_________________________Psalm 18:1a_
I
love
you,
O Lord, my strength
* John of Damascus,
who died ~760
Syrian a monk & priest who was the author of the Easter hymn, “Come, ye faithful, raise the strain of trium-phal gladness,” among others, and he was a defender of the veneration of icons after
the Byzantine Emperor issued an edit against the veneration of icons in 726, the
year John was ordained.
Weird to see all this once familiar sight from the olden days - a large congregation packing the church? jammed into church together? Oh yea, that was last year… and a world away.
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