DIVINE LITURGY OF ST. PETER
Orthodox Benedictine Rite – Monastic Form
PROSKOMIDE:
OFFERING OF THE BREAD
Like a sheep He was led to the slaughter and as a lamb before the Shearer, He
opened not his mouth; in humiliation His judgment was taken away; His generation
who shall declare? In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit.
MINGLING OF THE WATER AND THE WINE
One
of the soldiers pierced His side with a
Spear and straightaway there came forth blood and water welling forth the
salvation of the world.
PRAYER OF PROSTHESIS (Profound Bow)
O
Lord our God, who did offer yourself for the life of the world, look down upon
us and upon this bread and upon this chalice and make this to become your pure
body and precious blood unto the communion of souls and bodies, for hallowed and
glorified is your most honorable and majestic Name.
PRAYER OF THE INCENSE:
Holy God, dwelling in unapproachable light:
O
Master, with your accustomed love for mankind overlook our many sins and as you
were pleased to accept the incense of Zacharias, thus also from the hands of
sinners graciously receive this incense as a savor of spiritual fragrance and
act mercifully toward us.
Hallowed and glorified is your most honorable and majestic name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit now and forever unto ages of ages.
O
Master, Lord our God, who has granted that I your humble and unworthy servant
serve as Priest at your holy Altar, cleanse my soul of all stain of sin and
make me worthy by the power and indwelling of your Holy Spirit to offer
sacrifice at your holy Altar and to glorify
and
praise your thrice holy Name so that I may enter your Sanctuary with a pure
conscience and be granted to complete this Divine Service
in
a way that is pleasing to you. In your mercy, accept this incense at your Altar
in Heaven as a sweet spiritual fragrance.
You
are my sanctification and illumination and to you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
do I send up praise and thanksgiving, adoration and reparation.
THE
PRIEST COVERS THE GIFTS WITH THE PALL SAYING:
Your strength, power and mercy have covered the heavens, O Christ. The earth is
full of your praise. The Lord is King let the heathen rage. He sits upon the
Cherubim let the earth be shaken.
Bless, O Lord our God, this offering and grant us your servants a pure heart and
a pure mind so we may be found worthy to draw near and touch your most pure body
and precious blood. Grant that we may stand before you on the dread day of
judgment without condemnation.
In
your mercy, grant us remission of our sins and deliver us from the temporal and
spiritual consequences of our sins in time and in eternity. In your mercy,
grant we may receive life eternal in heaven by the merits of Jesus Christ your
Son, our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God world
without end. Amen.
(Priest inclining in low tone)
May
I, your unworthy Priest, glorify you and give you praise in my every thought,
word and deed. By your will and favor I have a unique sharing in the Priesthood
of your Divine Son.
May
I always be the kind of Priest (and Bishop) you want me to be and the people
need me to be to the praise and glory of your majestic Name, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.
END
OF PROTHESIS. THE PEOPLE ARE INCENSED BY THE PRIEST OR DEACON
LITURGY OF THE CATECHUMENS
DEACON: Bless, Father
PRIEST: Blessed is the Kingdom of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
now and forever unto ages of ages. Amen
PRIEST OR DEACON:
For
the peace from above,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the peace of the whole world,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
this holy Temple and this Monastery,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
all the Patriarchs and for our
Primate N……. that they always will be faithful to Holy Orthodoxy,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
all our Bishops, Priests and clergy
that they always will be faithful to Holy Orthodoxy,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
all prisoners and those under investigation and for all who must stand trial
before a secular court, that they may receive justice and mercy. May the
innocent go free and the guilty receive mercy,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the victims of the holocaust of Abortion
and
for the end of the murder of the unborn,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
our President, Congress and for all Federal, State and Local government
officials
that they may be faithful to the sacred trust and charge placed upon them,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the peace and unity of the Holy Orthodox
Church in North America and around the world,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
an end to Cultural Paradosis, Jurisdictionalism, ethnicity and neo papism,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
deliverance from the heresy of Ecumenism, Inter-Faith Syncretism
and
Modernism,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
all those who suffer for the truths of
Holy Orthodoxy, that they may persevere
in
their stand for truth,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the widow, the orphans and for dysfunctional families,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the unemployed, the under employed,
For
the homeless and for those undergoing severe financial problems,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
our enemies and for those who hate us,
In
peace let us pray the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the sick, the disabled and those in hospitals and Nursing Homes,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the conversion of sinners and that our lives and words may reflect the Gospel of
Christ and bring others to a saving relationship with Christ through Holy Mother
Church,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
those who enter into eternal life this day, especially those who do so
unexpectedly,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
all those undergoing the judgment who have no one to pray for them,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
That we may receive the blessing
of
spiritual and temporal prosperity, good fortune and answered prayer,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
That the founder of this Holy Monastery
and
the faithful Monks and others living herein
may
receive your saving grace and consolation, the gift of your Holy Spirit
and
be numbered among your elect on the day of judgment,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
That all good and faithful Benedictine
in
all jurisdictions, both living and dead,
may
receive your saving grace and consolation, the gift of your Holy Spirit and be
numbered among the elect on the day of judgment,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
That our Holy Fathers and Brothers from the Latin Orthodox Benedictine Monastery
of the Amalfians and all the holy Fathers and Brothers at MT. Athos, living and
dead, may receive your saving grace and consolation, the gift of your Holy
Spirit and be numbered among the elect on the dead of judgment,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord.
(People repeat last line)
For
the intentions of those gathered here
(To themselves - THE PEOPLE NAME THEIR INTENTION)
and
for all the unspoken intentions in our hearts known only to the Lord,
In
peace let us pray to the Lord,
(People repeat last line)
PRIEST: (FIRST ANTIPHON)
O
Lord our God, whose might is unutterable, whose glory is inconceivable, whose
mercy is beyond measure and whose love for mankind is inexpressible in human
words look down O Master on us with mercy and forgiveness and deal with us
according to the riches of your mercy in Christ Jesus.
EXCLAMATION (All)
All
glory, honor and worship to you almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit now
and always unto ages of ages. Amen.
PRIEST (SECOND ANTIPHON)
Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance and preserve the purity of
your Church, sanctify them that love the beauty of your house and do not forsake
us who trust in you.
EXCLAMATION (All)
All
glory, honor and worship to you almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit now
and always unto ages of ages. Amen.
God, you are good and merciful and the lover of mankind. To you do we send up
our prayers of thanksgiving and adoration, our praise and
Love.
PRIEST (THIRD ANTIPHON)
Benefactor of all and architect of all creation
receive your Church as she draws near to you
and
lead us to perfection and make us worthy to enter into your Kingdom.
DEACON
Let
us attend. Let us worship and fall down before Christ our God.
THE
TROPARION AND KONTAKION IS NOW PRAYED.
PRIEST
The
Lord be with you
PEOPLE
And
also with you.
PRIEST
Let
us pray. Fill our mouths, we pray you Lord, with rejoicing through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit one God
now and always unto ages of ages. Amen.
PRIEST
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise
you, we bless you, we worship you, we glorify you.
We
give thanks to you for your great glory.
O
Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only begotten Son,
Jesus Christ. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father that takes away the
sins of the world have mercy on us; That takes away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer; That sits at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.
For
you only are holy, you only are the Lord, you only are the most High, O Jesus
Christ, with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
PRIEST (INCLINING)
Grant unto your faithful servants, O Lord,
help from above by your right hand and grant that we all may seek you with our
whole heart and obtain those things that we request of you. Grant this through
Christ our Lord as we ask it of you in Jesus Name who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, One God world without end. Amen.
EXCLAMATION (All)
Holy God, Mighty God, God Immortal have mercy on us.
PRIEST
O
Master, Lord God almighty, you alone are worthy to receive the thrice holy hymn
from the heavenly powers, accept also from us sinners the Trisagion granting us
to pass this day and all the days of our lives without sin.
PROKEIMENON, EPISTLE AND GOSPEL
HOMILY
PRIEST
O
Lord our God, accept this fervent supplication from your servants and according
to the multitude of your mercy have mercy on us and send down your compassion
upon us and upon all your people who await the rich mercy that is from you.
You
are merciful and a lover of mankind for which we give you thanks and praise
through Christ your Son, our Lord.
PRIEST
The
Lord be with you
PEOPLE
And
also with you.
DEACON OR PRIEST
Bow
your heads unto the Lord.
O
Master, Creator of life and giver of all good things, who gives to mankind the
blessed hope of eternal life, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant us O Good One to
complete this Divine Liturgy unto our sanctification and unto the enjoyment of
that bliss which is to come.
LITURGY OF THE FAITHFUL
PRIEST
Let
us who mystically represent
The
Cherubim and who sing the thrice holy hymn unto the life-creating Trinity, now
lay aside all earthly attachments and cares that we may raise on high the King
of all, invisibly
served and worshiped by the ranks of Angels. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
PRIEST PRAYS FOR HIMSELF
No
one who is bound by carnal lusts and sensual pleasures is worthy to approach or
to draw near to you or serve you O King of glory. To serve you is a thing great
and fearful even to the heavenly Powers.
Because of your unutterable and immeasurable love for mankind, you became man
without change or alteration and did become our High Priest. You did deliver to
us the Priestly ministry of this unbloody Sacrifice for you are the Master of
all. You alone, O Lord our God, rule over those in heaven and those upon the
earth, are borne upon the throne of the Cherubim, are Lord of the Seraphim and
King over Israel. You alone are holy and rest in the Saints. I now implore you
who are good and listen to look upon me your sinful and unprofitable servant and
cleanse my soul and heart of all wicked and vain thoughts and by the might of
your Holy Spirit enable me
who
am clothed with the grace and dignity of the Priesthood to stand before your
holy Altar in a fitting manner and to perform the Sacred Mystery of your holy
and pure body and precious blood in a manner that is pleasing to you. To you I
come with a bowed neck and I pray you turn not away from me neither cast me out
from among your worthy Priests.
You
are the one who offers and you are the one that is offered; Who receives and is
received. I, by your grace and your will and favor stand as an other Christ at
the Altar of Sacrifice and in your name consecrate bread and wine into your body
and blood in a real manner and not in a symbolic manner. The bread becomes your
real body. The wine becomes your real blood through the Priestly ministry you
have given me through your Church. O Christ my God, for the gift of the
Priesthood I return thanks and praise to you and to your beginningless Father
and
your most holy, good and life-creating Spirit now and forever unto ages of ages.
Amen.
LAVABO
I
will wash my hands among the innocent and will take my place with those at your
Altar O Lord, hearing the voice of your praise.
PRIEST MAKES THREE REVERENCES
May
the power of the Holy Spirit come upon me and the power of the Almighty over
shadow me. (Priest repeats three times)
PRIEST
I
believe in one God the Father the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all
things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son
of God and begotten of the Father before all ages. Light from Light, true God
from true God, begotten not made consubstantial with the Father, by whom all
things were made, who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and
became incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary and was made man. He was
crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, died and was buried. And
the third day He rose again According to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven
seated at the right hand of the Father and He is to come again with glory to
judge both the living and the dead, and whose kingdom will have no end and in
the Holy Spirit, the Lord the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father who
together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke
through the Prophets. And in one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. I
confess one baptism for the remission of sins and I expect the resurrection of
the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
PRIEST
Hallow, O Lord, this Sacrifice brought as an offering to you and be pleased to
accept it from us through Jesus Christ your son.
The
Lord be with you
PEOPLE
And
also with you
PRIEST
Lift up your hearts
PEOPLE
We
have lifted them unto the Lord
PRIEST
PRIEST
Let
us give thanks unto the Lord our God
PEOPLE
It
is meet and just
PRIEST
It
is truly meet and just, needful and availing for our salvation that we should
always and in all places send up thanks to you, O Holy Lord, Father and ruler of
all, almighty and everlasting God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom
Angles praise your majesty and
Dominions bow down in worship, the Powers tremble, the heavens and the heavenly
Virtues, and the blessed Seraphim together worship you in exaltation with whom
we pray you also to accept our voices saying in prayerful confession;
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the Highest. Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna
in the Highest.
PRIEST
United with our own Guardian Angel and all the Angels and Saints we too cry out
and say: holy are you. All holy are you and your only begotten Son and your Hoy
Spirit.
We
beseech you, Almighty God, command these gifts be carried by our holy guardian
Angel to your Altar on high in the sight of your Divine Majesty that as many as
receive the Body and Blood of your Son at this Altar may be filled with every
spiritual and temporal blessing through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Holy are you and all holy and magnificent
is
your glory; who so loved the world as to give your only begotten Son, that every
one who believes in Him shall not perish but may have eternal life.
We
do not presume to come to this your table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own
righteousness, but in your manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much
as to gather up the crumbs under your table. But you are the same Lord, whose
property is always to have mercy.
Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of your dear Son Jesus
Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his
body, and our souls washed through His most precious blood and that we may
evermore dwell in him and He in us.
PRIEST HAS HANDS OPEN OVER THE GIFTS
Humbly we pray you, O God, be pleased to make this same offering wholly blessed
+,
To
consecrate + it and approve + it, making it reasonable and acceptable so that it
may become for us the Body + and Blood + of your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord
Jesus Christ.
CONSECRATION / ANAMNESIS / EPICLESIS
When He had come and fulfilled all that was appointed Him to do for our sake, on
the night on which He was delivered up, or rather delivered Himself up for the
life of the world, taking bread in his holy, spotless
And
blameless hands, giving thanks blessed it, broke it and said
TAKE AND EAT OF THIS ALL OF YOU FOR THIS IS MY BODY. (Trisagion/Partial
Prostration)
In
like manner, after he had eaten, took the chalice and said
DRINK OF THIS ALL OF YOU, THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT
WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR MANY THAT SINS MAY BE FORGIVEN. (Trisagion/Partial
Prostration)
AS
OFTEN AS YOU SHALL DO THIS, DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.
Remembering, therefore, this precept of salvation and everything that was done
for our sake, the Cross, the tomb, the resurrection on the third day, the
ascension into heaven, the enthronement at the right hand, the second and
glorious coming; we offer you your own, from what is your own, for all and on
behalf of all.
Moreover, we offer you this spiritual and unbloody worship, and we ask and pray
and entreat: 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 Chalice + the precious blood of your Christ, changing them by the
working of your Holy Spirit.
ANTHEM
(People respond with the triple Alleluia after the Anthem)
TONE 1. Though the stone had been sealed by the Jews and the soldiers were
watching over the grave, you did rise from the dead on the third day and gave
life to the world, O Savior. Wherefore all the Angelic Powers cried to you:
Glory to your Resurrection, O Christ; glory to your Kingdom; glory to your
dispensation, O Merciful Lord. Alleluia !
TONE 2. When unto death you had come down,
O
Life Immortal, you did strike down Hades with the flash of your divinity; and
when you had raised up all the dead from the nethermost abyss, O Lord, the
heavenly hosts in triumph shouted: O Life-giver, O Lord Christ our God, glory to
you. Alleluia !
TONE 3. Let the heavenly hosts rejoice, let all men be glad on earth, for the
Lord revealed His glory, He raised up His powerful arm, He struck down death by
His death, He rose as the first born of all the dead, He delivered us from the
bonds of Hades, and gave us salvation and mercy. Alleluia !
TONE 4. When the women disciples of the Lord had heard from the Angel the
joyous message of the Resurrection, they cast away their ancestral sentence and
proudly announced to the Apostles: Death has been despoiled, Christ our God is
risen and has granted to the world His great mercy. Alleluia !
TONE 5. Let all believers praise and worship the Word, co-eternal with the
Father and the Holy Spirit, born of a Virgin for our salvation, for He
condescended to be nailed upon the Cross in the flesh, and to suffer death for
us, and to raise the dead by His glorious Resurrection. Alleluia !
TONE 6. The Angelic Hosts appeared before your tomb and the watching soldiers
dropped like dead men, while Mary was looking for your sacred remains. You had
entered Hades triumphantly; You greeted the Virgin joyously, and you granted
life to the world. O Lord, who are risen from the dead, glory to you. Alleluia !
TONE 7. You abolished death by your death on the Cross; You opened Paradise to
the repentant sinner; You turned the grief of the Myrrh-bearers into joy; and
you commanded your Apostles to proclaim that you, O Christ our God, have risen
and granted to the world your great mercy. Alleluia !
TONE 8. You descended from heaven, O merciful Lord; You endured a three day
burial; You delivered us from sinful passions. O Lord, our Life and
Resurrection, glory to you.
Alleluia !
Tone 1. (1, 9, 17, 25)
Tone 2. (2, 10,18, 26)
Tone 3. (3, 11,19, 27)
Tone 4. (4, 12, 20, 28)
Tone 5. (5, 13, 21, 29)
Tone 6. (6, 14, 22, 30)
Tone 7. (7, 15, 23, 31)
Tone 8. (8, 16, 24)
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ALTERNATE FOR COMMEMORATIONS
AND
CELEBRATIONS
REQUIEM ANTHEM. You raised Lazarus from the dead as a pledge for the universal
resurrection, O Christ our God. Wherefore, like Jerusalem’s crowds we carry the
symbols of victory, and cry to you: O Conqueror of death:
Hosanna in the highest, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Alleluia !
FEASTS OF THE HOLY THEOTOKOS. Eternal Father, by your will and favor your Son
became incarnate in the virgin Mary. Grant we may always benefit from her
intercession.
HOLY APOSTLES, EVANGELISTS. Forever blest are you, O Christ our God, who has
illumined
your fisherman disciples with the inspiring wisdom of the Holy Spirit, and have
drawn all mankind into your fold through them. Gracious and merciful Savior,
glory to you. Alleluia !
SAINTS. Most glorified are you, O Christ our God, who has appointed the Holy
Saints as torch-bearers upon earth and through them led all mankind to your true
faith. O merciful Savior, glory to you. Alleluia !
SAINT BENEDICT. May we who are the true spiritual sons of our father among the
Saints, Benedict of Nursia, ever recall his Orthodox faith and praxis and his
fervor for your kingdom. May we who live the same pure Orthodox faith of St.
Benedict, benefit from his intercession. Alleluia !
PASSIONTIDE. Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again.
Alleluia !
PASCHA. Christ has risen as he said. Alleluia !
NATIVITY. Today is born to us a Savior who is Christ the Lord. Alleluia !
BLESSING OF THE PEOPLE WITH THE CONSECRATED ELEMENTS
Holy things for holy people. One is holy. One is the Lord, Jesus Christ, to the
glory of God the Father.
PEOPLE
AMEN
In
Spirit and Truth we offer you this
worship for those in the faith, our Fathers, Mothers, the Patriarchs, the
Prophets, the Apostles, Preachers, Evangelist, Teachers of the Word, Martyrs,
Confessors, Ascetics and for every holy soul who has run the course in faith.
We
unite our prayers with the prayers of your most holy Mother, the holy Theotokos
whose memory we always celebrate. We unite our prayers with the prayers of the
holy prophet and forerunner John the Baptist, with the holy and glorious
Apostles, with our Father among the Saints, Benedict of Nursia and with the holy
N……..
whose memory we honor today and with all your Saints in heaven and on earth,
many of whom are known to you alone. We unite our prayers with the prayers of
our Guardian Angels and ask that we may always receive their special help and
intercession in time and in eternity and especially at the moment of our death.
IN
HIM, WITH HIM AND THROUGH HIM ALL HONOR AND GLORY IS YOURS ALMIGHTY FATHER
FOREVER AND EVER UNTO AGES OF AGES.
PEOPLE
Amen.
As
we have been instructed by Divine teaching and commanded by our Savior’s
precepts we make bold to say:
ALL
Our
Father who art in heaven….etc
PRIEST
Deliver us Lord from every evil and grant us peace in our day. Keep us free
from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the
coming of our Savior, Jesus the Christ.
Eternal Father, almighty and ever living God, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob;
God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
in
your mercy unite our prayers, the good works we do and the evils we endure with
the intercession and ministry, gifts and graces, faith and merits of your only
begotten Son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one
God world without end.
Lover of mankind, in your love and mercy send your Holy Spirit upon us all that
we may have a share in the Divinity of your Christ who humbled Himself to share
in our humanity.
May
we receive the gift of faith, the faith of Jesus, and be made perfect in love by
the power of your Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom and
from whom all good things come.
I
believe, Lord and profess you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, come to
this world to save sinners of whom I am the greatest. I am in most profound need
of your mercy
Receive me now as a participant in your mystical supper for I will not betray
your mystery to your enemies nor give you a kiss like Judas, but like the good
thief I confess you. Remember me Lord in your kingdom.
Receive me in your kingdom at my leaving from this earth and grant me eternal
life in heaven where you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one
God forever and ever unto ages of ages.
Broken and divided is the Lamb of God; broken yet not dismembered, always eaten
but never consumed but making holy those who receive it.
May
this mingling of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, be to us who
receive it the means of eternal salvation.
ALL
PARTIAL PROSTRATION
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world grant us peace.
ALL
RISE
PRIEST
This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Happy are we who
are called to His supper.
ALL
Lord I am not worthy to receive you, say but the word and my soul shall be
healed.
PRIEST
Christ our God, you are the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. You
fulfilled the whole providential plan of the Father. In your mercy, fill our
hearts with your joy and gladness as we partake of your body and blood and order
our days in your peace. Keep us free from sin and earthly attachments and
receive us into your kingdom when our days on earth are done.
PRIEST RECEIVE COMMUNION
May
the body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve my soul unto life everlasting.
May
the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
Preserve my soul unto life everlasting.
PEOPLE RECEIVE COMMUNION
ABLUTION
PRIEST (Inclining and in low tone)
I
give you thanks and praise, O Holy Trinity,
I
am a Priest (and Bishop) and permitted to consecrate bread and wine into the
body and blood of Jesus Christ. May you be pleased with the sacrifice I have
offered in propitiation for my sins, the sins of all here gathered and for the
sins of the world. May you be pleased with this our offering for the praise and
glory of your name, for our good and the good of all your Church.
(Aloud)
God
of miracles, wonders and signs, we give you thanks and praise for the Miracle of
the
Eucharist we have shared, the wonder of your creation and the sign of your love
for us revealed in and through the Incarnation.
We
give you thanks and praise for the miracle of the Ordained Priesthood through
which your Apostles continue among us and through which
your holy people receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of your Divine Son
consubstantial with the element of bread, the work of human hands, and the
element of wine, the fruit of the vine. Through the consecrated hands of your
Ordained Priest your Christ is physically and spiritually among us in a manner
no less real than when He walked among us in the flesh. For this, and all your
blessings, we give you thanks and praise through Jesus Christ your Son, the only
Mediator between God and man, who is our true High Priest and in whose
Priesthood the ordained Priest has a unique sharing.
We
give you thanks and praise for the Priesthood of Believers through which all
your holy people also have a sharing in the Priesthood of your Divine Son, in a
manner different than the Ordained Priest but still no less real. Through the
Priesthood of Believers your people use their unique gifts and talents
to
establish your Kingdom on earth and
proclaim to the world that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.
We
give you thanks and praise for the many miracles, wonders and signs experienced
in our own lives and for those miracles, wonders and signs we know by faith we
shall receive in the future from your bounty through Christ our Lord. We give
you thanks and praise for our faith in you, in your Divine Son and in your Holy
Spirit for without faith we cannot receive the fullness you have prepared for us
from before the world began.
We
give you thanks and praise for our desire to know, love and serve you which is
in itself your gift to us. May we be counted among your elect in time and in
eternity through Christ our Lord who alone is the Arbiter and Dispenser of all
your gifts which come to mankind.
PEOPLE
Amen.
PRIEST (Facing the people who are kneeling)
May
almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The
Divine Liturgy is ended. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord by loving and
serving each other. Pray for me, your spiritual Father and a humble Monk as I
am a repentant sinner and worker in the vineyard of Christ. I will pray for you
that together in our community
God
may be glorified.
PEOPLE: (Partial Prostration)
Praise to the all Holy Trinity
+Father, +Son and +Holy Spirit.
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Sadly to say, we
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The Church,
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for sick souls (sinners) without distinction
between their worse sins or otherwise, but it seems to some organizations that
they say much about others, but fail and refuse to upbraid themselves and their
members for their own sins...)
"Never,
never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must also be
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is far older than any of her heresies."
- Blessed St. John
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The purpose for presenting this Daily News section:
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happening in one's local area and around the world, you could find
yourself faced with denied services in the secular area, lack of income, even
(although it sounds far-fetched) ability to worship openly for the time is not
far off when all will have to decide if they wish to follow the Anti-Christ
through the One World Church and One World Government as prophesied by the
Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation of St. John or follow the faith delivered
once and for all which will cause for many to be denied the abilities to survive
under those kind of conditions, causing for one to consider other options.
Many of those who subscribe to, and some who have caused or are the cause for,
these things to happen are involved in or with the Roman Jurisdiction of the
Catholic Church (which is not the seat of all things "Catholic") as well as its
protestant daughters such as the cultic Jehovah's Witnesses, the Pentecostal
Churches, the Church of Latter Day Saints also known as the Mormon Church and
far too many more to list.
Yet, at this web site we do provide some of the reasons about why they are
opined to be the harbingers of that which is prophesied in Holy Scripture for
the bringing about of the End Times which we have already entered. It is
not necessarily their individual members or parishioners that should be blamed
since they are only the "Sheep" and not the Shepherds... So do not think we
castigate individual people of themselves as we castigate those "money changers"
who Jesus Christ chased out of His Father's House as the Bible Describes; for
they exist in these present times too.
Events are already rushing toward
that time in which this is beginning to happen and will become more fully
wide-spread. In these present times all you need to really do is look around
both your local and larger areas as to what is really on-going through.
Things so very little or miniscule that they are barely noticeable except to the
more informed observer may become apparent.
Those
little things are the laws of the land, economics, politics, the degrading and
erosion of those rights and liberties afforded by the Constitution of these
United States of America and many other things such as the manner with which
entertainments have taken over much of the populace, entering into and becoming
a major focus in worship, and more.
We ask you,
if you don't want to believe us... Have you heard, seen or found what is termed
(of the many terms being used) that there are "holding areas" or "camps" or
"Closed/Fenced communities" being built by GOVERNMENT?
Here in
North America, especially in the United States of America, we must admit that
what Russia has come out of (a communistic, atheist country) we are entering
into. And one last thing that needs also to be understood... Something
very important to those of you who are "Catholic" in the Roman sense of its
jurisdiction.... And, we believe this also holds true for many who
are "Orthodox" whether "Eastern" or "Western"....
[
*
Non-Denominational
=
Synchrestic
Ecumenism,
Disease
of
Scholasticism,
altering the Life and Teachings of
Jesus
Christ
to accommodate the disease of Political
Correctness
and
CULTIC
PROTESTANTISM,
and the
Roman
Jurisdiction (Latin Church = Vatican) of the Catholic Church)
breaking of - or failure and refusal to respect and abide by - the ancient
Seven
Ecumenical
"Do
Not"
Canons
which leaves everything else open to God's gift of creativity... failure &
refusal to abide by and have respect for those who diligently protect one of the
other Pillars of the Church, the
Seals
of the
Confessional,
but "Non-Denominational" also includes worshiping Satan's religion of
Muslim,
Islam by praying with them and other
heretics
such as 'Pentecostalism,'
'Jehovah's
Witnesses,'
'Mormons,'
'Church
of
Christ,'
any so-called church with "Community
Church"
in their nomenclature
and others who by their
false and misleading dogmas and doctrines
are actually against the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ upon whom and for
exacting reason we are called "Christian" in both spirit and truth from which
non-denominational protestant sectarian claimants have departed from as being
so-called Christian]
Only a
skilled spiritual father can help you!
Remember:
You
cannot ride two horses or serve two masters for one of them will be harmed by
your thoughts, your very words and your actions which is to blaspheme the Holy
Ghost (Spirit) who will depart from you. And when the Holy Spirit departs,
the great deceiver (unbeknownst to you) will rush in to fill the void under
disguise of being the Holy Spirit! Testing of the Holy Spirit to insure it
is the Holy Spirit does not, for many a Sectarian Protestant and Roman, work
because the Great Deceiver (Satan) is most skilled in worming and snaking his
charms around your mind and heart to feign being the Holy Spirit.
Remember, Satan has the same gifts similar to the Holy Spirit but Satan's gifts
are UN-HOLY and lead all who accept him (unbeknownst to you) to perdition.
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neighbor in his moral falls, considering themselves to be sinners and the
worst of all men.
But, when it is demanded of monks and other clergy, that they remain humble
and indifferent to questions of faith, then do they cast off humility and
obedience. It is demanded of them, by the conscience of the Church, the
faith in and for the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ that
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threaten the root and branch of Christianity as exists in true Orthodox
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American
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Are
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Please click on this link to
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today:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/jfk_secret_society_speech.htm
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Protestant and Synchrestic in its ecumenicity!
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Tavistock Institute, the Best Kept
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The United Nation’s Plans for the Future of the World
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What is the - "Club of
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God, Man & the World
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A Closer Look at the One World Order and Bible Prophecy – Part I
God, Man & the World
- Part I - Awake IX
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A Closer look at the One World Order and Bible Prophecy – Part II -
The Culture War in America
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About St. Pambo - St. Seraphim of Sarov in comparison to Francis of Assisi
"Do
not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified.
He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said."
Matthew 28:5-6
The following articles and information do not necessarily reflect the attitude
or beliefs of this jurisdiction or those who are with us in spirit and truth!
"I understand the idea of sodomy and homosexuality, but to say that
homosexuality is not a sin is incorrect and not just in my mind but all of
Orthodoxy and again, not just in Orthodoxy but all of Catholicism and again,
not simply all of Catholicism but all of Christianity with the exception of
those who have this in their personal life as sin or are very close to someone
who does. Celibacy or Married Life is the ultimate ideal. For both
Homosexuality and Heterosexuality are truly sinful if... and below is the hard
part of this understanding..." (Ed. Note: We
have never said "homosexuality is not a sin or okay... however, there are
those who, being homosexual, are that way for a variety of reasons.
Jesus Christ talked of these kinds as referring to Eunuchs. The
conversion tactics employed by many other groups, bespeaks of a "politics"
that is not wholly honest either spiritually or even materially. For, in
their endeavors they have failed to show forth the truth that one is driven
into a "closet" style of life.
It is better, we believe, to become wholly celibate, be it a homosexual or
even heterosexual... and to learn what "celibacy" really means and requires).
If a man looks on a woman who is not his wife with lust, he has sinned. If he
and she are married to other people he has committed adultery. If a man looks
at a man with lust he has sinned the same as a man who looks at a woman.
Sodomy does not have to enter into it, lust for someone is a sin by itself and must be
removed. But people do this all day long to be sure but it is still a sin. To
say that homosexuality and heterosexuality are not a sin due to their lusting, allows
both heterosexuals and homosexuals to live in sin without
repentance and this is wrong to do to them spiritually.
It is for the sake of their own soul that one has to recognize sin that is in
them and not to excuse it regardless of the sin or the preference of the
sinner. Sodomy is indeed a sin regardless of what any one may tell you, the act of
attraction or the lust is a sin even without action and simply must be
repented of by both heterosexuals and homosexuals. I must also add this; woe to all who misguide others into sin and
especially those who are of the clergy who do this. For the sake of your own
soul and others, you must recognize this and repent. I know that it is not
easy to overcome and if it is never overcome then one must live a life of
constant repentance, that is the only choice.
Might We also Suggest t
he
following important articles for the season of Lent:
+
A
Monastic Struggler's Story for Lent
+
Begin with Yourself, Then the World
Jihad Watch Digest
(Has
USA been
sold out to the
Satanic Muslim Horde by
so-called Protestant Fundamentalists such as Pentecostals, Mormons, Jehovah's
Witness, etc.?)
How Many Times?
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