Sunday's Hymn: The Day of Resurrection

Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 7:59AM
rebecca in Sunday's hymn

 

The day of re­sur­rect­ion! Earth, tell it out abroad;
The Pass­ov­er of glad­ness, the Pass­ov­er of God.
From death to life eter­nal, from earth un­to the sky,
Our Christ hath brought us ov­er, with hymns of vic­to­ry.

Our hearts be pure from ev­il, that we may see aright
The Lord in rays eter­nal of re­sur­rect­ion light;
And list­en­ing to His ac­cents, may hear, so calm and plain,
His own All hail! and, hear­ing, may raise the vic­tor strain.

Now let the heav’ns be joy­ful! Let earth the song be­gin!
Let the round world keep tri­umph, and all that is there­in!
Let all things seen and un­seen their notes in glad­ness blend,
For Christ the Lord hath ris­en, our joy that hath no end.

—John of Damascus

Article originally appeared on Rebecca Writes (http://rebecca-writes.com/).