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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church Of Nashville
Publish Date: 2018-12-16
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Announcements
Weekly Calendar
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Prayer Request
Saints and Feasts
Message from Archbishop Demetrios
Forefathers
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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 5:30 PM

Sunday Matins/Orthros 8:30 AM

Sunday Divine Liturgy 10 AM

Wednesday Paraklesis, and all weekday evening services, 6 PM

Past Bulletins


Announcements

THIS WEEKEND...

SATURDAY

  • Bookstore Open House and Christmas Mart, 10-3 pm
  • Catechism this Saturday, 4:15 PM 
  • Great Vespers, 5:30 PM 
  • Confession by appointment before/after Vespers 

SUNDAY

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

Policy regarding Confession and visitations...

* A Reminder: It has been our long-standing policy and practice that during Confession, House-calls, and Visitations, Father requires that a third adult to be present while still maintaining the appropriate privacy during Confession.  It is also our policy that during Confession we are not asked to reveal details of a personal or private nature.  It is possible to discuss issues that we may be struggling with, but the real intent is to try and identify the motivating factors that cause us to err, and then to seek reconciliation. This may also involve the recomendation to seek appropriate professional help.

If you would simply like to meet with Father for a visit outside of confession, a preffered place would be a local coffee shop :-)

For more information on the Sacrament of Confession, please see:  https://www.goarch.org/-/preparation-for-holy-confession


LOOKING AHEAD...

 For more information on the Nativity of Christ, please see this link: https://www.goarch.org/en/nativity  

 

 *Next Parish Council Meeting, Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 6:30 PM.

Parish Council Meetings are open meetings for Church members. Questions regarding Agenda, please contact Erik Lybeck, P.C. Chairman


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


Cleaning our Church

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Naomi Spaulding has volunteered to coordinate a Cleaning Schedule for the Fellowship Hall.  If we have enough volunteers, each person/family would have a scheduled week every couple of months, so one could plan in advance.

*Naomi says...

It would also be nice to do the cleaning with another family, for safety reasons, for fellowship, and for getting the work done faster. So, I am creating a cleaning schedule. The more people who volunteer, the more the burden will be shared. I will try to schedule two families/volunteers together, and when it's your week, you can chose any day before Sunday to do the cleaning, so that it fits into your plans. I will also try to have checklists so you will know what needs to be done, and cleaning supplies. 

If anyone has any suggestions for cleaning that needs to be done, how to organize things, or issues they have when cleaning, please email me and let me know. Please email me with your phone number and email, if you're willing to help. And finally, please let me know if you have any restrictions, such as only being able to come early in the month, or anything else. I want to make this as convenient as possible for everyone!

Thank you in advance for your help,

Naomi Spaulding

 


DIACONIA, WHICH IS OUR MINISTRY...

Emergency Preparedness

    • Candice Zamora will be coordinating our Emergency Preparedness service.  Please contact her for more information. 
    • We are also looking for someone to find training to be First Responders in the event of an emergency.

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Weekly Calendar

  • Parish Calendar

    December 16 to December 30, 2018

    Sunday, December 16

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Wednesday, December 19

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    Saturday, December 22

    4:00PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    5:30PM Vespers (Hesperinos)

    Sunday, December 23

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Monday, December 24

    6:00PM Nativity Liturgy

    Tuesday, December 25

    The Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ

    Wednesday, December 26

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    Saturday, December 29

    4:00PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    5:30PM Vespers (Hesperinos)

    Sunday, December 30

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

11th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 3:4-11

Brethren, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.

Gospel Reading

11th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 14:16-24

The Lord said this parable: "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; and at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.' But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.' And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and there is still room.' And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet. For many are called, but few are chosen.'"

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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 11th Sun. of Luke in the Second Tone

By faith didst Thou justify the Forefathers, when through them Thou didst betroth Thyself aforetime to the Church from among the nations. The Saints boast in glory that from their seed there is a glorious fruit, even she that bare Thee seedlessly. By their prayers, O Christ God, save our souls.

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 Third Tone

On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young Child Who * before the ages is God.

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 11th Sun. of Luke in the Second Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
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    Prayer Request

    Prayers for Health and Salvation

    Ray, Melissa, Sam, and Loa, Katie K., Timothy S., Michael and Nancy Pittman, Debbra Ickes, John and Barbara Kelly, John and Linda Marchetti, Cerrito

    *Please send Father a note with any names that you would like to have included in this prayer list. 

     


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    Saints and Feasts

    Forefathers
    December 16

    11th Sunday of Luke

    On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we commemorate Christ's forefathers according to the flesh, both those that came before the Law, and those that lived after the giving of the Law.

    Special commemoration is made of the Patriarch Abraham, to whom the promise was first given, when God said to him, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 22:18). This promise was given some two thousand years before Christ, when Abraham was seventy-five years of age. God called him and commanded him to forsake his country, parents, and kinsmen, and to depart to the land of the Canaanites. When he arrived there, God told him, "I will give this land to thy seed" (Gen. 12:7); for this cause, that land was called the "Promised Land," which later became the country of the Hebrew people, and which is also called Palestine by the historians. There, after the passage of twenty-four years, Abraham received God's law concerning circumcision. In the one hundredth year of his life, when Sarah was in her ninetieth year, they became the parents of Isaac. Having lived 175 years altogether, he reposed in peace, a venerable elder full of days.

    Allsaint
    December 16

    The Holy Prophet Aggaeus (Haggai)

    The Prophet Aggaeus, whose name means "festive," was born in Babylon at the time of the captivity Of the Jews. He began to prophesy in Jerusalem after their return thereto, and to admonish the people to rebuild the Temple, in the days of Zorobabel, the second year of the reign of Darius Hystaspes, King of Persia, about the year 520 before Christ. His prophecy, divided into two chapters, is ranked tenth among the minor Prophets.

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