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Saint John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2020-06-21
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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


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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.

 

 ON BEING A GOOD FATHER

Ephesians 6:4 

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6 

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 103:13 

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Colossians 3:21 

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Proverbs 23:24 

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Psalm 127:3-5 

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Luke 11:11-12 

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

1 John 3:1 

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Titus 2:1-15 

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

Joshua 24:15 

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

 

 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL FATHERS, GRANDFATHERS, UNCLES AND GODFATHERS!!

MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU, KEEP YOU SAFE AND HEALTHY!!

 

 

 

 

SUMMERTIME ANGELS (Concept borrow from St. Demetrios in Ft. Lauderdale)

Many of the Florida parishes have numerous parishioners who summer away from our Florida churches, "snowbirds", which adversely affects our revenue during the summer. Therefore,  we have adopted another parish's system of paying for some our our regular monthly expenses.

It's called Summertime Angels, people who are willing to donate towards the cost of the Water ($225), Elecetric ($450), Waste Management ($225) (trash) and Internet/phone ($250).  

The amounts in parenthesis are the average monthly cost of these services.  If some or any of you are able, in addition to your Stewardship Pledge, were able to subsidize one of these items for a month or two, throught September, we would be able to maintain our current services and actually survive thru the end of the year.  I am sure you realize that the current pandemic has created a reduction in our income.  We require $10.5-12,000 to meet our monthly expenses, including the mortgage and priest. Any extra help you can provide at this time will be greatly appreciated.

It is important, if your decided to help, to mark the item you are subsidizing int he left bottom of your check in the MEMO line.

I thank you in advance for your thoughtfulness and continued generosity.

 

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE SUMMERTIME ANGELS WHO HAVE ALREADY STEPPED FORWARD TO HELP WITH OUR REGULAR EXPENSES FOR THE SUMMER.  THEY WILL BE LISTED IN THE 1ST SUNDAY BULLETIN OF JULY.

 

 

 

***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 HAPPY  I WAS TO SEE MANY 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, THE SUNDAY TRAY OFFEREINGS AND CANDLE MONEY AND SEND THEM TO THE CHURCH.

 

 

 

 

 

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Saints and Feasts

Callapostles
June 21

2nd Sunday of Matthew


Allsaint
June 21

Julian the Martyr of Tarsus

This Martyr, who was born to a pagan father and a Christian mother, was from Cilicia, confessed the Christian Faith before the Proconsul Marcian, and was perfected in martyrdom at the age of eighteen, when he was put into a sack with sand and venomous serpents and cast into the sea. Saint John Chrysostom has a homily in his honour.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Mode

The stone had been secured with a seal by the Judeans, * and a guard of soldiers was watching Your immaculate body. * You rose on the third day, O Lord * and Savior, granting life unto the world. * For this reason were the powers of heaven crying out to You, O Life-giver: * Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ; * glory to Your eternal rule; * glory to Your dispensation, only One who loves mankind.

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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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. 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 Letter to the Romans 2:10-16.

Brethren, glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.


Gospel Reading

2nd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 4:18-23

At that time, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father, and followed him. And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

But mark both their faith, and their obedience. For though they were in the midst of their work (and you know how greedy a thing fishing is), when they heard His command, they delayed not, ... but "they forsook all and followed," ... Because such is the obedience which Christ seeks of us, as that we delay not even a moment of time.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century

Prayer, fasting, vigil and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, do not constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable means of reaching this end. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.
St. Seraphim of Sarov
The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 3, The Little Russian Philokalia Vol. 1; Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood pg. 79, 19th century

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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.

William (Bill), Evangelos, Katherine (Dr. Mary's mother) 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, 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  

 JUNE SERVICES AND ACTIVITIE

Sun. June 21st,    SUNDAY,   Orthros and Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30AM     FATHER'S
40 day Memorial for the soul of CHRIS LOIZOS, son of Helen Loizos, our longtime member of our parish family. 

May his memory be ever eternal!

Sun. June 28th,   Sunday, Orthros & Divine LIturgy, 9-11:30AM

Mon. June 29th,  Monday, Saints Peter & Paul, Orthros & Divine Liturgy, 9-11:30am

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

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