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O ye incorporeal angels who stand before the throne of God, luminous with the brilliance thereof and everlastingly shining with radiance. As secondary luminaries, entreat Christ, that He grant unto our souls peace and great mercy. O immortal messengers of the truly incorruptible Life, ye most blessed ones who received life from the first Life, ye have become holy beholders of the eternal Wisdom, full of light, and reflecting lamps shown forth as is meet. O ye archangels and angels, principalities, thrones, dominions, six-winged seraphim, and divine, many-eyed cherubim, instruments of wisdom, virtues and powers most divine. Pray ye to Christ, that He grant our souls peace and great mercy. Archives:
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HOLY RESURRECTION BYZANTINE CATHOLIC MISSION
Slava Isusu Chrisu! Slava Na Viky!
Divine Liturgy begins at 4 p.m. Every Sunday
Every Third Sunday of the Month is Food Sunday
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Divine Liturgy Intention:
Our Offerings
The Archbishop Is Coming!
Wei will be blessed to have His Eminence Metropolitan Basil with us on Sunday, August 22.The Archbishop Is Coming! Metropolitan Basil will celebrate the Divine Liturgy with us at 4 p.m. and join us for a feast afterward. Be sure to attend!
Mary’s Role
Mary, the Theotokos, has always held a pristine position throughout Christianity. The Fathers of the Church compare her light
to that of the moon, which reflects the sun, the unique source of light. She is not simply a saintly woman of the Church. She
is the woman who was selected in the providence of God to become the mother of the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ.
It was the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Son of God, who assumed human nature through this maiden of Nazareth.
When she freely accepted God’s will, the Holy Spirit descended upon her. By her consent, she conceived Christ by the
power of the Holy Spirit. Unlike the first Eve, who disobeyed the divine command, Mary, the second Eve, submitted in humble
obedience and said: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done unto me according to Your will.”
It is proper that we pay special veneration and honor to the Virgin Mother of God. Jesus is the fruit of her womb. How can we
esteem the fruit and ignore the tree that bore the fruit? There is no birth without a mother. To be mindful of Mary, the
Theotokos, is to be even more mindful of her Son, our Lord. One cannot accept the divinity of Christ without at the same time
accepting the divine maternity of Mary.
On Responsibility
For we were enemies of God through sin, and God has appointed the sinner to die. Either God, in His truth, should destroy
all men, or in His loving kindness He should cancel the sentence. But behold the wisdom of God; He preserved both. Christ took
our sins in His body on the tree, that by His death we might die to sin. — St. Cyril of Jerusalem
We Christians carry a great deal of the responsibility for the Passion and death of Christ. We Christians know the truth
because it has been revealed to us. But even though we know the love of God, we fall into sin. Our sins are what Christ
carried onto the Cross. By our first sin, we ratify the sin of Adam and Eve and so carry the guilt. St. Francis of Assisi
wrote: “Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your
sins and vices.”
In preparation for the Divine Liturgy, the priest places the particles of bread on the diskos for all the members of the
church. After those gifts are placed on the altar and consecrated, the deacon raises the gifts and makes the Sign of the
Cross. We are crucified with Christ so that our sins may be forgiven.
— Father George Vida
It’s an election year, so let your voice be heard: Pray!
Pastoral Ponderings: Pray for Peace — We Owe It to Them
One of the marvels of France is the Cathedral of Chartres, and one of its most celebrated features is the Rose Window. At its
center sits Christ, and around him orbit the symbols of the four evangelists.
Each evangelist sits on the shoulders of an Old Testament prophet: Luke on Jeremiah, Matthew on Isaiah, John on Ezekiel, and
Mark on Daniel. The major voices of the New Testament ride piggyback on the major voices of the old. Why did the artists do
that? They wanted to make a point: Christianity rides on the shoulders of Judaism.
It is astounding that Western civilization draws its dynamism from a Middle Eastern nation that never amounted to anything
like the empires that surrounded it. But from the Jewish people came not only Abraham, Rachel, Moses, David, and Solomon, but
also a girl named Mary, whose image is central to every Catholic church on every continent, and her Son, whose Gospel
continues to irritate every selfish soul.
You don’t have to be a believer to conclude that Israel’s influence on every other ethnic group has been profound.
That is what the window-makers depicted: how our church rides on the shoulders of a Semitic people. We should pray for peace
for that tiny country — that there be an end to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
— Father O’Connell
Last updated: 14-Aug-2004 |
