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Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2021-09-26
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Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (760) 942-0920
  • Fax:
  • (760) 942-3603
  • Street Address:

  • 3459 Manchester Ave. #32

  • Cardiff-By-The-Sea, CA 92007


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Services Schedule

SUNDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

 

WEEKDAYS/SATURDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

9:30AM Divine Liturgy

 


Past Bulletins


COVID-19

As you know the Delta Variant is spreading quickly.  We care about you, your health, and the health of our children.  Therefore with love, we strongly recommend that everyone wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status until the Delta variant is under control.  This is one thing we can do to help care for and protect those who are most vulnerable among us.

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Prayers

Demetria Sarantopoulos, Catherine Caldes, Peter and Lydia Chaconas, Patricia Karetas, Jim and Vasil Karounos, Litsa Mitchell, Brittany Howland, Marianne McDonald, Angele Lorio, Victoria Benzel, Daphne Triphon,  Anna Wendy Panagos, Yvette Hamud, George Gillespie, Becky Stathes Parks Snell, Barbara Tsotsos, Mary Garbis, Jeff Richardson, Anne Fierros, Cleo Menas, Georgia Vourlitis, Katherine Rovos, Steve Malott and family, Nora Paltadakis, Peter Fellios, Aphrodite Sacorafas, Cynthia Sacorafas, Mimi Howland, Judy Panagos, Mary Bruscella, Anthony Lizardy, Susan Comitas, Helen Theofan, Nikki Cozakos and family, Stavroula Georgopoulos, Chuch Hasting, Toula Panos

If you would like to add someone to the prayer list, please contact the office.

 

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fifth Mode

Let us worship the Word, O ye faithful, praising Him that with the Father and the Spirit is co-beginningless God, Who was born of a pure Virgin that we all be saved; for He was pleased to mount the Cross in the flesh that He assumed, accepting thus to endure death. And by His glorious rising, He also willed to resurrect the dead.

Apolytikion for Translation of John the Theologian in the Second Mode

O Apostle, beloved of Christ our God, hasten to deliver a defenceless people. He that allowed thee to recline on His breast, receiveth thee bowing in intercession. Implore Him, O Theologian, to dispel the persistent cloud of the heathen, and ask for us His peace and great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
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The Readings

Read in English by Jeanette Rigopoulos.

Read in Greek by Peter Fellios.

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Eighth Mode. Psalm 18.4,1.
Their voice has gone out into all the earth.
Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God.

The reading is from St. John's First Universal Letter 4:12-19.

No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because he first loved us.


Gospel Reading

The Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian
The Reading is from John 19:25-27; 21:24-25

At that time, standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things, and who has written these things; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

The sign that thou lovest God, is this, that thou lovest thy fellow; and if thou hatest thy fellow, thy hatred is towards God. For it is blasphemy if thou prayest before God while thou art wroth. For thy heart also convicts thee, that in vain thou multipliest words: thy conscience rightly judges that in thy prayers thou profitest nought.
St. Ephraim the Syrian
ON ADMONITION AND REPENTANCE.

'God is love', and he who seeks to establish its bounds is like a blind man attempting to count the grains of sand in the deeps of the sea. In quality, love is the likeness of God, as far as this is possible to mortals; in action, it is intoxication of the soul; in its properties, it is the source of faith, the abyss of long-suffering, the sea of humility. Love is real renunciation of every contrary thought, for it 'thinketh no evil' (I Cor. 13:5). Love, passionlessness and sonship differ only in name. As light, fire and flame are combined in one single action, so it is with these three.
Monks Callistus and Ignatius
Directions to Hesychasts no. 90, Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart; Faber and Faber pg. 257

Brothers, do not be afraid of men's sins. Love man even in his sins, for that is the semblance of divine love and is the highest love on earth. At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sins, asking yourself whether to combat it by force or humble love. Always decide 'I will combat it by humble love.' If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you may be able to conquer the whole world. Loving humility is an awesome force, the strongest of all, and there is nothing like it.
Elder Zossima by Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoevsky, 19th century

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Saints and Feasts

Johntheo
September 26

The Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian

This Apostle was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the elder. First a fisherman by trade, he became an Apostle and the beloved Disciple of Christ. Only he of all the Disciples followed Him even to the Cross, and was entrusted with the care of our Saviour's Mother, as it were another son to her, and a brother of Christ the Teacher. After this, he preached throughout Asia Minor, especially in Ephesus. When the second persecution against the Christians began in the year 96 during the reign of Domitian, he was taken in bonds to Rome, and there was cast into a vat filled to the brim with boiling oil. Coming forth therefrom unharmed, he was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Returning again to Ephesus after the death of the tyrant, he wrote his Gospel (after the other Evangelists had already written theirs) and his three Catholic Epistles. In all, he lived ninety-five years and fell asleep in the Lord during the reign of Trajan in the year 100. He was called Theologian because he loftily expounded in his Gospel the theology of the inexpressible and eternal birth of the Son and Word of God the Father. It is for this cause that an eagle-a symbol of the Holy Spirit, as Saint Irenaeus says-is depicted in his icon, for this was one of the four symbolic living creatures that the Prophet Ezekiel saw (Ezek. 1:10).


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September 26

Removal of the Honorable Head of Apostle Andrew the First-Called

St. Andrew was martyred in Peloponnese, in the city of Patras in 62 AD. The Proconsul Aegeates' family believed in the miracles and preaching of St. Andrew, and the enraged Proconsul tortured and crucified St. Andrew. The new converts wanted to remove him from his cross, but the saint would not allow them. Instead, he comforted them from the cross and as he prayed an extraordinary light encompassed him for about a half hour. When it left, he gave up his soul. 

St. Andrew's relics were taken to Constantinople, and but his skull was either left in Patras or taken back there in the 9th Centry.  When the Turks took over the Pelopponese in 1460, the skull of St. Andrew was taken to Rome for safe keeping.  It was kept in St. Peter's for a long time.  

In 1962 the Metropolitan ad the Mayor of Patras requested Pope Paul VI return the skull of St. Andrew to Partras.  The Pope agreed and the relics were delivered to the Basilica of Saint Andrew in Patras in 1964.


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This Week

  • Church Calendar

    September 26 to October 3, 2021

    Sunday, September 26

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Falling Asleep of St. John the Theologian Liturgy

    Monday, September 27

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    6:30PM Greek Language School Advanced Children

    Tuesday, September 28

    10:30AM Bible Study with Father Michael

    4:00PM Greek School- Pre k, K combined

    4:00PM Greek School- Beginner Children/Teen

    6:00PM Greek School- Beginner Adult

    6:00PM Parish Council Meeting

    Wednesday, September 29

    4:15PM Greek School- Children Group A

    5:15PM Greek School- Children Group B

    6:00PM Greek School- Adult Advanced with Mr. Andreas

    6:00PM Greek School- Adult Intermed. with Ms. Akrive

    6:30PM Boy Scouts Meeting in the Grove

    Thursday, September 30

    4:00PM Greek School: Level B with Ms. Rena

    Friday, October 1

    6:30PM YAL Game Night

    Saturday, October 2

    8:00PM GOYA Movie Night on the Church Terrace

    Sunday, October 3

    Youth Sunday! AND Church Music Sunday!

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:30AM Donuts and GOYA Elections

    12:00PM Masters of Harmony Planning Meeting

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Save the Date

Sept. 27th Greek School classes resume this week!  Check the Greek School website for more info:  https://www.schgreekschool.com/

Sept. 29th through Dec. 15th,  Liturgics Course for Parish Music Leaders, Wednesdays 6:30pm to 8:30pm  via Zoom. Email: sfchurchmusic@sanfran.goarch.org

Sept. 30th and Oct. 7th 6:30pm OrthoTalks for Jr. High/Middle School Students and Parents with Father Gary Kyriacou. Register at www.sanfran.goarch.org/orthotalks

Oct. 1st YAL Game Night, 6:30pm, Pappas Hall

Oct. 2nd GOYA Movie Night on the Church Terrace, 8pm

Oct. 3rd YOUTH SUNDAY!

Oct. 4th YAL monthly gathering in Encinitas

Oct. 9th Greek Night at the San Diego Loyal soccer game (see flyer for details)

Oct. 14th Eight Dates for newly married couples begins. Resgister at www.familywellnessministry.org/eight-dates

Oct. 16th Dance Group Oxi Day Glendi

Oct. 18th Youth Family Summit -- join us to discuss our future building plans, Youth Ministry and more!

Oct. 19th and Oct. 26th 6:30pm OrthoTalks for Jr. High/Middle School Students and Parents with Father Gary Kyriacou. Register at www.sanfran.goarch.org/orthotalks

Oct.23rd JOY Pumpkin Patch Outing 

Oct. 31st Ministry Sunday

Nov. 7th Stewardship Sunday

Nov. 9th Primetimers Game Day Luncheon in Pappas Hall

Nov. 13th 6:00pm "Abracadabra!  Mingle, Magic and More!" Philoptochos Annual Gala in Pappas Magic Palace!  See flyer for details.  Please RSVP for this event.

Dec. 11th Masters of Harmony and Pacific Coast Harmony Christmas Concert 

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Updates

Stay current online

To stay current, check the Parish web site for calendar updates, flyers, and other important news.  https://www.stsconstantinehelen.com/


Announcements

CHURCH GREETERS:  We are recruiting additional church greeters.  Your commitment can be just a couple of Sundays a year.  If you are interested, please call/text Rana Birouty (858) 603-6658. 

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL:  Classes have resumed.  It's not too late to register.  Check the link on the web site or proceed to our class rooms downstairs and speak with one of the teachers.  Children will take Communion then go downstairs to class.    


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Flyers

    Liturgics Course for Parish Music Leaders in Metropolis of San Francisco

    Liturgics Course for Parish Music Leaders in Metropolis of San Francisco

    The Metropolis Church Music Ministry is offering a comprehensive Liturgics Course, tailored to the needs of our Metropolis parish music leaders— the head chanters and directors of adult and youth choirs and those who aspire to those roles. The Liturgics course will include eight (8) sessions beginning on Wednesday, September 29 through December 15 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Pacific Time via Zoom. The curriculum will cover the basic structure, content, and theology of the liturgical services of the Orthodox Church, focusing on the central daily liturgical cycle of Divine Liturgy, Vespers, and Matins (Orthros). For more information, please email sfchurchmusic@sanfran.goarch.org.


    OrthoTalks for Jr. High/Middle School Students and Parents

    OrthoTalks for Jr. High/Middle School Students and Parents

    Join Father Gary Kyriacou along with members of the Metropolis Family Wellness Ministry team for an in-depth Zoom gathering on the Orthodox Christian response to bullying, how to deal with someone that is mean, and understanding brokenness. This series will aid the student’s social development by reinforcing the teachings of our Lord and His Church. If you are a Middle/Junior High School Student, we invite you and your parents to join us! This is a two-part series on Thursday, September 30 and October 7 OR Tuesday, October 19 and 26, both at 6:30 p.m. For more information and to register for this free workshop, visit www.sanfran.goarch.org/orthotalks.


    YAL Game Night

    YAL Game Night

    October 1st, 6:30pm Kick off October with a fun night of games and fellowship in Pappas Hall.


    GOYA Movie Night

    GOYA Movie Night

    October 2nd, 8:00pm on the Church Terrace Join us for a movie under the stars!


    YAL Monthly Gathering

    YAL Monthly Gathering

    October 4th, 8pm Join us for our monthly gathering at Encinitas Bar and Grill for some food and fellowship.


    Greek Night with the San Diego Loyal Soccer Club

    Greek Night with the San Diego Loyal Soccer Club

    Sts. Constantine and Helen presents a night with the San Diego Loyal Soccer Club! Please come and support our church with a fun night of soccer! SAN DIEGO LOYAL vs Sacramento Republic SATURDAY October 9TH AT 7:30PM $5 of each ticket purchased goes back to the Dance and Choral School of our church to support their program!


    Eight Dates

    Eight Dates

    Register today for Eight Dates, the powerful relationship series presented for the second time by the Metropolis Family Wellness Ministry and the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries. Based on the book Eight Dates by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, the series sessions are virtual and include prayer, reflection, videos, interactive questions, break-out groups, and closing remarks on topics including Conflict; Work and Money, Intimacy, Family, Spirituality, and many more. Originally designed for newly married couples, every couple--married or not--who wants to improve their communication and connection can benefit from this lively and informative program. The 2021 program begins on Thursday, October 14. Register today at www.familywellnessministry.org/eight-dates.


    Saint Helen Philoptochos Annual Fundraiser

    Saint Helen Philoptochos Annual Fundraiser

    Joint us November 13th at 6:00pm in Pappas Magic Palace for Abra Cadabra! Mingle, Magic & More! An evening of magic is sure to delight. Ben Silver's tricks will amaze you this night. You'll mingle with friends, enjoy drinks and a dinner. Please come, raise your spirits, and leave as a winner. Saint Helen Philoptochos Fundraiser benefitting Interfaith Community Services and Philoptochos Charities. We will follow state and local COVID guidelines.


    Youth and YAL Events - Winter & Spring Calendar

    Youth and YAL Events - Winter & Spring Calendar

    A listing of upcoming events for our Youth and Young Adult programs.


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