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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2021-01-10
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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (617) 327-1983
  • Fax:
  • (617) 327-9841
  • Street Address:

  • 39 Belgrade Avenue

  • Roslindale, MA 02131


Past Bulletins


Announcements

 

SERVICE SCHEDULE 

 

Sun. 1-10

  • 1-year memorial for Panagiota (Toula) Eliopoulos
  • 1-year memorial for Sophia Papdopoulos & 10-year memorial for Polykarpos
    Papadopoulos
  • Philoptochos Vasilopita

Fri. 1-15

  • 3-6pm: Confessions
  • 6pm: Paraklesis to the Most Holy
    Theotokos

Sun. 1-17

  • 40-day memorial for Stylianos Kahiouteas
  • 1-year memorial for George Papakonstantinou

ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙΩΝ

Κυρ. 10-1

  • Ἐτήσιον Μνημόσυνον Παναγιώτας (Τούλας) Ἠλιοπούλου
  • Ἐτήσιον Μνημόσυνον Σοφίας
    Παπαδοπούλου & 10-ετες Μνημόσυνον Πολυκάρπου Παπαδοπούλου
  • Βασιλόπιτα Φιλοπτώχου

Παρ. 15-1

  • 3-6μμ: Ἐξομολογήσεις
  • 6μμ: Παράκλησις εἰς τὴν Ὑπεραγίαν
    Θεοτόκον

Κυρ. 17-1

  • 40-ήμερον μνημόσυνον Στυλιανοῦ
    Καχιουτέα
  • Ἐτήσιον Μνημόσυνον Γεωργίου
    Παπακωνσταντίνου

 

 

SEATING PROTOCOL:

The parish council members are present to assist you in finding the best place to be seated.  Before entering the nave let the attendant know:
1. If you are arriving for a memorial service - they will direct you to the reserved area
2. How many people are in your family/group
3. If you are looking for a family member already seated, they will assist in finding them for you.
All measures ensure there is respectful movement while maintaining safety protocols. 

ΠΡΩΤΟΚΟΛΛΟΝ ΔΙΑΝΟΜΗΣ ΚΑΘIΣΜΑΤΩΝ:

Τὰ μέλη τοῦ διοικητικοῦ συμβουλίου (οἱ ἐπίτροποι) εἶναι διαθέσιμοι νὰ σᾶς βοηθήσουν νὰ βρεῖτε τὸ κατάλληλο μέρος νὰ καθίσετε.  Προτοῦ εἰσέλθετε εἰς τὸν κυρίως ναό, παρακαλεῖσθε νὰ εἰδοποιήσετε ἕναν ἐπίτροπο:
1. Ἐάν εἶσθε μέλος τῆς οἰκογενείας ἡ ὁποία τελεῖ τὸ μνημόσυνον—θὰ σᾶς καθοδηγήση ὁ ἐπίτροπος στὶς θέσεις τῆς οἰκογενείας
2. Πόσα ἄτομα εἶναι στὴν οἰκογενειακή σας ὁμάδα;
3. Ἐὰν ψάχνετε γιὰ ἄλλα μέλη τῆς οἰκογενείας σας—θὰ σᾶς βοηθήση ὁ ἐπίτροπος νὰ τοὺς βρεῖτε
Τὰ παρόντα μέτρα ἐξασφαλίζουν τὴν διατήρηση τῆς εὐλαβείας καὶ τῶν πρωτοκόλλων ἀσφαλείας.

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New Covid Measures

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. First Mode. Psalm 32.22,1.
Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:7-13.

BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Προκείμενον. First Mode. ΨΑΛΜΟΙ 32.22,1.
Γένοιτο, Κύριε, τὸ ἔλεός σου ἐφ' ἡμᾶς.
Στίχ. Ἀγαλλιᾶσθε δίκαιοι ἐν Κυρίῳ

τὸ Ἀνάγνωσμα Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους 4:7-13.

Ἀδελφοί, ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ ἡμῶν ἐδόθη ἡ χάρις κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τῆς δωρεᾶς τοῦ Χριστοῦ. Διὸ λέγει, Ἀναβὰς εἰς ὕψος ᾐχμαλώτευσεν αἰχμαλωσίαν, καὶ ἔδωκεν δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. Τὸ δέ, Ἀνέβη, τί ἐστιν εἰ μὴ ὅτι καὶ κατέβη πρῶτον εἰς τὰ κατώτερα μέρη τῆς γῆς; Ὁ καταβάς, αὐτός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ ἀναβὰς ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἵνα πληρώσῃ τὰ πάντα. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἔδωκεν τοὺς μὲν ἀποστόλους, τοὺς δὲ προφήτας, τοὺς δὲ εὐαγγελιστάς, τοὺς δὲ ποιμένας καὶ διδασκάλους, πρὸς τὸν καταρτισμὸν τῶν ἁγίων, εἰς ἔργον διακονίας, εἰς οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ· μέχρι καταντήσωμεν οἱ πάντες εἰς τὴν ἑνότητα τῆς πίστεως καὶ τῆς ἐπιγνώσεως τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰς ἄνδρα τέλειον, εἰς μέτρον ἡλικίας τοῦ πληρώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ.


Gospel Reading

Sunday after Epiphany
The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17

At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

Sunday after Epiphany
Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 4:12-17

Τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ὅτι ᾿Ιωάννης παρεδόθη, ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν, καὶ καταλιπὼν τὴν Ναζαρὲτ ἐλθὼν κατῴκησεν εἰς Καπερναοὺμ τὴν παραθαλασσίαν ἐν ὁρίοις Ζαβουλὼν καὶ Νεφθαλείμ, ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ ῾Ησαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· γῆ Ζαβουλὼν καὶ γῆ Νεφθαλείμ, ὁδὸν θαλάσσης, πέραν τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου, Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὁ λαὸς ὁ καθήμενος ἐν σκότειεἶδε φῶς μέγα, καὶ τοῖς καθημένοις ἐν χώρᾳ καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτουφῶς ἀνέτειλεν αὐτοῖς. ᾿Απὸ τότε ἤρξατο ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς κηρύσσειν καὶ λέγειν· μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικε γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.


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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
January 10

Dometian, Bishop of Melitene

Saint Dometian lived in the years of the Emperor Justin II, who reigned from 565 to 578, and the Emperor Maurice, who reigned from 582 to 602. Born of pious parents named Theodore and Eudocia, he received a thorough education in both secular and sacred knowledge. After he had lived in lawful wedlock a short time, his wife died, and he, for his virtue was made Bishop of Melitene in Armenia at the age of thirty. As a kinsman and trusted friend of the Emperor Maurice, he received from him great largesse, which he spent on the building of churches and the help of the poor; he was entrusted with the dealings of Byzantium with Persia. While in Constantinople, he reposed in peace in the year 602.

Greg_nyssa
January 10

Gregory of Nyssa

Saint Gregory, the younger brother of Basil the Great, illustrious in speech and a zealot for the Orthodox Faith, was born in 331. His brother Basil was encouraged by their elder sister Macrina to prefer the service of God to a secular career (see July 19); Saint Gregory was moved in a similar way by his godly mother Emily, who, when Gregory was still a young man, implored him to attend a service in honor of the holy Forty Martyrs at her retreat at Annesi on the River Iris. Saint Gregory came at his mother's bidding, but being wearied with the journey, and feeling little zeal, he fell asleep during the service. The Forty Martyrs then appeared to him in a dream, threatening him and reproaching him for his slothfulness. After this he repented and became very diligent in the service of God.

Gregory became bishop in 372, and because of his Orthodoxy he was exiled in 374 by Valens, who was of one mind with the Arians. After the death of Valens in 378, Gregory was recalled to his throne by the Emperor Gratian. He attended the Local Council of Antioch, which sent him to visit the churches of Arabia and Palestine, which had been defiled and ravaged by Arianism. He attended the Second Ecumenical Council, which was assembled in Constantinople in 381. Having lived some sixty years and left behind many remarkable writings, he reposed about the year 395. The acts of the Seventh Ecumenical Council call him 'Father of Fathers."


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Wisdom of the Fathers

For as persons not even knowing where to put a step forward, so they sat, overtaken by the darkness.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 14 on Matthew 4, 4th Century

Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when ye assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Epistle to the Ephesians Ch. 13, 2nd century

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