I ARISE TODAY IN A HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE LORD OF CREATION

I ARISE TODAY IN A HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE LORD OF CREATION
IN ALL HOLY
Blessing and brightness,
Wisdom, thanksgiving,
Great power and might
To the King who rules over all.
Glory and honor and goodwill,
Praise and the sublime song of minstrels,
Exceeding love from every heart
To the King of heaven and earth.

To the chosen Trinity has been joined
Before all, after all, universal
Blessing and everlasting blessing,
Blessing everlasting and blessing.

Let us adore the Lord,
Maker of marvelous works,
Bright heaven with its angels,
And on earth the white-waved sea.
I arise today
In Your almighty power’s strength, the invocation of You Blessed Trinity,
Believing in Threeness,
Confessing the Adorable Oneness in Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour
Of You the Only Creator of creation

I arise today
In the power of Christ Jesus’ birth and baptism in the flesh,
In the power of His crucifixion and burial in the same flesh,
In the power of His resurrection and ascension, assumption into the third heaven seated at the Father’s Right Hand in the same flesh in the Unity and Power of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete
In the power of His descending in the same flesh for the saving of the saved and the judging of the judged of doom.

I arise today
In the power and the love of the holy seraphim, cherubim, kuriotetes, arches especially St. Michael and St. Gabriel, holy archangelos, exousias, dunameis, angelos
In obedience and service In the hope of the resurrection to receive the reward,
In the prayers of patriarchs,
In the predictions of prophets,
In the preachings of apostles,
In the faith of confessors,
In the innocence of holy virgins,
In the deeds of the righteous.

I arise today
In heaven’s might;
In sun’s brightness,
In moon’s radiance,
In fire’s glory,
In lightning’s quickness,
In wind’s swiftness,
In sea’s depth,
In earth’s stability,
In rock’s fixity.

I arise today
with the power of God to pilot us,
God's strength to uphold us,
God’s energy to shield us,
God's wisdom to guide us,
God's eye to look ahead for us,
God's ear to hear us,
God's word to speak for us,
God's hand to guard us,
God's way to lie before us,
God's shield to defend us,
God's holy hosts and whole cloud of witnesses to deliver us,
From all snares of the devil, all devils and demons,
From all evil temptations, From all who would try to make nature fail,
From every one who desires us ill,
Afar and anear,
Alone or in a multitude. Around us today Holy Lord God Almighty gather all Your powers: between us and all evil,
Against every cruel and merciless force that would attack my spirit, soul and body,
Against charms of false prophets,
Against black laws of pagandom,
Against false laws of heretics,
Against crafty deceptions of idolatry,
Against spells of women and smiths and wizards and all infidels,
Against all unlawful knowledge that would otherwise harm spirit, soul and body.

Christ Jesus protect us today
Against poison, against burning,
Against drowning, against wounding,
And all harm
So that I may have abundant reward.
Christ with us, Christ before us, Christ behind us,
Christ within us, Christ beneath us, Christ above us,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of us,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to and of us,
Christ in the eye that sees us,
Christ in the ear that hears us.

I arise today
In Your almighty power’s strength, the invocation of You Blessed Trinity,
Believing in Threeness,
Confessing the Adorable Oneness in Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour
Of You the Only Creator of creation

Evening Prayer

FOUNTAIN of light, thyself the light un ending,

Lord, hear our prayer and, cleansing us from evil,

Take away darkness; let thy holy radiance

Shine on thy servants.

Now and at the evening which brings the end of labour, Lord, who hast kept us safe in thy protection, Grateful we offer thee our thanks and worship.

Since then the daylight fades into the darkness, let that sun light us which enlightens always choirs of angels in thy holy presence, light never failing.

From all the sins which we this day committed cleanse thou our conscience, Christ our Lord and Saviour;

So in the night time we may rest uninjured, Safe in thy friendship.

Six days we labour, working as thou willest; Then on the seventh resting by thine order, We look to that day which at last shall bring us, rest everlasting.

KINDLY light of glory, fount of light from light, blessed Jesus, coming from the Father in heaven,

The bright rays of day, the light of the sun fade; and we at the morning and evening hour confess thee with our hymn.

We praise the one God, almighty Father, Son and Holy Ghost the comforter, in the glory of the Trinity.

Son of God, worthy to be glorified at all times by pure tongues, giver of life, all ages proclaim thee.

To thee praise, to thee a hymn

is due; to thee glory, God the

Father and Son with the Holy Ghost,

for ever and ever. Amen.

St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies Book V.

Chapter XXIII.-The Devil is Well Practised in Falsehood, by Which Adam Having Been Led Astray, Sinned on the Sixth Day of the Creation, in Which Day Also He Has Been Renewed by Christ.

1. He had indeed been already accustomed to lie against God, for the purpose of leading men astray. For at the beginning, when God had given to man a variety of things for food, while He commanded him not to eat of one tree only, as the Scripture tells us that God said to Adam: "From every tree which is in the garden thou shalt eat food; but from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from this ye shall not eat: for in the day that ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death; "²⁰⁰ he then, lying against the Lord, tempted man, as the Scripture says that the serpent said to the woman: "Has God indeed said this, Ye shall not eat from every tree of the garden? "²⁰¹ And when she had exposed the falsehood, and simply related the command, as He had said, "From every tree of the garden we shall eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die: "²⁰² when he had [thus] learned from the woman the command of God, having brought his cunning into play, he finally deceived her by a falsehood, saying, "Ye shall not die by death; for God knew that in the day ye shall eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."²⁰³ In the first place, then, in the garden of God he disputed about God, as if God was not there, for he was ignorant of the greatness of God; and then, in the next place, after he had learned from the woman that God had said that they should die if they tasted the aforesaid tree, opening his mouth, he uttered the third falsehood," Ye shall not die by death." But that God was true, and the serpent a liar, was proved by the result, death having passed upon them who had eaten. For along with the fruit they did also fall under the power of death, because they did eat in disobedience; and disobedience to God entails death. Wherefore, as they became forfeit to death, from that [moment] they were handed over to it.

2. Thus, then, in the day that they did eat, in the same did they die, and became death's debtors, since it was one day of the creation. For it is said, "There was made in the evening, and there was made in the morning, one day." Now in this same day that they did eat, in that also did they die. But according to the cycle and progress of the days, after which one is termed first, another second, and another third, if anybody seeks diligently to learn upon what day out of the seven it was that Adam died, he will find it by examining the dispensation of the Lord. For by summing up in Himself the whole human race from the beginning to the end, He has also summed up its death. From this it is clear that the Lord suffered death, in obedience to His Father, upon that day on which Adam died while he disobeyed God. Now he died on the same day in which he did eat. For God said, "In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death." The Lord, therefore, recapitulating in Himself this day, underwent His sufferings upon the day preceding the Sabbath, that is, the sixth day of the creation, on which day man was created; thus granting him a second creation by means of His passion, which is that [creation] out of death. And there are some, again, who relegate the death of Adam to the thousandth year; for since "a day of the Lord is as a thousand years,"²⁰⁴ he did not overstep the thousand years, but died within them, thus bearing out the sentence of his sin. Whether, therefore, with respect to disobedience, which is death; whether [we consider] that, on account of that, they were delivered over to death, and made debtors to it; whether with respect to [the fact that on] one and the same day on which they ate they also died (for it is one day of the creation); whether [we regard this point], that, with respect to this cycle of days, they died on the day in which they did also eat, that is, the day] of the preparation, which is termed "the pure supper," that is, the sixth day of the feast, which the Lord also exhibited when He suffered on that day; or whether [we reflect] that he (Adam) did not overstep the thousand years, but died within their limit,-it follows that, in regard to all these significations, God is indeed true. For they died who tasted of the tree; and the serpent is proved a liar and a murderer, as the Lord said of him: "For he is a murderer from the beginning, and the truth is not in him."²⁰⁵