{"id":3530,"date":"2021-10-30T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:55:19","slug":"poem-ix-x-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/2021\/10\/poem-ix-x-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven Descended upon Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3530\" class=\"elementor elementor-3530\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-74cfbb5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"74cfbb5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-add67d1\" data-id=\"add67d1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0334b60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0334b60\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sept2021_img-7.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sept2021_img-7.jpg 360w, https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sept2021_img-7-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sept2021_img-7-16x10.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-baa44ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"baa44ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Christ is with us,<br \/>The Risen Christ<br \/>During each Liturgy, He is here in the altar,<br \/>in all the light<br \/>of His divinity<br \/>Tremble, all you people!<\/p><p>It is not a thought,<br \/>it is not longing<br \/>it is heaven descended upon earth,<br \/>with more angels than stars<br \/>surrounding Him<br \/>O crystals<br \/>thoroughly flooded<br \/>O roar of wings<br \/>unheard!<\/p><p>Behold, we are blind, we are deaf,<br \/>hearts are made of tar<br \/>\u2014the stone of the Church is holy and sings seeing Him<br \/>the table, the grave encompasses Him<br \/>O frightful sight.<\/p><p>And we do not know it, we remember<br \/>our days as if they were shards of glass,<br \/>our fears<br \/>and we do not know it.<\/p><p>The myrrh is His overflowing Name,<br \/>flooding the universe<br \/>and we<br \/>do not know it.<\/p><p>Be theophoric<br \/>be Christophoric<br \/>hold Him, hold Him in your heart<br \/>as you hold the Pascha candle<br \/>between<br \/>your palms!<\/p><p>He is the Air,<br \/>He is the Life,<br \/>He is the Blood,<br \/>deifying us.<br \/>He wants<br \/>Everyone to be<br \/>akin to Him.<\/p><p>Fear, O hearts of men,<br \/>tremble, O hearts of angels,<br \/>He calls us,<br \/>us,<br \/>those who crucified Him!<\/p><p>Every Sunday is Pascha<br \/>Oh, if only we would take Him home<br \/>Kindled light,<br \/>in the heart of hearts,<br \/>above the depths!<br \/>Won\u2019t we be worthy of hell,<br \/>as His blood was shed for us,<br \/>again and again He crucified Himself,<br \/>in all the Liturgies of the year&#8230;<br \/>and we did not want Him<br \/>and we did not believe Him<br \/>and we did not follow Him<br \/>and we did not want to be<br \/>without death?<br \/>The heavens open before us<br \/>and the flood of rays comes<br \/>and God comes<br \/>like dew<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the chalice!<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Daniel Turcea<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ is with us,The Risen ChristDuring each Liturgy, He is here in the altar,in all the lightof His divinityTremble, all you people! It is not a thought,it is not longingit is heaven descended upon earth,with more angels than starssurrounding HimO crystalsthoroughly floodedO roar of wingsunheard! Behold, we are blind, we are deaf,hearts are made of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icon-from-within-sept-oct-21","tag-poem","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}