The Most Foolish of Men: January 2009

30 January 2009

The Incarnation

From the Great Compline (at Christmas):

God is with us! understand all you nations, and submit yourselves: for God is with us!

Give ear, you lands afar off: For God is with us!

Submit yourselves, you mighty ones: For God is with us!

For if you rise up again, so again will you be crushed: For God is with us!

And if any take counsel together, the Lord will destroy them: For God is with us!

And if you make resolutions, they will not stand: For God is with us!

For we fear not what you fear, nor are we troubled: For God is with us!

Sanctify the Lord our God, let him be your dread: For God is with us!

And he will be your sanctification, for whomever trusts in him: For God is with us!

We will hope in him, and through him be saved: For God is with us!

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me: For God is with us!

The people that walked in the darkness have seen a great Light: For God is with us!

A Light will shine on you who dwell in the land of the shadow of death: For God is with us!

For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: For God is with us!

And the government will be upon his shoulder: For God is with us!

And his name will be called great Council of Angels: For God is with us!

Wonderful Counselor: For God is with us!

The Mighty God, the Ruler, the Prince of Peace: For God is with us!

The everlasting Father: For God is with us!

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and always, and for ever and ever. Amen: For God is with us!

How do you like them apples.

Labels: Christian East, Christmas, Incarnation, Liturgy, Theology

02 January 2009

Prayer of St. John Damascene

A wonderful prayer for after Holy Communion:

"God, my God, unextinguishable and invisible fire, You make Your angels flaming fire. Out of Your inexpressible love You have given me Your divine Flesh as food, and through this communion of Your immaculate Body and precious Blood You receive me as a partaker of Your divinity. Permeate all my body and soul, all my bones and sinews. Consume my sins in fire. Enlighten my soul and illumine my mind. Sanctify my body and make Your abode in me together with Your blessed Father and all-holy Spirit, that I may always abide in You, through the intercession of Your immaculate Mother and all Your saints. Amen."

Labels: Christian East, Damascene, Eucharist, Liturgy, Theology

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I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me. I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints. Who hath ascended up into heaven and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son if thou knowest?...Remove from me vanity, and lying words. (Proverbs 30:2-4, 8)

Statement of Purpose (sort of)

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^Last and least, but not least: The Godson^

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. What hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof, When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody? Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: And i said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break the swelling waves. Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it? The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment: From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken. Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep? Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors? Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things? Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness: That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof. Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and dist thou know the number of thy days? Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of hail: Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war? By what way is light spread, and heat divided upon the earth? Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder: That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth: That it should fill the desert and the desolate land, and should bring forth green grass? Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew? Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it? The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed. Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus? Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the vening star to rise upon the children of the earth? Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightinings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are? Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who hath gave the cock understanding? Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep? When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together? Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps, When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes? Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat? (Job 38:2-41)

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In heaven they honor and praise him; on earth we find curious busybodies.

~ St. John Chrysostom

[I]f a man during prayer is not intent on what profits his soul, but would rather that God should fall in with the emotional uncertainties of his own mind, he is truly like a silly battalogos, who prays that God should become a willing servant of his own crazy ideas.

~ St. Gregory of Nyssa

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Order my steps in thy word, and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

O delivery me from the wrongful dealings of men, and so shall I keep thy commandments.

Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.

Let my mouth be filled with thy praise, O Lord, that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

I. 1. Маріє, Діво Чистая,

Пресвятая Богородице;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

2. Царице, Мати, Діво,

Руно всепокривающеє;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

3. Превишшая Небесних сил,

Нетварноє Сіяніє;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

4. Ликов дівичих радосте

І Ангелов превишшая;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

5. Небес Честная Сило

І Світе паче всіх світов;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

6. Честнійшая Владичице

Всіх Небесних воїнств;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

II. 1. Всіх праотцев Надеждо,

Пророков Ісполненіє;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

2. В подвизіх Ти помоще,

Кивоте Бога Слова,

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

3. Ти дівам Ликованіє

І матерем Отрадо;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

4. Ціломудрія Наставнице,

Душ наших Очищеніє;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

5. Покрове, ширший облака,

І страждущих пристанище;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

6. Немощних Покров і Заступнице,

Надеждо ненадежних;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

III. 1. Маріє, Мати Христа,

Істиннаго Бога;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

2. Ааронов Жезле прозябший,

Сосуде тихой радости;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

3. Всіх сирих і вдов Утішеніє,

В бідах і скорбех Помоще;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

4. Священная і Непорочная,

Владичице всепітая;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

5. Приклони ко мні милосердіє

Божественнаго Сина;

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.

6. Ходатайце спасенія,

Припадая, взиваю Ти:

Радуйся, Невісто неневістная.