The Bible and You - Kind and Merciful

Starting with Isaiah and his encounter with the Holy God of Israel, Deacon Steve Greco and wife MaryAnne examine the Mass readings for the week.

Deacon Steve Greco is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Orange in California.  He is also founder and president of Spirit Filled Heart Ministries, which engages in evangelization and support of the foreign missions.  He and MaryAnne have been married for nearly 50 years and have three adult children.

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Transcript:
It's nice to be invited over to a friend's house and Deacon Steve and Mary and Greco have a fresh pot brewing and comfy chair waiting for you. So kick back, relax and get ready to soak in God's Word with some good friends. It's the Bible and you with Deacon Steven Maryann Greco.
Hi, everyone. It's Deacon Steve Greco.
Marianne, welcome to the Bible. And you.
Are you more excited than me? I think so.
I could never be more so. Okay. It's possible.
I love these readings once again, yeah, there's so filled with joy over scripture, right? And when you love Jesus, you love scripture. What did St. Jerome say? I don't know. What did he say said ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Jesus. Ignorance of God. And the bottom line is this is that, thank you for tuning in. Tell your friends about this. And be filled with every spiritual blessing. Heavenly Father, we thank you, we praise You and worship you. And we ask Lord God, that all the people out there, be blessed and healed spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically, that their ears be open their heart be open to receive the word that you have for them, through the intercession of our blessings, mother, St. Joseph, and all holy heavenly angels and saints, and I consecrate you to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and your families in Jesus name. And then the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Oh, les Lujah. Oh, lay lujah ALU ALU? Yeah. Are we in February?
Yeah. This week, we're reading the first readings from Isaiah. And this is really a description of Isaiah, his encounter with the Holy God of Israel and actually, his calling to be a prophet. And it's a very holy moment. I think there's a lot for us to learn.
Well, there's an awful lot for us to learn from the standpoint that when we're open to God's calling, then great blessings happen to us. So let's begin in the Father and the Son Holy Spirit. Amen. A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah. In the year King Israa. died, I saw the Lord seated on a high end lofty throne, with a train of his garment, filling the temple, Serafin were stationed above, they cried one to the other, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. All the earth is filled with His glory. At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook, and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, Woe is me, I'm doomed. For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips. Yet my eyes have seen the king the Lord of hosts, then one of the Seraphim flew to me, holding the ember that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it and said, see now that this is touch your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? Here I am. I said, Send me the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God. Okay. One of the things I'd like to start out with is talking about the Serafin there angels, part of the choir of angels that have something connected with the knowledge of God. And they cried to one another, holy, holy is the Lord of God. And holy is three times. And th