Pray for Ukraine

oh oh i want to welcome everyone here on the behalf of the ukrainian community of the capital district most people know me i'm dr andre baran do many things including madison but i'm also praying so i want to welcome many guests here we have congressman tonko uh we have uh from the armenian uh orthodox church saint peter's uh father uh uh it's upon us i'm sorry um and we have uh father johann from the saint nicholas orthodox church in troy father marcus chuck from saint peter and paul in cohos and of course uh our father uh from here i want to welcome all our american friends um ukraine on the screen he will be participating in the service here he'll have a few words for us from ukraine and then we'll have our molabbin here uh foreign come on foreign [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] m [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign me [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] glory to his before the name holy spirit the voice of the lord is over the waters the god of glory thunders the lord over the mighty waters the voice of the lord [Music] the voice of the lord strikes with very flame the voice of the lord shakes the desert the lord shakes the desert the voice of the lord makes [Music] may the lord [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] yoho [Music] that we may be deemed worthy of hearing the holy gospel let us pray to the lord our god [Music] wisdom stand right let us listen to the holy gospel peace [Music] a reading from the holy gospel according to saint matthew [Music] let us be attentive when jesus saw the crowds he went up to them up the mountain and after he had sat down his disciples came to him he began to teach them saying blessed are the poor in spirit for there is the kingdom of heaven blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted blessed are the meek for they will inherit the land blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied blessed are the merciful uh before they will see god blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness for there is the kingdom of heaven blessed are you then when you when they insult you perfect in heaven thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] watch it distinguished guests parishioners from all all around ots and everyone else who came here today to pray and to pray for peace among many many scary things any child faces is the darkness darkness scares children darkness is scarce because there is the the child cannot see and it's not it doesn't feel safe in the darkness the all kids trying to hide they feel threatened and unsecured that is why children often want they the day not to end to have they all the time forever children children also learn how to deal with the night and darkness they learn to they learn how to avoid fear the secret is to be with someone someone who is not afraid with others to feel their hands to be in their presence to be with those who that love them who care for them and who stand for them i would assume all children love also fairytale stores fairy tale tales stories right in those stories we learn about good and evil but good characters there's always a good characters and evil ones those characters characters who are able to love to care to think about others characters those are the characters that are selfish greedy careless mean we sometimes call them dark characters dark many of those stories teach us that to stand against dark the stories tell us that good is also strong even though it appears sometimes weak the good knows how to conquer and many times it is victorious interestingly interesting good characters and we have evil characters as well the gospel and the scripture right it presents us jesus taught us about this children of the day children of the night and many times jesus calls his all all peace to be the light he says he says you are the light of the world to teach them how to live to teach them goodness today we are faced with the darkness in the world once again we gather here to talk about to talk and to implore the almighty god to give us peace to stop evil people the styles stop there to stop war to stop suffering to stop human sin because it's human sin that leads to war it is the greed and the pride and and the desire to dominate to put others and do not consider others of value that's what causes all these problems in the world and so we are able to identify that we know that the evil is there nothing completely and people are afraid and scared how do we deal as i said with with darkness we don't like children do we are looking for we have to look for each other come together and it was one front to deal with the darkness only together only with each other only with the support of one another dark forces children of the night so to let us pray let us come for that we as we are together here with all the priests and all guests we will today pray that god almighty may change and maybe interfere on our behalf right he may interfere on our behalf we're not talking about killing we're talking about changing hearts i want people to change their minds when people change their hearts want people to repent and change the way they think about things so that the unity love glory of you to jesus christ i want to thank father michael very much for having us we're living in profou very prophetic times i want to thank all the priests for showing up for those who are coming here just to help out and pray i thank you so much because these times are times that have been predicted and you're living truly in the most exciting of all times this is where your your faith is going to be tested your faith is going to be truly tested the virgin mary has appeared in this world more recently within the last 100 years 200 years more than any other time in the history of mankind and she keeps repeating the same thing over and over and over again come to my son come to my son to have peace you won't have peace without my son my son is the king of peace he comes for each and every one of us and he comes for each there was a documentary and it was called apocalypse world war one then it went into apocalypse world war ii and watched both segments and they showed all these young men all excited because the romance of war they thought they were going to go off and fight and bring back the bounty of the others that they were going to conquer and i kept watching it and i was watching i kept thinking oh god why are they why are they celebrating this don't they know what's going to happen we are on the other end of that we see what's happened in history but then they showed the young men with their legs being blown off the suffering not just the suffering of the civil war with my parents and my mother the first thing she said is they didn't capture everything they didn't capture the suffering of the mothers we need to pray and we need to pray like we've never prayed before i'm telling you these are the times that have been predicted today's gospel our lord jesus christ prophesied of what's coming that at the end times we will all be judged and the only way that evil can triumph is for good men to remain silent whether that silence is not speaking up or whether the silence is not praying and reaching out to god that's who we need to reach out to all this all this is because of the inconsistency of man's faith toward god they're inconsistent atrocity that's happening in the womb is a straight same atrocity that we're all so frightened of happening in ukraine our politicians our church needs to be consistent in a love for mankind and the love for the child within the womb because that child grows up and we don't need to send them off to war i beg of each one of you don't let today be like 9 11 was after it happened all the churches were filled people came from all over the place i remember going to churches and the whole pe standing room only with one week many people were missing then two weeks was almost back to normal we need as a community as a family to start to sacrifice and to show mercy father michael just read the gospel and in the gospel the beatitude was blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy this message ever has been predicted by the virgin mary to a ukrainian mystic who said that russia will burn the water will burn in the air will burn on fire that's what war leads to is total destruction we haven't seen war for a long time and our youth they're not familiar with it so we need to educate the people around us christ said people die because of a lack of knowledge we need to know what's going on in this world and pray not just for ukraine pray for the truckers up in canada pray for the child within the womb we need to be consistent in all things i thank you each and every one of you for being here today for praying with this community is a christian glory be to jesus christ have mercy on us oh god according to your great mercies we pray you hear us and have mercy [Music] let's pray for the lord [Music] then we pray for a god-loving and god-protected country ukraine ancestral land of ukrainians for the government and for the armed forces and for all the people that the lord god help and aid them in all things and protect them from every enemy and adversity [Music] me we pray lord our god for all those who suffer from acts of war especially for victims and all those in the struggling in ukraine we pray for your peace and for your mercy in the midst of the great sufferings that people are now inflicting on each other accept the prayers of your church so that by your goodness peace may return to ukraine and all people hear us o lord and have mercy on us lord [Music] lord our savior master we your unprofitable servants give thanks to your to your with fear and trembling for you have poured out your blessings upon us and deliver your servants from all calamity and in your mercy grant all requests which in our untoward salvation we pray you lord hear us and have mercy [Music] again we pray for protection of our god-loving and god protected ancestral homeland ukraine and for all the people from all the affliction wrath dangers spiritual physical needs and so that they may live in peace good health and well-being all the days of their lives all-merciful lord hear us and have mercy [Music] our singer far from home be gracious to us sinners master be gracious to us and have mercy on us for soul and loving god and commit you glory to the father and of the son of the holy spirit [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is foreign [Music] [Music] i thank all of you for inviting me that our prayed in our monasteries in the world but before i say that i want to say a special thank you to the ukrainian community and especially to my brothers father mikhail and father vazo especially in 2020 us armenians we are no strangers to war um we were invaded by izaberjan in 2020 and a long-standing region of armenia was taken over once again by force and aggression so we know what that feels like and we stand in solidarity with you the ukrainian people and just as you have prayed for us we continue to pray for all of you so i thank you father mikhail for coming on that day when we prayed outside and also special thanks to our mercy lord have mercy r lord our god you keep us in peace during the day and at night and at all times keep our minds and our thoughts directed towards the holy awe of you so that we may always be protected by you from the temptations of the enemy and that we may offer praise and glory to you father son and holy spirit now and always and unto the ages of ages amen peace be with you all and with your spirit let us bow down to god oh lord of hosts commit our souls and the souls of all the ukrainian people to the angel of peace so that he may come and keep us in peace by day and by night when we are awake or at rest grant us that we may pass this day in peace and may in particular peace remain in the region in ukraine and russia and may peace be in the hearts of all the government leaders the presidents and all those within those countries so that we together as one people may reach the morning hour to worship and glorify your most holy trinity now and always and unto the ages of ages amen [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] is [Music] you [Music] yo [Music] the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen foreign foreign i just want i just want to make a little announcement that there will be collect there will be a collection for humanitarian aid in ukraine uh feel free if you can to spare your change and so if you want to make out a check it's to ucca humanitarian funds thank you and we invite everyone down to the church hall uh if we have a 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Published: Sun Feb 20 2022