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Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2022-08-21
Bulletin Contents
COVID-19
Links
Memorials & Prayers
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
This Week
Save the Date
Updates
Flyers
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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

Contact Information

Proistamenos: Rev. Fr. Michael Sitaras


frsitaras@stsconstantinehelen.com | 760-942-0920

2nd Priest: Rev. Fr. Angelo Maginas


FrAngelo@stsconstantinehelen.com | 760-942-0920

Parish Council President: Spiro Kailas


858-699-5953

Services Schedule

SUNDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

 

WEEKDAYS/SATURDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

9:30AM Divine Liturgy

 

Past Bulletins


COVID-19

This new COVID variant is a tough one.  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 for the time being.  This is one thing we can do to help care for and protect those who are most vulnerable among us.

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Links

You may follow the text of the service on your smartphone using the Digital Chant Stand app, or follow online at https://dcs.goarch.org/goa/dcs/dcs.html

For the livestream on Facebook search for @stsconstantinehelenCardiff or use this link, facebook.com/stsconstantinehelenCardiff/.  You may also watch the livestream on our website, https://www.stsconstantinehelen.com/.

The church wifi password is:  20LordisMyRock!

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Memorials & Prayers

Memorials

10 year memorial for Julia Louis, mother of Katherine Foster (Tom), Chris Louis (Helen) and Stacy Louis, Grandmother of Theresa Louis Wittman, Katherine Louis Boucher, Stephanie Louis Bennett, and James Foster

For the family of Chris (Spiro) Kailas:
1 year, Michael Kailas;
3 months, Samuel Spooner;
15 years,Evanthia Kailas;
39 years,George Kailas;
15 years,Markos Poniros; and
Christodoula, Monaxi
Nikephoros, Monaxo
George and Anna Frangos
Michael and Irene Frangos
Antonis and Areti Livanos
Vasilios and Elizabeth Livanos
Lucretia and George Munerantz
John and Marena Nellos

Prayers

Demetria Sarantopoulos, Peter and Lydia Chaconas, Patricia Karetas, Jim and Vasil Karounos, Litsa Mitchell, Brittany Howland, Marianne McDonald, Angele Lorio, Victoria Benzel, Daphne Triphon, Yvette Hamud, George Gillespie, Becky Stathes Parks Snell, Mary Garbis, Jeff Richardson, Anne Fierros, Georgia Vourlitis, Katherine Rovos, Nora Paltadakis, Peter Fellios, Aphrodite Sacorafas, Cynthia Sacorafas, Mimi Howland, Anthony Lizardy, Susan Comitas, Helen Theofan, Nikki Cozakos, Stavroula Georgopoulos, Toula Panos, Maria Poniros, Desiree Plagis, Kelee Tsitsikaos, Michael L. Pappas, Baby Michael Wyatt Pappas, Vasillos Gavrilos, Despina Geotas, Freddi Zulim, Georgia Stamos Zulim, Emmanuel Stamos (Hatzimanolis), Maria Stamos (Hatzimanolis), Vassili Stamos (Hatizimanolis), Garrett Lavin, Anton Vasilevich Ovslenko, Petr Sergevich Pavlov, Wendy Anna Panagos, Caron Gray, Rev. Fr. Peter Leventis, Presbytera Despina Leventis, Judy Panagos, Chris Kailas, Nathaniel Cochran, Alvin Wadsworth, Terri Urosevich, Sofia Urosevich, Zackary Allen, Paula Elliott, Rachel Mandel, Sean Tubbs, Duane Tubbs, Alexandra Tzatzalos.

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 First Mode

Although the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers guarded Your most pure body, You arose on the third day, O Savior, giving life to the world. For this reason, the heavenly powers cried out to you, O Giver of Life: Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ! Glory to Your kingdom! Glory to Your dispensation, only Lover of Mankind!

Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Dormition in the First Mode

In giving birth, thou didst preserve thy virginity; in thy dormition, thou didst not forsake the world, O Theotokos. Thou wast translated unto life, since thou art the Mother of Life; and by thine intercessions dost thou redeem our souls from death.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

Neither the grave nor death could contain the Theotokos, the unshakable hope, ever vigilant in intercession and protection. As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed her to life.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16.

Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Gospel Reading

10th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 17:14-23

At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move hence to yonder place,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting." As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Here Christ is not speaking of that faith which believes in Him undoubtingly and knows Him to be true God, but of the faith (needed) to work miracles. If ye have faith, He said, so exceedingly warm and burning as a grain of mustard seed (for these are its qualities), and if it is believed without a doubt that ye will perform signs, then ye will receive such power, that if ye desire to move the very mountains, ye will move them.
St. John Chrysostom
The Gospel Commentary, edited by Hieromonk German Ciuba, 2002, 4th Century

But we have so much confidence in the Deity of the Spirit Whom we adore,that we will begin our teaching concerning His Godhead by fitting to Him the Names which belong to the Trinity...The Father was the True Light which lighteneth every man coming into the world. The Son was the True Light which...The Other Comforter was the True Light which lighteneth every man coming into the world...we proclaim that which we have understood.
St. Gregory the Theologian
Fifth Theological Oration, 4th century

[The Lord] went on to mention mountains as well, and went even further: "Nothing will be impossible for you." Now, for your part, admire [the disciples'] sound values in not concealing their limitations, and the Spirit's power in gradually bringing on those without even a mustard seed in such a way that rivers and fountains of faith gush forth in them.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 57 (PG 58, 563) Translated by Robert Charles Hill found in "Spiritual Gems from the Gospel of Matthew", 4th Century

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Saints and Feasts

Healdemonicboy
August 21

10th Sunday of Matthew

Holy12ap
August 21

The Holy Apostle Thaddaeus

The Apostle Thaddaeus was from Edessa, a Jew by race. When he came to Jerusalem, he became a disciple of Christ, and after His Ascension he returned to Edessa. There he catechized and baptized Abgar (see Aug. 16). Having preached in Mesopotamia, he ended his life in martyrdom. Though some call him one of the Twelve, whom Matthew calls "Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus" (Matt. 10:3), Eusebius says that he is one of the Seventy: "After [Christ's] Resurrection from the dead, and His ascent into Heaven, Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles, inspired by God, sent Thaddaeus, one of the seventy disciples of Christ, to Edessa as a preacher and evangelist of Christ's teaching" (Eccl. Hist. 1: 13).

Allsaint
August 21

The Holy Martyr Bassa and Her Sons: Theognis, Agapius, and Pistus

The Martyrs were from Edessa of Macedonia. Bassa was the wife of a certain Valerian, a priest of the idols, to whom she bore three sons and raised them in piety. She was betrayed with her sons to the proconsul by her own husband; each of her sons was tormented before her and beheaded. For refusing to worship the idols, she was imprisoned, cast into water and then fire, was stoned, and remaining unharmed, was brought to the temple to worship the idols. Laying hold upon the idol of Zeus, she overturned it and broke it to pieces. After being preserved through further torments, she was beheaded, about the year 290, in the reign of Maximian.

Dormition3
August 21

Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary

In birth, you preserved your virginity; in death, you did not abandon the world, O Theotokos. As mother of life, you departed to the source of life, delivering our souls from death by your intercessions.

Allsaint
August 21

Athanasios Patelaros, Patriarch of Constantinople

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This Week

  • Church Calendar

    August 21 to August 28, 2022

    Sunday, August 21

    8:30AM Orthros

    11:30AM Memorials

    12:30PM Baptism

    1:10PM Padres Greek Heritage Game @ Petco

    Monday, August 22

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    Tuesday, August 23

    9:00AM Festival Baking with Father Angelo

    10:30AM Bible Study with Father Michael (via Zoom)

    6:15PM Serve Dinner @ Interfaith Haven House Shelter

    6:30PM Dance Board Meeting - Pappas Hall

    Wednesday, August 24

    6:00PM Opalakia Dance Practice - Phillips Center

    Thursday, August 25

    6:00PM Youth board meeting

    Saturday, August 27

    11:00AM Ahepa dance classes

    Sunday, August 28

    8:30AM Orthros

    11:30AM Ahepa Scholarship Sunday

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Save the Date

  • Aug. 27th AHEPA dance class (see flyer)
  • Aug. 28th AHEPA Scholarship Sunday
  • Aug. 29th John the Baptist Service
  • Sept. 1st Eclessiastial New Year Service
  • Sept. 1st through 5th YAL Conference in San Diego (https://www.sanfran.goarch.org/events/yal-conference-2022?date=2022-09-01) (see flyer)
  • Sept. 3rd Swim For Hope 2022 (See flyer)
  • Sept. 4th AHEPA Day At The Races! (Join us after church for a fun day)
  • Sept. 5th LABOR DAY - OFFICE CLOSED
  • Sept. 10th and 11th Cardiff Greek Festival returns (http://www.cardiffgreekfestival.com)
  • Sept. 17th Suicide Prevention/ Awareness month (See flyer)
  • Sept. 18th Sunday School Kick Off Event
  • Oct. 2nd Church Music Sunday and College Student Sunday
  • Oct. 21st Dance Workshops followed by OXI Day Glendi by Dance Groups 
  • Nov. 12th Saint Helen Philoptochos Fundraiser - An Evening in Tuscany (see flyer)
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Updates

STAY CURRENT

  • To stay current check the Parish web site for calendar updates, flyers, and other important news.  https://www.stsconstantinehelen.com/
  • To receive news and information specific to our Parish via text message, text SCHCARDIFF to 84576.
  • Subscribe to the Church app for "stsconstantinehelen" on the Spaces by Wix app to easily stay updated and more on the go.  Join with this link:  http://wix.to/8EAqCG8?ref=so. Got the app? Use the invite code: PWLFRT.
  • To receive news and information specific to our Metropolis via text message text SFNEWS to 22828.
  • Follow us on social media using @schcardiff.
  • Church WiFi password:  20LordisMyRock!

Announcements

EPISTLE READINGS:  Litsa Orenich in Greek , and Mike Orenich in English

PROSFORON OFFERED BY:  Christine Dorudian, Sophia Dafnis,and Maria Kladouras

FELLOWSHIP OFFERED BY:  The Daughters of Penelope 

SUNDAY SCHOOL will resume September 18th

COMMUNION: Communion is offered to the newly baptized/chrismated first, and then each row will be called forward by the Parish Council.  If you wish to receive a blessing only, please come forward when your row is called for Communion and ask for a blessing when you approach the Priest.  Communion is offered to Orthodox Christians who are baptized/chrismated in the Orthodox faith, who are in good standing, and who are prepared to receive the Holy Gifts. 

CARDIFF GREEK FESTIVAL:  

  • Giving Tree – Make a Tax Deductible Donation – Sponsor a Booth or Items.  select from items on the Giving Tree list during Fellowship.  Your donation helps offset the costs incurred to set up and run the Festival.

  • Sponsors and Advertisers:  Show your support for our 42nd Greek Festival 2022 by placing and ad in our program book or becoming a Festival Sponsor.  Contact Debbie Rycyzyn, drycyzyn@icloud.com, for more info on our program book or visit us at our Festival Table during fellowship to place an advertisement.

  • Volunteer:  One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time!  Volunteer today to serve God, support the church, and make new friends.  Stop by the Festival table to sign up to help.

 

 


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Flyers

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