How to Benefit from the Holy Liturgy - Pope Kirillos Scientific Family

You, my beloved, should make your hands life-giving as
much as you can by helping or befriending the hungry, sick,
needy or the downcast. Listen to the words of the righteous
Job who said, "If I have kept the poor from their desire, or
cause the eyes of the widow to fail, or eaten my morsel to
myself, so that the fatherless may not eat of it, but from
my youth I reared him as a father, and from my mother's
womb I have guided the widow. If I have seen anyone
perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without
covering. If his heart has not blessed me and if he was not
warmed with the fleece of my sheep. If I have raised my
hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the
gate. Then let my arm fall from my shoulder, let my arm
be torn from the socket" (Job 31:16-22), also, "Because I
delivered the poor who cried out and the fatherless and he
who had no helper, the blessing of a perishing man came
upon me, (perishing because of hunger, cold or sickness),
and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy" (Job
29:12,13).
The congregation says, "We believe that this is true,
Amen." We believe that the Lord's hands which carried the
bread and converted it to His Holy Body, were holy,
undefiled, blessed and life-giving, and we ask Him to give us
hands like His hands, to do good, and abstain from every
evil.
The priest places his right hand on the Bread that is on his
left hand, lifting his eyes toward heaven, saying, "He looked
up towards Heaven to You, O God, His Father and Master
of everyone..."
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