Rejoice therefore, O universe…

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  Look­ing over the typikon instruc­tions for this Sun­day, I briefly noted that again we sing the Kon­takion of the Forefeast. I was about to just file that away as a detail, when I started to read it. It really is amaz­ing the wealth of hymnody that we have in the Church. So much so that some­times we can’t take it all in. For the past cou­ple weeks and the next cou­ple, we’ll be hear­ing this chanted or sung before Christ­mas, and yet look at every­thing it expresses — the­o­log­i­cally, poet­i­cally, spiritually:

  Today the Vir­gin cometh to the cave
  to give birth in an inef­fa­ble man­ner
  to the pre-eternal Word.

  Rejoice, there­fore, O uni­verse, when thou hear­est,
  and glo­rify with the angels and shep­herds
  Him who shall appear by His own will
  as a new Child,
  the pre-eternal God.

  Cer­tainly beats ‘Sea­sons greet­ings,’ huh?

  
  

  Related posts:

  1. The Sweet-singer
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  3. On Ques­tion­ing God
  4. St. Sisoes
  5. Today in Beth­le­hem hear I

  
  
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• Mimi 12.02.2008
  

  Wow. It is amaz­ing each year to feel it approach­ing in such beau­ti­ful hymnography.

• DebD
  

  lovely. What Mimi said.

• s-p
  

  Actu­ally this kon­takion has always been my favorite Ortho­dox hymn. (Tone 3 Byzan­tine… avail­able on First Fruits, Boston Byzan­tine Choir CD.)

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