Monday, December 4, 2017*

                                    Easter Hymn: Come ye faithful 

     Neither might 

     the gates of 

     death, nor 

     the tomb’s

     dark portal, 

     nor the 

     watchers   

     nor the seal, 

     hold theee as a mortal: 

        but today, amidst thine own,

          thou didst standing bestowing,

              that thy peace which evermore

                           passeth human knowing.

*John of Damascus, 

Syrian monk & priest c.760,

author of the Easter hams

 (Hymns, Siri, Hymns! 

Seriously,Siri, you are such a pagan!) "Come ye faithful" and "The day of resurrection."  He also wrote in defense of holy images against the iconoclasts,  distinguishing between “the respect or veneration that is properly paid the created beings, and the worship that is properly given only to God.”  (From Holy Women…)