How bizarre is this?
A great and wondrous mystery unfolds today.
A virgin gives birth and remains a virgin!
The Word is made flesh without leaving His Father!
Angels and shepherds glorify Him!
Let us join in their song:
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace!"
How bizarre?
Today He who holds the whole creation in His hand is born of a virgin.
He whose essence none can touch is bound in swaddling-clothes as a mortal man.
God, who in the beginning fashioned the heavens, lies in a manger.
He who rained manna on His people in the wilderness is fed on milk from His
mother's breast.
The Bridegroom of the Church summons the wise men;
The Son of the virgin accepts their gifts.
We worship Thy birth, O Christ.
We worship Thy birth, O Christ.
We worship Thy birth, O Christ.
Show us also Thy Holy Theophany!
How bizarre is the idea that God would simultaneously be God and Man?
Listen, O heaven! Give ear, O earth!
Let the foundations of the earth be shaken!
Let trembling seize the regions beneath the earth,
For our God and Creator has clothed Himself in created flesh;
He fashioned all creation, yet reveals Himself in the womb of her that He formed.
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How incomprehensible are His judgments;
And how unsearchable His ways!He is our God:
There is no other to compare with Him.
Born of a virgin, He comes to live with men.
The only-begotten Son appears as a mortal man.
He rests in a lowly manger.
The Lord of Glory is wrapped in swaddling clothes.
A star leads the wise men to worship Him,
And with them we sing:
O Holy Trinity, save our souls!
A virgin gives birth and remains a virgin!
The Word is made flesh without leaving His Father!
Angels and shepherds glorify Him!
Let us join in their song:
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace!"
How bizarre?
Today He who holds the whole creation in His hand is born of a virgin.
He whose essence none can touch is bound in swaddling-clothes as a mortal man.
God, who in the beginning fashioned the heavens, lies in a manger.
He who rained manna on His people in the wilderness is fed on milk from His
mother's breast.
The Bridegroom of the Church summons the wise men;
The Son of the virgin accepts their gifts.
We worship Thy birth, O Christ.
We worship Thy birth, O Christ.
We worship Thy birth, O Christ.
Show us also Thy Holy Theophany!
How bizarre is the idea that God would simultaneously be God and Man?
Listen, O heaven! Give ear, O earth!
Let the foundations of the earth be shaken!
Let trembling seize the regions beneath the earth,
For our God and Creator has clothed Himself in created flesh;
He fashioned all creation, yet reveals Himself in the womb of her that He formed.
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How incomprehensible are His judgments;
And how unsearchable His ways!He is our God:
There is no other to compare with Him.
Born of a virgin, He comes to live with men.
The only-begotten Son appears as a mortal man.
He rests in a lowly manger.
The Lord of Glory is wrapped in swaddling clothes.
A star leads the wise men to worship Him,
And with them we sing:
O Holy Trinity, save our souls!