Ahlan wa Sahlan!
"We Greet You in the Name of the Lord."
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
100th Anniversary
1902 - 2002
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Tel: 978-682-8152
Fax: 978-682-6114
http://www.StJosephMelkiteCatholicChurch.org/
Platitera@Gmail.com
Directions to our Church from the South:
Take 93 N, Exit 46 (110-113), bear to the Right to 110 E.
Keep going straight ahead on 110 E (which becomes Haverhill St.) for about 2.5 miles untill you hit Hampshire St (set of lights)
Make a Left on Hampshire St.
Cross another set of light. St. Joseph Church (with two small golden domes) will appear on the right.
The parking lot is on the Right side between the Church Complex and the next building (St. Joseph Plains Community Center).
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Tone (2)
+ "O Joseph proclaim to David the ancestor of Christ our God, the great miracles you have witnessed. You have seen the Virgin with child, given praise with the shepherds, adored with the Wise Men and the Angel of the Lord has appeared to you. Intercede with Christ God that He may save our souls."
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(Tender Mercy)
Hymn to the Theotokos
+ "O you who have given birth in time to the One whom no limit of time can hold, you thus have become the Mother of God in a manner beyond understanding and beyond words. We the faithful magnify you in one mind."
May 11th, 2008
* No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life
* Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
* Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while,
but their hearts forever.
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(Paschaltide)
(Pascha through Pentecost)
The Pentecostarion
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Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
Great & Holy Sunday of Pentecost
May 11th, 2008
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Menaion of the Byzantine Daily Worship,
by the Most Reverend Joseph Raya
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
+ Commemoration of the Foundation or Dedication of the City of Constantinople, + the Holy Martyr Mocius and + Cyril and Methodius, the Equals of the Apostles, the Apostles of the Slavs
Troparion of the Dedication of the City of Constantinople
Tone (4)
+ "The city of the Theotokos dedicates its foundation as an offering to the Theotokos. For it has been establish to remain in Her, and it lives and is and is strengthened through Her, crying out to Her, "Hail, the hope of all the ends of the earth."
Troparion of the Holy Martyr Mocius
Tone (1)
+ "In serving Christ our King as a priest of His myst'ries, thou wentest forth self-called unto contest, O Mocius, to offer thyself to Him through the pains of a willing death. Wherefore, crowned by Christ both as a priest and a martyr, thou dost heal the ills of all who fervently honour thy holy memorial."
Troparion of Holy Cyril and Methodius
Tone (4)
+ "Divinely-wise Cyril and Methodius, equals-to-the-apostles and teachers of the Slavs, entreat the Master of all to strengthen all nations in Orthodoxy and unity of mind, to grant peace to the world and to save our souls."
Kondakion of Holy Cyril and Methodius
Tone (3)
+ "Let us honor the sacred pair, who translated divine scripture pouring forth a fountain of divine knowledge from which we still draw today. Now as you stand before the throne of the Most-high we call you blessed, Cyril and Methodius, as you fervently pray for our souls."
Kondakion of the Holy Martyr Mocius
Tone (2)
+ "Armed with the breastplate of faith, thou didst turn back the arrays of the ungodly, and dist receive a crown of glory from the Lord, O blessed Mocius. Wherefore, seeing thou rejoicest with the Angels, preserve from all perils them that praise thee, as thou intercedest unceasingly for us all."
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March 2008
The Resurrection of Jesus: revelation of God’s power and basis of the faith in our resurrection
We begin the Creed by proclaiming our faith in God the giver of life: “I believe in one God the Father Almighty Creator of heaven and earth”. And we end it by proclaiming our hope in the resurrection of the dead and the eternal life: “We look forward for the resurrection of the dead and the life to come”. And between these two declarations, we proclaim our faith in the risen Lord, in Jesus Christ who, after being crucified, “rose on the third day.” Faith in our resurrection is based on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Faith in the Resurrection is not faith in some kind of unverifiable curiosity, which we ought to believe in addition to all the rest. It is fundamentally faith in God with whom the risen Christ is now one. Faith in the Resurrection is not an appendage to faith in God, but a radicalizing of faith in God. It is a faith in God which does not stop halfway, but follows the road consistently to the end. It is a faith in which man, without strictly rational proof but certainly with completely reasonable trust, relies on the fact that the God of the beginning is also the God of the end, that, as he is the Creator of the world and man, so too he is their Finisher. Resurrection means the real conquest of death by God the Creator to whom the believer entrusts everything, even the ultimate, even the conquest of death.
We read in the Book of the Revelation that God is “the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” (22: 13) Since God is the Alpha, he is also the Omega. The almighty Creator who calls things from nothingness into being can also call men from death into life.
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ gives our life its true meaning, and gives us hope for our future. It is precisely in face of death that God's power hidden in the world is revealed. Man cannot work out for himself the resurrection from the dead. But man may in any case rely on this God who can practically be defined as “a God of the living and not of the dead” (Mark 12:26-27), he may absolutely trust in his superior power even in face of inevitable death, may approach his death with confidence.
The Creator and Conserver of the universe and of man can be trusted, even at death and as we are dying, beyond the limits of all that has hitherto been experienced, to have still one more word to say: to have the last word as he had the first. Toward this God the only reasonable and realistic attitude is trust and faith. This passing from death to God cannot be verified empirically or rationally. It is not to be expected, not to be proved, but to be hoped for in faith. What is impossible to man is only made possible by God. Anyone who seriously believes in the living God believes therefore also in the raising of the dead to life, in God's power which is proved at death. As Jesus retorted to the doubting Sadducees, “You know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (Mark 12:24).
The Christian faith in the risen Jesus is meaningful only as faith in God the Creator and Conserver of life. But, on the other hand, the Christian faith in God the Creator is decisively characterized by the fact that “he raised Jesus from the dead” (Rom. 4:24). "He who raised Jesus from the dead," becomes practically the designation of the Christian God. “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you” (Rom. 8:11).
Christ is risen! He is truly risen!
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(Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom)
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