January 16, 2022 - Divine Liturgy

do hmm so so so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] m [Music] [Music] for our country the president and all in public service let us pray to the lord [Music] for this city and perish for every city and land and for the faithful who live in them let us pray to the lord [Music] for temperate weather abundance of the goods of the earth and for peaceful times let us pray to the lord [Laughter] for those who travel by land sea and air for those who are sick or suffering or in captivity and for their safe keeping let us pray to the lord [Music] that we may be spared all affliction wrath danger and want let us pray to the lord [Music] help us save us have mercy on us and keep us o god in your grace remembering our most holy pure blessed and glorious lady the theotokos and ever virgin mary with all the saints let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to christ our god [Applause] [Music] for all glory honor and worship are your due father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages [Music] [Music] [Music] us [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] oh [Music] foreign [Music] m [Music] me [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] again in peace let us pray to the lord [Music] help us save us have mercy on us and keep us o god in your grace remembering our most holy pure blessed and glorious lady the theotokos and ever virgin mary with all the saints let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to christ our god for you are a good and loving god and to you we give the glory father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages [Music] please rise now and join with us as we sing our entrance him this morning found in the middle of page two in your hymnals in the fifth tone tu encinar con logon [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] sofia [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] him with grace [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me [Music] ah [Music] is [Music] let us be attentive you shall guard us o lord you shall preserve us save me o lord for the holy man has ceased wisdom the reading is from paul's letter to the colossians let us be attentive brethren when christ who is our life appears then you also will appear with him in glory put to death therefore what is earthly in you fornication impurity passion evil desire and covetousness which is adultery on account of these the wrath of god is coming upon the sons of disobedience and these once walked when you lived in them but now put them all away anger wrath malice slander and foul talk from your mouth do not lie to one another seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator here there cannot be greek and jew circumcised and uncircumcised barbarian scythian slave free men but christ is all and in all peace [Music] [Music] wisdom let us stand and hear the holy gospel peace be with all [Applause] the reading is from the holy gospel according to saint luke let us be attentive [Music] at that time as jesus entered a village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said jesus master have mercy on us when he saw them he said to them go and show yourselves to the priests and as they went they were cleansed then one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back praising god with a loud voice and he fell and he fell on his face at jesus's feet giving him thanks now he was a samaritan then said jesus were not ten cleansed where are the nine was no one found to return and give praise to god except this foreigner and he said to him rise and go your way your faith has made you worm [Music] [Music] please be seated okay noah now you're gonna follow landon now and we're gonna go sit with him out in the pews okay let's go jesus healed the ten lepers today my friends a familiar story for a lot of us but an incredible story when you think about it um leprosy during the time of jesus was a hideous disease it infected a person it debilitated them and made them um lose fingers toes made the skin fall off and it was very contagious so they could not circulate lepers could not circulate in society when jesus was walking these lepers approached him and they knew who he was and they asked him have mercy on us and what he told them was go show yourselves to the priest because back in those days if you were by chance ever healed of leprosy you had to go show yourself to the priest of the temple so he could verify that you were healed and that you could then circulate in society again kind of like having a vaccine card so he told them go show yourselves to the priests and so they went and as they went it says in the bible they were healed now there were ten of these lepers and only one of them who was not even a jew turned back to give thanks to god and to jesus who healed him okay what i want to do today though is focus on the 10 on the 10 all together before the one guy turned back so these ten men were suffering from a hideous disease and they wanted help and they had heard of course of jesus somehow that he was able to do wonderful miracles and things and so they they went to him and and sought his help now these men were not priests or bishops or anything like that they were just ordinary people who needed help and were living a miserable life and had been inundated with this misery and and isolation for a long time and they as a last-ditch effort to kind of get some relief or something so they went to this jesus that they'd heard some things about and sure enough as and when he said you know go show yourselves to the priests and they started getting healed sure enough as they were walking they became healed now this is where it gets interesting you have a hideous disease maybe some of the fingers grew back who knows how healed but i'm sure they just they could tell right away that they've not only felt better but that they saw that their whole body was becoming whole again right away as they were walking to go show themselves to the priest these men were in the world before they were consumed with their own personal problem and then as their personal problem went away they were still in the world thinking about the things around them and who they were and what they were going to do and they just kept going they figured they figured wow wow look at this i'm healed i'm all better wow i lucked out boy what a lucky person i am how fortunate i am that i'm healed now now look what i can do i can go associate with my family i can go to work i can do all look at wow let's go their mind was completely set in the ways of the world even though this incredible thing had just happened to them didn't change their mind a bit as soon as they were healed wow let's keep going i'm so lucky just one man turned around to give thanks to god and to jesus just one now to me that tells us a lot of things we're talking 10 of the people turned around to acknowledge jesus as the healer and to thank him just ten percent ninety percent just kept going on their way get back to business go to work go see the family ninety percent and that situation is what faces us today in our world today let's look 90 of the people even some of the people that go to church think i got my life i'm so busy i got my responsibilities i got family i got work i got school i'm so busy so they focus on that 90 in our world today focus on those things i want to i want to kind of go over two things though with you first first of all you know um when i was in college when i was in even high school but i i sang in choirs a lot you probably know that and when you sing in the choirs in college and stuff like that you perform a lot of times with the orchestra and the band the symphony band and all that kind of stuff so i got to know some of these orchestra people and became friends with some of them but had a lot of exposure to orchestra music classical music let's put it that way and so i've i've started developing an appreciation for classical music back in those days and i still have it now look at music look at music what what it is music let's talk about classical music now let's not talk about rap or anything like that but at least classical music when you hear it you can't see it all you can do is hear it but somehow that we know that that music is real and sometimes if it's one a piece that's especially beautiful it transports you to somewhere else your mind just is set free by the beauty that's in the music it's an incredible thing it's invisible but it's still there and it's very real now god is invisible but he's very real too he's still there the only problem is a lot of people 90 percent of the people don't realize it they don't see it a lot of people don't like classical music does nothing to them they like rap music or other things classical music means nothing and that's the way it seems to me that that that people operate in this world when it comes to god they're able to focus only on whatever concerns them and not allow themselves to be lifted up into heaven and the second thing i want to say about that is is a very simple but important notice what happened when that one man turned around to give thanks to god and to thank jesus for the healing he turned around and he gave thanks now i i want to tell you that when a person thanks someone else or says look i really appreciate that thank you very much to another person guess what you can look right into their soul when they do that because only a soul that's pure and god-oriented will give thanks only a soul that is conscious of and aware of what god means in this world can recognize when something good happens to them and immediately give thanks becomes automatic it's a wonderful thing so when you hear somebody sincerely saying thank you you can tell and you can look into their soul and see exactly what's going on there that it's healthy and that it tries to cling to god and by the way one more thing that one more word or phrase that you can tell the same thing with if you ever hear anybody say i'm sorry i'm sorry the most amazing thing to me is that i've noticed over my life is how hard it is for somebody some people to say i'm sorry it won't come out of their mouth it just won't those things first of all saying thank you and saying i'm sorry has to start from a place of humility in your soul you need to have some type of humility inside before you can say i'm sorry and mean it and thank you and mean it you have to have some kind of humility if there's no humility inside of you those things are never going to come out of your mouth so 10 people didn't have that kind of humility they walked the nine people walked away and kept going the one man did have a soul that was alive and he that soul propelled him inspired him to turn around and go back to jesus and say hey thank you thank you kind of a simple miracle today about jesus encountering 10 very sick men and healing them but boy oh boy what we can learn from that healing and what we can learn from that one man who turned around to say thank you amen that's good please rise now and continue with us in the divine liturgy on page 12 in your liturgy books again we bow before you and pray to you o good and loving god hear our supplication cleanse our souls and bodies from every defilement of flesh and spirit and grant that we may stand before your holy altar without blame or condemnation grant also god progress in life faith and spiritual discernment to the faithful who pray with us so that they may always worship you with reverence and love partake of your holy mysteries without blame or condemnation and become worthy of your heavenly kingdom to supanda [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me [Laughter] may the lord our god remember you all in his kingdom now and always and to the ages of angels [Music] oh [Music] [Music] in [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] that this whole day may be perfect holy peaceful and without sin let us ask the lord [Music] for an angel of peace a faithful guide a guardian of our souls and bodies let us ask the lord [Music] for forgiveness of our sins and offenses let us ask the lord [Music] for all that is good and profitable for our souls and peace in the world let us ask the lord [Music] that we may live out our lives in peace and repentance let us ask the lord [Music] [Applause] for a christian and to our lives peaceful free of shame and suffering and for a good defense before the dread judgment seat of christ let us [Music] remembering our most holy pure blessed and glorious lady the fel torcos and ever virgin mary with all the saints let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to christ our god [Music] make us worthy to find favor with you so that our sacrifice may be pleasing to you and that the good spirit of your grace may come upon us upon these gifts here presented and upon all your people through the mercies of your only begotten son with whom you are blessed together with your all holy good and life-giving spirit now and always and to the ages of ages [Music] be with [Music] let us love one another that we may with one mind confess [Music] the door the doors in wisdom let us be attentive [Music] please refer now to the pamphlets found in your pews and join in reading the creed i believe in one god father almighty creator of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible and in one lord jesus christ the only begotten son of god begotten of the father before all ages light of light true god of true god begotten not created of one essence with the father through whom all things were made who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the holy spirit and the virgin mary and became man he was crucified for us under pontius pilate and suffered and was buried and he rose on the third day according to the scriptures he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father and he will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead his kingdom shall have no end and in the holy spirit the lord the creator of life who proceeds from the father who together with the father and the son is worshiped and glorified who spoke through the prophets in one holy catholic and apostolic church i confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins i look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come amen stole [Music] [Music] [Applause] the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god the father and the communion of the holy spirit be with all [Music] let us lift up our let us give thanks to the lord it is fitting and right to sing of you to bless you to praise you to give thanks to you and to worship you in all places under your dominion for you are god beyond describing beyond comprehending neither to be seen nor conceived forever existing forever the same you and your only begotten son and your holy spirit you brought us into being out of nothingness and when we had fallen raised us up again leaving nothing undone until you could lead us to heaven and grant us your future kingdom for all these things we thank you and your only begotten son and your holy spirit for all these blessings both known and unknown manifest or hidden that have been bestowed on us we thank you also for this liturgy which you have deemed worthy to accept from our hands even though you are surrounded by thousands of archangels and tens of thousands of angels by the cherubim and the seraphim six-winged many-eyed soaring on their wings [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] taking [Music] this is my body which is broken for you for the remission of sins [Music] drink of this all of you this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins [Music] please kneel [Music] once again we offer you this spiritual worship without the shedding of blood and we ask pray and entreat you send down your holy spirit upon us and upon these gifts here offered and make this bread the precious body of your christ amen and that which is in this cup the precious blood of your christ changing them by your holy spirit i mean i mean [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] r [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] spiritual [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] ah among the first lord remember archbishop grant that he may serve your holy churches in peace keep him safe honorable and in health for many years rightly teaching the word of your truth also remember lord those whom each of us has in mind and all your people [Music] those who toil and do good works in your holy churches who are mindful of the poor and upon us all send down your mercy and grant that with one voice and one heart we may glorify and praise your most exalted and majestic name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages may the mercies of our great god and savior jesus christ be with allah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] having prayed for the unity of the faith and the communion of the holy spirit let us commend ourselves and one another to our and our whole life to christ our god [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for yours is the kingdom the power and the glory father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of age peace be with all [Music] let us bow our heads to the lord [Music] we give thanks to you invisible king in your infinite power you fashioned all things and in the abundance of your mercy you brought all things from nothing into being look down o master from heaven on those who have bowed their heads to you for they have bowed not before flesh and blood but before you the awesome god will you then master order with lies ahead according to each one's need sail with those at sea accompany the way fears heal the sick as position of our souls and bodies by the grace mercy and love for us of your only begotten son with whom you are blessed together with your all holy good and life-giving spirit now and always and to the ages of ages [Music] [Laughter] [Music] a is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] alone [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] please turn now to page 29 in your liturgy books and join in reading the communion prayers i believe o lord and i confess that you are truly the christ the son of the living god who did come into the world to save sinners of whom i am the first i also believe that this is your sacred body and this your precious blood therefore i pray to you have mercy upon me and forgive my transgressions voluntary and involuntary in word and deed both known and unknown and make me worthy to partake of your sacred mysteries for the remission of sins and life eternal amen behold i approach for holy communion o creator burn me not as i partake for you are fire which burns the unworthy wherefore do you cleanse me from every stain now those of you have prepared to receive holy communion i ask that you come down the center aisle to receive [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] with the fear of god with faith and with love drawing [Music] [Music] the servant of god richard demetrius receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ of sins and life everlasting the habit of god receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the sermon of god mark receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god [Music] body and blood nathanael our lord and savior jesus christ in remission of sins and life everlasting [Music] the servant of god john receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting [Music] george you see the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting sujan the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for their mission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god james demetrius receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ of god anna receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the mission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god george receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ the heaven of god precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting [Music] the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god and marie receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ sins in life everlasting the servant of god jason receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting pericles of god sophia receives the precious body and blood of our lord and the savior of jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the habit of god married he sees the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for their mission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the sermon of god precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ [Music] lord and savior jesus christ the servant of god may keep us receive the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ happy to god catherine receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god failed receives the precious body and blood of our lord lord and savior precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ [Music] the servant of god and stephanos he's a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ [Music] lord save your people and bless your inheritance [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] let us be attentive having received the divine holy pure immortal life-giving and awesome mysteries of christ let us give fitting thanks to the lord help us save us have mercy on us and keep us o god in your grace having asked that this whole day may be perfect holy peaceful and free of sin let us commend ourselves and one another in our whole life to christ our god [Music] we thank you loving master benefactor of our souls that this day you have once again made us worthy of your heavenly and immortal mysteries make straight our path keep us steady on our way keep us firmly in all of you guard our lives keep us steady on our way through the prayers of the glorious theotokos and every virgin mary and of all your saints for you are sanctification and to you we give the glory father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages [Music] let us depart in peace let us pray to the lord we realize on career lies on lord bless those who praise you and sanctify those who trust in you save your people and bless your inheritance protect the whole body of your church sanctify those who love love the beauty of your house glorify them in return by your divine power and do not forsake us who put our hope in you grant peace to your world to your churches to the clergy to those in public service to the armed forces and to all your people for every good and perfect gift is from above from above coming from you the father of lights and to you we give glory thanksgiving and worship father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] may god bless you and keep you please be seated [Music] i mean okay just a few a brief meeting a few brief announcements this morning you know i was i'm i've been noticing if you go to our our church channel on youtube um [Music] most the average number of views on the on the broadcast that we do on sunday morning the live stream that we do on sunday morning the average number of views is about 75 people watching online on sunday and i and because people have told me personally i know that we have people watching from los angeles from portland oregon from toronto canada chicago illinois from all different kinds of places so we welcome all of them to our live stream on the youtube and we're going to be continuing this for quite a while i believe because it is a good a good service to provide to our parishioners uh today the philotogos our ladies philopticos will be having its general meeting in the hall during coffee hour it's a great opportunity to hear the the wonderful things they're doing to help the poor so all all ladies are invited to attend and to listen to them even if you're not a member you can still attend and listen to see what they do it's a it's a wonderful organization that does a lot of good also our crab feed is coming up february 5th um we're going to only sell 200 tickets and we're already up to about 115 or 20. so um make sure you get your tickets before well before uh it's 55 a ticket but if you buy a table of 10 it's only 500 for the table okay so see richard boucher today if you'd like to get your tickets he'll be in the coffee hour as well we have little envelopes outside for you to use to send in your stewardship offerings and if you haven't sent in your pledge card yet go ahead and do that and become a member of saint catherine we'd love to have you let's see yeah our dance group let's see now when is that there our dance groups are going to be yeah here it is it's january 30th our dance groups we're going to be having a luncheon on january 30th that's a sunday and a preview performance of their um dances that they'll be performing at fdf in phoenix arizona this february so make sure you put that on your calendar to january 30th for our dance groups all right god bless you and keep you please as i come down the side aisles now to receive your andeathro okay you

Channel: Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church - Elk Grove

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Length: 77min 20sec (4640 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 16 2022