Let the Heavens Rejoice | Psalm 96 (95 Septuagint) | Orthodox Christian Liturgical Hymn | Russian Cross | Orthodox Christian Black MugAnd He hath properly called His work by a name which signifies good tidings. Yea, for it was a removal of punishment, and remissionof sins, and "righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption," and adoption, and an inheritance of Heaven, and a relationship unto the Son of God, which He came declaring unto all; to enemies, to the perverse, to them that were sitting in darkness. What then could ever be equal to these good tidings? God on earth, man

purify our consciences from works of death

by Man came also the resurrection of the dead

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know

Light of the sun

+ Elder Ephraim of Arizona

It pleased the Heavenly Father to establish it so

Swiftness of the wind

It is hidden in the world

The second watch: they were at rest

you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess

he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death

from whence then hath it tares