This is Bishop Sebastian of the Romanian Orthodox Church offering the Divine Liturgy, which Roman Catholics call The Mass. He is praying the part of the liturgy called the Epiclesis, the invocation of the Holy Spirit upon the gifts of bread and wine and the words of consecration. I wonder, if we were to go around the altar and peak, would we find he's off the ground?
The word docility comes from the Latin, docere, which means to teach. Docility's sister is humility, which suggests: "I have a lot to learn." Westerners can have real problems with docility and humility. So I invite us to click on the little video above, open it full screen, and listen and watch carefully. Then this question: What do Bishop Sebastian and the singing-praying congregation behind him have, that we don't have here? What might we learn from them?
The word docility comes from the Latin, docere, which means to teach. Docility's sister is humility, which suggests: "I have a lot to learn." Westerners can have real problems with docility and humility. So I invite us to click on the little video above, open it full screen, and listen and watch carefully. Then this question: What do Bishop Sebastian and the singing-praying congregation behind him have, that we don't have here? What might we learn from them?
