liturgy

Psalm 121 - Fr. Suriel Costandi

Ai Nahti ethve Fai And Aikoti Ensook

Fraction of Great Lent/قسمه الصوم الكبير- Anba Daniel

Fasting and Prayer Fraction by Heg. Abouna Antonious Tanios

Recorded on Saturday the 19th of April, 2014.

Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel. A reading from the Gospel according to our teacher Saint Luke, the Evangelist. May His Blessings be with us all. Amen.

From the Psalms of our teacher David the prophet. May his blessings be with us all. Amen. 

Psalm 117:24-45,27
This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Alleluia.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Our Lord God, Saviour, and King of us all, Jesus Christ, the Living Son of God to whom be glory forever. Amen.

John 20:1-18
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away again to their own homes. But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

Glory be to God forever.

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القداس الالهى بصوت القس يواقيم ناجي

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Morgan le Fay (note the masculine appellation) fares worse than any other character except Mordred (her son with Arthur) in the retellings by Cistercian monks who satanise her without ever quite removing her potent role in Arthur's holy progress - she still provides the scabbard for Excalibur which means Arthur cannot bleed from war wounds (until he loses it), she provides the magical disguise by which Lancelot impregnates the Grail Maiden with Galahad (believing her to be Guinevere) and adds a similar riddling magic to the quest of the Green Knight. Crucially, she also helps remove the dying Arthur to Avalon, from which he will one day to return to save us. She is far too elemental and cryptic - 'fatal' is good word for her - to be exactly benign even in the original mythology but the Cisercians' femme fatale tells us as much about their fear of women as it does about this mother/wife/death goddess.

Morgan and Arthur had the same mother - Ygraine of Cornwall - but her father was Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall whilst his was officially Sir Ector but actually Uther Pendragon who killed Gorlois and came to Ygraine's bed wearing a magical helmet (provided by Merlin) which made him look like the husband he'd killed. Morgan returns the magical compliment later by making the Grail Maiden look like Guinevere in order to seduce Lancelot.
lyrics
Morgan le Fay
on her magical horse
black as the night
unconscious force
mourning the Du
beneath and beyond
all we think say and do
dying to be born
on a bridal (sic) away
part healing
in to the Whole,
the slumbering Soul
and the only Way
to catch the boar king
as he gallops away
Morgan le fay
Morgan le fay.

I love males, yet live makeless.
The long night and false dawn still lingers lonely
As day breaks my dike brook's bed
Diluting with grey light my Du-distilled soul.

I give birth, yet grave brothers
My mothering bosom of womb-mouthing earth
Is death-witch and dearth's country
Both vessel you're born on and vestige's barque.

Morgan le Fay
on her magical horse
black as the night
unconscious force
mourning the Du
beneath and beyond
all we think say and do
dying to be born
on a bridal (sic) away
part healing
in to the Whole,
the slumbering Soul
and the only Way
to catch the boar king
as he gallops away
Morgan le fay
Morgan le fay.

I bride men and breed Mordreds,
The world's consummation weds its confounding,
The lightning of love's moon lore
Will strike dead the armed man sick-nursed in these arms.

I brave blood, a bereaved bride,
God's mother and man's Eve, a death moth and Mary,
O Arthur ardent brother,
The love sword you bury here will seed the whole world.

Morgan le Fay
on her magical horse
black as the night
unconscious force
mourning the Du
beneath and beyond
all we think say and do
dying to be born
on a bridal (sic) away
part healing
in to the Whole,
the slumbering Soul
and the only Way
to catch the boar king
as he gallops away
Morgan le fay
Morgan le fay.

from King Arthur and Me: The Opera, released May 1, 2024
Cover ('Morgana') and video pics by Bhas Allan
Watch the music video on YouTube youtu.be/DXetO0qlUkg





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