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Saint John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2020-05-03
Bulletin Contents
Welcome to our Parish
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
St John's Prayer Circle
Liturgical Services
Stewardship
Myrrbear
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Saint John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (772) 546-8180
  • Street Address:

  • 10605 SE Federal Hwy, US1

  • Hobe Sound, FL 33475
  • Mailing Address:

  • P.O. Box 8127

  • Hobe Sound, FL 33475

Contact Information

Rev.Father Andrew Mahalares


frdrew1947@gmail.com | 561-818-6215

Services Schedule

Sunday Orthros: 9 AM

Sunday Liturgy: 10 AM

Past Bulletins


Welcome to our Parish

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Welcome to St. John Chrysostome Greek Orthodox Church

We are a thriving community of 65 families, working to share the Orthodox Faith with the South Florida area. We try to balance our lives with both corporate and personal prayer, philanthropic works to our greater community and common meals together. Our goal is the progression towards the kingdom of God in this life, in loving our fellow man and seeing Christ in the person sitting next to us. 

We are pleased that you have joined us today for worship.  To receive Communion in the Orthodox Church, one must be Baptized and/or Chrismated in the Orthodox Faith. The Orthodox Church understands Holy Communion as the sign of unity.  If you are interested in learning more about the Orthodox Faith, please contact Father Andrew.  Whether you are an Orthodox Christian  or not, please come forward at the dismissal to receive the blessed bread which is offered to everyone as you leave.  May Christ's blessings be with all of you. 

 

 ***THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU ! TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN SENDING IN YOUR STEWARDSHIP, CANDLE MONEY AND DONATIONS BY REGULAR MAIL AND THROUGH THE DONATION BUTTONS ON OUR WEBSITE.  YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IS SINCERELY APPRECIATED AND VERY MUCH NEEDED, ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME OF THE PANDEMIC CRISES. I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU AGAIN IN WORSHIP.  YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT, MORAL AND FINANCIAL CONTINUES TO LIFT US UP, DESPITE THIS TRIALS CREATED BY THIS PANDEMIC. THANK YOU, AGAIN!

***IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO DO THAT YET, PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO COMPLETE YOU STWARDSHIP PLEDGE, SUNDAY TRAY OFFEREINGS AND CANDLE MONEY TO THE CHURCH.

AN UPDATED STEWARDSHIP LIST IS INCLUDED BELOW. IN ORDER TO SEE YOUR NAME ON THE LIST OF STEWARDS, YOU MUST HAVE COMPLETED A STEWARDSHIP PLEDGE CARD AND WE MUST HAVE RECEIVED IT AT THE CHURCH TO INCLUDE YOU NAME ON THE LIST.  WE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND GENEROSITY. BASED ON OUR MOST CURRENT INFORMATION (FRIDAY, MAY 1st). THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE PLEDGED STEWARDS OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM CHURCH:

 

 

STEWARDSHIP 2020

 

 Alexandrou, Anna & Lazarus

Bakas, Pericles & Panagiota (Toula)

Bourlas, Manuel

Coury, Katherine

Dionisopoulos, Nick & Athanasia (Mimi)

Fitzer, Pamela (Tseklenis) & Peter

Ioannides, Nina Marie

Laskaris, John & Joanna

Lefco, Evelyn & Michael

King, Stephanie

Denise Koltis & Sotiri Dushas

Koumas, Chrysanthe

Kuzemka, Nick & Carole

Lena, Joanne

Loizos, Helen

Mahalares, Father Andrew

Malliaroudakis, George & Doria

Manos, George

Mihaltse, William & Diana

Monsma, Joel & Constance

Moulis, Peter & Helene

Nakos, Peter & Anastasia (Annie)

Neamonitis, Nicholas & Thomae

Nickas, Aristides (Steve) & Barbara

Papadopoulos, Demetrios & Vie

Pappaconstantinou, Cynthia

Pappas, Steve & Rose Marie (Posie)

Pantazopoulos, Anthony & Katherine

Parasco, Odessefs & Mary

Petrides, Pat (Kyriaki)

Reams, Bill & Jodie

Tambakis, John and JoAnn

Theodorakis, Marika

Tzellas, Chris

Wilshire, Maria & Alfred

Zafiropoulos, Despina (Debbie)

Zaimes, George & Dena

 

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Saints and Feasts

Myrrbear
May 03

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was going throughout Galilee, preaching and working miracles, many women who had received of His beneficence left their own homeland and from then on followed after Him. They ministered unto Him out of their own possessions, even until His crucifixion and entombment; and afterwards, neither losing faith in Him after His death, nor fearing the wrath of the Jewish rulers, they came to the sepulchre, bearing the myrrh-oils they had prepared to annoint His body. It is because of the myrrh-oils, that these God-loving women brought to the tomb of Jesus that they are called the Myrrh-bearers. Of those whose names are known are the following: first of all, the most holy Virgin Mary, who in Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 is called "the mother of James and Joses" (these are the sons of Joseph by a previous marriage, and she was therefore their step-mother); Mary Magdalene (celebrated July 22); Mary, the wife of Clopas; Joanna, wife of Chouza, a steward of Herod Antipas; Salome, the mother of the sons of Zebedee, Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus; and Susanna. As for the names of the rest of them, the evangelists have kept silence (Matt 27:55-56; 28:1-10. Mark 15:40-41. Luke 8:1-3; 23:55-24:11, 22-24. John 19:25; 20:11-18. Acts 1:14).

Together with them we celebrate also the secret disciples of the Saviour, Joseph and Nicodemus. Of these, Nicodemus was probably a Jerusalemite, a prominent leader among the Jews and of the order of the Pharisees, learned in the Law and instructed in the Holy Scriptures. He had believed in Christ when, at the beginning of our Saviour's preaching of salvation, he came to Him by night. Furthermore, he brought some one hundred pounds of myrrh-oils and an aromatic mixture of aloes and spices out of reverence and love for the divine Teacher (John 19:39). Joseph, who was from the city of Arimathea, was a wealthy and noble man, and one of the counsellors who were in Jerusalem. He went boldly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and together with Nicodemus he gave Him burial. Since time did not permit the preparation of another tomb, he placed the Lord's body in his own tomb which was hewn out of rock, as the Evangelist says (Matt. 27:60).

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Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Mode

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

When Thou didst descend unto death, O Life Immortal, then didst Thou slay Hades with the lightning of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst also raise the dead out of the nethermost depths, all the powers in the Heavens cried out: O Life-giver, Christ our God, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday in the Second Mode

Unto the myrrh-bearing women did the Angel cry out as he stood by the grave: Myrrh oils are meet for the dead, but Christ hath proved to be a stranger to corruption. But cry out: The Lord is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for the Church in the First Mode

St. John Chrysostom, Patron Saint of the Church - Apolytikion. 
The grace that from your mouth shone forth like a torch illumined the universe. It deposited in the world the treasures of the absence of avarice. It showed us the height that is attained by humility. Now you instruct us by your words, Father John Chrysostom. Intercede with Christ God, the Word Himself, entreating Him to save our souls.

Ἡ τοῦ στόματός σου καθάπερ πυρσὸς ἐκλάμψασα χάρις,  τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐφώτισεν, ἀφιλαργυρίας τῶ κόσμω θησαυροὺς  ἐναπέθετο, τὸ ὕψος ἡμῖν τῆς  ταπεινοφροσύνης ὑπέδειξεν.  Ἀλλὰ σοὶς λόγοις παιδεύων, Πάτερ, Ἰωάννη Χρυσόστομε,  πρέσβευετῶ Λόγῳ Χριστῷ τῶ Θεῷ, σωθῆναι τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν

 

 

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Mode

Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Fourth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Luke 24:1-12

On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel; and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of man must be delivered in to the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise." And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Second Mode. Psalm 117.14,18.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.

The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7.

In those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said, "it is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochoros, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaos, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
The Reading is from Mark 15:43-47; 16:1-8

At that time, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 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 anyone, for they were afraid.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

They [the women] had followed Him ministering to Him, and were present even unto the time of the dangers. Wherefore also they saw all; how He cried, how He gave up the ghost, how the rocks were rent, and all the rest.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 88 on Matthew 27, 4th Century

The second [Sunday after Pascha] is dedicated to the women who visited the tomb of Christ, hoping to anoint his body with myrrh, but they found an empty tomb instead. In many ways, this reflects the content of every Sunday and every Divine Liturgy: we come to church to celebrate the sacrifice of Christ, which takes place on the altar, a symbol of the tomb of Christ. Our testimony, every time, is that the tomb is empty, a reflection of the revelation to the Myrrh bearers.
Rev. Dr. Andreas Andreopoulos
Gazing on God: Trinity, Church and Salvation in Orthodox Thought and Iconography. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2013, 55-56.

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St John's Prayer Circle

Please pray for our brothers and sisters  in our Community and their families, and all those who are in need of our prayers.

Cynthia, Evangelos, Larissa (Larry Tosi's daughter), Chris (Helen Loizos' son), Harry, Mirsini, Peter, Helen, Eleni, Becky, Mary D’Jay, Presbytera Helen, Fr. Constantine, Fr. Demetri Tsigas (Melbourne Priest), SAVAS, Kosta, Demetrios,  Mary, Evangelia, Kyriakos (Charley), Danny, Peter,  Kay, Linda, Chris, Bill & Diana, Tom and Family, Nick K, Maggie, Helen, Gena Mildner, Joanna,  Constantina, Mimi, Virginia, Apostolos,  Sophie, Joshua, Despina, Thomas, Jan, Aristides, Lucas,  Baby Paul, Leona, Mary, Toula, Eleni, Phylitsa, George Edward, Efrosini, George,  Stella, Phyllis, Irene,  Georgia, Marcia,  Sheila and Maureen, Laura, Sophia.

 

 

 

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Liturgical Services

ALL SUNDAY SERVICES 9– 11:15 AM

 

 MAY SCHEDULE OF SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

Sun.  May  3rd,      Sunday of the Myrhbearers, Orthros and Divine Liturgy, 9-11;30AM

Sun.  May  10th,    Sunday of the Paralytic and MOTHER"S DAY, Orthros and Divine Liturgy 9-11:30AM

Sun.  May  17th,    Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30AM

Thur. May  21st,    Sts. Constantine & Helen, Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30AM

Sun.  May  24th,   Sunday of the Blind Man, Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30AM

Thur. May  28th,    ASCENSION THURSDAY, Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30AM

Sun.  May 31st     Sunday, of Memorial Day Weekend,  Orthros  & Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30AM

 

 KOUVOUKLION UPDATE

The new Kouvouklion arrived mid March.  Unfortunately no one really has had an opportunity to see it given the pandemic crises.  We sincerely thank the donors for their kindness snd generosity. 

 

ALSO, as a result of the initial request, I received three other donations and will be purchasing a few more ecclesiastival items for the church  such as a Sacrament Table with two new candle holders for it; an Icon Stand and a gospel stand, just to mention a few of the items.  I will also be looking at one or two Chalice Cover sets.

Most of the donations are not to be publicized, but we might be able to do a "in memory of" in one of our upcoming bulletins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

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Stewardship

 

Stewardship is our response to God’s grace and moves us from grace to gratitude. Just as we love because God  first loved us (John 4:14), we give because God first gave to us. The question of the Psalmist “What shall I give to the Lord in return for all His benefits towards me?” (Ps 116:2), is answered in every liturgy when the celebrant calls us to “offer ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ our God.” 

As Orthodox Christians, we see the world as God’s gift, as a sacrament of God’s presence and a means of communion with Him. And so we are able to offer the world back to God in thanksgiving as we say in every Divine Liturgy “Thine own of Thine own we offer to thee…” 

In II Corinthians 9:7 we read “Each person should give what he/she has decided in his/her heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” Consider your weekly expenditures on entertainment, coffee, etc. Keep in mind that the expenses of the Church increase every year. In order to grow our ministries and meet our expenses, stewardship contributions must also increase each year. 

If you haven't yet completed your 2019 Pledge yet, please make every effort to do so before we bigne the task of encouraging you to make your pledge for 2020 and remind you to complete your pledge form and begin the fulfillment of the pledge you make (i.e. paying it  all at one time or quarterly, monthly or weekly thoughout the coming the year).

 You must have completed a Stewardship form and submitted it to be considered a Steward of Saint John's.  

 Please complete your Stewardship form for 2020

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