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by Fr. Dmitri, New Zealand
Saturday 18 July 2009 (11 Abib; 11Epip) O Lord, you have probed me and you know me. CONSIDER THIS: Teach your heart to guard that which your tongue teaches. To Thee, O Victor pierced by nails on the cross, Who calleth I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: If you are scared of dying, He will walk with you on that As the Priest passes with the incense, every member of Our faith in God, His existence, care and protection gives God, the judge, is not a human but the Trinity. He is the REFLECTION: Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think All-knowing God, let us strive always to see ourselves, as HOMILY: THE REASONABLE: Peace is Christ's gift to mankind - 'Pax Vobis' - the peace that the world
cannot give. A Kingdom divided against itself is not at peace: man's nature, when Then possessing Christ's peace, they are able to spread it around them. When The maxim of the world is 'Divide & Rule' - keep everybody unfriendly with Because in making peace around them they share in the task of the Son of Thomas Aquinas (who thinks that the rewards in the Beatitudes go up in an The Banquet of our King is enacted every time we Celebrate the Holy Eucharist
(Communion). We ought to Wash one another's Feet as Christ did those of the Disciples at the
Last Supper. To Thee be Glory and Praise, now and ever, unto Ages of Ages. Today's Readings:
St.Sergius of Radonezh
(Psa.139:1)
(Abba Poemen)
out to sinners saying: come, receive forgiveness freely--
to thee I unrelentingly pray, O my Savior.
(Ephraim the Syrian)
incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
(Psa.17:6)
day and make it the dawn for eternal life.
(Mystery of Godliness)
the congregation must say this small prayer, 'I beseech
you, my Lord Jesus Christ to forgive me my sins, those
I know and those I do not know.'
(Divine Liturgy)
us inner peace and comfort in the heart and in the mind.
(Pope Shenouda III)
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but He is also your God.
You ask Him for a reward and He gives you Himself as
a gift. What else can you ask for?
(S.Augustine)
of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.
You see us rather than as others do. Grant that, with Your help,
we may grow into the persons that You want us to be for eternity.
(John Berchmans)
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God.
(Matt.5:9)
The 'Peacemakers' are those who: possess Christ's peace in themselves and pass
it on to
others. They make Christ's peace in themselves by yielding up their all to
Christ.
passions are up in arms, is a divided kingdom; those who subject passion to
reason, and reason to Truth Incarnate, make peace and order within
themselves and the Rule of God.
we are in their presence our passions of anger seem childish. They infect us
with calmness, reasonableness and goodwill; they make peace without speaking
a word.
one another. Unity is Christ's ideal. His peacemakers create an atmosphere
of Unity, both in private life and in public.
God.
ascending scale) says that to be the 'Children of God' is more than to 'see
God'; at a kings
banquet all the guests would see him from afar, but his Children would sit
at the top table and be able to talk with him.
AMEN!
Evening: Psalm 4:7&9; Gospel Matt.16:24-28.
Morning: Psalm 5:12-13; Gospel Matt.10:34-42.
Liturgy: Rom.8:18-30; 1 Peter 3:8-15; Acts 19:23-41;
Psalm 67: 36&4; Gospel Luke 12:4-12
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