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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
Welcome visitors! If you are visiting with us for the first time, we greet you in the Holy Name of Christ, our Saviour, and hope you will join us in fellowship after worship. We are genuinely pleased to have you with us today. We must remind you that while the Orthodox Church prays for the unity of all, we do not practice “open Communion.” Only those Orthodox Christians who have prepared themselves with prayer, fasting, and regular confession should approach the chalice.
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with the promise of the Holy Spirit, making them confident through the blessing Come, let us worship and that Thou art the Son of God, fall down before Christ. and Deliverer of the world. Save us, O Son of God, Who art risen from the dead; HYMN OF THE HOLY who sing to Thee. Alleluia. FATHERS (TONE 8) ENTRANCE HYMN OF ORDINARY SUNDAYS
RESURRECTIONAL HYMN Thou, O Christ, art our God of exceeding praise Who didst (TONE 6) establish our holy Fathers as When Mary stood at Thy luminous stars upon earth, grave, looking for Thy sacred body, angelic powers and through them didst shone above Thy revered guide us unto the true Faith, tomb. And the soldiers O most merciful One, glory who were to keep guard to Thee. became as dead men. Thou led Hades captive and wast HYMN OF THE ASCENSION not tempted thereby. Thou (TONE 6) didst meet the Virgin and didst give life to the world, When Thou didst fulfill Thy O Thou, Who art risen from dispensation for our sakes, the dead, O Lord, glory to uniting the terrestrials with the celestials, Thou didst asThee. cend in glory, O Christ our HYMN OF THE ASCENSION God, inseparable in space, (TONE 4) but constant without sepaThou hast ascended in glo- ration, and crying unto Thy ry, O Christ our God, and beloved: I am with you, and no one shall be against you. 3 gladdened Thy Disciples
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EPISTLE Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our Fathers. For Thou art just in all Thou hast done to us.
among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
The Reading from the Acts of the Apostles. (20:16-18, 28-36)
Therefore, remain watchful, remembering that for three years I did not cease to admonish every one, night and day with tears. And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.
In those days, Paul was determined to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the priests of the church. And when they came to him, he said to them: “Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to shepherd the church of the Lord and God, which He purchased with His own blood. For I know that after my departure ravenous wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock; and from 4
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. In all things I have shown you that by such laboring we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” And when he had spoken thus, he knelt down on his knees with them all, and prayed.
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The Reading from the Holy given Me is from Thee; for I Gospel according to St. John. have given them the words which Thou gavest Me, and (17:1-13) they have received them and At that time, Jesus lifted up know in truth that I came His eyes to heaven and said, from Thee; and they have be“Father, the hour has come; lieved that Thou didst send glorify Thy Son that the Son Me. I am praying for them; may glorify Thee, since Thou hast given Him power over all I am not praying for the world flesh, to give eternal life to all but for those whom Thou hast whom Thou hast given Him. given Me, for they are Thine; all Mine are Thine, and Thine And this is eternal life,that are Mine, and I am glorified in they know Thee the only true them. God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou hast sent. I glorified And now I am no more in Thee on earth, having accom- the world, but they are in the plished the work which Thou world, and I am coming to gavest Me to do; and now, Fa- Thee. Holy Father, keep them ther, glorify Thou Me in Thy in Thy Name, which Thou hast own presence with the glory given Me, that they may be which I had with Thee before one, even as We are one. While I was with them, I kept them the world was made. in Thy Name, which Thou I have manifested Thy Name have given Me; I have guardto the men whom Thou gav- ed them, and none of them is est Me out of the world; Thine lost but the son of perdition, they were, and Thou gavest that the scripture might be them to Me, and they have fulfilled. But now I am coming to Thee; and these things kept Thy word. I speak in the world, that they Now they know that may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” everything that Thou hast 6
SUNDAY OF THE FATHERS OF THE 1ST COUNCIL Recognizing the divine Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council as heralds of the Faith after the divine Apostles, the Church of Christ has appointed this present Sunday for their annual commemoration, in thanksgiving and unto the glory of God, unto their praise and honor, and unto the strengthening of the true Faith. The icon of the Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council depicts Saint Constantine together with the God-bearing Fathers and Saints of the Church who attended the Council and affirmed the unity of the Faith through the Nicene Creed. The Fathers are shown holding the text of the Creed, also referred to as the Symbol of Faith. The seventh Sunday after the Feast of Holy Pascha is observed by the Orthodox Church as the Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. This day commemorates the 318 God-bearing Fathers who gathered in Nicaea in 325 at the request of the Emperor, Saint Constantine the Great, to address the heresy of Arianism together with other issues that concerned the unity of the Church. 7
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