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BEAUTIFUL! Thank you Alexandr!
I have always wanted to share photos of the monastery of Aghia Triada in Aegina with the forum, but I am not proficient at posting such things...so now I do not have to worry about that any more!
The old rooms you see are the rooms which he lived in--intact as they were, in the old Greek island style.
The large new church you see has been built over the past two and a half decades from the donations of the faithful all over the world...each time I go there, there is something new, some more landscaping, planting, paving, iconography, etc....
However, the most touching part of the complex is still the little, old, poor and humble monastery complex which was built by the Saint himself....
The 'Agni Parthene' (Pure Virgin) hymn written by Saint Nektarios sounds just as beautiful in every language I have heard it in....
In Christ,
Alice
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Someone on the forum requested a translation of this hymn. I decided that I would post it here publicly for the edification of all: O Virgin Pure
by St. Nectarios
Plagal First Tone (Tone 5)
Refrain: Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!
O Virgin pure, immaculate/ O Lady Theotokos
O Virgin Mother, Queen of all/ and fleece which is all dewy
More radiant than the rays of sun/ and higher than the heavens
Delight of virgin choruses/ superior to Angels.
Much brighter than the firmament/ and purer than the sun's light
More holy than the multitude/ of all the heav'nly armies.
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!
O Ever Virgin Mary/ of all the world, the Lady
O bride all pure, immaculate/ O Lady Panagia
O Mary bride and Queen of all/ our cause of jubilation
Majestic maiden, Queen of all/ O our most holy Mother
More hon'rable than Cherubim/ beyond compare more glorious
than immaterial Seraphim/ and greater than angelic thrones.
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!
Rejoice, O song of Cherubim/ Rejoice, O hymn of angels
Rejoice, O ode of Seraphim/ the joy of the archangels
Rejoice, O peace and happiness/ the harbor of salvation
O sacred chamber of the Word/ flow'r of incorruption
Rejoice, delightful paradise/ of blessed life eternal
Rejoice, O wood and tree of life/ the fount of immortality.
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!
I supplicate you, Lady/ now do I call upon you
And I beseech you, Queen of all/ I beg of you your favor
Majestic maiden, spotless one/ O Lady Panagia
I call upon you fervently/ O sacred, hallowed temple
Assist me and deliver me/ protect me from the enemy
And make me an inheritor/ of blessed life eternal.
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!(Source and translation: Holy Nativity Convent, Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) http://www.serfes.org/spiritual/november1999.htm
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Thanks Alice! I have already sent it out to my friends as well as printing up for my prayer book! God bless you!
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