake from heaven,
“Who, for the lost of Adam’s race was given.”
Illumine us, we sing, O Christ the Lord,
Glory to Thee, O Thou Incarnate Word!
Bishop Nektarios of Aegina [born Anastasios Kephalas] (1846 - 1920) Greece
Translated by John Brownlie
Source: Hymns From the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and suggestions from the service books of The Holy Eastern Church, John Brownlie, Alexander Gardner, 1911
And with pure minds, your Lord adore with fear.
Lo, to the Jordan on this sacred day,
The Bridegroom from His chamber took His way.
Jordan affrighted, on its course was stayed;
The Baptist heard His voice and was dismayed.
“How can I hold that sacred Head of Thine,
O Word of God, Immortal, and Divine?”
Then, from the Father, in the heaven above,
The Holy Ghost descended as a Dove.
While on the Christ the dove-like form abode,
And Jordan’s parted waters o’er Him flowed.
“This is my Son,” the Father spake from heaven,
“Who, for the lost of Adam’s race was given.”
Illumine us, we sing, O Christ the Lord,
Glory to Thee, O Thou Incarnate Word!
Bishop Nektarios of Aegina [born Anastasios Kephalas] (1846 - 1920) Greece
Translated by John Brownlie
Source: Hymns From the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and suggestions from the service books of The Holy Eastern Church, John Brownlie, Alexander Gardner, 1911
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