A Poem of St. Nektarios the Wonderworker: "O Divine Love"

 

A Poem of St. Nektarios the Wonderworker: "O Divine Love"

 

 

 

O Divine Love, come, I entreat you,

 

From all my soul and within my heart,

 

And a divine dwelling-place, O Christ, make me

 

And from every stain, O cleanse me.

 

 

 

O Divine Love, godly love

 

I ask You to fill my soul

 

With divine eros. O Divine Love,

 

Fervently I entreat you, to grant to me, Your servant.

 

 

 

O Divine Love, I entreat You,

 

To grant love to those who ask of You,

 

For Your love is to fulfull

 

Your Divine Law, O sweet Love.

 

 

 

O Divine Love, who alone fills

 

The whole world and preserves it,

 

You are the law of the heavens,

 

You are the law of the earthly.

 

 

 

Your Kingdom is love,

 

In which reigns joy and peace,

 

In which reigns blessedness,

The eros of the Divine and rejoicing.