O Lord God, the woman who had fallen into many sins having perceived Thy divinity received the rank of ointment-bearer offering Thee spices before Thy burial wailing and crying: Woe is me, for the love of adultery and sin hath given me a dark and lightless night; accept the fountains of my tears O Thou Who drawest the waters the waters of the sea by the clouds incline Thou to the sigh of my heart O Thou Who didst bend the heavens by Thine inapprehensible condescension; I will kiss Thy pure feet and I will wipe them with my tresses I will kiss Thy feet Whose tread when it fell on the ears of Eve in Paradise dismayed her so that she did hide herself because of fear; who then shall examine the multitude of my sin and the depth of Thy judgment? Wherefore, O my Saviour and the Deliverer of my soul turn not away from Thy handmaiden O Thou of boundless mercy.
Hymn of Kassiani
According to tradition, during a dinner with the emperor Tiberius Caesar, Mary Magdalene was speaking about Christ's Resurrection. Caesar scoffed at her, saying that a man could rise from the dead no more than the egg in her hand could turn red. Immediately, the egg turned red. Because of this, icons of Mary Magdalene sometimes depict her holding an egg. from this comes the tradition of dyeing eggs red at Pascha/Easter.
Lord have mercy on me a sinner!
Relevant Reading
The Book of Ruth
Isaiah 54:1-6; 11-17
Kassiani the Hymnographer
4 comments:
Thank you! I have been looking for this since I am unable to attend tonight. I am going to, er, borrow it. ;-)
Anytime! I am not going to make it either--I have class tonight.
hey, hey. good to be back with you. I look forward to reading about how are you doing after all this time.
how many years have we known of each other now? 9 maybe? ohhhhh :(
Rosanna! Hi! ~hugs~ So good to "see" you!
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