The Sunday of the Paralytic / St. Nicholas (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); Hierarch 4 (Having attained); G: Paralytic (Jesus went up to Jerusalem to the Sheep's Pool); N: Sunday Dogmatic (How can we not marvel). Three Readings for the Hierarch.

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

Litia: Temple sticheron, and the stichera of the Hierarch (Though the land of Myra is silent); G: Hierarch (O good servant of the faithful); N: Pentecostarion (At the Sheep’s pool).

Aposticha: The sticheron of the Resurrection 1 (O Christ, Who by Thy Passion); The Paschal Stichera, with their verses; G: Hierarch (O man of God); N: Pentecostarion (In Solomon's Porch).

Troparia: O Theotokos and Virgin. x2; Hierarch (The day of splendid solemnity is come) x1.

Matins: Choir: Christ is risen x3. Reader: Glory to God in the highest; and the 6 psalms as usual.

God is the Lord, Tone 3; Troparia: Resurrection x2; G: Hierarch; N: Resurrectional Theotokion, Tone 4 (The mystery hidden).

After each Kathisma, Sessional hymns from the Pentecostarion.

Polyeleos and Magnification of the Hierarch: We magnify thee, O holy hierarch Nicholas, and we honor thy holy memory; for thou dost pray for us to Christ our God; The Evlogitaria (The assembly of angels was amazed).

Hypakoe of the Tone; all the Sessional Hymns of the Hierarch.

Hymns of Ascents, and Prokimenon in tone, Tone 3.

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.

Hierarch (first canon) 4 Holy Hierarch father Nicholas, 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 (Thy relics have moved like a star) and Ikos of the Hierarch; Sessional Hymn of the Hierarch (The translation of thy precious relics); G/N: 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 9th 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: Hierarch (Great are thy wonders); N: Pentecostarion (The sovereign man-befriending Lord).

Praises, Tone 3, on 8: Resurrection 4; Hierarch 4 (Having gazed steadfastly – with doxasticon (Let us sound the trumpet) and the final two psalm verses: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. & Thy priests shall be clothed with righteousness and Thy righteous shall rejoice); 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 Sunday dismissal; After the Resurrectional dismissal: G/N: 3^rd Gospel Sticheron (When Mary Magdalene announced); followed by First Hour.

Hours: Troparia: Resurrection; G: Hierarch; Kontakion: Hierarch & Pentecostarion, alternating.

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

Beatitudes on 12, from the Pentecostarion: 4; Paralytic 4, from Ode 3; Hierarch: 4, from Ode 6.

After the entrance: Troparion of the Resurrection (Let the heavens be glad); Hierarch; G: Kontakion of the Hierarch; 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 saints shall boast in glory.

Epistle: Acts 9:32-42 (§23); Heb. 13:17-21 (§335).

Alleluia, Tone 5 & Tone 2.

Gospel: John 5:1-15 (§14); Luke 6:17-23 (§24).

Instead of It is truly meet, we sing the refrain The angel cried…, with the Irmos of the 9th 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.