August 21
This Sunday we will have the third day Memorial Service for the servant of God Ioanna (Joan) Ioannou, wife of Ed Phong. May her memory be eternal!
Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2022-08-21
Bulletin Contents
Schedule of Services
Special Services
News & Events
Stewardship News
Assembly of Bishops News
Prayer Requests
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
General Information
- Phone:
- 408.605.0621
- Email:
- saintjohnmonterey@gmail.com
- Street Address:
- 9th and Lincoln
- Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
- Mailing Address:
- PO Box 5808
- Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA 93921
Contact Information
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
- Publish Date:
- 2022-08-14
- Publish Date:
- 2022-08-07
- Publish Date:
- 2022-07-31
- Publish Date:
- 2022-07-24
- Publish Date:
- 2022-07-17
- Publish Date:
- 2022-07-10
Schedule of Services
Note: our services are posted on Zoom unless specified otherwise.
Saturday, August 20
9:00am Young Adult Hike: Garland Ranch
5:00pm Vespers
Sunday, August 21
8:30am Matins
9:45am Liturgy
Monday, August 22
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
Tuesday, August 23
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
8:00pm Orthodoxy 101: Journey to Fullness
Wednesday, August 24
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
6:00pm Paraklesis to the Theotokos
8:00pm Book Forum: The Archbishop novel
Thursday, August 25
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
Friday, August 26
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
Saturday, August 27
5:00pm Vespers
Sunday, August 28
8:30am Matins
9:45am Liturgy
12:00pm Catechism Class
6:00pm Vespers
See the whole calendar at http://www.stjohn-monterey.org/parish-calendar
Special Services
News & Events
SAINT JOHN'S FESTIVAL
2022 GREEK FESTIVAL
A ministry lead by Thimi Saites
St John's 36th Annual Greek Festival
September, 23rd - 25th to the Custom House Plaza.
This is a BIG community effort for our church. We need EVERYONE participating in this festival more than ever before!! Our fellowship and focus are strengthened over these 3 days working together.
We will have a Taverna Night on Friday evening, 5pm to 9pm with drinks, small bites, music and dancing. Then the full festival will continue Saturday and Sunday.
We are looking for booth chairmen for Soda, Souvlaki, and BBQ and volunteers at all booths. Help is also needed for Friday morning set up and Sunday evening tear down. We will provide more details of what is entailed in these positions. In the meantime, SIGN UP HERE!!!
Please consider and talk to Thimi if you have questions.
We are excited to get started, working with you again and to continue the great success of our past festivals.
Community
FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NOW!
How can you help prepare for the festival? Don’t let just one or two people do everything, when together we can take the festival to a whole new level. There are things you can do before the festival begins to get the word out. These need to be done right now!!!
Sign up HERE. OR Contact Thimi or Mary about one or more for these items you can take on. Thank you!!
CATECHISM CLASS THIS SUNDAY
A Ministry led by Father Ion
There will be no class this Sunday. We will regroup on August 28.
The Catechism Class is invites you will join our catechumens after lunch/fellowship:
- Topic: The Heart
- Presenter: Father Ion
- Location: Saint Nektarios Chapel
- Resources (text and audio): https://www.stjohn-monterey.org/adult-education/2.-the-heart
Please pray for our catechumens.
Education
NEW: NEW BOOK, DATE, AND TIME FOR THE BOOK FORUM
A Ministry led by Kathy Shaw
![The Archbishop: A Novel (Treasures of Orthodoxy Book 1) by [Hieromonk Tihon, Savatie Bastovoi]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51MQivS9ZYL.jpg)
Join the Book Forum at a new date and time: We next meet on Wednesday evening, August 24 at 8:00pm.
We continue reading The Archbishop, A Novel , by by Hieromonk Tihon (Savatie Bastovoi). Please order your copy as soon as possible. Click here for Amazon orders.
Assignment for this week: Read through to page 85.
ABOUT THIS BOOK: A Christian Orthodox Classic.
If God exists, then why does He allow such endlessly mundane earthly suffering?
Set in Imperial Russia, 1900: Resigned, hopeless, and fighting a Church he no longer believes in, Father Paul’s crisis of faith and despair in the seeming futility of his chosen vocation opens up the powerful and emotionally engaging story of The Archbishop. Rather than abandoning his parish in search of the truth, Father Paul’s quest is a simple one: to find the true essence of Christianity.
A Modern Day Apostle to the Downtrodden -
Set against the backdrop of a harsh and cold Russian countryside along the River Volga, with its unyielding poverty and hardships, The Archbishop follows Father Paul as he searches to understand God and the parlous state of the world around him.
It is not until he meets the eponymous Archbishop that he finds revelations that do more than just answer his soul-searching questions. More than this, he finds a true shepherd determined to spread a more authentic message of Christ to the people who follow him. But even the divine truth that Father Paul finally finds in this dreary, cold hamlet where religion seems to be fading from relevance is not free from earthly machinations. Although he discovers something that will change his life forever, the realities of the world around him remain unyielding and unchanging.
Adult Education, Community
ORTHODOXY 101: A JOURNEY TO FULLNESS
A ministry led by Angela Wagoner
JOURNEY TO FULLNESS: An Introduction to the Fullness of the Original Christian Faith
The Journey to Fullness presentations and small groups discussions will meet via Zoom this Tuesday from 8:00pm.
Education
BE A FESTIVAL SPONSOR
There is so much preFestival expenses to launch a great Festival
- Property Rental Deposit
- Order food, drinks, and supplies to be delivered
- Order the Booth rentals
- Advertising
- Permits and labor deposits for Guards, Set up, water station
On and on goes the list!!!
Do you know that many years ago, we were forced to borrow from the Building Fund to accomplish this, paying the fund back after the festival?
Today, we rely on Festival Sponsors and individual donations toward these many expenses leading up to the festival.
We are asking you to help us in a couple of ways:
- Contact businesses and people you think could help us. We can provide letters for you to send out.
- Give generously to the PreFestival fund. Click on Festival Sponsor Page. OR send a check to Saint John the Baptist Church with “Festival Donation” in the description.
If you can send out Sponsor forms to businesses you frequent, let Mary K know and the form/cover letter will be emailed to you.
CHURCH UNIVERSITY
A ministry led by Father Ion
The Church University has gone through some changes. We now gather Monday-Friday from 9am for PRAYER, BIBLE AND REFLECTIONS. This is also an opportunity to connect, to embrace and to be embraced. Check the online schedule.
My the Lord bless our readers who lead us in prayer:
- Monday - Thimi
- Tuesday - Mikael
- Wednesday - Kathy
- Thursday - Mary
- Friday - Christina and Socrates
Worship and Education
EPISTLE READERS
A ministry lead by Matt Taylor
We thank God for those who take the opportunity to serve Him. Among them are our readers - as noticed during our last few Sunday services. Here they are:
Matt, Oleg, Nate, Hussam, Jacob
Please contact Matt directly if you would like to serve in this ministry.
Worship
SERVING THESE SUNDAYS and more
A ministry led by Angelina Taylor
Thank you for your effort and participation in bringing a dish to share for our fellowship coffee hour. In addition to Father's great homilies, our fellowship hour is special, unique and provides an opportunity for us to come together to enjoy each other's company, with as little stress as possible, in the preparation process. As always if you cannot participate when it is your week, kindly let Angelina know so she can make other
August 21
Parish Council: David Zajicek
Fellowship Gratitude Meal: GOLD TEAM– Thank you to Thimi, Temia, Marissa, Ita, and Angelina
August 28
Parish Council: Euthimios Saites
Greeter: 4th Sunday – Mary
Fellowship Gratitude Meal: PINK TEAM - Thank you to Rania, Mark, Nadia, Mary, and Presbytera Ana
Community
ONLINE RESOURCES
Most of our services and some ministry meetings are available online.
Witness remotely:
- Zoom with video here.
- By phone dial - add the following string to your address book: 16699006833,,9475885646#,,,,*871732#
Lighting Candles remotely is possible through our Light a Candle website. Click this link: Light a Candle
Stewardship News
FILL THE STEWARDSHIP GAP
It is not too early to draw your attention to our Stewardship Gap.
What’s that? Well, every year we agree on our Stewardship Goal as a reasonable target for us. This year the goal is $165,000. However, pledges so far are less than $142,000. We call that difference our GAP and we make an effort, before the end of the year, to have met that goal.
There are a couple ways to do that:
- Become a Steward, if you haven’t already
- Increase your Stewardship
- Make a special gift to the Stewardship Fund
Use one of the easy ways to close the GAP
- Click HERE to reach our website and give to Stewardship
Click HERE to become a Steward by downloading a Stewardship Form, or completing a form online.
We have a couple ways online to make this easier:
- Give through Facebook! All donations on our Facebook page are transferred to St. John’s. No credit card fees are charged! Visit us at FACEBOOK PAGE.
- If you would like to get a monthly invoice, or make donations automatically, indicate so on your stewardship card, or contact Mary. It can easily be set up
- You can go to our website as described above.
Our tax ID is 94-6136359
We thank those who are responding to the end of the year call to close the GAP.
Living the Gospel
Prayer Requests
Lord, Bless, strengthen, and guard, by Your grace, all those who, with love for humankind and a spirit of sacrifice, care for the sick in their homes or in hospitals.
We pray for the servants of God:
"Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on your servant (first name)."
Ed Phong - after losing his beloved wife, Joan.
Oleg Golovan, his family in Ukraine and all those suffering there.
Tom Maheras - for good health.
Thomas Stauffer - for health, recovery and endurance.
Olga Drumev - for health, recovery, and endurance.
Sophie Britton - for strength and recovery.
Eleni Saites - for patience and endurance.
Paul and Charlotte Pronoites - recovering after heart and knee surgery respectively.
For those who are in prisons: Constantine and Sergei.
In case of emergency, Father Ion is available for home visits. Please call him directly at 408.605.0621 if you would like to schedule one.
Saints and Feasts
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).
August 23
Our Holy Father Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
The Holy Hieromartyr Irenaeus was born in Asia Minor about the year 120, and in his youth was a disciple of Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Saint Irenaeus was sent to Lyons in Gaul, to be a fellow labourer of Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (celebrated June 2), who had also been a disciple Saint Polycarp. After the martyrdom of Saint Pothinus, Saint Irenaeus succeeded him as Bishop of Lyons. Besides the assaults of paganism, Irenaeus found himself compelled to do battle with many Gnostic heresies, against which he wrote his greatest work, A Refutation and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called . He was also a peace-maker within the Church. When Victor, Bishop of Rome, was prepared to excommunicate the Christians of Asia Minor for following a different tradition celebrating Pascha, Irenaeus persuaded him to moderate his zeal, and mediated peace. He made Lyons an illustrious bastion of Orthodoxy and a school of piety, and sealed his confession with martyrdom about the year 202, during the reign of Septimius Severus. He is not to be confused with Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium, also celebrated today, who was beheaded and cast into a river in 304 under Diocletian.
August 27
Poimen the Great
Saint Pimen was from Egypt and shone forth in the ascetical life in Scete in the fourth century; he was renowned for his discretion. Many of his sayings and deeds are preserved in the Paradise of the Fathers and the Sayings of the Fathers.
August 27
Phanourios the Great Martyr & Newly Appeared of Rhodes
Little is known of the holy Martyr Phanurius, except that which is depicted concerning his martyrdom on his holy icon, which was discovered in the year 1500 among the ruins of an ancient church on Rhodes, when the Moslems ruled there. Thus he is called "the Newly Revealed." The faithful pray to Saint Phanurius especially to help them recover things that have been lost, and because he has answered their prayers so often, the custom has arisen of baking a Phaneropita ("Phanurius-Cake") as a thanks-offering.
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Matins Gospel Reading
Tenth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 21:1-14
At that time, Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and He revealed Himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask Him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after He was raised from the dead. .
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. 1st 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."