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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Hill Country Homilies Weekly Homilies the Holy Anunciation

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<v Speaker 1>Orthodox Church in Liberty Hill, Texas. Holy Annunciation is an

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<v Speaker 1>old calendar Orthodox church sharing the faith of the Apostles

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<v Speaker 1>and the love of Christ with all who seek His truth. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>let's listen to this week's homily.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the father and Son of the.

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<v Speaker 3>Holy Spirit, Lord of Jesus Christ, Brothers and sisters in Christ.

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<v Speaker 2>I've spoken a couple of times during this Great Lent about.

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<v Speaker 3>The differences in the literary things of Saint jo and

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<v Speaker 3>Christ is done in Saint Basil with grades, and in

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<v Speaker 3>particular the extensive prayers that the priest makes during the

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<v Speaker 3>liturgy of Saint Basery Great and last night as I

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<v Speaker 3>talk about Saint Mary of Egypt, and it's always good

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<v Speaker 3>to talk about Saint Mary. But today, instead of talking

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<v Speaker 3>about Saint Mary of Egypt, I want us to talk

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<v Speaker 3>about the Anaphora prayer of Saint Basil, the break, which I.

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<v Speaker 2>Say mostly to myself.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes when the music ends, I'll say it what's left

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<v Speaker 3>of it for you to hear. But I want to

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<v Speaker 3>talk about what is being said as we are preparing

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<v Speaker 3>the gifts for the concentration into the body and Black

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<v Speaker 3>of Christ. Because this is truly the most marvelous prayer

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<v Speaker 3>that I read at the altar, because in a few

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<v Speaker 3>lines about page of the service book, the Naphora prayer

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<v Speaker 3>of Saint Basil proclaims the whole story of our salvation,

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<v Speaker 3>from creation to the fall, to God's patience, guidance through

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<v Speaker 3>the Law and the prophets, and they ultimately the fulfillment

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<v Speaker 3>of all things in Christ.

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<v Speaker 2>And for those who.

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<v Speaker 3>Are preparing for reception to the Church, this prayer is

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<v Speaker 3>a clear teacher. It shows us what went wrong, It

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<v Speaker 3>shows us what God has done to heal it, and

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<v Speaker 3>how we participate in that human even in our divine liturgy.

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<v Speaker 3>A simple way to hear the antha An, AfterAll, is

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<v Speaker 3>just to notice its movement. It begins with who God is,

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<v Speaker 3>then what God has done, and finding how we as

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<v Speaker 3>a fallible humans respond. Is theology, but is also pastoral

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<v Speaker 3>because it teaches us how to pray and how to

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<v Speaker 3>repent and where we put our hope. I'm going to

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<v Speaker 3>breathe through the whole prayer as we go through this

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<v Speaker 3>peace of peace. The prayer starts with this invocation with

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<v Speaker 3>these blessed powers, O Master who loves mankind, we sinners

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<v Speaker 3>also cry aloud and say, Holy art Thou truly most holy,

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<v Speaker 3>And there are no bounds to the magnificence of Thy holiness.

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<v Speaker 3>So Saint Basil begins this prayer with the awe of God.

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<v Speaker 3>God alone truly is. He is eternally, he is holy.

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<v Speaker 3>He is the source of all life, And as the

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<v Speaker 3>scriptures tells, the angels sing before him, Holy, Holy, Holy,

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<v Speaker 3>confessing the earth and heaven to be full of his glory.

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<v Speaker 3>We begin that same prayer in that same manner, himming

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<v Speaker 3>his holiness three times. Prayer continues that are gracious in

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<v Speaker 3>all thy DEAs, for with righteousness and true judgment, thou

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<v Speaker 3>hast ordered all things for us.

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<v Speaker 2>The point is simple.

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<v Speaker 3>God did not create because he lacked anything. He created,

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<v Speaker 3>and then he later redeemed us because of who he is,

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<v Speaker 3>because he is love, because he desires communion with his creatures.

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<v Speaker 2>And this matters in our daily life.

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<v Speaker 3>For if God truly is the one who is, then

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<v Speaker 3>everything else success failure of proved anxiety stops being our

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<v Speaker 3>ultimate end, and that end becomes God. Worship doesn't become

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<v Speaker 3>an escape from reality. It becomes a return to the

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<v Speaker 3>true reality. When we say Holy, Holy, Holy. We're running humility.

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<v Speaker 3>We're creatures, and God is God. And when we proclaim

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<v Speaker 3>the providence of his care for us, that he has

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<v Speaker 3>ordered all things, we acknowledge our opinions on He who

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<v Speaker 3>is our source.

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<v Speaker 2>And precisely there.

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<v Speaker 3>We find humility, and humili enables us to find peace.

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<v Speaker 3>The prayer continues, When thou didst create man by taking

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<v Speaker 3>dust from the earth, and did honor him with thine

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<v Speaker 3>own image of God, Thou didst set him in a

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<v Speaker 3>paradise of delight, promising him eternal life and enjoyment of ever,

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<v Speaker 3>asking blessings in the observance of Thy commandments. That is

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<v Speaker 3>the creation story. Into paradise. God arashion humanity from the dust.

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<v Speaker 3>He honored us with his image and with his likeness,

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<v Speaker 3>and he placed Adam and Eve in paradise, asking them

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<v Speaker 3>to give him the trusting obedience. Our vocation from the

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<v Speaker 3>beginning was life with God, creation and creator in an

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<v Speaker 3>eternal growing from the union of love. Being made in

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<v Speaker 3>God's image is not a compliment that we have earned

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<v Speaker 3>or achieved. It is a gift we received from the beginning.

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<v Speaker 3>It means that we are made for communion with Him.

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<v Speaker 3>We are made capable of love, capable of capable of truth,

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<v Speaker 3>of self offering, but not perfect, which is found in God.

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<v Speaker 3>Com Paradise is not just a place for the past.

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<v Speaker 3>It is for us a sign of God's intention for

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<v Speaker 3>all of humanity. If ever we wonder what our relationship

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<v Speaker 3>to God is intended to be like, we don't need

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<v Speaker 3>to look anywhere beyond the scripture account of the Garden,

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<v Speaker 3>because that is what God entered for humanity, a life

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<v Speaker 3>where grace is normal, where thanksgiving is our first language,

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<v Speaker 3>and where obedience is not based on fear, but based

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<v Speaker 3>on trust and on love.

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<v Speaker 2>But what happened of prayer tells us. But when man.

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<v Speaker 3>Disobeyed me the true God, who had created him, and

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<v Speaker 3>was deceived by the guile of the serpent, becoming subject

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<v Speaker 3>to death through.

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<v Speaker 2>His own transgressions, Thou, o God, and thy.

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<v Speaker 3>Righteous judgment, did send him forth from Paradise into this world,

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<v Speaker 3>returning him to the earth from which he was taken,

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<v Speaker 3>yet providing for him the salvation of regeneration in thy

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<v Speaker 3>Christ himself. When humanity disobeyed and was deceived by the serpent,

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<v Speaker 3>death entered.

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<v Speaker 2>Our life by our actions, and we were exiled from Paradise.

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<v Speaker 3>Yet even In this judgment, God revealed his mercy for

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<v Speaker 3>mankind because he did not abandon his creation.

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<v Speaker 2>He promised a reverth He promised a.

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<v Speaker 3>Savior of Christ and Anah who would crush the serpent

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<v Speaker 3>and restore us to this rightful communion with our creator.

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<v Speaker 2>And notice what the fall looks like. It's not just

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<v Speaker 2>breaking a rule, but it was.

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<v Speaker 3>A turning of the heart of mistrust of God's goodness

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<v Speaker 3>and a grasping for life apart from him. Because what

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<v Speaker 3>happened when God returned? They hit, they hid, They knew

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<v Speaker 3>the sham, and the result is always the same relationships fracture,

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<v Speaker 3>shame increases, death, titans his great. But Saint Basil does

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<v Speaker 3>not let the story in there, because the first word

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<v Speaker 3>after sin is not abandonment, but it is mercy.

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<v Speaker 2>The prayer continues, for Thou did not turn away forever.

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<v Speaker 3>From thy creature, and thou it made or a good one,

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<v Speaker 3>Nor did thou forget the work of thy hands. Through

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<v Speaker 3>the tender compassion of thy mercy. Thou did visit him

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<v Speaker 3>in various ways. Thous did sins prophets that didst perform

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<v Speaker 3>mighty acts by the saints, who every.

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<v Speaker 2>Generation were well pleasing to thee.

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<v Speaker 3>Thou didst speak to us by the mouth of thy

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<v Speaker 3>servants the prophets for telling to us the salvation which

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<v Speaker 3>was to come. Thou didst give us the laws and

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<v Speaker 3>help thou disappoint angels as guardians. Saint Basil emphasizes here

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<v Speaker 3>God's long suffering with its re imbellious creation. He did

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<v Speaker 3>not turn away from your creation because across the generations.

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<v Speaker 3>This prayer tells us, as the Old Testament account does,

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<v Speaker 3>that God visited his people in many ways, through covenants,

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<v Speaker 3>through confets, through saints, through miracles.

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<v Speaker 2>He gave us the law as.

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<v Speaker 3>A guide as a creations a means to tamp and

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<v Speaker 3>down our prideful hearts.

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<v Speaker 2>And he sent angels to be our guardian.

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<v Speaker 3>All this that the hope of the union between man

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<v Speaker 3>and his Creator would remain alive, and that the world

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<v Speaker 3>would be prepared to recognize and receive their savior. Think

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<v Speaker 3>how God educates his people. He preserves Noah through the flood.

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<v Speaker 3>He calls Abraham out of idolatry. He delivers Israel through Moses.

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<v Speaker 3>He raises up kings and judges. He sends prophets to

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<v Speaker 3>heal a nation's memory. When forgets it again and again.

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<v Speaker 3>When people wonder, God pursues them not to win their

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<v Speaker 3>arcu not to win an argument with them, but to

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<v Speaker 3>save them, to call them back. That's why the Church

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<v Speaker 3>reads the Old testing not as background material, not for

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<v Speaker 3>expanding our knowledge of history, and not simply for the

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<v Speaker 3>transmission of the wisdom of God, but rather as a

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<v Speaker 3>record of God's faithful love for humanity. God's patience is

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<v Speaker 3>the thread that holds the whole Old Testament together. Sounds strange,

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<v Speaker 3>and we think of all the times that God has

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<v Speaker 3>come down in judgment, But that entire record of the

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<v Speaker 3>Old Conament is bound together with the threat of patience

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<v Speaker 3>and wrong suffering as God prepares his people for the.

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<v Speaker 2>Coming of the Siah, which is what the prayer turns

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<v Speaker 2>to next.

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<v Speaker 3>And when the fullness of time had come, Thou didst

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<v Speaker 3>speak to us through thy son himself, by whom thou

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<v Speaker 3>didst also make the ages, grooving the rays of thy

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<v Speaker 3>glory and the image of thy person, upholding all friends

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<v Speaker 3>by his word. And Tawn thought it not robbery to

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<v Speaker 3>be equal to thee, the God and faith.

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<v Speaker 2>He was God before the age, as yet he appeared.

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<v Speaker 3>On earth and lived among men, becoming incarnate of a

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<v Speaker 3>holy virgin.

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<v Speaker 2>He emptied himself, taking the form of the servant.

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<v Speaker 3>Being likened to the body of our lowliness, that he

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<v Speaker 3>might like us to the image of His glory. When

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<v Speaker 3>the fullness of time had come. This is the key

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<v Speaker 3>to our salvation. When the fullness of time had come,

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<v Speaker 3>God no longer spoke full prophets.

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<v Speaker 2>God no longer.

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<v Speaker 3>Said the law is not the wisdom, literagy, or liturgy

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<v Speaker 3>that would preserve.

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<v Speaker 2>And redeem anybody. Rather, it was God himself.

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<v Speaker 3>God spoke to us in his son, the eternal Word,

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<v Speaker 3>the True God born the Virgin Mary, and empties himself

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<v Speaker 3>to take on our humanity in its fullness, without ceasing

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<v Speaker 3>to be divined. He became what we are so that

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<v Speaker 3>he could heal what we are, so that he could

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<v Speaker 3>restore the image of God in us that we had darkened,

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<v Speaker 3>and could raise us into community with his Father. When

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<v Speaker 3>the prayer says he emptied himself, it doesn't mean he

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<v Speaker 3>stopped being God. It means that the Son accepted everything

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<v Speaker 3>in our weak without resistance, hunger, fatigued, tears, temptation, suffering

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<v Speaker 3>up to death in your father. Why, Saint Athanasius said

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<v Speaker 3>what is not assumed is not healed. God does not

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<v Speaker 3>redeem us from a distance, and comes close enough to

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<v Speaker 3>carry our very nature, food, death.

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<v Speaker 2>And out the other side.

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<v Speaker 3>His nativity in the flesh is the turning point of

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<v Speaker 3>our history. The Creator enters creation, heaven and earthly united

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<v Speaker 3>him the body of man. This is God's left for

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<v Speaker 3>man coming made visit, and this now Saint Basil gives

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<v Speaker 3>us the promise.

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<v Speaker 2>Where as by.

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<v Speaker 3>Man and sin entered into the world, and by sin death,

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<v Speaker 3>So it please, I'm only begotten son, who.

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<v Speaker 2>Is in the bosom of be the God and.

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<v Speaker 3>Father, who was born of a woman, the holy Faetopus

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<v Speaker 3>and ever virgin Mary, who was born under the law

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<v Speaker 3>to condemn sin in his flesh, so that those who

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<v Speaker 3>are dead and adam might be made alive in my

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<v Speaker 3>Christ himself. He lived in this world.

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<v Speaker 2>And gave us commandments of salvation, releasing us from the

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<v Speaker 2>delusions of idolatry.

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<v Speaker 3>He brought us to knowledge of the the true God

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<v Speaker 3>and Father. He obtained for us his own chosen people,

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<v Speaker 3>a royal priestoot a holy nation. Having cleansed us in

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<v Speaker 3>himself to the ansom to death, and which were health

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<v Speaker 3>captives sold understand descending and through the cross into hades,

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<v Speaker 3>that he might fill all things with himself, he loosed.

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<v Speaker 2>The pains of death.

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<v Speaker 3>of the dead, that he might be made, that he

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<v Speaker 2>Ascending to heaving. He sat down the right.

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<v Speaker 3>he will kind of render to every man. According to

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<v Speaker 3>and the gift of the spirit. And then freely, out

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<v Speaker 3>of love, he gave himself to death on the cross.

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<v Speaker 3>ascending glories of that our human flesh now dwells with

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<v Speaker 3>Christ offers himself for the life of the world. He

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<v Speaker 3>enters death freely so that death, when it meets the

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<v Speaker 3>true life, would be undone. And the resurrection is not

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<v Speaker 3>a spiritual metaphor, but it is a proclamation the last

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<v Speaker 3>enemy has been broken, and that our sorrows, our funerals,

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<v Speaker 3>Church calls us to repentance, not to shame us, but

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<v Speaker 3>Baptism is the personal passage that we make through the cross.

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<v Speaker 2>of forgiveness, is a return to that same grace.

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<v Speaker 3>And the prayer concludes with the introductions of the gifts

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<v Speaker 2>He has reached us these things which you have set.

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<v Speaker 3>Forth according to his command, For when he was about

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<v Speaker 3>to go forth to his voluntary every memory of life,

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<v Speaker 3>The life of the world, which took brad holy in

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<v Speaker 3>God and Father, having given thanks and how and blessed

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<v Speaker 2>Disciples and apostles.

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<v Speaker 3>This remembrance, that's not a recollection, but it is the

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<v Speaker 3>Holy Spirit accomplishing the saving work of Christ. Present with us.

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<v Speaker 3>We proclaim as death, he confesses our resurrection. And we

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<v Speaker 3>gather as one body not to be spectators of holy

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<v Speaker 3>history of these participants in the life of the risen Lord.

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<v Speaker 3>So let us hear Saint Basil's anaphora as the Church

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<v Speaker 3>intends it to be her. Here we see the Church's

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<v Speaker 3>rule of faith encompass in our rule of prayer. We

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<v Speaker 3>don't invent doctrine and then pray val it. We pray

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<v Speaker 3>the truth, and by that prayer we are told to

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<v Speaker 3>believe in it. This is what Saint Basil's anaphora is

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<v Speaker 3>intended to do. Lets around les gredined the law of prayers,

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<v Speaker 3>the law of the week. What we have prayed is

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<v Speaker 3>what we confessed one God in trinity, the creation, the

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<v Speaker 3>his saving cross, his life giving to him, and soon.

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<v Speaker 2>His glorious resurrection on the.

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<v Speaker 3>Third Day, and then his ascension and his great and

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<v Speaker 3>final com The Anathe of Saint Basil teaches the history

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<v Speaker 2>Coming salvation rit small.

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<v Speaker 3>But not as an abstract summary, as a living concession

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<v Speaker 3>of what we believe. And in these prayers we proclaim

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<v Speaker 3>the entire econom of our salvation. So, having pray this faith,

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<v Speaker 3>let us hold it fast to us rejoice them with

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<v Speaker 3>one heart and with one voice.

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<v Speaker 2>We confess that the Church everywhere and always at Christ

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<v Speaker 2>has risen, that He is.

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<v Speaker 3>Truly present, that He hasn't worked with us, and that

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<v Speaker 3>the Holy Spirit gatherer says in to this morning the

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<v Speaker 3>Holy cap and apisolture. So may we, though we may

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<v Speaker 3>only pray this and there for ten domes a year,

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<v Speaker 3>that we should confess us we believe every single day

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<v Speaker 3>to Christy the glory of the minute fallbout Holy Spirit

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<v Speaker 3>now and after the age of the agents. I'll have I'm.

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