S t . B a s i l t h e G r e a t A nt i o c h i a n O r t h o d o x C hu r c h
S t . B a s i l t h e G r e a t A nt i o c h i a n O r t h o d o x C hu r c h His Eminence Metropolitan JOSEPH, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of all North America.
His Grace Bishop THOMAS, Auxiliary Bishop of The Diocese of Oakland, Charleston, and the Mid-Atlantic.
REV. FATHER JAMES PURDIE, PASTOR 1520 Todds Lane Hampton, VA 23666 Phone: Office (757) 223-4159, Cell: (412) 327-4099 Email: OrthodoxHampton@gmail.com Web Site: www.OrthodoxHampton.com
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SUNDAY OF THE PARALYTIC
On this day, the Church remembers the man who laid by the Sheep’s Pool in Jerusalem for thirty-eight years, waiting for someone to put him into the pool.
because he was unable to move into the water himself. However, the Savior merely commanded the man to get up and walk, and he was healed.
The first one to enter the pool af- By Thy boundless mercy, O Christ ter an angel troubled the water our God, have mercy on us. Amen. would be healed of his infirmities, but someone always entered the pool before him. Seeing the man, the Lord felt compassion for him and healed him. The Kontakion for this Fourth Sunday of Pascha asks Christ to raise our souls, “paralyzed by sins and thoughtless acts.” Jesus healed the Paralytic at the Sheep’s Pool, located near the Sheep’s Gate of Jerusalem, where people sacrificed their beasts and washed their insides. The pool had five sides, with a porch and arch on each. A number of people, afflicted with various diseases, passed through them, waiting at the water for an angel to come down and stir it. Once it moved, whoever stepped into the water first was instantly healed. One poor man, whose story is recounted in today’s Gospel lection in the Divine Liturgy, waited 38 years for someone to lower him into the water,
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HYMNS tHE
( AntiphonS )
THE ENTRANCE HYMN OF PASCHA
HYMN OF ST. BASIL THE GREAT (TONE 1)
In the gathering places bless ye God the Lord, from the springs of Israel.
In all the earth that receiveth thy sayings, thy melody did resound O righteous Father, through which Thou didst go about and proclaim as worthy of God the nature of creatures, cultivating the character of mankind, O Thou of kingly priesthood Basil, wherefore plead thou with Christ-God to save our souls.
Save us, O Son of God, Who art risen from the dead, who sing to Thee: Alleluia. RESURRECTIONAL HYMN (TONE 3)
Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord hath done a mighty act with His own arm. He hath trampled down death by death, and become the first-born from the dead. He hath delivered us from the depths of Hades, granting the world the Great Mercy.
PASCHAL HYMN (TONE 8)
Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One, yet didst Thou destroy the power of Hades, and didst arise as victor, O Christ God, calling to the myrrh-bearing women, Rejoice, and giving peace unto Thine Apostles, O Thou Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
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Oh chant unto our God, chant ye. they laid her in an upper room. Clap your hands, all ye nations. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was The Reading from the there, sent two men to him enActs of the Holy Apos- treating him, “Please come to us tles. (9:32-42) without delay.” In those days, as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity. In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, 6
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments, which Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, rise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive. And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
GOSPEL THE
The Reading from the Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up Holy Gospel according your pallet, and walk.” to St. John. (5:1-15) And at once the man was healed, At that time, Jesus went up to Je- and he took up his pallet and rusalem. Now there is in Jerusa- walked. Now that day was the Sablem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in bath. Hebrew called Bethesda, which has five porticoes. In these lay So the Jews said to the man who was a multitude of invalids, blind, cured, “It is the Sabbath, it is not lame, paralyzed, waiting for the lawful for you to carry your pallet.” But he answered them, “The man moving of the water. who healed me said to me, ‘Take up For an angel of the Lord went your pallet, and walk.’” down at certain seasons into the pool and troubled the water; who- They asked him, “Who is the man ever stepped in first, after the who said to you, ‘Take up your paltroubling of the water was healed let, and walk’?” of whatever disease he had. Now the man who had been healed One man was there, who had did not know who it was, for Jebeen ill for 38 years. When Jesus sus had withdrawn, as there was a saw him and knew that he had crowd in the place. been lying there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you healed?” are well! The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me Sin no more, that nothing worse into the pool when the water is befalls you.” The man went away troubled, and while I am going and told the Jews that it was Jesus Who had healed him. another steps down before me.” 7
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