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Petra News Sunday of the Paralytic Week of May 10th 2020 Sunday, May 10th 2020 Hymns – 4th Sunday of Pascha This Week’s Services & Youth Ministry Resurrection Hymn All services will be live streamed. “Christ is Risen from the dead, Go to our web site: by death trampling down upon death, stspeterandpaulboulder.org and to those in the tombs He has granted life.” for information about upcoming and past live streams of services. Pascha Entrance Hymn “Bless God in the churches, Wednesday Morning the Lord from the fountains of Israel. Bible Study _______________10am We sing to You, Alleluia.” Children’s Chat w/ Fr Jordan _ 4pm Resurrection Hymn Wednesday Evening (3rd Tone, p. 83-84 Green hymnal) Paraclesis Service __________ 6pm “Let all things above in heaven rejoice, and let all things below on earth be glad. Thursday Morning With all the might and strength of His arm Feast St Isidoros an eternal deed the Lord did perform. Divine Liturgy _____________8am Beneath His feet, He has trampled down death by death, and first born of the dead has He become. From the womb of Hades has He delivered us, and to all world has granted His great redeeming mercy.” Hymn for Sts Peter & Paul Christ is Risen! “O leaders of the Apostles, and teachers of the world, Truly the Lord is Risen! intercede with the Master of all that He may grant peace unto the world, and to our souls His great mercy.” Christos Anesti! Special Megalynarion Hymn Alithos Anesti! “The angel cried to her who is full of grace: El Messieh kahm! O pure Virgin, rejoice, and again, I say: Rejoice; for your Son has risen from the grave on the third day.” Hakken Kahm! “With one voice, O Virgin, we the believers call you blessed. Khristos Voskrese! * O rejoice, You the Lord’s gate; city animate, rejoice. * Lady, rejoice, for today the light Voistinu Voskrese! * of the resurrection from the dead of the Son Hristos a Inviat! * whom you have borne, has shone on us.” Adevarat a Inviat! Communion Hymn “Body of Christ receive, the fountain of life, taste the source of immortal life. Alleluia.” 1 Sts. Peter & Paul, Greek Orthodox Church Healing of the Paralytic, 4th Sunday of Pascha Epistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 9:32-42 In those days, as Peter went here and there among sent two men to him entreating him, “Please come them all, he came down also to the saints that lived to us without delay.” So Peter rose and went with at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, them. And when he had come, they took him to who had been bedridden for eight years and was the upper room. All the widows stood beside him paralyzed. And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus weeping, and showing tunics and other garments Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And which Dorcas made while she was with them. But immediately he rose. And all the residents of Peter put them all outside and knelt down and Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to prayed; then turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, the Lord. Now there was at Joppa a disciple named rise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and works and acts of charity. In those days she fell lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows sick and died; and when they had washed her, they he presented her alive. And it became known laid her in an upper room. Since Lydda was near throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, Lord. The Gospel According to John 5:1-15 At that time, Jesus went up to said to him, “Rise, take up your Jerusalem. Now there is in Jeru- pallet, and walk.” And at once the salem by the Sheep Gate a pool, man was healed, and he took up in Hebrew called Bethesda which his pallet and walked. has five porticoes. In these lay a Now that day was the sabbath. multitude of invalids, blind, lame, So the Jews said to the man who paralyzed, waiting for the moving was cured, “It is the sabbath, it is of the water; for an angel of the not lawful for you to carry your Lord went down at certain seasons pallet.” But he answered them, into the pool, and troubled the “The man who healed me said water; whoever stepped in first to me, ‘Take up your pallet, and after the troubling of the water walk.’ “They asked him, “Who is was healed of whatever disease the man who said to you, ‘Take he had. One man was there, who up your pallet, and walk’?” Now had been ill for thirty-eight years. the man who had been healed did When Jesus saw him and knew not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as that he had been lying there a long time, he said there was a crowd in the place. Afterward, Jesus to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, answered him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse the pool when the water is troubled, and while I befall you.” The man went away and told the Jews am going another steps down before me.” Jesus that it was Jesus who had healed him. Petra News, Week of May 10th, 2020 2 Sunday of the Paralytic: Do you want to be made well? The Evangelist John, a soaring eagle (the eagle is often “Do you want to be made well?” The Church asks us this depicted with the icon of St John) lifted up by the Spirit, every Pascha. And let us not say, “I have no one.” The was able to capture the divine grandeur of Christ. John’s paralytic thought he had no one to help him, no one account of Jesus’ ministry reads like a continuous who loved him, but he had the Lord Himself, as do all of transfiguration. Christ is the fullness of grace and us. He loves us with pure, selfless love. Even if all others truth. He is the shepherd, the gate, and the vine. He is in the Church care only for themselves and their own, the life, the light, and the resurrection. Because He is the we have not been abandoned. For God is the guardian resurrection, He raises Lazarus from the dead. Because of orphans and widows, of the meek and defenseless, He is the light, He opens of the oppressed and the blind man’s eyes. forlorn (Ex 22;22-23, Ps Because He is the life, 11(12):5). He gives fullness of life The Sheep’s Pool was the to the paralyzed man at site of a miracle of heal- the pool by the Sheep ing that took place once Gate. a year. But now comes Jesus was always look- One greater than the an- ing for a response from gel who descended into those He addressed. the pool to cure physical He probed below the sickness: here is One surface to test the desire, who offers healing of the to find hope, to awaken soul to all people, in all faith. “Listen, then, if places, at all times. He you have ears” (Matt 13:9). “Ask, and you will receive; offer us baptism in “the Holy Spirit of fire” (Matt 3:11), seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be purifying fire that burns up all our sins and illumines opened to you” (Matt 7:7). the heart; a baptism of “water and the Spirit” (John 3:5) A parent can do so much for a child; a child also has to that washes away our iniquities and cleanses the soul. respond to parental care. A teacher can do so much to Do we want to be made well? Do we wish to be cured of challenge a student; the student also as to respond to the incurable selfishness? Do we desire to love our neighbor challenge of learning. A nation can do so much for its as ourselves? Do we long to become worthy of Christ’s citizens; they also have to respond to the nation’s leader- baptism? If so, let us bring forth the fruits of repentance, ship, laws, and programs. But so it is also with God and let us renew our baptism with tears, and let us heed the people. God’s love is always seeking love. God seeks to hymn: find us though Christ, the Church, other people, nature, O barren and unfruitful soul, and through particular incidents in our lives. Nothing bring forth good works, can happen if we ourselves do not respond, do not stir that bearing comely fruits, you may cry: put of our lethargy, do not reach out to Him in personal My heart is established; faith. there is none holy and there is none righteous – Father Theodore Stylianopoulos but You, O Lord. – Hymn from the Sunday of the Paralytic – Father Vassilios Papavassiliou 3 Sts. Peter & Paul, Greek Orthodox Church 2020 Sts Peter & Paul Stewards Anastas, Christie & Emil Garrity, Jane Pagratis, Maria Anastas, Hani & Katrina Geerdes, Bruce & Andreatta Panas, Jim & Fannie Andrusko, Gaynel Gehmeyr, Michael & Papageorge, George Apostolopoulos, Polly Bakalis, Olympia Pappas, Bill Arms, Sean Georgis, Maria Pappas, Nick G.