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

what has corrupted us in this world. We pray this Psalm and
ask the Lord to enable us to continue travelling through the
wilderness of life without being hurt.
This is the garment of the heavenly feast with which the
praying faithful enters to its spiritual delicacies of heavenly
bread and pure water.
On the spiritual table are many delicious spiritual foods
offered by David the Psalmist in his beautiful and
contemplative psalms of praise, of thanksgiving and for help,
and so on.
Do not just look at the spiritual banquet but also eat from it.
Taste of its sweetness and enjoy it so that it may benefit your
inner self.
We then find heavenly bread with which we end our spiritual
meditation, and this is the Gospel which is appropriate for
the hour.
So if you enjoy the pleasures of the Old Testament, and the
blessings of the New Testament, you will find in the banquet:
V Pure Water : meditations suitable for the hour of prayer
in the Troparia, so take from this pure water so that you
may cool yourself. This banquet has a wonderful spiritual
atmosphere.
V Perfumes of holiness and of faith : we sing the songs of
angels, and repeat the faith of the Fathers, during which
the Christian person feels that they are sharing with the
angels and the saintly fathers in their praise. When you
say the Creed, put in your heart that thousands and
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