The Sunday of the Paralytic / St. George (Tone 3)

Great Vespers: Priest: Glory to the Holy. Choir: Amen.

Priest: Christ is risen 2 ½ times. The Choir sings: And upon those in the tombs bestowing life.

Blessed is the man.

Lord I have Cried, Tone 3, on 10: Resurrection 3; Paralytic 3 (O compassionate Christ); Great Martyr 4 (As one valiant among the martyrs – with the doxasticon (Thou didst live thy life)); G: Paralytic (Jesus went up to Jerusalem to the Sheep's Pool); N: Sunday Dogmatic (How can we not marvel).

Entry; O Gladsome Light; Prokimenon of the day, Tone 6: The Lord is King.

3 Readings for the Great Martyr.

Litia: Temple; Great Martyr (In his glorious suffering); G: Great Martyr (Springtime hath arrived); N: Pentecostarion (At the sheep’s pool a man lay infirm).

Aposticha: The sticheron of the Resurrection 1 (O Christ, Who by Thy Passion); The Paschal Stichera, with their verses; G: Great Martyr (O brethren, let us spiritually praise); N: Pentecostarion (In Solomon's Porch).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin x2; Great Martyr (As a liberator of captives) x1.

Matins: Choir: Christ is risen x3.

Reader: Glory to God in the highest; and the Six Psalms as usual.

God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Great Martyr (As a liberator of captives); N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma, Sessional hymns from the Pentecostarion.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Great Martyr: We magnify thee, O holy and victorious great martyr George, and we honor thy venerable sufferings, which thou didst endure for Christ; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; all the Sessional Hymns of the Great Martyr.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon in the tone of the week.

Matins Gospel 4, Luke 24:1-12 (§112).

Having beheld the resurrection x3; Psalm 50; G: Through the prayers of the apostles; N: Through the prayers of the Theotokos; Have mercy on me, O God; Jesus having risen; Save, O God, Thy people.

Canon: Pascha (with the 2 Theotokia) 6 Christ is risen from the dead.

Great Martyr 4 Holy Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer George, pray to God for us.

Paralytic* 4 Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Irmos & Katavasia: It is the day of resurrection.

After Ode 3, Kontakion (Cultivated by God) Ikos, and sessional hymn of the Great Martyr (Manfully contending in every manner of piety); G/N: Sessional hymn from the Pentecostarion (A word alone made strong the paralytic).

After Ode 6, Kontakion (As of old Thou didst raise the paralytic) and Ikos from the Pentecostarion

At Ode 9, we do not sing More Honorable, but instead we immediately begin the Irmos of the ninth Ode (Shine, shine), with the refrain Christ is risen, and rest as at the previous odes.

Holy is the Lord, our God.

Exapostilaria: Pascha (Having fallen asleep); G: Great Martyr (Springtime hath shone forth upon us); N: Pentecostarion (The sovereign man-befriending Lord).

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Resurrection 4; Great Martyr 4 (Come, all ye who have celebrated – with the doxasticon (Let the eye-lids of men assent) and the final two psalm verses: The righteous man shall flourish like a palm-tree, and like a cedar in Lebanon shall he be multiplied. & They that are planted in the house of the Lord, in the courts of our God they shall blossom forth); G: Paralytic (O Lord, not the pool, but Thy word); N: Most blessed art thou. After the Great Doxology, Troparion: Today is salvation; the two remaining Litanies and Resurrectional dismissal; After the dismissal: G/N: 3^rd Gospel Sticheron (When Mary Magdalene announced); followed by First Hour.

*At each Ode, read one Troparion of the Resurrection, one Troparion for the Paralytic, the Triadicon and the Theotokion (Typikon, April 23, Mark's Chapter “if the Feast of St George falls on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers, the Paralytic or the Samaritan Woman”)

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Great Martyr; Kontakion: Paralytic & Great Martyr, alternating.

Liturgy: The beginning, as on St. Thomas Sunday.

Beatitudes on 12, Tone 3, from the Pentecostarion: 4; Paralytic 4, from Ode 3; Great Martyr 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection (Let the heavens be glad); Great Martyr (As a liberator of captives); G: Kontakion of the Great Martyr (Cultivated by God); N: Kontakion of the Paralytic (As of old Thou didst raise the paralytic).

Prokimenon, Tone 1: Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us. & Tone 7: The righteous man shall be glad in the Lord.

Epistle: Acts 9:32-42 (§23); Acts 12:1-11 (§29).

Alleluia, Tone 5 & Tone 4.

Gospel: John 5:1-15 (§14); John 15:17-16:2 (§52).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain The angel cried, with the Irmos of the ninth Ode of Pascha (Shine, shine).

Communion Hymn: Receive ye the body of Christ. & In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be.

And the rest as on St. Thomas Sunday.