Saturday 10 December
Antiphon: For you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.
Healing Wings
by Elizabeth Gaye Trondsen.
You come to me.
With healing in Your wings.
Your Love washes over me.
Filling every crack.
Of my broken soul.
Sun of Righteousness,
I rest underneath your wings of love.
I dwell in your gentle heart.
There is healing in your touch.
Amen. Let it be so.
Thomas Moran (USA, 1837–1926) Unto You That Fear My Name Shall the Sun of Righteousness Arise with Healing in His Wings (1882). Water colour and pencil.
Malachi 4
See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
Remember the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.
Psalm 80.14-19
14 Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15. the stock that your right hand planted.
16. They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
17. But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand, the one whom you made strong for yourself.
18. Then we will never turn back from you; give us life, and we will call on your name.
19. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.
Matthew 17:10-13
And the disciples asked him, ‘Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ He replied, ‘Elijah is indeed coming and will restore all things; but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but they did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.’ Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
Пане господарю, на твоєму дворі [Pane hospodaryu, na tvoyemu dvori] = Mr. Homeowner, in your yard, sung by Ensemble Drevo.
Pane-hospodariu, na tvoiemu dvori
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Na tvoiemu dvori tserkvu zbuduvaly.
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Zbuduvaly tserkvu z troma prestolamy.
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Na pervom prestoli – Rozhdestvo Khrystovo!
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Na druhom prestoli – Vasylii Velykyi!
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Na tretom prestoli – Sviateie Khreshchennia!
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Rozhdestvo Khrystovo radost nam pryneslo.
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Vasylii Velykyi – “Z Novym Rokom!” – skazhe.
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Sviateie Khreshchennia vodu nam osviatyt.
Rai rozvyvsia, rai rozvyvsia,
Hospod zveselyvsia,
Shcho y na svit Syn Bozhyi rodyvsia!
Mister homeowner, in your yard
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
In your yard a church was built,
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
A church was built with three altars.
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
On the first altar is the Nativity of Christ!
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
On the second altar is St.Basil!
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
On the third altar is the Holy Epiphany!
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
The birth of Christ has brought us happiness
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
Basil the Great will tell us “Happy New Year!”
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
Holy Epiphany will sanctify water for us.
Paradise has blossomed, paradise has blossomed
The Lord has rejoiced,
Because the Son of God was born into the world!
May the Lord, when he comes, find us watching and waiting. Amen.