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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church Of Nashville
Publish Date: 2020-05-24
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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

Following the Hierarchical and Metropolitan civil guidelines, at the present time the Services of the Church can be viewed and participated in, on-line only.  Services will be live-streamed via our Facebook page: St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Nashville, TN We are working on other means of livestreaming our services. We appreciate your patience.


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CURRENT SERVICES

Services are Livestreamed via our Facebook page: St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Nashville, TN

Following the Hierarchical and Metropolitan civil guidelines, at the present time, Service participation is Online only.

*When the telephone became a means of communicating, many people shunned it as an aberration (deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal).  However, now that we have accepted it, we often feel very connected with another person by talking 'on the phone' when we are not able to be physically present with them.  This does not mean that in the future, we can refrain from coming to church when we are able.  But rather, that under the present conditions, we can indeed very much feel connected in the participation of the Divine Services. 'Come and see'... and join us!

Christ is Risen!


OUR 'LITTLE CHURCH'

Our home is the 'Little Church'.  If you are able to watch the services, light your candles, light some incense, listen to the hymns of the day, and we will be celebrating together.  In some homes people dress as they would when they come to Church, and stand or sit in front of their Icons.  In this way we invite the Lord to come into our home.  During the Paschal 40 Day period, we can sing the Paschal Hymn together.  We Greet each other with the Paschal greeting, "Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!" As we celebrate the Divine Liturgy, we hold each other in our hearts and prayers, and ask the Lord to be merciful to us and bless us, one and all!

Resources, Article: Sundays After Pascha: www.goarch.org/pentecostarion

Whatever household yours may be, "let us call each other Brothers... let us Greet each other joyously..."

Christ is Risen!

Ha Masheeha houh kam! (Hebrew)

Cristo ha resucitado! (Spanish)

Jesu Kristi ebiliwo! (Nigerian)

Kristo gesso! (Korean)

Khristus zmartvikstau! (Polish)

Cristos a inviat! (Romanian)

Khristos voskrese! (Russian)

Kristo'pastithaha! (Sanskrit)

Kristo amefufukka! (Swahili)

Hristos diril-di! (Turkish)

Kristo ajukkide! (Ugandan)

Khristos Voskres! (Ukranian) 


MAILING ADDRESS FOR OUR WEEKLY OFFERING

Beloved in Christ,

Christ is risen!
 
Due to the current state of our Services being Online only, we are not able to receive contributions in person at Sunday Liturgy.
 
To facilitate a convenient method of sending your contribution, if you have not already done so, please contact your bank and request an automatic weekly/monthly check in the amount you wish to give, to be mailed directly from your bank to:
St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church, P.O. Box 90162, Nashville, TN 37209.
 
This is usually a free service of the bank, and is the preferred bookkeeping method of payment.
 

Please note that the work of the Church is moving forward with new potentials for outreach.  We are reducing our expenses where possible with a small reduction in the cost of utilities.

Remembering each and everyone of you in our prayers during this time.
With love in Christ,
For the Parish Council,
Fr. Parthenios Turner

LIGHT A CANDLE

Along with your weekly/monthly offering, you may include a list of names to be commemorated at the Sunday Liturgy.  We will light a candle for you for each list of names submitted. You will be able to see your candle lit livestream if you wish.

May the Lord be gracious to us and bless us, and shine the light of His countenance upon us, and have mercy on us, and drive away every malady and despondency!


STEWARDSHIP AND OUR CHURCH

"Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the firstfruits of your increase..." (Proverbs 3:9-10)

If you have not made a Stewardship commitment for this year, please make your 2020 Stewardship now.


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.


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Weekly Calendar

  • St. John Chrysostom Church Calendar

    May 24 to June 7, 2020

    Sunday, May 24

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros) Online only

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy (Currently, Online only)

    Wednesday, May 27

    Leave-taking of Pascha

    Thursday, May 28

    HOLY ASCENSION

    Saturday, May 30

    5:30PM Great Vespers (Presently only Online at our Facebook page, St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Nashville,TN)

    Sunday, May 31

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros) Online only

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy (Currently, Online only)

    Wednesday, June 3

    5:30PM Paraklesis, Prayers of supplication in times of distress.

    5:30PM Paraklesis, Prayers of supplication in times of distress.

    6:00PM Paraklesis, Prayers of supplication in times of distress.

    Saturday, June 6

    5:30PM Great Vespers (Presently only Online at our Facebook page, St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Nashville,TN)

    Sunday, June 7

    8:30AM Matins (Orthros) Online only

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy (Currently, Online only)

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Saints and Feasts

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May 24

Meletios the Commander & his Companion Martyrs


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May 24

Sunday of the Blind Man

The Lord Jesus was coming from the Temple on the Sabbath, when, while walking in the way, He saw the blind man mentioned in today's Gospel. This man had been born thus from his mother's womb, that is, he had been born without eyes (see Saint John Chrysostom, Homily LVI on Matthew; Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book V:15; and the second Exorcism of Saint Basil the Great). When the disciples saw this, they asked their Teacher, "Who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" They asked this because when the Lord had healed the paralytic at the Sheep's Pool, He had told him, "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14); so they wondered, if sickness was caused by sin, what sin could have been the cause of his being born without eyes. But the Lord answered that this was for the glory of God. Then the God-man spat on the ground and made clay with the spittle. He anointed the eyes of the blind man and said to him, "Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam." Siloam (which means "sent") was a well-known spring in Jerusalem used by the inhabitants for its waters, which flowed to the eastern side of the city and collected in a large pool called "the Pool of Siloam."

Therefore, the Saviour sent the blind man to this pool that he might wash his eyes, which had been anointed with the clay-not that the pool's water had such power, but that the faith and obedience of the one sent might be made manifest, and that the miracle might become more remarkable and known to all, and leave no room for doubt. Thus, the blind man believed in Jesus' words, obeyed His command, went and washed himself, and returned, no longer blind, but having eyes and seeing. This was the greatest miracle that our Lord had yet worked; as the man healed of his blindness himself testified, "Since time began, never was it heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind," although the Lord had already healed the blind eyes of many. Because he now had eyes, some even doubted that he was the same person (John 9:8-9); and it was still lively in their remembrance when Christ came to the tomb of Lazarus, for they said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused that even this man should not have died?" Saint John Chrysostom gives a thorough and brilliant exposition of our Lord's meeting with the woman of Samaria, the healing of the paralytic, and the miracle of the blind man in his commentaries on the Gospel of Saint John.


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May 24

Symeon the Stylite of the Mountain

Saint Symeon, the "New Stylite," was born in Antioch; John his father was from Edessa, and Martha his mother was from Antioch. From his childhood he was under the special guidance of Saint John the Baptist and adopted an extremely ascetical way of life. He became a monk as a young man, and after living in the monastery for a while he ascended upon a pillar, and abode upon it for eighteen years. Then he came to Wondrous Mountain, and lived in a dry and rocky place, where after ten years he mounted another pillar, upon which he lived in great hardship for forty-five years, working many miracles and being counted worthy of divine revelations. He reposed in 595, at the age of eighty-five years, seventy-nine of which he had passed in asceticism.


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Archepiscopal Message

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Liturgy of Ss. Constantine & Helen

05/21/2020

For thus, the City of Constantine remains to this day. Our Constantinople, our Christian Capital, is redolent still with the fragrance of sanctity and the glory of ages past. There have been inexpressible peaks, and there have dark valleys through the centuries, but the constant in Constantinople has always been the divine, God-appointed mission of the Great Church of Christ to lead the Faithful to the Kingdom of Heaven.

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Vespers of Ss. Constantine & Helen

05/21/2020

This evening we gather again in this beloved Cathedral, to celebrate your patrons, the great Constantine and his pious mother, Helen, whose lives are so central to the history of our Church. We remember them as Equals-to-the-Apostles – Ἰσαπόστολοι – whose manifold gifts to the Church speak powerfully across the centuries.

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros Homily for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

05/17/2020

Today, we come together virtually once again, to celebrate the Risen Christ and observe two important commemorations: the Annual AHEPA Sunday and the Pontian Genocide remembrance. Both of these observances call to mind that we are a community with a past, and a community with a future. The past must not be forgotten, and how we handle the future is now more important than ever.
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