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Russian Orthodox Chant: "Come let us praise Joseph"

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2012 · Music

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Here I present the hymn sung at Holy Fridays Vespers,
"Come, let us bless.... Joseph" relates to the story of 
the removal of the Body of Christ from the Cross & the
wrapping of His body with a white sheet by Joseph of
Arimathea.

Come, let us bless the ever-memorable Joseph,
who went to Pilate by night to beg for the Life of all:
Give me this stranger, who has no place to lay his head.
Give me this stranger, who was handed over to death by his wicked disciple.
Give me this stranger, whose Mother wept, seeing him on the cross,
mourning and crying out in motherly lament: Woe is me, my child!
Woe is me, my light, my beloved whom I bore in my womb!
What was foretold by Simeon in the temple comes to pass today:
A sword has pierced by heart;
but change my tears into the joy of your resurrection.
We bow to your passion, O Christ.
We bow to your passion, O Christ.
We bow to your passion, O Christ,
and to your holy resurrection.

Performed here by The Choir of the Moscow Patriachate.


Accompanying photographs of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery (Николо-Угрешский монастырь) , Moscow.

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