“The Angel Cried” is an Easter Megalynarion (a festal hymn in honor of Mary the Mother of God chanted in the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church). The text is addressed to Mary by an angel who announces that Christ has risen after His three-day sojourn in the grave. In the Greek tradition, the hymn is […] |
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