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
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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Venerable Basil the Confessor (Commemorated on February 28th)
Saint Basil the Confessor was a monk and suffered during the reign of the iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741). When a persecution started against those who venerated holy icons, Saint Basil and his companion Saint Procopius of Decapolis (February 27) were subjected to much torture and locked up in prison. Here both martyrs languished for a long while, until the death of the impious emperor. When the holy Confessors Basil and Procopius were set free along with other venerators of holy icons, they continued in their monastic struggles, instructing many in the Orthodox Faith and the virtuous life. Saint Basil died peacefully in the year 750. *Bibliography- https://www.oca.org/
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RESURRECTIONAL APOLYTIKION IN TONE FIVE Let us believers praise and worship the Word; coeternal with the Father and the Spirit, born of the Virgin for our salvation. For, He took pleasure in ascending the Cross in the flesh to suffer death; and to raise the dead by His glorious Resurrection. TROPARION OF ST. BASIL THE GREAT IN TONE ONE In all the earth that received 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 4
thou of kingly Priesthood, Basil. Wherefore, plead thou with Christ God to save our souls. KONTAKION FOR THE PRODIGAL SON IN TONE THREE Foolishly I sprang away from Thy great fatherly glory, and dispersed in wicked deeds the riches that Thou didst give me. With the Prodigal I therefore cry unto Thee now: I have sinned against Thee, O compassionate Father. But receive me in repentance; make me as one of Thy hired servants, O Lord.
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Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
Shall I therefore take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot?
The Reading from the First God forbid! Epistle of St. Paul to the Or, do you not know that Corinthians. (6:12-20) he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? Brethren, all things are For, “The two,” He says, lawful for me, but not all “shall become one flesh.” things are expedient. But he who is joined to the All things are lawful for me, Lord is one spirit. but I will not be brought Flee fornication! Every sin under the authority of that a person commits anything. is outside the body, Foods are for the belly, and but whoever commits the belly for foods; but God fornication sins against his own body. will destroy both it and them. Or, do you not know that your body is a temple of the Now the body is not for Holy Spirit within you, fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; and God both raised whom you have received from God, and that you are up the Lord, and will also not your own? raise us up through His power. For you were bought with a Do you not know that your price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your bodies are members of spirit, which are God’s. Christ? 5
GOSPEL THE
The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (15:11-32) The Lord spoke this parable: “There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.’ And he divided his living between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.” 6
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to make merry. Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant. And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.’ But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid that I might make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’ And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’” 7
OFFERINGS
+ PRAYERS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY ARE OFFERED FOR + Daniel, Daria + child, Christopher, Christopher, Daniel, Sophia, George, Nun Thecla, Ekaterina, Angelina, Igor, Alexander, Mark, Alexander, Fr. John, Irene, Maria, Ana, Vasilii, Irine, Hylarion, John, Axenia, Simerick fam, Lowry fam, Mirela + fam, Jones fam, Alla, Elena + fam, Magee fam, Whelan fam, Marcia, Abigail, Emmanuel, Grace,
Meron, Elias, Meghan, John, Anne, Diana, Aiden, Seraphim, David, Jared, Grant, Sophia, David, Basil, Thadeus, Melissa, LouAnna, Christina, Robert, Tim, The Families of Klein, Freedman, Leary, McAddis, Lunsford, Zambonini, Edens, Brown, Howell, Magnus, Bowman, Purdie, Mertins, Gresham, Fritts, Nixon and Hovan
+ PRAYERS OF LOVING MEMORY ARE OFFERED FOR + Lydia, Victor, Tatyana, Alexander, Eudoria, Ephimia, Ephim, Michael, Alexey, Alexander, Alexandra, Yuri, Boris, Valentin, Valentina, Vladimir, Tatiana, Sergei, Ion, Maria, Agrepina, Nadejda, Radovanka, William,
Gabby, Patricia, Steven, Leonard, Raymond, Mary Jane, Richard, Richard, Eleanor, Beatrice, David, Robin Lazar, Steven, John, John, Joan, Connie, Fr. Niel, Lena, Gerhard, Mary, Roger, Kelly, Marcie, Anna Mae
Holy Bread is offered by Meron Lulseged for the health, safety and memory of her loved ones. 8