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
Note: our services are posted on Zoom unless specified otherwise.
Friday, September 23 Greek Festival / Conception of Saint John the Baptist
8:30am Orthros + Liturgy IN SALINAS
Saturday, September 24 Greek Festival
5:00pm Vespers - CANCELLED
Sunday, September 25 Greek Festival
8:00am Matins NOTE CHANGE IN TIME
9:00am Liturgy - Lunch/ Fellowship at the festival site NOTE CHANGE IN TIME
Monday, September 26 Falling Asleep of Saint John the Theologian
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
Tuesday, September 27
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
6:00pm Orthodox Initiatives PC Coaching
8:00pm Orthodoxy 101: Journey to Fullness - CANCELLED
Wednesday, September 28
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
6:00pm Paraklesis to the Theotokos - CANCELLED
8:00pm Book Forum
Thursday, September 29 Saint Kyriakos of Palestine
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
Friday, September 30
9:00am ONLINE: Church University - Prayer, Bible, Reflections
Saturday, October 1
5:00pm Vespers
Sunday, October 2
8:30am Matins
9:45am Liturgy, Lunch, Fellowship
12:00pm Catechism Class
A ministry lead by Thimi Saites
Volunteers are still needed.
If you are available to volunteer, please go to the Festival and ask Mary at the Gyro booth, or Thimi where you can help.
One of the biggest ways to help is to stay Sunday after 3 pm to clear the Plaza. We will work until it is done and your help will help complete the job much sooner. Chairs and tables must be folded and moved for pickup; boxes must be loaded to move to the church; wiping down equipment and emptying oil is needed; booth tents must be empty so they can be collapsed and removed.
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 need you to help lighten the effort, participate, spread the word, and get as many people visiting the festival as possible. You can make a difference on the success and enjoyment our guests will experience.
We are excited to get started, working with you again and to continue the great success of our past festivals.
Community
A Ministry led by Father Ion
There will be no class this Sunday. We will regroup on the Sunday after Labor Day.
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
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, October 5 at 8:00pm.
Please prepare with Ch. 10-13.
NOTE: Wed, Sept. 28 is CANCELLED. Please join us the following week.
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.
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.
Adult Education, Community
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 on Tuesday October 4 from 8:00pm. There will be no class the Tuesday after the festival.
Education
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
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
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 arrangements.
September 25 – FESTIVAL WEEKEND
Parish Council: Euthimios Saites
Greeter: 4th Sunday – Mary Kanalakis
Fellowship Gratitude Meal: ORANGE TEAM - Thank you to Vanta, Mimi M., Tana, and Aileen – See Angelina for special instructions
October 2
Parish Council: Mary Kanalakis
Greeter: 1st Sunday - Marina & Miriam Ibrahim
Fellowship Gratitude Meal: GOLD TEAM – Thank you to Thimi, Temia, Marissa, Ita, and Angelina
Community
A Ministry lead by Despina Hatton and sponsored by our Stewardship
We are blessed to offer dinner and hospitality to the ladies on Tuesday October 4, 4:00-6pm. Please sign up if you would like to take this opportunity to serve.
Community
A Ministry Lead by Despina Hatton
Join us on the second Tuesday of each month, 9:00 -10:30am. Our next turn is on
October 11
Location: St Francis Xavier Catholic Church
1475 La Salle Ave, Seaside, CA 93955
Community
Save the Date!!
Stewardship Appreciation Dinner
Saturday, October 29, 2022
for the entire family.
Our annual event has become very popular. It is a time to celebrate our many blessings, recognize parishioners that have inspired us in being good stewards of our time, talent and treasure, and enjoy a special time of fellowship.
More details to be provided. Just reserve this date on your calendar. you won't want to miss it.
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)."
The Anton family, Paul Pronoites, Ed Phong and Connie Stauffer - after losing their beloved mother and spouses.
Oleg Golovan, his family in Ukraine and all those suffering there.
Tom Maheras - for good health.
Olga Drumev - for health, recovery, and endurance.
Sophie Britton - for strength and recovery.
Eleni Saites - for patience and endurance.
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.
Our righteous Mother Euphrosyne, who lived during the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger (408-450), was the daughter of Paphnutius of Egypt. Forsaking her father and his wealth, she renamed herself Smaragdus, and pretending to be a eunuch of the imperial palace, she dressed herself as a man and entered a monastery of men where her identity remained unknown until her repose thirty-eight years later.
This Apostle was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the elder. First a fisherman by trade, he became an Apostle and the beloved Disciple of Christ. Only he of all the Disciples followed Him even to the Cross, and was entrusted with the care of our Saviour's Mother, as it were another son to her, and a brother of Christ the Teacher. After this, he preached throughout Asia Minor, especially in Ephesus. When the second persecution against the Christians began in the year 96 during the reign of Domitian, he was taken in bonds to Rome, and there was cast into a vat filled to the brim with boiling oil. Coming forth therefrom unharmed, he was exiled to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. Returning again to Ephesus after the death of the tyrant, he wrote his Gospel (after the other Evangelists had already written theirs) and his three Catholic Epistles. In all, he lived ninety-five years and fell asleep in the Lord during the reign of Trajan in the year 100. He was called Theologian because he loftily expounded in his Gospel the theology of the inexpressible and eternal birth of the Son and Word of God the Father. It is for this cause that an eagle-a symbol of the Holy Spirit, as Saint Irenaeus says-is depicted in his icon, for this was one of the four symbolic living creatures that the Prophet Ezekiel saw (Ezek. 1:10).
This Saint was born in Corinth in 448. He went to Palestine to the Lavra of Euthymius the Great, but because of his youth was sent by Saint Euthymius to Saint Gerasimus; after the death of Saint Gerasimus he returned to the Lavra of Saint Euthymius. Later he took on a more rigorous life of asceticism in the wilderness of Natoufa, where there was nothing to eat except the exceedingly bitter wild herb called squills, which, however, through his prayers, God made sweet for him and his disciple. He lived 107 years and reposed in the year 555.
The Feast of the Protection commemorates the appearance of the most holy Theotokos in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in the tenth century, as recorded in the life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ's sake. While the multitudes of the faithful were gathered in church, Epiphanius, the friend of Saint Andrew, through the Saint's prayers, beheld the Virgin Mary above the faithful and spreading out her veil over them, signifying her unceasing protection of all Christians. Because of this we keep a yearly feast of gratitude, imploring our Lady never to cease sheltering us in her mighty prayers.
The Feast is celebrated on October 1. In the 1950s, the Church of Greece began to observe the Feast on October 28.
Saint Romanos flourished during the reign of Anastasius (491-518). He was from Emesa of Syria, and apparently was born of Jewish parents, for a hymn written in his honour in Greek says he was "of Hebrew stock," and it has furthermore been noted that he uses many Semitic idioms in his writings. He was baptized an Orthodox Christian, and at some time became a deacon in the Church of Beirut. He was the first composer of the kontakia, the foremost of which is that of the feast of Christ's Nativity, On this day the Virgin .... In composing many of his kontakia. Saint Romanos was inspired by the hymns of Saint Ephraim of Syria.
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 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 of the Lord Jesus. 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? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into 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.
Prokeimenon. Plagal 2nd Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:6-15.
Brethren, it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
1st Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 5:1-11
At that time, as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets." And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." For he was astonished, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men." And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.