Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/pascha-sun-04_2023+paralytic+do-you-want-to-be-healed-the-great-multitude.mp3 Video: https://youtu.be/jTgZCcXERFU The healing of the paralytic is our healing because we are paralytics. He waited for a healing that occurred once a year, but we receive our healing through baptism and our subsequent efforts to be healed. We must want to be healed. Therefore we must answer our Lord’s question of the paralytic: “Yes!” - by our actions and our priorities. And we must notice the multitude of which we are among. If we don’t notice and care for the multitude we will not be healed. A homily given at the “Seeker of the Lost Orthodox Church” in North Little Rock when I was serving so that the Carder family could get some much-deserved rest. Audio/Video Timestamps 0:28 - 1:01 A Review of Thomas Sunday – one example of how Christ enlightens a soul (with its participation!) 1:01 A Review of the Myrhbearing women – another way God enlightens a participating soul . 1:33 – 2:59 The enlightenment of Luke and Cleophas 2:59 – 4:23 Enlightenment is a process, the enlightenment of the paralytic 4:49 – 12:39 There was a great multitude. Do we see the multitude? We must see the multitude. 7:02 - 12:39 A Simple Rule of Ministry 8:54 – 12:39 Pray your intercessions and requests according to your life experiences. 12:23 – 15:09 When homeless people come to the church, and some “Andrei” stories 15:12 – 15:32 “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.” John 5:4 15:32 – 20:40 “Wilt thou be made whole?” 19:08 – 20:40 Two fundamental principles that must be followed if we want to be made whole: “Do what you are *able* to do” and “It is always good to do a little think instead of *not* doing a big thing.” 20:40 – 22:10 “The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.”John 5: 10 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTgZCcXERFU

Do you have a minute? Luke 11:1-10 Many people know of the Lord's teaching about the Our Father, but His teaching continued directly after this with the parable about the man who knocks on his friend's door at midnight. The Our Father is a model for how to pray, and the parable teaches us how much to pray, and with what sort of spirit. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIeumvz_Q0

Fr. Seraphim explains how Jesus’s Parable of the Prodigal Son is applicable to people in every kind of broken spiritual condition. The restoration of the son in the parable is not about forgiveness only; it is a sign of the restoration of the human soul to a state even better than its original one. God’s plan is for us to share in his life and his goodness as full sons and heirs. Lent is a time for a perpetual coming to God, which we do through repentence. The time of Lent is not about a doing things or giving things up — it is about opening ourselves to God. Readings: 1 Corinthians 6:12–20, Luke 15:11–32 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa-PFj-Gxek

2 Corinthians 4:6–15, Matthew 22:35–46 A short discourse on the epistle readings. “…to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ… but we have this treasure in earthen vessels,” and “troubled on every side, we are not distressed…“ What St. Paul means by having this treasure in earthen vessels. The human experience of troubles. A story from the lives of Sts. Peter and Febronia. Getting read for the moment when we will see the face of Christ. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Ek7if9a2Y