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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church Of Nashville
Publish Date: 2019-12-22
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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




Services Schedule

Saturday, Great Vespers 5 PM

Sunday Matins/Orthros 8:30 AM

Sunday Divine Liturgy 10 AM

All weekday, Evening Services, 5 PM.


Past Bulletins


Announcements

THIS WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK...

SATURDAY, December 21

  • 3:30 PM Kliros Practice
  • 5 PM Great Vespers

Please see:

Feast Of The Nativity

www.goarch.org/nativity

Worship in the Orthodox Church

www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfaith7118

 

SUNDAY, December 22

  • 8:30 AM Matins
  • 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy
  • Sunday School, Theme: Nativity of our Lord

TUESDAY, 24TH  Eve Of The Nativity Of Christ

5 PM Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil

WEDNESDAY, 25TH  CHRISTMAS DAY

9 AM Divine Liturgy of Nativity of Christ

Christ Is Born! Glorify Him!


STEWARDSHIP AND OUR CHURCH

Please keep your Stewardship up-to-date. It is time to make our 2020 Stewardship PledgesIf you are not able to commit to a general 10% Tithe, please see if you can increase your current level of giving by 10%.

"Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine" (Proverbs 3:9-10)


MESSAGES

  • Looking for prospective Parish Council members.  If you are interested, please see Father Parthenios.

FRIENDS OF THE METROPOLIS

If you have not already done so this year, please make a contribution to the Friends Of The Metropolis. To pay online, you may go to:  www.detroit.goarch.org  or mail a check to:

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Detroit

2560 Crooks Rd.

Troy, MI 48084

 (Payable to: Metropolis of Detroit)

Please, indicate our parish, St. John Chrysostom, Nashville.


Nativity Fast

"Fasting of the body is food for the soul." - St. John Chrysostom

The Nativity Fast has begun. For guidelines, please see:

www.goarch.org/ourfaith/faithandlife

 


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Weekly Calendar

  • St. John Chrysostom Church Calendar

    December 22, 2019 to January 5, 2020

    DECEMBER

    Sunday, December 22

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Monday, December 23

    6:00PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    Tuesday, December 24

    5:00PM Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil the Great

    6:45PM Communal Potluck Dinner for Nativity

    Wednesday, December 25

    8:00AM Matins (Orthros)

    9:00AM Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, December 28

    10:00AM Baptism, Walker/Turner family

    3:30PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    5:00PM Vespers (Hesperinos)

    Sunday, December 29

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    JANUARY

    Wednesday, January 1

    5:00PM Paraklesis

    Saturday, January 4

    3:30PM Choir (Kliros) Practice

    5:00PM Vespers (Hesperinos)

    Sunday, January 5

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

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Saints and Feasts

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December 22

Sunday before Nativity

On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately after the eighteenth of this month, we celebrate all those who from ages past have been well-pleasing to God, beginning from Adam even unto Joseph the Betrothed of the Most Holy Theotokos, according to genealogy, as the Evangelist Luke hath recorded historically (Luke 3:23-38); we also commemorate the Prophets and Prophetesses, and especially the Prophet Daniel and the Holy Three Children.


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Sunday before Nativity
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:9-10; 32-40

BRETHREN, by faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward to the city which has foundation, whose builder and maker is God.

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets - who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated - of whom the world was not worthy - wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.


Gospel Reading

Sunday before Nativity
The Reading is from Matthew 1:1-25

The book of the Genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa, and Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amon, and Amon the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Salathiel, and Salathiel the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit; and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel" (which means, God with us). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife, but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

The tribes of Judah and Levi were united by a fusion of their lines of descent, and that is why Matthew assigns Christ's family to the tribe of Judah. And the Apostle says, 'for our Lord has sprung out of Judah' (Heb. 7:14).
St. Ambrose of Milan
Seven Exegetical Works, 4th Century

Thus, from the tribe of Levi may be counted a heritage that is priestly and filled with holiness, while from the tribe of Judah - to which David and Solomon and the rest of the kings belonged - there shines forth the splendor of a royal descent. And so, by the testimony of the Scriptures, Christ is shown to be at once both king and priest.
St. Ambrose of Milan
Seven Exegetical Works, 4th Century

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News

Archiepiscopal Christmas 2019 Encyclical

12/20/2019

We rejoice in the Lord on this blessed Feast of the Nativity, for we proclaim in the hymns of the feast, “Heaven and earth are united today, for Christ is born!” (Great Compline) In a divine and wondrous act of His abundant grace, God has bowed the heavens until they touched the earth.
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