January 2, 2022 - Divine Liturgy

you so [Music] [Music] so box and [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [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 [Music] 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 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] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] so [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 [Music] 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 at the bottom of the first page in your hymnals in the third tone efrenesto tauranyan [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] see [Music] christopher [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] [Music] the [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] let us be attentive reading is from saint paul's second letter to timothy wisdom let us be attentive timothy my son always be steady endure suffering do the work of an evangelist fulfill your ministry for i am already at the point of being sacrificed the time of my departure has come i have fought the good fight i have finished the race i have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge will award to me on that day and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing peace be to you [Music] wisdom let us stand and hear the holy gospel peace be with all [Music] reading is from the holy gospel according to saint mark let us be attentive the beginning of the gospel of jesus christ the son of god as it is written in isaiah the prophet behold i send my messenger before thy face who shall prepare your way the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the lord make his path straight john the baptizer appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins and there went out to him all the country of judea and all of the people of his of jerusalem and they were baptized by him in the river jordan confessing their sins now john was clothed in camel's hair and had a leather girdle around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey and he preached saying after me comes he who is mightier than i the thong of who sandals i am not worthy to stoop down and untie i have baptized you with water but he will baptize you with the holy spirit [Music] [Music] please be seated yeah yeah let's go outside this thursday my friends is the feast of theophany or epiphany the feast that celebrates the baptism of jesus in the river jordan by john the baptist and so the gospel we read today is known as the gospel before the the feast of epiphany or theophany and we heard an account the very beginning of the gospel of mark we heard an account of what happened when jesus got baptized what led up to it and at that time you have to know that john the baptist john the baptist was about the same age as jesus but he had started his ministry earlier and was calling people to repentance and as a sign of this true repentance in other words that they were sorry for the sins that they had committed um he was out in the wilderness and they'd go out and he'd baptize them in the jordan river and they were forgiven their sins so this is um john the baptist was a very very popular prophet that existed in around jerusalem and judea the area around what is today israel very very popular he had his own disciples following him very popular that's why today's gospel is so significant he says you know there's somebody coming after me who's so much more important than i am that i'm not even worthy to bend down and tie his shoes so john the baptist knew who jesus was and he knew what to say to set everybody's mind right one of the things that interested me though today in our in our gospel was the description of john the baptist he lived in the wilderness and he went around in his clothing was just animal skins and he ate um locusts and honey locusts and honey and this struck me because i don't know if you've seen this on on the tv or read it in the papers or anything but there are a lot of people going around now saying you know don't worry if we run out of food you can always eat bugs lots of protein in bugs you can eat them so john the baptist was doing this 2000 years ago he was way ahead of his time i imagine though i'm so and i'm looking at this thing well how could somebody eat locust and and honey what the i figured it out he probably dried up the the grasshoppers of the locusts dried them out and then crowd you know chopped them up and then mix them with honey you see so you get the honey sweetness and you get the protein it's a complete diet this whole idea of eating locus and honey is simply a matter of emphasizing what a simple person he was he didn't eat steaks and and lamb and all that kind of stuff he just ate locusts and honey he's a very simple man because only one thing mattered to him preaching a god and preaching about repentance and in in insisting that people turn away from their sinful behavior and turn towards god and and adopt a life of virtue and moral living that's what john the baptist was all about that's what led him into trouble and we'll hear that uh next week but he ate locusts and honey and you know i came across i came across a quote from saint basil the great who we um we commemorated yesterday he was a fantastic he was such a powerful saint a some powerful man he was a bishop that lived in what is today turkey eastern turkey such as such a powerful saint that even before he died they called him basil the great and everybody just accepted it he had done so many things he had started orphanages he started he started hospitals he started feeding the poor he did so many wonderful things as bishop that people called him basil the great before he even died a significant figure in the in the life of the orthodox world and i came across one of his quotes that kind of triggered me with uh with today's gospel and about saint john the baptist eating locusts and honey listen to what saint basil said just as it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey so the goodness of god cannot be clearly communicated by the way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the lord by our own experience and i thought to myself wow that is really something there's no way you could ever tell somebody how sweet and how delicious honey tasted just by talking about it no way well it's really sweet okay what is that until you taste honey you never really know what it tastes like nobody could describe it to you the same thing goes for the goodness of god there's no way that you can describe and talk and communicate to the goodness of god and teach and this and that unless you yourself have experienced the good the goodness of god and i'm i'm i've always said and i will continue to say this the only way that you have to to um the only thing you have to do the only thing you have to do to experience the good of goodness of god is just one thing pay attention pay attention when you look around in your life if you're not really paying attention you got all these other things buzzing around and whatever they are money and jobs and education and all these other important things but still those things feel you don't take the time to pay attention to see around you the beauty of nature for example or to look at somebody who is maybe in in trouble and needs a little help and to feel compassion for them it's simple to see the goodness of god in our life all we have to do is pay attention look for it and sure enough you're going to taste that goodness of god and you're going to embrace it in your life and you'll be able to tell everybody about it how wonderful god is and what wonderful things he's done for you unfortunately and i'm sure i know people like this and i'm sure you know people like this in our lives in everybody's life sometimes bad things happen sometimes misfortunes take place whether it's through health reasons or any other kind of thing and unfortunately some people see that and they say oh this is terrible why did this cancer happen god must not exist god doesn't care and they go off in the completely wrong direction a person who believes in god though will say well gee whiz this cancer came here to teach me something whether it happens to you or to somebody that you love this cancer came to teach me something and it can teach me all kinds of things teach me humility teach me patience teach me reliance on god's goodness and ultimately teach me to look forward to the kingdom of heaven if that's the way it turns out it just depends on if we pay attention or not and once we start noticing these things easily we can communicate to other people exactly who god is what he does and how he loves all of us amen please rise now and join with us as we continue 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 of 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 [Music] and know [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh god [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] m and [Music] on may the lord our god remember you all in his kingdom now and always and to the ages of edge [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] [Music] please be seated we turn we we continue now on page 15 in your liturgy books oh [Music] [Music] that this whole day may be perfect holy peaceful and free of 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] [Applause] 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] for a christian end to our lives peaceful free of shame and suffering and for a good defense before the dread judgment seat of christ let us 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 [Music] with you so god our sacrifice may be pleasing to you and 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 peace [Music] let us love one another that we may with one mind confess [Music] the doors the doors in wisdom let us be attentive 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 this is [Music] 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 hearts let us give thanks to the lord [Music] 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 eyes soaring on their wings [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] take it 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] once again we offer you this spiritual worship without the shedding of blood and we ask praying and treat you send down your holy spirit upon us and upon these gifts here offered and make this bread the precious body of your christ and that which is in this cup the precious blood of your christ amen changing them by your holy spirit i mean i mean i mean [Music] [Music] logo [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] all appreciated oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] among the first lord remember archbishop yerasimos 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] remember the 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 [Music] and may the mercies of our great god and savior jesus christ be with [Music] me foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] so having prayed for the unity of the faith and the communion of the holy spirit let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to christ our god [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 the kingdom and the power and the glory father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages peace be with all [Music] let us bow our hands to the lord [Music] you then master order what lies ahead according to each one's needs sail with those that see accompany the wayfarers heal the sickest physician 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] body and precious blood and through us to all your people [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] then [Music] [Music] oh [Music] and [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 from the 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 who have prepared to receive holy communion i ask that you come down the center aisle to receive [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is please [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] with the fear of god with faith and with love draw near [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the habit of god georgia 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 alexandros receives the precious mighty and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting [Music] the handmaid of god vasily receives the precious mighty and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for their mission of sins and life everlasting the habit of god and receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god james demetrius receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god allison receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of galilee receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for their mission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god george receives the 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 their mission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god come a little closer robert that's it that's it the servant of god robert receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the mission of sins and life everlasting stephanie we're going to do your chance the handmaid of god stephanie receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the habit of god receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the hamid of god olivia receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god mary 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 jason receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god maria receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god ioanna receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god mary receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting silence that's good step a little closer that made of god's side where he sees the precious body and blood our lord and savior jesus christ [Music] the handmaid of god selena receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the handmaid of god having oversees the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting what's your name the servant of god yanni receives the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ a little closer johnny come a little closer there you go you see the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ what's your name this the servant of god leo neither receives the precious body and blood [Music] let's go see the handmaid of god [Music] receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior [Music] jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting maria onion [Music] yes [Music] let's see this one is uh solomon the servant of god solomon who sees the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the habit of god catherine receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god constantine he sees the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ the servant of god stopped us who sees the precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ for the remission of sins and life everlasting the servant of god andrew andrew 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 maximus 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 anthony 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 gregory receives a precious body and blood of our lord and savior jesus christ [Music] save your people and bless your inheritance [Music] [Music] know [Music] [Music] [Music] be exalted oh god above the heavens and let your glory be over all the earth [Music] is [Music] [Laughter] [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 and 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 firmly in all of you guard our lives keep us steady on our way through the prayers of the glorious talk us and ever virgin mary and of all your saints for you are our sanctification and to you we give the glory father son and holy spirit now and always and to the ages of ages let us depart in peace let us pray to the lord [Music] 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 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 forever give good and perfect gift is 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] [Music] oh [Music] m [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] may god bless you and keep you please be seated i mean i mean we're celebrating the feast of theophanies this thursday with divine liturgy at 10 o'clock and then the great blessing of the waters following the liturgy um so if you'd like to get some holy water for your homes um make sure you come to that it's a beautiful way we ask god to bless the water and then we take the water and sprinkle it around our homes that way god's blessing comes over our whole home so that's that's a good thing to do that's this thursday at 10 o'clock also if you want me to come to your home to bless it um just call me and then we can make up an appointment okay that's this thursday uh let's do let's do this um today we have the oath of office we're going to administer to the parish council in a few minutes not right now um for the parent the parish council members of 2022 a big group 11 council members which is wonderful we haven't had 11 in years and years so i'm so happy to see so many people excited about serving the parish on the parish council and then next sunday we're having our annual vasilopita luncheon this is the where we cut the saint basil's bread the vasilopita bread um and we have a wonderful luncheon i understand it's going to be chicken and potatoes a very nice lunch they have only ten dollars and children only five so um make sure you come next week and then our crab feed is coming up on february 5th um and we're getting the final plans uh put together so if you'd like to get a there's a discount this year 55 a ticket which is very very inexpensive because crab has doubled in price so but 55 dollars a ticket or if you want a whole table of 10 you can get the table for 500 okay so that's a little bit less and that's that see richard boucher for tickets or somebody anybody on the paris council now yesterday was new year's so we want to wish um cronia polato all the bills and the vasili keys um ronya pollav on your name day yesterday and i forgot to do something we'll just do a little tiny bit because we want to take too much time we have the parish council destroying after all in greece they have christmas carols greek christmas carols but you know there's been a tradition for a long time in greece it's not really santa claus that brings presents to the good boys and girls it's saint basil saint basil on new year's that's when children expect a presence to come from saint basil and they have we'll say like new year's carols or christmas carols for saint basil or whatever and they do that in greece and they're just wonderful many years ago we had a nice lady elderly lady that came and wanted to teach greek school to our children and this was when my kids katie's here today when she was about this tall long time ago and she taught them greek school and one of the things she taught them were a couple of these greek greek new year's carols so i want to do just a couple of verses if you want i don't know is there any more left out front they're all gone right they're all gone are there some out there the first one is uh paio pallioso chronos which is just that she taught this to the children and that's how i learned it actually so we're gonna do um one verse of this and you can hear how it goes [Music] [Music] it's a beautiful anyway that's the greek one of the greekers now this one is the kalanda which is a lot more famous i think than that we're going to do two calendar uh they're nice they're nice here we go [Music] [Music] happy new year everybody that's wonderful now i'd like to invite all the members of the newly elected members and the existing ones to come forward to uh so we can administer the oath of office [Music] okay please come on up to the to the soleus here and place your you know when you go to court and you put they still do this tom do they still make they do that still when you go to court you put your hand on the bible and you take um what do they call that just a oh it's just the oath to testify but you put your left hand on the bible and you raise your right hand in church your right hand is the good hand like my mom used to tell me to you put your right hand on the bible and you raise your left so come on forward and try to bring your right hand to put it on the bible come along yeah gather around very close nice and close there we are okay and you get that maybe touch the person in front yeah there you go just like that just oh beautiful and repeat after me i do solemnly swear that i will uphold the dogma and teaching traditions and holy canons worship and moral principles of the greek orthodox church as well as the constitutional charter discipline and regulations of the greek orthodox archdiocese of america and that i will fulfill faithfully and sincerely the duties and obligations required of a member of the parish council so help me god and everybody venerate the gospel now as we go around congratulations to all of you there we are there we are let me come down congratulations congratulations maria god bless you god bless you and please face the congregation if you would let's have a nice round of applause for all the members of the 2022 parish council god bless all of you we're happy we're happy to have you serve this next year i think is going to be a very good year because we hope to get back to normal and have all of our regular programs back in place now so congratulations god bless you we'll be meeting in the parish council room after you get your coffee at coffee hour okay very good okay i'm going to bring it out okay i love doing that every year because it always shows the commitment of our parishioners please come down the side aisles now to receive your 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Channel: Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church - Elk Grove

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Length: 83min 15sec (4995 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 02 2022