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Hymn of St. Kevin

 

Published in The Hymnary, Novello, 1872.

 

1 Come ye faithful, raise the strain

 Of triumphant gladness;

 God hath brought His Israel

 Into joy from sadness;

 Loosed from Pharaoh?s bitter yoke

 Jacob?s sons and daughters;

 Led them with unmoisten?d foot

 Through the Red Sea waters.

 

2 Tis the Spring of souls to-day;

 Christ hath burst His prison,

 And from three days? sleep in death

 As a sun hath risen;

 All the winter of our sins,

Long and dark is flying

 From His light, to Whom we give

 Laud and praise undying.

 

3 Now the Queen of seasons bright

 With the Day of splendour,

 With the royal Feast of feasts,

 Comes its joy to render;

 Comes to glad Jerusalem,

 Who with true affection

 Welcomes in unwearied strains

 Jesus' resurrection. Amen.

 

John Mason Neale, 1818 - 66, from the Greek

 

Click here to hear a sound file of the Hymn of St. Kevin

 

"Troparian of St. Kevin"
submitted by a reader
(a troparian is a sort of "theme song"
in orthodox Christian churches)
 

You were privileged to live in the age of saints, O Father Kevin,

being baptized by one saint, taught by another, and buried
by a third.  Pray to God that he will raise up saints in our day
to help, support, and guide us in the way of salvation.

 

 

 

 

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