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Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2019-07-14
Bulletin Contents
Schedule of Services
Special Services
Community Calendar
News & Events
Assembly of Bishops News
Hymns of the Day
Kontakion for the Fallen Asleep
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
Prayer Requests
Hlyfthrs
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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

Contact Information

Priest: Father Ion Coman


fatherion@gmail.com | 408.605.0621

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

                   9:45am 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

                       9:45am Liturgy

Past Bulletins


Schedule of Services

Saturday, July 13
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, July 14
    8:30am  Matins
    9:45am  Liturgy
    12:00pm  Orthodoxy 101/ Catechism and  Sunday School
Tuesday, July 16
    9:00am  Liturgy in SALINAS
Wednesday, July 17  Saint Marina
    10:00am  Congregational Chanting
    11:00am  Book Forum: "Tears of Repentance"
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Friday, July 19
    6:00pm  Vespers and Reception in Santa Cruz
Saturday, July 20   Prophet Elias
    9:00am  Orthros + Liturgy + Reception in Santa Cruz
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, July 21
    8:30am  Matins
    9:45am  Liturgy
    12:00pm  Orthodoxy 101/ Catechism and  Sunday School
Saturday, July 27   Saint Panteleimon
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, July 28
    8:30am  Matins
    9:45am  Liturgy
    12:00pm  Orthodoxy 101/ Catechism
    12:00pm  Sunday School

See the whole calendar at http://www.stjohn-monterey.org/parish-calendar

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Special Services

The Memorial Service this Sunday is for the servant of God Tatiana, Father Ion's mother (1 year). May her memory be eternal!

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Community Calendar

July 15 & 16 - Festival Cooking: Kourambiethes  (Butter/Sugar Cookie)  
July 22 & 23 - Festival Cooking: Meat Dolmathes (Stuffed Grape Leaves)
August 30 - Festival Set up at Custom House Plaza
August 31 - September 2 - The 33rd Monterey Bay Greek Festival
September 29 - Hosting ASC for lunch after liturgy

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News & Events

ORTHODOXY 101: THE 2019 (RE)CATECHISM CLASS

The Catechism/ Orthodoxy 101 Class will meet on Sunday, July 14 to address topic #3 of the curriculum: Exercises for Soul and Body. The newly revised curriculum including audio resources can be found at our web site under Adult Education.

Our visitors and newcomers are encouraged to attend and participate. The class is also offered as RECATECHISM to all for their own benefit, for connecting with our visitors and catechumens and for strengthening our community. No asked questions are silly. Come, ask, learn, change and be transformed!


SUNDAY SCHOOL

The Sunday School and Preschool classes will meet this Sunday after the Divine Liturgy and lunch.


LITURGY IN SALINAS

The Divine Liturgy will be celebrated in Salinas on Tuesday, July 16 from 9 a.m. to strengthen the cooking team. They will begin the work in the kitchen right after the service, at 10 a.m.


FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP TO CONTINUE IN SALINAS

Our Small Group ministry will continue to meet only in Salinas for one more session in order to complete the series A HOUSE BUILT ON ROCK - A Four Week Foundational Program for Small Groups. The remaining session will take place on Tuesday, July 16from 8 p.m. in Salinas (Ledo's residence). Please sign up with Father Ion who will be leading this first cycle. Bring a friend or two!

The FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP ministry is inspired by its very successful incarnation at one of our sister churches (thank you Father Aris!) and it will be brought to us in its first cycle with the Book Forum group. The topics that will be covered make it easy to invite friends, neighbors and acquaintances as an introduction to Christian fellowship, and Orthodoxy in general. They are easy, fun and instructive, most of them requiring no prior preparation but yet enabling us to make more friends and share in FELLOWSHIP and FAITH.


BOOK FORUM: TEARS OF REPENTANCE

The Book Forum continues with the reading and discussion of the very popular book Tears of Repentance. The book can be found at our bookstore or online here. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, July 17, from 11 a.m. in Saint Nektarios Chapel. Please prepare chapters 5 and 6.

Brief commentary: Athanasios Katigas of Sykies (suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece), answered the divine call to a life of repentance after the fervent prayers of his quadriplegic childhood friend Savvas, and the sound instruction of a lay preacher, Panagiotis Panagiotides. Thanasi used the therapeutic discipline of our Church, to free himself from the nets of human passions by practicing strict obedience under his seasoned spiritual father Triantafyllos Xeros. Thanasi's love for Christ did not permit him to leave our Lord at home (as most of us do), but he took Him along on his daily route as a Cab driver. Thanasi's zeal for the word of God initiated hundreds of spiritual conversations, awakenings and transformations in his cab, with clients from all walks of life. Thanasi's genuine simplicity, a simplicity likened to the fishermen of Galilee served as pure oxygen for hundreds of souls that shared the space of his taxi, some battered and gasping for air from the oxidants of the secular lifestyle. In "The Tears of Repentance", printed multiple times in Greece, and hailed by dozens of Bishops, Thanasi relives some of the most intriguing personal and life changing encounters in his 25 year taxi career.


CONGREGATIONAL CHANTING WORKSHOP

The Congregational Chanting Workshop will meet on Wednesday, July 17 from 10 am (before Faith and Fellowship). We will work on the Doxology and on hymns for the coming Sunday services and from the Divine Liturgy. Open to all.


FESTIVAL COOKING

The following dates are set up for cooking:

July 15 & 16 - Festival Cooking: Kourabiethes  (Butter/Sugar Cookie)  
July 22 & 23 - Festival Cooking: Meat Dolmathes (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

Those who wish to volunteer, or have any questions about donating ingredients, please call Voula Saites at 831-384-3893.

Cooking begins at 9:30am except on Tuesday the 16th at 10am (after Liturgy), at the Salinas Church on 326 Park St. If you are not able to make it during the day, your help in the evening prepping and cleaning up for the next day would be a great help.


NEW ELECTRONIC STEWARDSHIP PAYMENT

We are finally able to receive stewardship payments and any donation through our Facebook page. Go to our page and select the DONATE button for a free-of-charge donation (no fee to be payed). Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/SaintJohnTheBaptistGreekOrthodoxChurch/


SERVING THESE SUNDAYS

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

July 14

Parish Council member: Euthimios Saites
Greeter: Temia Demakopoulos
Fellowship: Pink Team – Every 2nd Sunday each month

July 21

Parish Council member: Jacob Voyce
Greeter: Mary Kanalakis
Fellowship: Orange Team – Every 3rd Sunday each month


PROPHET ELIAS FEAST DAY CELEBRATION

The Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church Community is hosting the celebration of Prophet Elias.

  • Friday, July 19. 2019 - 6:00pm - Great Vespers with Artoklasia followed by light refreshments.
  • Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 9:00am - Orthros and Divine Liturgy  followed by lunch in the church hall.

For more information, see www.propheteliassc.org


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 Father Ion ahead of time.


ADULT RESORT CAMP - ST. NICHOLAS RANCH

Adult Resort Camp is at St. Nicholas Ranch, Dunlap, from Monday to Friday, September 16-20th.  Lodging and meals is included in the cost. For reservations call 559-338-2103 or for more information, call Fr. Jim Pappas at 559-233-0397.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the 3rd Mode

Let the heavens sing for joy, and let everything on earth be glad. * For with His Arm the Lord has worked power. * He trampled death under foot by means of death; * and He became the firstborn from the dead. * From the maw of Hades He delivered us; * and He granted the world His great mercy.

Apolytikion for Sun. of the Holy Fathers in the Plagal 4th Mode

Supremely blessed are You, O Christ our God. You established the holy Fathers upon the earth as beacons, and through them You have guided us all to the true Faith, O greatly merciful One, glory be to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the 2nd Mode

A protection of Christians unshamable, intercessor to our Holy Maker, unwavering, please reject not the prayerful cries of those who are in sin. Instead, come to us, for you are good; your loving help bring unto us, who are crying in faith to you: hasten to intercede and speed now to supplicate, as a protection for all time, Theotokos, for those who honor you.
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Kontakion for the Fallen Asleep

Remember, O Lord, as good, your servants, and forgive whatever sins in life they committed, for no one is without sin, except you the Mighty One; and grant rest to them who have been removed from among us.

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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. Plagal 2nd Mode. Psalm 31.11,1.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous.
Verse: Blessed are they whose transgressions have been forgiven.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to Titus 3:8-15.

Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.

All who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council
The Reading is from Matthew 5:14-19

The Lord said to his disciples, "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Every work which does not have love as its beginning and root is nothing.
St. John Chrysostom
Unknown, 4th century

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Saints and Feasts

Hlyfthrs
July 14

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council

On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for the 4th Ecumenical Council who assembled in Chalcedon in 451, to condemn Eutyches, who taught that there was only one nature, the divine, in Christ after the Incarnation, and Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who illegally received Eutyches back into communion and deposed Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had excommunicated Eutyches.

In the Slavic tradition, on this Sunday, the Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils are all commemorated.

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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)."

Eleni Saites - for patience and endurance.

Vasiliki Saites - for recovery after surgery.

Olga Drumev - for strength and recovery.

Nina and George Kadiev - George going through many serious health trials.

Maria Kastros-Taubman - for health, patience and endurance.

Sky (Sergey), Kera, Mariem and Kylie (Caliope) - for guidance, patience and peace.

Kylie and her family for health, faith and hope. 

Brodie Aguirre - for protection during his military service

Alberta - for recovery after hip reconstruction surgery

Maribelle Alvarez - for strength and recovery

And for those who are in prisons:

Constantine, Sergei and Dennis.

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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