Ieromonk Ghelasie: "LAUD to All Saints" (English translation: Alice Butnar)

Holy Ap. Peter, tempera painting by monk Ilie




















Oh, Saints who Love GOD
And are unconquered by evil,
You alone are truly worthy
Of the One Who Created You...

OH, You GOD Loving Saints,
You are just as prone to weaknesses as we are,
Yet You BELIEVE so strongly
In the boundless LOVE,
That Your Nature turns into OVER-NATURE
And thus You nevermore fall out of GOODNESS.

Oh, You Saints, You never fall out of LOVE!
Yet the Greatest MIRACLE of all
Is that in Your Holiness You TAKE ALONG
Sinners as well, to Redeem...


Published in the volume "Hesychasm", Platytera Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007, p. 81. Translation from Romanian: Alice Butnar.

Copyright: Platytera Publishing House.

The Romanian (Original) Version can be found here.
The German Version can be found here.