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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Mission
Publish Date: 2016-09-18
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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Mission

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (615) 957-2975
  • Street Address:

  • 4602 Indiana Avenue

  • Nashville, TN 37209
  • Mailing Address:

  • P.O. Box 90162

  • Nashville, TN 37209


Contact Information




Services Schedule

Great Vespers, Saturday 6 PM

Sunday Matins/Orthros 8:30 AM

Sunday Divine Liturgy 10 AM

Wednesday Evening Paraklesis 6 PM


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Father's Corner

 

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Weekly Services, Recent Sacraments, and Events

Weekly Services

Regular Services:

Saturday:
Vespers 6pm

Sunday:
Matins 8:30am
Divine Liturgy 10 am

Confession: Saturday 5:30pm, by appointment

Father Parthenios' Office Hours: Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 10am-4pm, by appointment

 

Special Services:


Events

 The next Women's Fellowship Meeting will be September 17th* at 10:30 am at the church Fellowship Hall. We will be doing our second Comfort Meal Workshop for the expecting families of our parish. A suggested donation of $10 per household is requested. This covers the cost of 6 to 7 comfort meals per family. All are welcome to participate, men, women and school age children. Please RSVP Kari Waggoner at waggonerka1@yahoo.com by Sept 11th so I have an idea of how many folks can attend. Also, as the date approaches as before I will send out a "kitchen tools needed" list. Please come join us in this fun time of fellowship and this helpful gift to the young families of our community. *change in date due to holiday and Greek Festival at Holy Trinity two previous weekends.


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Announcements

Charitable Opportunities

Friends of the Metropolis

Are you a friend of the Metropolis? Don't forget to make your annual Friends of the Metropolis donation. You can do so online here: http://www.detroit.goarch.org/, or by picking up a flyer from Father and mailing it in to the Metropolis.

St. Nicholas National Shrine Fund

Help rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at the World Trade Center by making your tax-deductible contribution at https://www.stnicholaswtc.org/donate

 

From the Church and Community:

**A new Trapeza schedule will be coming out at the end of the September to cover the rest of the year. If you would like to be added to the schedule please contact Kari Waggoner.**

 

**REMINDER**

The bathroom on the right inside the narthex has our only changing table. Out of consideration for our many families with small infants, please try to use the other smaller bathroom when possible.


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back, for it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Fourth Tone. Psalm 103.24,1.
O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20.

BRETHREN, you know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


Gospel Reading

Sunday after Holy Cross
The Reading is from Mark 8:34-38; 9:1

The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone

The women disciples of the Lord heard from the angel, the joyful news of the Resurrection and the repeal of the sentence imposed upon our forefathers. With pride they said to the Apostles, "Death is vanquished, Christ our God is risen bestowing upon the world His great mercy."

Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Holy Cross in the First Tone

Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting our rulers to prevail over adversaries, and protecting Your commonwealth by Your Cross.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone

Lifted up on the Cross by Your free will, Christ God, grant mercies to the new commonwealth that bears Your name. Gladden our faithful rulers by Your power, giving them victories over their adversaries. May Your alliance be for them a weapon for peace, an invincible standard.
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Saints and Feasts

Exaltation
September 18

Sunday after Holy Cross


Allsaint
September 18

Eumenius the Wonderworker, Bishop of Gortynia

This Saint took up the monastic life from his youth, and later became Bishop of Gortynia in Crete. He travelled to Rome, and to Thebes in Upper Egypt, where through his prayers he ended a drought; there also, after working many miracles, he reposed in deep old age. His holy relics were returned to Gortynia and buried at the place called Raxos.


Allsaint
September 19

Trophimus, Sabbatius, & Dorymedon the Martyrs

In 278, during the reign of Probus, Saints Trophimus and Sabbatius came to Antioch, and seeing the city celebrating the festival of Apollo at Daphne lamented the blindness of the people, and presented themselves as Christians to Atticus the Governor. Saint Trophimus was stripped of his clothing, and was stretched out and beaten until the earth was red with his blood. Then he was hung up, scraped on his sides, and imprisoned in torments. Saint Sabbatius was tortured so savagely that he gave up his spirit in his sufferings. Trophimus was sent to Synnada, wearing iron shoes fitted with sharp iron nails within; he was further tormented without mercy, then cast into prison. Dorymedon, a counsellor, and a pagan, came to the prison and cared for Trophimus. When a certain feast came, Dorymedon was asked why he did not sacrifice to the idols; he proclaimed himself a Christian, for which he was imprisoned, pierced with heated spits, frightfully punished, and finally beheaded with Saint Trophimus.


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Prayer Request

Please remember in your prayers:

Living:
Michael Pittman
Mike Waggoner, father of Michael Waggoner, cancer treatment and continued health issues
Mark, son in law of Linda Marchetti
Kaylor, brain tumor
Debbra Ickes
Michael
Rita, cancer
Alexander and family
Larry, father of Kayla
John and Barbara Kelly
Catherine Brockenborough, prayers for a new job
Yvonne Brockenborough
Emily
Kari Waggoner, continuing issues with kidney stones
James S.
Brian Butler
Courington Family
Dunn Family
Wolfe Family
Kotewell Family
Dunkle Family
Zamora Family

Reposed:

+Athanasios Demmas
+Edward B.
+Pat D.

NOTE:  If you have any updates, wish to ask continued prayer, or have a new request, please send non-confidential prayer requests or updates to Kari Waggoner via email @ waggonerka1@yahoo.com or text @ (615)635-3980


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Weekly Volunteers

Volunteers for this Sunday

09/18/2016

Trapeza Team: Team St. Cyril, fast free

 


Volunteers for next Sunday

09/25/2016

Trapeza Team: Team St. Demetrios, fast free

If you are unable to do your assigned activity, feel free to contact another person on the calendar to exchange dates and seek a replacement.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

"I force not, I compel not, but each one I make lord of his own choice; wherefore also I say, 'If any man will.' For to good things do I call you, not to things evil, or burdensome; not to punishment and vengeance, that I should have to compel.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 55 on Matthew 16, 1. B#54, p.339., 4th Century

To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits; to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad thoughts and desires; to suppress every evil thought; to avoid occasions of sin; not to desire or to do anything out of self-love, but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself, according to St. Paul means "to be dead to sin. . . but alive to God."
St. Innocent of Alaska
The Lenten Spring, SVS Press, p. 147, 19th Century

Nothing comes without effort. The help of God is always ready and always near, but is given only to those who seek and work, and only to those seekers who, after putting all their powers to the test, then cry out with their whole heart: "Lord, help us."
St. Theophan the Recluse
19th Century

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