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

THE MATINS OR MORNING INCENSE
This begins with the morning service which is instituted to
commemorate the hour at which our Lord Jesus Christ rose
from the dead on Sunday morning. We thank the Lord who
let us pass the night in peace and kept us safe until morning.
The church teaches us to pray persistently and fervently, and
this is evident when we begin our prayer by saying:
O Come , let us worship,
O Come, let us ask Christ our God (we are requesting)
O Come, let us worship,
O Come, let us ask Christ our King (our request becomes
stronger)
O Come, let us worship,
O Come, let us implore Christ our Saviour (imploring Christ
means we are pleading to Him for help)
This is according to the teachings of our good Saviour, when
He said; "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will
find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who
asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who
knocks it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7,8).
One of the saints said, "I have a habit of collecting my
thoughts and calling them to prayer saying, let us worship
Him, let us kneel down before Christ our God."
In this prayer, the Church draws a plan for us to follow
throughout the struggles of the day. Its aim is to guide our
thoughts to the fourth chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to
58