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St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church Of Nashville
Publish Date: 2021-03-14
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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

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

Please see our online Calendar for the schedule of Services.


Past Bulletins


Announcements

ATTENDING SERVICES - PLEASE READ

You are welcome at St. John!

To reserve a place at a Service, use this link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B084EADAC2FA0FF2-stjohn

New visitors, prior to signing up, will need to request permission at: stjohnnashville@gmail.com

In attending, you may find that you prefer the smaller setting of the Services at St. John. In coming, we hope that you will embrace a spirit of support of this Church. Your contributions make it possible to keep our doors open and to continue offering the Services and Sacraments of the Church.  

If you are unable to attend after signing up, please remove your name from the Signup, so that someone else may have your place.

If you are signing up as a family, please indicate the number of attendees in parentheses, (not including infants). Children are always welcome, and are required to stay with their families during Services.

(If you do not signup, you may be asked to wait until room is available.)

Everyone attending services is required to comply with the mandated health safety measures of our Metropolis which are posted at the Front Door. This includes, mouth & nose coverings, and generally maintaining 6' physical distances between individuals/family units during services.

Please read, and be prepared to follow these guidelines as you enter the Church.

Thank you!


FINANCIAL SUPPORT = OPEN DOORS

In order to ensure the continuation of Services and Sacraments of the Church, it is necessary to have financial support of all Visitors, and Parishioners at St  John.

For budgeting purposes, we ask all parishioners to make a commitment of financial support to the Church. You may do so via email with an intended weekly/monthly pledge amount to: stjohnnashville@gmail.com.  There are also paper forms available in the Church Narthex.

Sending Financial Contributions? Please mail to:

St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church

P.O. Box 90162

Nashville, TN 37209

Thank you!


REMEMBERING THE DEPARTED

Please indicate if you would attend Liturgy for the SATURDAY OF SOULS of Great Lent. Saturday, March 20th, 9:30 AM.

You may reply via email at: stjohnnashville@gmail.com


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LENTEN CALENDAR

  • MONTHLY CALENDAR

    March 2021

    SUN
    MON
    TUE
    WED
    THU
    FRI
    SAT
    28
    1
    MAR
    2
    3
    5:30PM Small Paraklesis (Prayers of supplication in times of distress).
    4
    5
    6
    5:30PM Great Vespers
    7
    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
    8
    9
    10
    5:30PM Small Paraklesis (Prayers of supplication in times of distress).
    11
    12
    13
    5:30PM Great Vespers
    14
    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
    10:00AM Divine Liturgy
    11:15AM Abbreviated FORGIVENESS SERVICE & PRAYERS FOLLOWING LITURGY
    15
    5:30PM LENT BEGINS, GREAT CANON I
    16
    6:00PM GREAT CANON II
    17
    6:00PM GREAT CANON III
    18
    6:00PM GREAT CANON IV
    19
    6:00PM Salutations to the Theotokos
    20
    9:30AM Saturday of Souls Liturgy
    5:30PM Great Vespers
    21
    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
    10:00AM Divine Liturgy
    22
    23
    24
    6:00PM Evening Liturgy
    25
    Greek Independence Day
    12:00AM Annunciation
    26
    6:00PM Salutations to the Theotokos
    27
    5:30PM Great Vespers
    28
    8:30AM Matins (Orthros)
    10:00AM Divine Liturgy
    29
    30
    31
    6:00PM Pre-sanctified Liturgy
    1
    APR
    2
    3
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Saints and Feasts

Eden
March 14

Forgiveness Sunday

The Holy Fathers have appointed the commemoration of Adam's exile from the Paradise of delight here, on the eve of the holy Forty-day Fast, demonstrating to us not by simple words, but by actual deeds, how beneficial fasting is for man, and how harmful and destructive are insatiety and the transgressing of the divine commandments. For the first commandment that God gave to man was that of fasting, which the first-fashioned received but did not keep; and not only did they not become gods, as they had imagined, but they lost even that blessed life which they had, and they fell into corruption and death, and transmitted these and innumerable other evils to all of mankind. The God-bearing Fathers set these things before us today, that by bringing to mind what we have fallen from, and what we have suffered because of the insatiety and disobedience of the first-fashioned, we might be diligent to return again to that ancient bliss and glory by means of fasting and obedience to all the divine commands. Taking occasion from today's Gospel (Matt. 6:14-21) to begin the Fast unencumbered by enmity, we also ask forgiveness this day, first from God, then from one another and all creation.


Benedict
March 14

Benedict the Righteous of Nursia

This Saint, whose name means "blessed," was born in 480 in Nursia, a small town about seventy miles northeast of Rome. He struggled in asceticism from his youth in deserted regions, where his example drew many who desired to emulate him. Hence, he ascended Mount Cassino in Campania and built a monastery there. The Rule that he gave his monks, which was inspired by the writings of Saint John Cassian, Saint Basil the Great, and other Fathers, became a pattern for monasticism in the West; because of this, he is often called the first teacher of monks in the West. He reposed in 547.


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Archepiscopal Message

#WomensHistoryMonth Message from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros

03/01/2021

In gratitude for women’s contribution to the good of our world, on this #WomensHistoryMonth let's educate ourselves: women are the backbone of our parishes and deserve much more credit than they receive. Ι urge women of our Church to get more involved by taking leadership roles.

Archbishop Elpidophoros, Homily at the Divine Liturgy of the Publican and the Pharisee

02/21/2021

It is in a hymn of this morning’s Orthros service that for the first time this year we are introduced to the words “open to me the gates of repentance, O Giver of Life…” reminding us that we are now in the period of Triodion – the season of awareness that leads to the Great Fast of the Holy Forty Days and the Pascha of our Lord.
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Ecumenical Patriarchate News

Catechetical Homily at the Opening of Holy and Great Lent

03/10/2021

"By God’s mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch to the plenitude of the Church, May the grace and peace of our Lord and savior jesus christ, together with our prayer, blessing and forgiveness be with you all"
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