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October 2023

Sunday October 8th, 1:00pm

21st Lady Tea Time

Honoring Cancer Awareness Month at The Annual Ladies Tea Time

will take place on Sunday, October 8th, at Encino Banquet & Gardens.

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Restaurant Night

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Variety of food, Games, fun, and music provided by St Mary’s youth group.

 

Tuesday October 31st, 6:00pm

Fall Festival

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Church Library

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St. Mary’s Assyrian Church of the East, Los Angeles Electronic Library

 

The intent of the Electronic Library is to house documents, books, articles, and periodicals relative to the teaching and believes of our faith. All considered publications, will be reviewed by Shamasha Dan Daniel to ensure their validity, quality of contents, authenticity, and their value added benefits. Published documents will be available for viewing, and or printing. Documents will be encrypted using Adobe format; and user must have had Adobe Reader installed on their computer prior to the viewing or printing these documents. For your convenience Adobe URL web site is provided.

 

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Sir Bani Yas - Abu Dhabi: Pre-Islamic Monastery


 

Hymn on Fasting

1.1

The is the fast of the First Born, the first of His victories.

Let us rejoice in His coming; for in fasting He has overcome.

Though He could have overcome by any means,

He revealed for us the strength hidden in fasting, Overcomer of All.

For by means of it a man can overcome that one who with fruit overcame Adam;

He became greedy and gobbled it. Blessed is the First-Born who encompassed

Our weakness with the wall of His great fasting.

 

Res:

Blessed is the King who adorned the Holy Church with Fasting, Prayer and Vigil.

 

1.2

This is the fast which exalts; which appeared from the First Born

So as to extol the younger ones. There is occasion for delight for the discerning ones in fasting;

When one sees how much he has grown. Fasting secretly purifies the soul

So it can gaze on God and grow by the vision of Him.

For the weight that is from the earth, bends it back to the earth.

Blessed is he who gave us fasts,

The sheer wings by which we fly to him.

 

1.3

Fasting is bright and beautiful for any who bright enough

To gaze on God. The Turbid One, stirred up by anything

Cannot fix the eye on that Clear One. He who possesses a clear eye

He can gaze upon Him; as much as it is given to him to gaze.

Instead of the clarifying wine, let us clarify our thought

So that we will be able to see the Clear One

Who overcame the Evil One by means of fasting, that Disturber of All.

 

1.4

This is the fast through which greed escapes

The peoples at the top of the mountain; clothed in fasting He overcame the Greedy One.

Who had clothed himself with the food of Adam's house.

The Lord of Victories gave us His weapon, He ascended on high to be an observer.

Who would not run to the weapon by which God overcame

It is a shameful thing, my brothers, to be bested by the weapon

Which overcomes and causes to overcome all creation.

 

1.5

Because the enemy is not visible, let us purge our thinking so that he sees that we see him.

He is able to steal some of those whom he sees

That they have not noticed him.

When a soul undertakes a fast,

The the fast bears it and gives it back to its counterpart.

Amid the volleys of sharpened arrows, hidden from view, the hidden eye

Is polished to see from whence they come.

 

1.6

This is the instructive fast, it teaches the athlete the ways of the contest.

Draw near to it, study, learn to struggle shrewdly.

Behold He instructed us to fast with our mouths and hearts,

Let us not fast from bread and think thoughts

In which the hidden poison of death is hidden.

Let us confess on the fast day the First Born

Who gave us the word of life to meditate on.

 

1.7

Let the scriptures be for us like a mirror, let us see in them our fast

For the Bible descriminates between fasts and prayer.

It chooses one type of fast and rejects another

Some fasters appease God and others anger Him.

There is a prayer which is sinful, and another which is the medicine of life

O Lord let us rejoice in our fast

As he rejoiced, my brothers, in his own fast.

 

1.8

The fast is not defiling for the Holy One, for through it He descended and shone

Another mixing made the fast defiled, though itself is pure.

Examine nature! Are not desirable fruit

Polluted by loathsome fruit?

Our thoughts are repelled by them though they be washed many times.

Blessed is the Pure One who receives those fruits

Which all the penitent having purified them give to Him.

 

1.9

The Troubler mixes filth with our Clarity,

So as to make the first-fruits of our prayer and fasting hateful.

It is possible by his jealousy, that our gift be rebuked.

Take away your deceits from your fasts, remove mockery from your praise.

May your voices wash your mouths from lies.

Allow us, O First Born in your mercy

To uproot hidden weeds from our thoughts

 

1.10

Do not be hindered O Simple Ones regarding that Deceiver who robs Fasters.

For when he sees someone abstaining from bread,

He is filled with anger. When he sees someone standing to pray

He fills his mind with one distraction after another.

He steals from his heart the prayer of his mouth,

O Lord of ours give us an eye to see,

How he steals the truth in deceit.

 

1.11

Come be gathered, my brothers, on this fast day let us sit and marvel at how evil is the Evil One

When he makes a transaction (gives and takes), he impoverishes us by what is his.

And does he become wealthy through what is ours; the truth that he steals suits him not.

The deceit he gives to us does not avail.

It is similar to the whore his companion, who is neither ours nor his.

Judge O Lord, between us and him,

For it is through you that Solomon judged the unclean women.

 

1.12

Let us seek the trace of truth on the fast day; Let us go forth by it to the place of abodes

For the Blind People run, on a fast day with pride and wandering

Though there is a fast in their mouth, yet an idol is in the heart;

Prayer is on their lips, but divination in their heart

Their stomach is devoid of bread, but full of lies;

Though they wash their hands all day,

Hidden blood still screams against them.

 

1.13

Blessed is He who endured and sustained and His head is crowned in exaltation.

With a bold voice, as one who deserves a payment, He demands His wage

He is not like me, who is too weak to fast, too lowly for the vigil

The first to be overcome. My enemy possesses skill

When he overcomes me, he lets me rise that he might again cast me low.

O Sea of mercies give me a handful of mercies

 
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