ODE TO SAINT BARBARA

Refrain: repeated after each verse of the ode:

'Ideesa Barbara / 'end a-rab a-mukhtarra / abooki hel-kafir / hel abad a-hejarra.

St. Barbara, chosen by the Lord, your father that heathen, worships stones.

Ode:

Your father is a ruler in the land of Sham. That pagan is a hypocrite. He went to fight the Christians to make her reject them.

He bad his daughter to come to the grotto and spoke to her of religion. He told her to adore the stones and oppose the Christians.

She told her father, "My king, I will not change in my belief even if they cut me with a knife".

He told his servants to take her and put her in a cell and give her anything if she will fight the Christians.

She told her father, "0 sovereign of the peo- ple' this idea is only in your mind. My mind is like ajewel and all your gods are but stones".

He told the servants to take her and make her suffer all kinds of tortures: to remove her eyes and throw her out to stop this move- ment.

He told the swordsman to pierce her; the sword became a belt around her. He brought fire to burn her; the fire turned to incense.

A cloud came and covered her and took her to Christ. All of you, ask the intercession of this martyr Barbara.

St. Barbara, chosen by the Lord, has found mercy with God to intercede for Christians.

This Ode to Holy Great-Martyr Barbara is in the oral tradition. This Ode is often sung when the slee'a, emeh, ilbee, or iyouk is eaten.

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O God of all spirits and of all flesh, who have destroyed death, overcome the devil, and given life to the world: grant, O Lord, to the souls of your servants Bucky and Shirley, who has departed from this life, that it may rest in a place of light, in a place of happiness, in a place of peace, where there is no pain, no grief, no sighing. And since You are a gracious God and the Lover of Mankind, forgive him/her every sin he/she has committed by thought, or word, or deed, for there is not a man who lives and does not sin : You alone are without sin, your righteousness is everlasting, and your word is true. You are the Resurrection and the Life, and the repose of your departed servants Bucky and Shirley. O Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, together with your eternal Father and your all-holy, good and life-givng Spirit, now and always and for ages upon ages. Amen.

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