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Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2018-09-02
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Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 408.605.0621
  • Street Address:

  • 9th and Lincoln

  • Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
  • Mailing Address:

  • PO Box 5808 Carmel by the Sea

  • Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA 93921


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Services Schedule

 

Weekend services: the weekend schedule is fixed for most of the year. The services take place in Carmel-by-the-Sea, at All Saints Church, lower level, 9th and Lincoln.

Saturdays: 5:00pm Vespers

Sundays:   8:30am Matins

                   9:30am Liturgy

Week-day services: during the week we may celebrate the major feast days of the Church either in Carmel or in Salinas. Please check the calendar! The schedule pattern is:

Wednesdays:  6:00pm Paraklesis

Eve of feasts: 6:00pm Vespers

Feast days:    8:30am Matins

                       9:30am Liturgy


Past Bulletins


Schedule of Services

Saturday, September 1   Greek Festival /  New Ecclesiastical Year
    5:00pm  Vespers at Little Church at the Festival
Sunday, September 2   Greek Festival
    7:30am  Orthros (Matins)
    8:30am  Liturgy 
    10:30am Memorial Service for George Elliott at the Festival site

Monday, September 3   Greek Festival /  Saint Hariton
Tuesday, September 4
    12:00pm  Akathist Service
    1:00pm  Book Discussion: "The Struggle for Virtue"
Wednesday, September 5
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
    7:00pm  Dinner, Lecture and Discussion Time
Friday, September 7
    6:00pm  Vespers
Saturday, September 8   Nativity of the Theotokos
    8:30am  Orthros + Liturgy
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, September 9   Saints Joachim & Anna
    8:30am  Orthros (Matins)
    9:30am  Liturgy
    12:00pm  Sunday School
Tuesday, September 11
    12:00pm  Akathist Service
    1:00pm  Book Discussion: "The Struggle for Virtue"
Wednesday, September 12
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
    7:00pm  Dinner, Lecture and Discussion Time
Thursday, September 13
    6:00pm  Vespers
Friday, September 14   Exaltation of the Holy Cross
    8:30am  Orthros + Liturgy
Saturday, September 15   Saint Nikitas /  Saint Visarion
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, September 16
    8:30am  Orthros (Matins)
    9:30am  Liturgy
  12:00pm  Sunday School

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Community Calendar

September 1-3 - Saint John's Greek Festival, Monterey
September 30 - Lunch with All Saints Church
October 13 - Philoptochos Fall General Meeting
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Prayer Requests

Please remember in your prayers the following who are in need.

"Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on your servant (first name)."

+Alex and his parents Paul and Sasha, Sheila Doyle-Rickenbacker, Christina and newborn baby Eleanor, Maria Kastros-Taubman, Tiffany Yant, Helen Saites, Sophie Britton, Jeanny Elliott, Nina and George Kadiev and their daughter Annie, Christina Pressas, Gus Moutos, Jonah and his parents Nick and Sarah Ledo and Father Mark Vinas.

Father Ion is available for home visits. Please call him directly at 408.605.0621 if you would like to schedule one.

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Special Services

The Memorial Service today is for Servant of God George Elliott (1 year). The service will take place at the Festival from 10:30am, exactly one year from his departure, at the booth where George served over the years.

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News & Events

THE MONTEREY GREEK FESTIVAL

Our festival will take place this weekend. If you have not signed up for service, please conatact Thimi directly by text or phone at (916) 267-4941 and let him know about your availability. More physical work is needed on Friday (setup) and Monday afternoon (tear down). May God bless our labor and its fruits!


WELCOMING FESTIVAL GUESTS and ORTHODOXY 101

The festival will again proclaim loudly to the world COME AND SEE! On the Sunday after the festival (September 9) we will welcome our guests from the festival who expressed interest in coming and seeing, in learning more about our church. This is a crucial step in concluding our festival outreach. We will make an extra effort to offer hospitality and to introduce the Orthodox Faith to them. The Orthodoxy 101 class from 12 noon is for our guest and for ourselves. The class will meet in Saint Nektarios Chapel.


NEW: THE STRUGGLE FOR VIRTUE - BOOK FORUM

We are reading and discussing "The Struggle for Virtue: Asceticism in a Modern Secular Society" book by Archbishop Averky (Taushev).  The book is available at our bookstore and from Amazon.com. The text offers wisdom, scriptural support, practical directions and it is very enriching. It's a short book and we will be reading 3 chapters each week.

Our next group will meet on Tuesday, September 4, after the Akathist service (12 noon). Even if you haven't read the chapters, you are welcome to join in the discussion. Bring your own lunch and join us! Prepare Chapters 2-4.


SERVING THESE SUNDAYS

Serving this Sunday in church and at the fellowship hour following Liturgy:


September 2
   Parish Council: Corkey Balcom
   Welcoming: Brian Balcom
   Fellowship: Team Gold – always 1st Sunday of the month. Limited coffee and breakfast rolls for newcomers. We have Greek Festival at the Custom House Plaza beginning at 11 am.

September 9
   Parish Council: Fotis Papoulias
   Welcoming: Hussam Ibrahim
   Fellowship: Team Pink – always 2nd Sunday of the month.


CONFESSIONS AT SAINT JOHN’S

Father Ion is available to hear confessions after services and also by appointment at other times. If you need to do confession, please contact him ahead of time.


CLEAN-UP DAYS WITH ALL SAINTS CHURCH

Our brethren from All Saints Church will gather for cleaning once a month as listed below. We were invited to participate and take care of the space that we use and offer support in other areas as needed. Let us join the effort with gratitude and joy on these following Saturdays from 10:30am: September 8 / October 6 / November 10 /December 8.


GALA TO CELEBRATE METROPOLIS MINISTRIES

The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco will have a Gala to Celebrate Metropolis Ministries on Saturday, October 13 at Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa in Huntington Beach, honoring Dr. James and Virginia Kallins. Proceeds will support ongoing development and expansion of Metropolis ministries including Family Wellness, Missions and Evangelism, Clergy continuing Education, Church Music and Youth Ministry. Tickets are $250 each at 415-753-3075. Hotel accommodations are available. More information is at www.sanfran.goarch.org.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal 1st Mode

Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the Spirit, and from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and let us sing His praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to ascend the Cross in the flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up those who had died, * by His glorious Resurrection.

Apolytikion for Martyr Mammas in the 4th Mode

Your Martyr, O Lord, was worthily awarded by You * the crown of incorruption, in that he contested for You our immortal God. * Since he possessed Your power, he defeated the tyrants, * dashing the demons' powerless displays of defiance. * O Christ God, at his fervent entreaties, save our souls.

Seasonal Kontakion in the 4th Mode

Both Joachim and Anna from their sterility's stigma, and Adam and Eve from their mortality's ruin have been set free, O immaculate Maid, by your holy nativity. For this do your people hold celebration, redeemed from the guilt of transgression as they cry to you, "The barren one bears the Theotokos, the nourisher of our Life."
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Third Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:9-20

When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal 1st Mode. Psalm 11.7,1.
You, O Lord, shall keep us and preserve us.
Verse: Save me, O Lord, for the godly man has failed.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 1:21-24; 2:1-4.

Brethren, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

But I call God to witness against me - it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.


Gospel Reading

14th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 22:2-14

The Lord said this parable, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.' But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.' And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen."


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Wisdom of the Fathers

For unto Christ he would pass all on, saying, "He must increase, I must decrease;" by the Son Himself again, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you;" ... But not by words only, but also by actions did He bid them.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 69 on Matthew 22, 4th Century

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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
September 02

14th Sunday of Matthew


Allsaint
September 02

Mammas the Martyr

Saint Mammas was from Gangra of Paphlagonia. He was born in prison, where his parents were suffering for Christ's sake and ended their lives. He was named Mammas because, after he had long remained without speaking, he addressed his foster mother Ammia as "mamma." He contested for Christ about the year 275.


Moses
September 04

Moses the Prophet & Godseer

The Prophet Moses-whose name means "one who draws forth," or "is drawn from," that is, from the water-was the pinnacle of the lovers of wisdom, the supremely wise lawgiver, the most ancient historian of all. He was of the tribe of Levi, the son of Amram and Jochabed (Num. 26:59). He was born in Egypt in the seventeenth century before Christ. While yet a babe of three months, he was placed in a basket made of papyrus and covered with pitch, and cast into the streams of the Nile for fear of Pharaoh's decree to the mid-wives of the Hebrews, that all the male children of the Hebrews be put to death. He was taken up from the river by Pharaoh's daughter, became her adopted son, and was reared and dwelt in the King's palace for forty years. Afterward, when he was some sixty years old, he fled to Madian, where, on Mount Horeb, he saw the vision of the burning bush. Thus he was ordained by God to lead Israel and bring it out of the land of Egypt. He led Israel through the Red Sea as it were dry land and governed the people for forty years. He wrought many signs and wonders, and wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, which are called the Pentateuch. When he reached the land of Moab, he ascended Mount Nabau, on the peak called Phasga, and there, by divine command, he reposed in the sixteenth century before Christ, having lived for some 120 years. The first two Odes of the Old Testament, "Let us sing to the Lord" and "Attend, O heaven, and I will speak," were written by him. Of these hymns, the first was chanted by the shore of the Red Sea as soon as the Israelites had crossed it; the second, in the land of Moab, a few days before his repose. The Holy High Priest Aaron was the elder brother of the Holy Prophet Moses. He was appointed by God to serve as the spokesman of Moses before the people, and also before Pharaoh, in Egypt. Afterwards, in the wilderness, he was called to the ministry of the high priesthood, as narrated in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers in the Old Testament. The name Aaron means "enlightened."


Zacharias
September 05

Holy Prophet Zacharias, Father of the Venerable Forerunner

According to the opinion of many Fathers of the Church, based on an ancient tradition, this is the Zacharias whom, as our Lord said, the Jews slew between the temple and the altar (Matt. 23:35), first, because even after the Virgin Mary gave birth, he continued to refer to her as virgin and number her among the virgins; second, because Zacharias' son John was not found during the slaughter of the Innocents, since the elderly Elizabeth had taken him and carefully hid him while he was yet an infant, in an unnamed place somewhere in the desert, where, according to the Evangelist, "the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel" (Luke 1:80). When the child was not found, his father was slain by Herod's command.


Allsaint
September 07

Kassiani the Hymnographer


Vmnativt
September 08

The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

According to the ancient tradition of the Church, the Theotokos was born of barren and aged parents, Joachim and Anna, about the year 16 or 17 before the birth of Christ. Joachim was descended from the royal line of David, of the tribe of Judah. Anna was of the priestly tribe of Levi, a daughter of the priest Matthan and Mary, his wife.


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