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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church Of Nashville
Publish Date: 2018-10-21
Bulletin Contents
Announcements
Weekly Calendar
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Prayer Request
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Weekly Volunteers
Allsaint
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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church Of Nashville

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (615) 957-2975
  • Street Address:

  • 4602 Indiana Avenue

  • Nashville, TN 37209
  • Mailing Address:

  • P.O. Box 90162

  • Nashville, TN 37209

Contact Information

Father Parthenios Turner
Proistamenos

parthenios.turner@gmail.com | (615) 957-2975

Services Schedule

Saturday, Great Vespers 6 PM

Sunday Matins/Orthros 8:30 AM

Sunday Divine Liturgy 10 AM

Wednesday, Paraklesis 6PM

Past Bulletins


Announcements

THIS WEEKEND...

SATURDAY

NO Catechism this Saturday

  • Cleros Practice, 4:30 PM
  • Great Vespers, 6 PM

SUNDAY

Sunday School this Sunday

  • Matins, 8:30 AM
  • The Divine Liturgy, 10 AM

Servers this Sunday

*Prosphora offered by:  Hannah C.

*Usher: 

*Reader of the Epistle:  

*Trapeza Team this Sunday:  St. Cyril 


UPCOMING EVENTS...

St. John's is having a 1-day Cleros workshop on Saturday, Nov. 3rd for an introductory lesson on all things choir-related. Please contact Katherine at parissagharavi@gmail.com for more information.


TITHES AND STEWARDSHIP

Thank you to each parishioner who has made a financial commitment to Stewardship, or is increasing their offering towards fulll Stewardship.  (*Stewardship is offering a tithe, or a tenth of our income to the Church.)

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.  Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have enough room for it."  Malachi 3:10


NEEDS AND NEED-NOT...

NEEDS:

  • A small cabinet or chest of drawers for the Mothers Room.
  • A nice throw rug for the Mother's Room.
  • Find a wall hanging or two for the Mothers Room that would help to soften the sound and space.
  • Assemble small group of parents of infants to come up with a simple plan to design/rearrange the diaper changing room. (No need to purchase anything – we have paint, etc., anything that might be needed.)

NEED-not:

  • Wood Fence panels
  • Random donations of clothing etc. -Please offer them to local charities.

DIACONIA, WHICH IS OUR MINISTRY...

Emergency Preparedness

    • Are you a Nurse or Health care provider?
    • Would you consider working with other members of our Church to put together a Plan and Emergency Kits for any kind of emergency or natural disaster?
    • Are you, or would you consider training to be a First Responder?
    • If your answer is yes to at least two of any of the the above, please contact Father so we can arrange a convenient meeting time for everyone.

CHURCH SECURITY...

  • Please text Father if you will be entering or working at the Church at any time.  Father is not always at the Church, and the security cameras or alarm system may send an unwanted Alert.
  • Are you interested in participating in the security of our Church?
  • Would you be willing to meet together with a small group to implement certain measures to insure our safety both inside and outside of our Services?
  • If your answer is yes :-) to any one of the above, please contact Father to arrange a convenient meeting time as this is an important issue.

Policy regarding Confession and visitations...

As a reminder, it has been our standing policy and practice, that Father does not make private house-calls or visitations without a third adult present.  The preferred time for Confession is by appointment before Vespers on Saturday evening.  If you need to arrange a different time, a third party must be present in the Narthex.  Confession is always private and confidential.


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Weekly Calendar

  • Parish Calendar

    October 21 to November 4, 2018

    Sunday, October 21

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Wednesday, October 24

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    Saturday, October 27

    4:30PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    6:00PM Vespers (Hesperinos)

    Sunday, October 28

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Wednesday, October 31

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    Saturday, November 3

    4:30PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    6:00PM Vespers (Hesperinos)

    Sunday, November 4

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

6th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20

Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Gospel Reading

6th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 8:26-39

At that time, as Jesus arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, there met him a man from the city who had demons; for a long time he had worn no clothes and he lived not in a house but among the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me." For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him; he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters, but he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the desert.) Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him. And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. When the herdsmen saw what happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country. Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. And those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear; so he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but he sent him away, saying, "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone

Having learned the joyful proclamation of the Resurrection from the Angel, and having cast off the ancestral condemnation, the women disciples of the Lord spake to the Apostles exultantly: Death is despoiled and Christ God is risen, granting great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Hilarion the Great in the Eighth Tone

With the streams of thy tears, thou didst cultivate the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sighings from the depths,thou didst bear fruit a hundredfold in labours; and thou becamest a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O Hilarion our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.

Apolytikion for St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople in the Eighth Tone

Grace like a flame shining forth from thy mouth has illumined the universe, and disclosed to the world treasures of poverty and shown us the height of humility. And as by thine own words thou teachest us, Father John Chrysostom, so intercede with the Word, Christ our God, to save our souls.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone

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.

The translations of hymns are under copyright and used by permission. All rights reserved. These works may not be further reproduced, in print or on other websites or in any other form, without the prior written authorization of the copyright holder:

  • Resurrectional Apolytikion in Fourth Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
  • Apolytikion for Hilarion the Great in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
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    Prayer Request

    Please remember in your prayers:

    Ray, Melissa, and their children

    Katie K.

    Timothy S.

    Michael and Nancy Pittman

    Debbra Ickes

    John and Barbara Kelly

    John and Linda Marchetti


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    Saints and Feasts

    Allsaint
    October 21

    Hilarion the Great

    This Saint was born at Tabatha, near Gaza in Palestine, of pagan parents. Sent as a young man to Alexandria to be educated, he learned the Christian Faith and was baptized. While in Egypt he heard the fame of Saint Anthony the Great, and upon meeting that truly great man, the Father of monks, Saint Hilarion determined to devote himself also to the ascetical life. He returned to Gaza, when, he gave himself over to extreme fasting and unceasing prayer. Because of the miracles which he soon began to work, he found himself compelled by his growing renown to leave Gaza, to escape from the throngs of people coming to ask his prayers. In his journeys he visited Egypt, and came again with longing to the place where Saint Anthony had lived; but he was not able to remain in any one place for long, since despite all his attempts to conceal himself, the light of the grace that was in him could not be hid. After passing through Egypt and Libya, and sailing to Sicily, he came at last to Cyprus, where he ended the course of his life at the age of eighty, in the year 372.

    Iakovbro
    October 23

    James (Iakovos) the Apostle, brother of Our Lord

    According to some, this Saint was a son of Joseph the Betrothed, born of the wife that the latter had before he was betrothed to the Ever-virgin. Hence he was the brother of the Lord, Who was also thought to be the son of Joseph (Matt. 13: 55). But some say that he was a nephew of Joseph, and the son of his brother Cleopas, who was also called Alphaeus and Mary his wife, who was the first cousin of the Theotokos. But even according to this genealogy, he was still called, according to the idiom of the Scriptures, the Lord's brother because of their kinship.

    This Iakovos is called the Less (Mark 15:40) by the Evangelists to distinguish him from Iakovos, the son of Zebedee, who was called the Great. He became the first Bishop of Jerusalem, elevated to this episcopal rank by the Apostles, according to Eusebius (Eccl. Hist., Book II: 23), and was called Obliah, that is, the Just, because of his great holiness and righteousness. Having ascended the crest of the Temple on the day of the Passover at the prompting of all, he bore testimony from there concerning his belief in Jesus, and he proclaimed with a great voice that Jesus sits at the right hand of the great power of God and shall come again upon the clouds of heaven. On hearing this testimony, many of those present cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David." But the Scribes and Pharisees cried, "So, even the just one hath been led astray," and at the command of Ananias the high priest, the Apostle was cast down headlong from thence, then was stoned, and while he prayed for his slayers, his head was crushed by the wooden club wielded by a certain scribe. The first of the Catholic (General) Epistles written to the Jews in the Diaspora who believed in Christ was written by this Iakovos.

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    Wisdom of the Fathers

    For if we, going about on the earth which is familiar and well known to us, being encompassed with a body, when we are journeying in a strange road, know not which way to go unless we have some one to lead us; how should the soul, being rent away from the body, and having gone out from all her accustomed region, know where to walk without one to show her the way?
    St. John Chrysostom
    Homily 28 on Matthew 8, 4th Century

    Some say, 'Why do they [demons] possess people?' I answer those who wish to have this explained that the reason of these things is very deep. Somewhere one of His saints addressed God by saying, 'Your judgments are a vast abyss.' As long as we bear this in mind, we will perhaps not miss the mark.
    St. Cyril of Alexandria
    Commentary on Luke, Homily 44. (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture; vol 3: Luke, Intervarsity Press)

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