ASCENSION CANON

ASCENSION CANON

CANON DEFINITION

can·on Noun
1. A member of the clergy on the staff of a cathedral, esp. a member of the chapter.
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as·cen·sion / əˈsenSHən / Noun
1. The act of rising to an important position or a higher level.
2. The ascent of Christ into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection. More »


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p. 209
CANON FOR ASCENSION DAY.
This is the crowning glory of the poet Joseph; he has here with a happy boldness entered into the lists with S. John Damascene, to whom, on this one occasion, he must be pronounced superior. I have preserved the alphabetic arrangement, and "Joseph's Ode" at the end.

All the Catavasias are in Iambics.


ODE. I.
by S. Joseph of the Studium
ἀνέστης τριήμερος.


After three days Thou didst rise Visible to mortal eyes: First the Eleven worshipped Thee,— Then the rest in Galilee: Then a cloud in glory bore Thee to Thine own native shore.


p. 210
Boldly David pour'd the strain: God ascends to Heav’n again: With the trumpet's pealing note Alleluias round Him float; As He now, by hard-won right, Seeks the Fount of purest Light!


Crime on crime, and grief on grief, Left the world without relief: Now that aged, languid race, God hath quickened by His grace: As Thy going up we see, Glory to Thy Glory be!
Catavasía.


θέιῳ καλυφθείς.
Darkness and awe, when Sinai's top he trod, Taught him of faltering tongue the Law of God: p. 211 The mist was scattered from his spirit's eye, He prais’d and hymn’d the Maker of the sky, When He That is and was and shall be, passed by.
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