My husband and I played in a small chamber group at this church this morning. Having never been to an Orthodox church before, it was an interesting place to spend Easter.
We were there to play the Mozart Sparrow Mass and other music, but I enjoyed being able to join in with singing this wonderful hymn.
Below are the first two verses of the hymn. Go here for all five verses. [Note: The melody we sang today was the first of the alternate melodies listed, the Ave Virgo Virginum (1544) which is much better than the Sullivan (1872) melody the website uses.]
"Come Ye Faithful"
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness;
God hath brought forth Israel into joy from sadness;
Loosed from Pharaoh’s bitter yoke Jacob’s sons and daughters,
Led them with unmoistened foot through the Red Sea waters.
’Tis the spring of souls today; Christ has burst His prison,
And from three days’ sleep in death as a sun hath risen;
All the winter of our sins, long and dark, is flying
From His light, to Whom we give laud and praise undying.
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