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0:00 i'm gonna i would do the prayers before the iconostasis and then i would do the vesting and then it starts with the order of foster media i'm not gonna go through and read everything we just don't have time but you can notice if you're following along in the book that a lot of these prayers and everything like that they go along with the psalms and some of these scriptures and everything so everything is completely based on the scriptures the one thing that you can notice real quick is on the person ev on the uh steel the seal of the arena right so the bread that we're gonna serve you can see in the middle right there
0:47 the seal has in the center the icfc nike which is jesus christ conquered that's what constantine put on the shields that he won the battle as you're looking at this everything that's going to be put onto the disco and this is the chalice that these folk is going to be just like it is sitting right here and as we're going through it i'll explain everything as it goes through there all right so and if there's any questions i'll take some short questions but if there's anything really wrong we'll have to we'll have to wait for those so again it gives you a brief
1:34 explanation on the side the first prayer that i would do after i've done vesting is right here which is taken from psalm 25 i will wash my hands and innocent so i will go about your altar o lord that i may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all your wonderful works lord i have loved the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells do not gather my soul with sinners nor my life with bloodthirsty men in whose hands is a sinister scheme and his right hand is full of rise but as for me i walk in my integrity redeem me and and be merciful to me my foot stands on an even place in the congregation i will bless the lord
2:19 so that's the first thing we're going to do i would go over to the sink which i've already done i've already washed my hands you literally wash your hands before that and then you will go then you would stand before the table the deacon or whoever the priest the the priest is the one perseveres but it's in the name of the father some holy spirit o o god be merciful to me a sinner will god be merciful to me a sinner o god be merciful to me ascend you have redeemed us for the curse of the law with the precious blood available to the cross pierce the lambs give gosh forth immortality man glory to your savior peace so typically a lot of the carpenter russian churches they use five separate smaller loaves i go with more of the tradition that i was used to with using
3:06 one larger load when you have the smaller lobes you would take a piece from each one and you would then cut it up for distribution at the end but for this today and what i normally do is i'm going to use the one life all right so blessed is your god always now and ever to the ages of ages amen the next thing we're going to do is i would take this i'm going to raise it about about to my head or a little bit of love to remember to learn god savior jesus christ in remembrance of the word of god in jesus christ commandments of the lord savior jesus christ doing the sign of the cross over the loaf all right now for each one of the cuts there is
3:53 a a verse that goes along with matthew you can see here in the book uh we're on page nine okay so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to follow along the seal in the middle is in the shape of a cross so typically what happens is is a lot of times the priest will go into the side and everything like that but i just cut it all the way through so like a lamb has led to the slaughter i'd like to sheep without blemish before the cheer is done so he opened on his mouth
4:45 in his humiliation judgment was taken who should declare this generation all right so now you can see that all the pieces are now separate and anybody can come around and look over and everything don't be afraid to come over but everything is kind of separate now so the center piece the center piece is going to be the piece that we use for the eucharist so i'm going to pull that out and the next part is typically like i
5:32 said what the priest will do is cut we'll cut on the side and do that but i just do it this way for his life is being cut off from the earth i cut off the hard bottom part right there and then in order for me to be able to put the pieces into the chalice you turn it upside down you follow kind of the guide of the cross at the bottom and you would say the lamp of god it takes away the sin of the world is being offered for the light
6:19 and the salvation of the world right so whenever you see me in the altar whenever you see me in the altar picking up the little square right that's that's the that's the part that we're going to use for the eucharist and i have cut it into four equal parts and again this says jesus christ conquers on the top of it and that's placed in the center of the visco so the next thing is is that we have a little tool which represents the sphere so the part on the on the lamb here that we use is on the part that says jesus right which
7:05 was his human side you're going to pierce it with the spear one of the soldiers pierced the side of the lens immediately there came out blood and water and he would have seen it as more witness and that witness is true and this is the point where we're going to add our water and our wine which represents the roman soldier piercing the sight of jesus and the blood and water coming out of his side all right like i said i'm not gonna i
7:51 don't have time to read over everything but we're gonna go through the main parts here all right so the next piece that we're gonna we're gonna look at here is the part where there's a triangle you can see the triangle right there you look on this this is the part where we commemorate the virgin mary now some priests will just like i said we'll use this the whole time and pierce it on the side i just kind of cut it out in honor and memory of our blessed lady and birth giver of god and ever virgin mary through his prayers o lord accept the sacrifice and your heavenly altar
8:42 all right i've extracted the triangle right which represents the virgin mary the queen stood at your right hand vested in golden roads adorned so remember this is facing me even though it's on my left it's on the right side of christ right so that's going to be on the right so that's why it goes there now we're going to be looking at this piece right here which has nine small triangles okay these nine small triangles each represent something that you will hear me reading now some priests what they will do is they will actually extract each one of the triangles and kind of line them up
9:27 i do that sometimes but most of the time what i'll do is i will take the trying i will take it and i will just kind of trim off the top so that way the nine triangles are pulled off of the side here all right now each one of the triangles represents something typically what happens is what i'll do is i'll touch each one so the first particle the first triangle the mighty leaders in heavenly hosts michael and gabriel and all the bottomless powers of heaven again we're commemorating the angels the second particle the holy and glorious prophet the foreigner christ of baptist john and all the holy prophets so we're
10:13 remembering saint john the baptist and all the prophets the third particle the holy and illustrious apostles peter and paul and all the holy apostles the fourth particle our holy fathers the bishops base of the great greek the theologian john chris's home athanasius and syria nicholas futures the slavs and cereal methodists and all the holy bishops now some of these prayers if you ever see one of these classes as like a greek church or some of the other churches some of these saints that are commemorated may be a little bit different because like uh cereal methodius aren't always commemorated in different places right so some of these names may be a little bit different so that was the fourth particle and whenever i'm doing that i'm going
11:00 down and then going to the center and then going all the way to the right side the fifth particle the holy apostle first martyr archdeacon stephen the holy great martyrs demetrius gregory theodore retired heckler barbara catherine and all the holy martyrs that is the fifth part the sixth part of it our venerable and god's fired fathers anthony atheneus that's the sixth part of it the seventh particle the holy and charitable unmercenary healers and wonder workers ghostbusterdamian cyrus and john padaley and all the charitable wonder workers eighth particle the holy and just grandparents of the lord yahweh
11:45 and finally the ninth article the ninth triangle will be in memory of saint nicholas the pageant of our parish and of all the saints whose memory we celebrate today one second here so now we're about to do the commemorations so right here i have a list of all the people that i want to remember with
12:31 the commemorations typically it's always the orthodox christians that are in the church those of you that are visiting today you can tell me your name and i'll add it to it but i'm going to go through the list quickly and probably a little bit more silent okay but anyway that is the list but the first thing we're going to do is we take each one of these little corners the first one is remember a loving time master ecumenical patriarch bartholomew the archbishop constance milken there's no like set piece for this and sometimes the seals are a little bit smaller people just take a little bit but since i have this i use it i cut the little triangle out
13:17 and set it up there our most rendered metropolitan gregory that's the second that's the next triangle now the third one will be for me at the very end the priest is commemorated at the very very end of all the commemorations and then we remember all the orthodox vicious the honourable president of the academy of christ and all the holy orders and anybody that's celebrating with me the con celebrating priest but so i don't have anybody and they would also be able to put their own names in here as well
14:02 uh and all of our brethren now this is where i would do this so let me try to straighten this up a little bit so i can pull so again this is the part where i would do all my commemorations
14:48 we would take uh a the piece that is right off and it also has the seal of the isuzu that jesus christ conquers um typically when the lobe is a little thicker you're going to go one direction for the living and then in the form of the cross you would uh you would do the people that have fallen asleep but this is the part where i'm going to do all the like i said for the sake of time i'm going to read this really quickly if i can see it
15:39 yes andrew
16:25 david david okay
17:30 thank you terry [Music]
18:17 all right so basically what happens is and i do do it a little bit different but i wanted to see you i wanted everybody to see exactly how it's supposed to be done i took i have seen metropolitan gregory do it a little bit different as well so all of the living people that we want that i want to commemorate all the people of the church is going to be here in front of christ right and everybody is basically represented as a crown so everybody is a crumb on the challenges tiny criminals yep but you're still here here nonetheless whom you owe gracious lord have called your loving kindness for communion with you
19:04 now we also remember the blessed memory remission of the sins of the blessed founders and benefactors of the holy church so anybody that has been a part of the founding of the church which i really prayed for father nicholas already anybody else that started now the next thing of course as you know with the orthodox church we still pray for those who have fallen asleep before us and all of our fathers orthodox father of brenda who have died in hope the resurrection eternal life and fellowship of gracious lord so like i said typically you're supposed to do it in the shape of a cross but sometimes the bread is not wide enough so i just
19:50 flip it over and do it on the other side [Music] um
20:38 [Music] so after we do that so that is the commemorations the final commemoration as i said will be for me remember my own and worthiness and according to your great mercies primary transmission both voluntary and involuntary so i'm asking the lord to
21:24 forgive me and have mercy for me on the things that i have weaknesses for his grace still come upon us all right so as everybody can see the whole idea is we're getting everything on the disco which is the greek word and i can't really tip it
22:10 but if anybody wants to come up and look real fast you can see how it's kind of situated on here so the only everybody's welcome to come up i have all the commemorations so the only part that goes into the chalice during when we call down the holy spirit is the part that i use for the the eucharist no other of this goes in this right after communion when everybody's singing the hymns and you see me doing something up there typically what i'm doing is i'm now using the little sponge and i'm scraping everything off and putting it in there at the end of liturgy after everybody is inside enjoying eating uh and when i
22:55 come back in that's when i consume the rest of the chalice and everything else it's right here but all this all of the outer stuff nobody is receiving that for communion it's only the part that's used for the eucharist okay all right now typically there's usually an icon and a nativity so that's that that's the whole idea is this is the beginning this is the word the major starts and everything like that so that's why the second part is called negativity now this is the part where we are now going to cover everything so we offer instance to you o christ or god into a roman spiritual fragrance without having to receive them under heaven although you may in turn send down the great of your holy spirit
24:02 so you got to remember with each one of these typically all this was done in one building right so the small entrance but with the gospel was from one building to another building outside at one time point right everything was done outside and then during the great entrance everything again was from one building to another building where the altar was okay all of these things that we have prayers for now are used for a reason and basically that reason was so they could cover it so that way if it was raining and you know whatever else was going they wouldn't get on top of the gifts no bugs or anything else like that but now we we do it in remembrance of everything
24:47 and we have prayers that go along with it so the star came down and stood over the place where the child was again the star of bethlehem you basically put it near the incense and you're gonna cover it up like this and then when you guys hear me uh during one of the parts of the service where we're getting ready you know uh to say some of the the readings you hear me going ding ding ding ding ding singing proclaiming right that's what i'm using is the the star folded and i'm ringing it off the disco okay so the next part is the covering so that that part's the nativity so now we have the covering this is where we're
25:32 actually using the veils okay let us pray to the lord the lord his reign he is clothed with beauty the lord is clothed with strength he has gritted himself he's established the world but shall not be moved your throne is procured from whole you are from eternity the rivers are risen oh lord the rivers have lifted up their voices the rivers will lift up their ways of the noise of many waters one does the surge of the seed wonders the lord on how your testimonies are becoming seen incredible bullies has become your household for length a day so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take the first covering we're going to cover up the second veil again is a little bit
26:18 smaller sometimes it's the same size your gloria crisis cover the heavens and your earth is filled with your praise all right now the last piece is the part that you see me drape across my back that comes on and off shelter so the cover of her wings drive away from us every enemy and foe make our life peaceful lord have mercy on us in a new world and save our souls for your good and you love mankind okay and then coming after you obviously take this part off and
27:04 you cover it up right and like i said there's a lot of stuff i wish i had a little bit more time maybe next time i'll do it a little bit earlier i know it's hard getting people here but it's okay now the last part was going to take our sensor actually this chair goes right there so the blessed is our god always down amen now the final part here
27:50 is oh our god you set forth the heavenly bread our lord and god savior jesus christ savior benefactor and redeemer and nourishment of the whole world the blessed sanctify us bless these gifts placed here before you and accept under your heart and knowledge as a merciful lover of mankind remember those who brought the offering and those who offer them keep us things holy celebration of my mysteries for sanctified glorified is your most honorable sublime name of the father and the son of the holy spirit now and ever in the age of three of ages on heaven glory to you christ our god our hope glory to you may christ our true god risen from the dead with the prayer of the most pure amendment to the prayer of the holy father among the saints john christians told mark's bishop of constantinople [Music]
28:41 so in a nutshell i usually go a little bit slower i was trying to do it so we could start liturgy at least okay but is there any questions about anything before we started living so i was so thorough that nobody has any questions actually that's good all right so anyway but that is in essence like last week or was it the week before we did the prayers and the vesting and now you've seen the person you need and then the next step will be i will do all of liturgy out here and that way everybody can stand around and watch that and ask questions during liturgy okay all right so just give me a couple minutes to take everything in and take everything down and then we're going to do the christmas tree real fast and
29:27 we'll get started with literature
