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10/29/26 The Prayer of the Church · Omnia Christus

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SPEAKER_00: After thee,
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SPEAKER_00: Our Father,
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SPEAKER_00: there's a little prayer that we pray,
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SPEAKER_00: which goes, Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil.
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SPEAKER_00: Graciously grant peace in our days,
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SPEAKER_00: that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe
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SPEAKER_00: from all distress,
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SPEAKER_00: as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: That prayer is called the embolism, which sounds like a medical condition.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's like, what's an embolism?
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SPEAKER_00: So I tell out in Greek, embolismos is an interpolation.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, well, what's an interpolation?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, that's like an interjection or something that's put in, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So this prayer is added in to the liturgy.
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SPEAKER_00: It's added in after the Our Father.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a kind of a reflection on the Our Father.
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SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a response to the Our Father.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like thinking about the Our Father, the ideas that we just prayed.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of, you know, taking up some of those things.
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SPEAKER_00: And so that's in the liturgy after the Our Father,
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SPEAKER_00: in almost every liturgy, there's something like this, right?
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SPEAKER_00: A little sort of a response to the Our Father that the priest says.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I say, it looks different at different times, in different liturgies, in different places.
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SPEAKER_00: The interesting thing to me about that is that, yes,
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SPEAKER_00: it's a beautiful little prayer,
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SPEAKER_00: but It's essentially something that someone came up with.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, it's a response to a prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not a prayer from Scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not they are followed.
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SPEAKER_00: But that's what the liturgy is, right?
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SPEAKER_00: The liturgy is essentially our response to Christ's action.
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SPEAKER_00: The most ancient liturgies,
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SPEAKER_00: as we've talked about before,
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SPEAKER_00: just consisted of those words of consecration, pretty much, right?
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SPEAKER_00: The words of That Jesus Christ said, that's the core of the liturgy.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the core of the mass.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything else that we're doing here is something that
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SPEAKER_00: over time Christians have done and other people.
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SPEAKER_00: So that was nice.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, let's keep doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: And they added to it and they preserved these things.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we have this kind of beautiful liturgy.
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SPEAKER_00: That's this patchwork of all kinds of different things,
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SPEAKER_00: different pieces taken from different times throughout our history.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a beautiful thing.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a wonderful thing.
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SPEAKER_00: But people get very fixated in humble liturgy, right?
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SPEAKER_00: If anything is changed, they're like, oh my gosh, you can't change anything.
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SPEAKER_00: This is this.
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SPEAKER_00: No, it's not something that comes from God.
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SPEAKER_00: It's something that comes from us.
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SPEAKER_00: It's something the church can change and does change.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes there's a beautiful thing and that's added in just like this embolism.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is a beautiful thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's add that in.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's reflect on the Our Father using these words.
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SPEAKER_00: I think what's important when it comes to liturgy is not that I do the changes myself.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I could think, oh, I know better.
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SPEAKER_00: I have this amazing thing that I'm doing.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to add this in.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, that's the part where that could be kind of pride.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not supposed to make up my own liturgy.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe I have some great ideas.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe I have some beautiful prayers.
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SPEAKER_00: And maybe eventually those things are added in.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe I can suggest that.
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SPEAKER_00: But I think the attitude that we need to have before the liturgy,
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SPEAKER_00: before everything, is an attitude of humility and union with Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: That's my job in life.
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SPEAKER_00: My job in life is to encounter Christ, to humbly receive whatever Christ gives me.
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SPEAKER_00: If he gives me this liturgy,
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SPEAKER_00: which is from all these different places, I can humbly receive that.
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SPEAKER_00: I can follow that.
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SPEAKER_00: I can pray that.
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SPEAKER_00: I can take these prayers that church has given me and I can pray them as best I can.
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SPEAKER_00: That's my job.
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SPEAKER_00: My job is not to think I could do better.
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SPEAKER_00: I could do this.
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SPEAKER_00: I could do that.
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SPEAKER_00: And if I'm close to Christ,
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SPEAKER_00: if I really am holy,
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SPEAKER_00: if my life is transformed, then maybe Christ does suggest something for me, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe some prayer,
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SPEAKER_00: some devotion,
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SPEAKER_00: something for someone's life comes about through me, but then it's not from me.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not my own pride doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: Our job is not to try to do something different, something new, something new.
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SPEAKER_00: Our job is to draw close to Christ,
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SPEAKER_00: to become holy,
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SPEAKER_00: to listen again,
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SPEAKER_00: so that whatever comes through us might not be from us, but from God working in us.