Our beloved Fathers, Deacons, Nuns and Faithfuls, both
who are present in this Holy Church and
everyone who is watching us through live streaming,
may the Almighty God the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit, one in nature and
one in essence, bless you, guide you, protect
you and deliver you from the snares of
the enemy, whether it be visible or invisible,
and the blood which was shed on Calvary
for the salvation and the redemption of the
entire world, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, all glory
to his holy and mighty name, Amen.
The Gospel of today is according to Saint
Luke and chapter 7, verses 31 till the
end of it, which is verse 50.
It is the Gospel according to Saint Luke,
chapter 7 and specifically from verses 31 to
the verse 50, which is the end of
chapter 7.
It is exactly what the Lord is trying
to send this profound message to all of
us, our beloveds, and that is, when are
we going to be satisfied?
When are we going to be happy and
satisfied?
When the weather is cold, we complain and
when the weather is hot, we also complain.
When it is raining like today, we complain.
This is why I asked you, see, I
got you.
It is a miserable weather, Father, but you
know what?
Every condition and every situation we go through,
there is always a complaint of some sort.
We are never content.
We are never happy.
The Gospel of today is about this woman
who happens to be a sinner.
Big deal.
Who isn't?
Aren't we all sinners?
Well, the Lord Jesus was invited into one
of these Pharisees' house.
His name was Simon and being a Pharisee,
meaning he is a man of the law,
he watches every letter, every word.
He puts it under the microscope and makes
sure that everyone adheres to it except himself.
He is the first one that has broken
the very law which he thinks he has
mastered.
He is the first one that has broken
the very law which he thought he had
mastered.
So anyway, the Lord was invited into this
Pharisee's house by the name of Simon.
And while the Lord was sitting there, this
woman hears that he is in this Pharisee's
house.
Jesus Christ is there.
So she runs and she brings along with
her an alabaster flask of fragrant oil and
she comes from behind him and starts washing
the Lord's feet with her own tears and
then drying them up with the hair of
her head.
And then she pours that fragrant oil, a
very expensive one, on the Lord's feet and
anoints the Lord's feet.
This Simon, this Pharisee, this master of the
law, in his heart says silently, if this
man was a prophet, if this man, referring
to the Lord Jesus, if this man was
a prophet, he would have known what kind
of a woman touched him.
He wouldn't have allowed that to happen but
looks like what I heard about him maybe
was a mistake.
Since Jesus Christ is God revealed in the
flesh, i.e. reads every heart, reads every
mind, every thought, every human being, the Lord
knew what this man had just said and
judged in his heart.
So the Lord turns to Simon the Pharisee
and he asks him this question but he
gives him this little story then the Lord
follows with it with a question.
He says there was a creditor who had
two debtors.
One owed him 500 denarii and the other
one owed him 50 denarii.
Both of them were unable to repay the
debt.
This creditor happens to be a very merciful
person, a very kind one.
He forgives them both their debts.
Then the Lord asks Simon the Pharisee, Simon
which of these two debtors loved the creditor
the most?
Simon with confidence replies and says to the
Lord Jesus, I believe the one who owed
the most 500.
Of course the one who was owing 500
would have loved this owner more than the
one who owed him 50.
The Lord says to Simon, so correctly you
have judged.
Simon let me then say this to you.
You see this woman whom you just judged
in your own heart, I entered your house,
you did not give me water to my
feet.
This woman with her teeth she washed my
feet.
You did not even kiss me.
This woman ever since she came in did
not stop from kissing my feet.
You did not anoint my head with oil.
This woman anointed my feet with fragrant oil.
Therefore because she loved the most her sins
are forgiven.
Because he who loves a lot a lot
is forgiven and he who loves little little
shall he be forgiven.
And then he turns to the woman and
says, your faith has saved you.
Go in peace.
Your faith has saved you.
Go in peace.
Prior to that, the Lord begins with verse
31 and says, who do I liken the
people of this generation and what do they,
who do they look like?
They look like little children in the street
or in the marketplace.
This group of children saw another group of
children and they yelled out to them and
they said, we played the flute for you
and you did not dance and we mourned
for you and you did not weep.
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread
nor drinking wine and you said he's got
a demon.
He has a demon in him because he's
not eating, he's not drinking, there is something
wrong with him, mentally sick.
And then the son of man came eating
and drinking and you said he's a glutton
and a wine bibber and a friend of
tax collectors and sinners.
Which one is it?
So if I come eating and drinking you
say, why are you eating and drinking?
And if I come not eating nor drinking
you say, what's wrong with you?
Why aren't you eating nor drinking?
How do I win with you people?
What else can there be done that has
never been done by me, I Jesus Christ?
I've done everything for you but you are
still whinging and complaining.
Until when are you going to stop from
complaining and once in your life say, thank
you Lord, I am very content with everything
you have given me and you have done
for me.
You can never satisfy people.
Please pay attention.
You can never satisfy people no matter what
you do or not to do.
A little beautiful story.
There was this young man and all young
men and women are are energetic, they're very
enthusiastic and they're on fire.
No matter what you say to them, they
don't have the brakes.
They just put their foot on the accelerator
and try and speed as fast as possible.
As we grow older, we tend to hit
the brake more often than the accelerator.
But while we're young, there is no brake.
It's a v8 brother, push it.
So this young man went to this old
man and he said, father, today I will
do something, I'll make sure every person is
happy with me and satisfied.
The old man looked at the young man
with a big smile on his face and
said to him, my son, my hair has
gone white and my beard like Bishop Murray,
the good looking one, and I've never was
able to satisfy people no matter what I
did for them.
He said, listen to what I'm saying, I
am more experienced than you are.
The young man insisted, no, I will prove
to you, my old man, that today I'll
make sure everyone is happy with me.
The old man looked at the young man
and he said, looks like talking with him
is not going to go anywhere.
Okay, my son, let's see what are you
going to do.
They had a donkey.
So the young man came with this genius
idea.
He said to the old man, he said,
you get onto the donkey, you sit on
the back of it and I will, with
this rope tied to the donkey, I will
pull the donkey along.
I'll walk and you sit on the back
of it.
He said, okay, son.
So they come out, people look at them
and then people said, what kind of a
father is he for him to sit on
the back of the donkey and let this
poor son walk on foot?
Shame on you, father.
Didn't win.
So he went back again and he said,
look, this time I will sit, the young
man, I will sit on the back of
the donkey and you old man pull the
donkey.
He said, okay, son.
So they walk out, people look and they
say, there you go.
A young person, healthy, strong, sits on the
back of the donkey and poor old man,
barely walking, let him walk.
Shame on you, son.
Didn't win.
So he goes back again and he said,
okay, this time both of us will sit
on the back of the donkey and we'll
ride the donkey together.
He said, okay, son.
So they sit both of them on the
back of the donkey and they go out,
people look and they say, poor old donkey.
All its life carries weight.
Shame on both of you to sit and
break the back of this donkey.
You have no mercy.
The young man goes back to the old
man and he said, this time I got
it.
Both of us will walk and pull the
donkey.
So they come out walking, both pulling the
donkey.
People look and criticize them again and say,
are you dumb or are you dumb?
What is the donkey for?
You leave the donkey and you both walk,
no brain.
A young man gave up.
The Lord says, John the Baptist came fasting.
You said you are demented.
The son of man, meaning Jesus Christ, came
eating and drinking and sitting with tax collectors
and sinners.
You said, how dare you eat and drink
and sit with sinners and tax collectors?
The Lord said, okay, then what else satisfies
you?
Whichever way I come to you, you are
always not happy.
What makes you happy?
He gave that example of that woman who
was a sinner.
What is the secret of contentment?
What is the secret of saying, I am
happy and satisfied with whatever I have and
whoever I have?
The secret is one thing and one word.
L-O-V-E.
Love.
Love is the secret.
And this is why the Lord turned to
Simon the Pharisee and said, this woman loved
too much.
That's why her great sins were forgiven because
the more she loves, the more she is
forgiven.
All she wanted, all she wanted is to
come back from behind the Lord and wash
his feet with her tears.
She said, if I can do this and
if I can dry them up with my
own hair, I am satisfied.
Did you know my beloveds, did you know
that the honor of the female is her
hair?
The honor of the female is the hair
and the honor of the man is the
beard.
I'm talking to you biblically.
The honor of the female is her hair
and the honor of the man is the
beard.
And this is one of the reasons why
we grow a beard.
There is other reasons.
You see, as priests, we grow the beard,
which is our honor.
And then we come and bow our head
before Jesus Christ to say our honor is
at your feet.
And this woman came with her own tears,
washed the feet of the Lord and with
her own hair, dry them up.
She could have used a handkerchief.
She could have used a part of her
of a dress to dry the feet.
No, she said, I'll use my honor, my
honor.
I'll put it under your feet, Jesus Christ
of Nazareth.
Why?
Because I love you.
And since I love you, then all of
me is yours.
I don't want nothing.
I just want you to be honored and
glorified.
Love, my beloved.
Love.
You see, when you truly love, you will
do things you could never, ever have done
unless there was that love in you.
See, in the olden days, they used to
sit on the floor.
There was no chairs.
They used to sit on the floor and
they would bend their legs back to the
back.
So the Lord would have sat and his
feet behind him.
That's why this woman came from the back.
Why?
Because she didn't want to be seen.
Why?
Because she's a sinner.
She's embarrassed to be seen in front of
everyone who was in that house, invited along
with the Lord.
So she came from behind, hiding of shame
or hiding from shame.
But she came even though it was a
very difficult thing for her to do, even
though it was a very shameful thing to
do, to be seen by people.
Yet she is a sinner and people knew
she was a sinner.
So if they had seen her, they would
have criticized her like Simon the Pharisee did
in his heart.
He said, if this man was a prophet,
he wouldn't have allowed this sinner to touch
him.
So she was criticized.
She was judged.
She was ridiculed.
She was looked down at.
But she still came.
You see, as a Christian, as a Christian,
when are we going to be seen different
in dark moments and in difficult times?
That's what's gonna differentiate between a Christian by
name and a Christian by deed.
When the time is difficult and tough.
But what makes me continue on going?
What makes me still stand and scream on
top of my voice for the glory and
the honor of Jesus Christ?
Love.
Love, my beloved.
It's love.
It is the love that keeps you going
forward.
It is the love that motivates you to
continue even when everything is going against you.
It is the love.
It is the love that will make you
do things you don't normally do.
It is the love.
You'll go that extra mile.
You'll do some crazy things.
You will accept humility.
You will accept persecution.
You will accept being ridiculed.
You will accept rejection.
You will accept deposition.
You will accept everything for the sake of
that love.
And if it wasn't for that love, why
should I accept all this?
That's why you see some church leaders sitting
in limousines and you see some other church
leaders walking and sitting at the footpath.
Who you love and what you love determines
your place.
You want to sit with high people?
You want to sit with prestigious people?
You want to sit at a very high
platform to be seen globally?
Then Christ is not your potion.
If you're seeking your own glory, Christ cannot
be your potion.
But if you are seeking Christ's glory, then
you will accept every humility.
You will accept.
You see, God himself, God himself, when it
came to love, he did something not in
his nature.
When he came to create us, the human
being, what did he say?
He said, let us go down.
Read that in Genesis chapter 1 and verse
26.
Let us go where?
Down.
God cannot go down.
But he said, because I love you, because
I am creating you to be my own
child, I will accept the exalted, elevated, sovereign
authority, the only ruler over everything and everyone.
I accepted humility.
I came down for your sake.
Why?
Because my love for you is genuine.
My love for you is genuine.
And because I love you from the heart,
I did what I don't normally do as
God.
I don't go down.
It is not in my nature to go
down.
But you see, when it comes to love,
which is the ultimate miracle, the ultimate miracle,
and the only supreme ethic, and the only
thing that makes life and everything with it
possible, it is that love that made God
do what he normally does not do.
Let us go down and make man in
our image, according to our likeness.
The first thing God did to create this
man, he put his hands in the mud.
Because the word Adam derives from the Hebrew,
Syriac, Aramaic name, Edemtha.
Edemtha means red mud.
So God put his hands in the mud.
My question to all of us, who plays
in the mud?
Little kids.
But why do they play in the mud?
Because this is all they know.
They don't know any better.
Their intellect is not mature enough.
But hang on a second.
God is the source of wisdom.
Does he not know what he's doing?
Of course.
Well God, how come you put your hand
in the mud, playing in the mud like
a little kid?
He said, when you love, you do crazy
stuff.
When you love, you will go out of
your comfort zone.
You will do the impossible.
When you love, you will do things others
will see you as crazy.
God put his hand in the mud.
He said, because I love you, I'll do
the impossible.
And I died for you, because I love
you.
To bring you back to me, I died
for you.
So we need now to understand this.
And I'll leave you with it.
The Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus is God,
revealed in the flesh.
God is love.
God is love itself.
So God speaks love.
God lives love.
And God shares this love with whom he
loves.
He loves us all.
And all of his creation.
Therefore, my beloveds, God will only look at
love in everything we say, and in everything
we do.
I could stand and pray for hours on
end, with no love in it.
God will say, I have heard you not.
But when you pray, no matter how short
or long it is, God will come and
measure the love you had for him when
you were praying.
And he will pay you according to the
love you had for him, not for the
amount of prayers and the hours you spend
praying.
Because maybe some people pray to be seen.
But some people pray without making nobody realize
they are praying.
Because love does things in secret, most of
the time.
Most of the time.
Because when you truly love, the last thing
you want to be is a show-off.
Who are you trying to show off to?
My only concern is the one I love.
I don't care about the world.
I care about my love, my sweetheart.
So all I care about is this person.
Not everyone.
It is the one I love.
That's what I care about.
So, when you pray, the Lord will look
at the love in that prayer and he
will pay you accordingly.
When you come to church from home, how
much love did you have for the Lord
Jesus as you were leaving home, sitting in
the car and driving all the way to
the church?
The Lord looks at the love and he
will pay you accordingly.
When you're in the church, who were you
looking for?
Who are you missing?
Who are you longing for?
Who are you loving?
Why did you come?
What was the reason for your coming?
The Lord will look at that love and
pay you accordingly.
Everything with the Lord has got to do
with love.
Nothing else.
What makes you different to others is love.
What makes people saints is love.
Not I'm an Orthodox, I'm a Catholic, I'm
a Protestant.
Get a life all of you.
Get a life.
It is the love I had for Jesus
Christ that made me a saint.
It is the love.
As we speak, there are monks living in
deserts, in caves where nobody knows they exist.
But the Lord knows.
These monks, we are still living, eating, going
and coming because of their prayers for us.
I can show you.
This I guarantee you.
What makes a human being like us to
leave their comfort, their life, their family, their
lifestyle and go in the wilderness, in a
cave and face the dangers of the wilderness
and the enemy Satan attacking them every single
day.
What makes them do this for years on
end, 20, 30, 50, 60, 70 years some
of them.
It is the love.
It is the love for the Lord.
You see some of us will come and
say these people are crazy.
No.
You see your love for the Lord is
minute, tiny compared to their love, their love
for the Lord.
That's why you will never understand their love
until you get to their level.
So they'll come and say there is no
such thing, there is no such way, Jesus
never said that.
No, you're speaking out of ignorance as a
little kid.
You need to grow up because love has
no end to it.
Just because your love is this much, how
dare you judge someone whose love is a
million times greater than yours.
And you're calling them crazy?
They're not crazy, you're just blind, still a
little kid.
How can you forgive someone that has hurt
you?
Love.
I'm not dumb, I'm not stupid, I'm not
ignorant.
The only issue with me is because I
love them.
But you see when people do not have
the same level of that love as you
do, they will always misunderstand you.
And they will always misjudge you.
If this man was a prophet, he wouldn't
have led this sinner to touch him.
She has defiled him.
Simon, I am NOT a prophet, I am
God.
Get it?
If you call me a prophet, I'm not
just a prophet, I am God Himself.
So I know exactly what kind of a
woman that came from behind and touched me.
I know exactly what kind of a man
you are, and I know exactly every single
one of you.
I know.
But you see, the reason why I allowed
this sinner who is like you Simon, in
fact she is better than you Simon, but
the reason why I allowed this sinner as
you said in your heart is because I
love you all.
It is my love.
I'm not ignorant, I know exactly what I
do.
But everything I do and everything I say
is out of love.
That's why you do not understand now what
I do.
One day you will.
So my beloveds, next time you want to
stand and pray, ask the Lord before you
pray, say, Lord please let me love you
in this five-minute prayer.
Before you come to church, say, Lord allow
me to be focused on you all the
way from home to church.
I'm running to you because I miss you.
You see, because I love you, I miss
you.
As if I haven't seen you a lifetime,
and it's only been a week, maybe a
few days, maybe a day, maybe a few
hours.
But when I truly love, even that second
is seen as if it's a lifetime sentence.
When I am away from the love of
my life.
When I am away, ask the Lord to
fill you with his love, to teach you
how to love, and to help you how
to carry this love, not only to the
people in your circle, but to the people
of the world who are the outer circle.
Love your enemy.
Amazing how the Lord talks.
How can I love my enemy?
How can I love the one who has
persecuted me?
How can I love the one who has
attacked me and hurt me so badly?
How can I love them?
It is not me, it is the love
of Christ.
When I allow it to come into my
heart, that love does wonders, my beloved.
Does wonders.
Because if Jesus Christ is your love, then
what people do to you, and what people
say about you, is totally and utterly beside
the point.
Beside the point.
Because the one you love is the one
who takes all your focus.
Therefore, what others say, mean nothing.
It's very easy, you see.
But if you don't love the Lord, and
you speak in his name, and somebody attacks
you, no, no, all hell will break loose.
Will break loose.
See, because I was preaching to gain my
glory on the account of Christ.
So when I'm doing it for my own
glory, for my own personal benefits, to gain
wealth and fame, then I will not allow
anybody to touch me or hurt me.
And if anybody does, I will retaliate with
great force.
But when I'm doing it from the heart,
to the heart, to the sacred heart of
Jesus Christ, when I'm doing it for him,
then whatever people do or say about me,
I am absolutely joyous and happy.
Because it matters not how people perceive me.
What matters is that Jesus says, this is
my son, in whom I am pleased.
That's all I want.
And this is the only thing every true
Christian needs to reach and receive.
Look for that moment when the Lord Jesus
points that finger at you and says, this
is my son.
Angels salute him as he walks through the
gate of heaven.
Welcome him with honor, with glory, for he
is my son, whom I have loved and
died for.
This is the ultimate gift, the ultimate reward
every Christian and every faithful needs to look
forward to, when Christ acknowledge you as his
son.
Anything and everything outside of that is absolutely
vanity of all vanities.
It means nothing that I was a Pope.
It means nothing that I was a cardinal.
It means nothing that I was a bishop.
It means nothing that I was a president.
I was a king.
I was a prime minister.
I was a wealthy person.
I was a very influential person.
All of this means nothing until Christ says,
this is my son.
Jesus is love and he wants you to
love him back.
That's all Christianity is.
When you love him back, then he will
teach you how to come to church, how
to pray, how to read the Holy Bible,
how to preach, and how to live for
him.
He is the teacher, not me.
He is the master, not me.
He is the good shepherd who leads me
to green pastures and still waters.
I am the sheep.
I can never be the shepherd, even though
the Lord put me as a shepherd in
the church.
But when I come to him, I am
his sheep.
I'm not the shepherd, for the shepherd is
one, and that is Christ the King, period.
From the Pope to the deacon are all
sheep, followers of Christ.
And if any church leader tries to take
the place of Christ, he will ruin himself
and ruin the entire church with him.
The church is destroyed.
The enemy will come and infiltrate and decimate
the whole church.
But you see, Satan cannot withstand love.
He hates a place that has love in
it.
He hates it with a passion.
That's why you see, wherever there is a
family that loves one another, it will come
and attack that family.
When he sees a church that loves the
Lord, he will come and attack.
When he sees a person loving the Lord,
he will come and attack.
And he will do it in either of
two ways, or he uses both.
Whichever one comes first and succeeds, he'll go
with it.
One, snake, the other, lion.
Snake is a sneaky way, in a very
nice, deceptive way.
You go to church, you want to be
close to the Lord Jesus, and you're doing
fine.
All of a sudden, all these thoughts and
people come up in your life, in your
circle, and say to you, come on, let's
go out.
Would you like to come with us?
Come on, brother.
Just do it, be a man.
Come on, were you not a nun?
Come with us.
We're not going to do anything wrong.
All we're going to do is just go
downtown, and have some fun.
We'll eat, we'll drink, and then come back.
If Satan sees with that nice talk, it's
not working with you, he will come with
that nasty talk, as a lion.
Next time, he will make sure people go
against you, and start destroying you with their
nasty, nasty, nasty swords, and nasty arrows.
You'll see people talking against you badly, trying
to, what they call character defamation, destroy you,
destroy your reputation, your image, wipe you out.
They will do anything and everything the nasty
way.
See, because Satan didn't win with the nice
way, he will come with the nasty way.
But if you stand till the end, you
will receive the crown of life from the
Lord Himself.
Say to the world, world, all of you,
and everything that is in you, for me
is nothing but one little tip, where they
throw rubbish.
So clubbing is a tip.
Star City Casino is a tip.
Drugs, tip.
Alcoholism, tip.
Gambling, tip.
Men, women, and in between, tip.
I belong to Jesus Christ, the love of
my life.
I'm not for sale, because I'm already being
purchased by the blood of the Lamb of
God.
I am taken.
I belong to Christ, I don't belong to
no one else but Him.
Satan, be gone.
The world, be gone.
You cannot buy me.
You cannot, because I am bought by the
blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
All glory to His holy and mighty name,
for there is no other one but Him.
He is the only way to God.
He is the only truth, and He is
the only life.
He who has the Son, has eternal life,
but he who does not have the Son,
has the wrath of God bestowed upon him,
and there is no life in that person.
Christ is the only way to eternal life,
period.
Period, my beloved.
This is the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, and this truth comes
based on love, divine love, where God loved
us so much, He created us to be
in His image and likeness, His own child,
and when this child veered off, when this
child walked away, He gave Himself up on
the cross to bring that child back into
His bosom once again.
This is the true love, when you give
your life for the one you truly love.
You give your life, sacrifice it.
Simon, I forgive this woman's sins, because she
loved too much.
See, I am the God of love, and
everything you do, I look at the love
in what you do, and what you say.
I measure that love, and I pay accordingly
to that love, nothing else.
So don't stand here for hours and hours
and talk about me without love, I will
hear you not.
But if you come for a second, with
your heartbeat longing for me, I Jesus Christ,
I'm all yours.
Because I'm not the God of lip service,
I am the God of hearts.
I want your heart.
Don't come and be a show-off.
Show me your heart, not your lips.
Show me your hearts.
Amen.
All right.
So, next time you come to church, you
say, Lord, I love you, help me to
love you more.
I want to come, so I can love
you more, and more, and more, and more.
Lord, before I leave the house, I want
to be with you.
Let's go together.
Say to the Lord, let's go together to
the church.
I'm coming to your house, Lord.
So let's go together.
Sit in the car together.
Don't leave the Lord behind.
Bring him with you from your own home
to his own home.
So when you sit in his house, you're
sitting with him.
You're sitting for him.
He is the reason why you came.
Not this bishop, not anyone else.
It is the Lord who is the reason
for me coming today.
And every time I go to church, it
is because of the Lord.
Jesus Christ, I love you.
I want you to hear it from my
heart to your heart.
And I want it to come out of
this mouth so loud that it may shake
the entire world from its foundation.
Jesus Christ, you are the love of my
life, and you will always be the love
of my life.
No matter what happens, you are my love,
my dad, my mom, my brother, my sister,
my friend, my home, my kingdom, my everything.
Jesus Christ is the reason for the season.
It is him who makes life possible.
It is him who makes life beautiful.
It is him who brings things from nothing
into existence.
It is him.
All glory to the one and only Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, the love of my life.
And let me say this to Hollywood.
I want to dance with this body.
His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
I don't want to dance with somebody because
that somebody could be Satan.
So I leave Satan for you, but my
God is Christ the King, and he will
always be my God.
Say amen.
Come on.
Shout for the Lord.
Don't be weak.
Don't be afraid.
Love the Lord from the heart.
And when he doesn't come, turn the whole
world upside down to make him come.
And for that matter, turn all heaven upside
down because I miss you Lord.
So you better come because your son is
a nutcase.
Your son is crazy.
He's crazy for you.
Yes, he's a lunatic for you.
His wires have crossed and they are going
jizz, jizz, jizz like sizzler.
So you better come, otherwise all the fuses
are gone.
See, he's smiling.
There you go.
Love is the secret of contentment.
Let us bow our heads and ask the
Lord Jesus to forgive us like this woman
who came and washed his feet with her
teas and dried them up with her own
hair.
We ask the Lord to accept us like
this woman for the ultimate reward is the
Lord's acceptance of us sinners.
In the name of the Father, of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God.
Amen.
Our good God and full of mercy, our
good God and full of mercy, whose grace
and mercy is poured upon all.
Pour my Lord the compassion of the delightfulness
of your love upon your servants and again
transform them in the hope of renewal to
the life of repentance.
Renew in them your Holy Spirit by whom
they are sealed for the day of salvation.
Purify them by your compassion from all flesh
and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of
their faith by the aid of your grace
and instill the walks of their behavior in
the paths of righteousness.
Please them along with the saints in your
kingdom by the assurance of the hope of
their faith in the adoption as your children
and in the joy of your absolving mysteries.
Empower them by the aid of your mercies
to observe your commandments and fulfill your will
to confess, worship, and praise your Holy Name,
the Lord of all, Father and Son and
Holy Spirit forever.
Amen.