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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2022-05-22
Bulletin Contents
Church News
Current Services Schedule
Message from Father John
St. Nectarios Service Information
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (509) 547-3968
  • Fax:
  • none / Facebook Group: "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"
  • Street Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301
  • Mailing Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301

Services Schedule

    Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am

or

    In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am

Past Bulletins


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Current Services Schedule

  • James Droppo

    May 22 to June 5, 2022

    Sunday, May 22

    10:00AM In Church Typica Orthodox Worship Service

    Saturday, May 28

    5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA

    Sunday, May 29

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Friday, June 3

    7:00PM Akathist to St. Nectarios, St. Nectarios, Tricites WA

    Saturday, June 4

    5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA

    Sunday, June 5

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

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Message from Father John

Weekly Message

05/19/2022

SUNDAY OF THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

Jesus came to Samaria with his Disciples,
And He sat by Jacob’s well to get some rest.
A Samaritan woman came to it to draw water.
Christ asked her politely, “to give Him a drink.”

The Samaritan woman did not expect His request.
Because Jews and Samaritans do not get along.
Jesus offered to give a spiritual drink to the woman.
And she thought that He’ll draw it from a well.

So she looked at Jesus if He had a rope and a bucket,
To be able to draw water from Jacob’s deep well.
“My own water,” He told her, “makes you no longer thirsty.”
“You don’t have to come to this well to draw water.”

The Samaritan woman asked Him for this water,
So that she won’t have to carry water any longer.8
“Go and call your husband and come back here.”
“Correct your immoral life according to God’s Law.”

She changed quickly the subject, because it hurt her.
She asked: “Where is the right place to worship God?”
The Jews worship God in the Temple, in Jerusalem.
We worship God on Mt. Garizin, as our father Jacob told us

It’s not the place which makes one a true worshipper.
But the Holy Spirit which Christ brought to earth.
“I, who speak to you, am the Messiah, the Christ.”
“God is worshipped correctly in spirit and in truth.”

The woman became dizzy from His new teaching,
She ran to the city quickly and narrated this news.
“Come and see Him, who revealed to me my life.”
“Could this be the Christ, our forefathers told us?”

The Disciples came from the city and brought food.
But Jesus spoke to his Disciples about spiritual food.
As the Disciples were attached to material things,
They did not understand His talk about spiritual food.

But when they saw the Samaritans coming hurriedly,
They understood what changed the Samaritan woman.
Now she became the first missionary to Samaria.
She brought to her co-patriots the true religion.

One by one the Samaritans received His teaching,
Because they personally heard Jesus’ teaching.
Christ changed the “water” once again into “wine.”
May we also receive His Divine, saving teaching.

A spiritual, refreshing, pure water we all desire,
To quench our spiritual thirst in this arid life.
The world has filled us with much polluted water,
Which the devil with his temptations has poisoned.

Let us repent for our sins as the Samaritan woman.
Let us ask forgiveness from Christ to find salvation.
He will grant us His Holy Spirit abundantly in our life.
Only then we will find genuine, fulfilling joy in life.

With love, Fr. John P. Angelis


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St. Nectarios Service Information

Overview of St. Nectarios Services

St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
627 West Bonneville St, Pasco WA 99301
Facebook: 'Saint Nectarios - Pasco Group'
Email: Tricityorthodox@aol.com
Website: www.stnectariostricities
Phone: (509) 547-3968.
 
St Nectarios has a mixture of in church and on-line Services. Each month, there are at least two in-Church Services (a Saturday Divine Liturgy and a Sunday Typica Service).  

The celebration of most on-line Services is conducted by Fr. John Angelis (in Seattle, WA) and the St. Nectarios Choir/Readers/Volunteers (in the Tri-Cities, WA). These on-line Services allows Father John to join us for Services without requiring travel to the Tricities.

The faithful may view/participate in the Services on the Saint Nectarios-Pasco Group on Facebook. Services will be streamed and posted after they are complete. For many of the Services, the text is included to help the faithful follow the Service.

To view Saint Nectarios Services, pictures, and other postings on Facebook Group “Saint Nectarios – Pasco” use the link:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/

The long term goal for St. Nectarios - Pasco  is to return to having regular in-church Sunday Liturgy Services.

 


News This Week

05/29/2022

 Special Event - This Sunday, May 22nd, an in-church Christian Typica Orthodox Worship Service conducted by the St. Nectarios Choir/Readers/Volunteers in the Tri-Cities.   A Fellowship Time will follow.  All are welcome to attend! 
 
At Saint Nectarios, Typica Services are being followed by an Open-discussion Fellowship Time.   If you have questions, expectations, wishes, ideas, suggestions, etc., these Fellowship Times are an excellent opportunity for you to informally meet and discuss such matters directly with representatives of the Parish Council. 
 
The Parish Council is looking for input from the local Orthodox community's expectations and wishes for expanded Services and activities.   A formal Parish Council meeting will be held in the near future. Those unable to attend are welcome to send input to St. Nectarios. The church email is (tricityorthodox@aol.com).  

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Saints and Feasts

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May 22

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

One of the most ancient cities of the Promised Land was Shechem, also called Sikima, located at the foot of Mount Gerazim. There the Israelites had heard the blessings in the days of Moses and Jesus of Navi. Near to this town, Jacob, who had come from Mesopotamia in the nineteenth century before Christ, bought a piece of land where there was a well. This well, preserved even until the time of Christ, was known as Jacob's Well. Later, before he died in Egypt, he left that piece of land as a special inheritance to his son Joseph (Gen. 49:22). This town, before it was taken into possession by Samaria, was also the leading city of the kingdom of the ten tribes. In the time of the Romans it was called Neapolis, and at present Nablus. It was the first city in Canaan visited by the Patriarch Abraham. Here also, Jesus of Navi (Joshua) addressed the tribes of Israel for the last time. Almost three hundred years later, all Israel assembled there to make Roboam (Rehoboam) king.

When our Lord Jesus Christ, then, came at midday to this city, which is also called Sychar (John 4:5), He was wearied from the journey and the heat, and He sat down at this well. After a little while the Samaritan woman mentioned in today's Gospel passage came to draw water. As she conversed at some length with the Lord and heard from Him secret things concerning herself, she believed in Him; through her many other Samaritans also believed.

Concerning the Samaritans we know the following: In the year 721 before Christ, Salmanasar (Shalmaneser), King of the Assyrians, took the ten tribes of the kingdom of Israel into captivity, and relocated all these people to Babylon and the land of the Medes. From there he gathered various nations and sent them to Samaria. These nations had been idolaters from before. Although they were later instructed in the Jewish faith and believed in the one God, they worshipped the idols also. Furthermore, they accepted only the Pentateuch of Moses, and rejected the other books of Holy Scripture. Nonetheless, they thought themselves to be descendants of Abraham and Jacob. Therefore, the pious Jews named these Judaizing and idolatrous peoples Samaritans, since they lived in Samaria, the former leading city of the Israelites, as well as in the other towns thereabout. The Jews rejected them as heathen and foreigners, and had no communion with them at all, as the Samaritan woman observed, "the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans" (John 4:9). Therefore, the name Samaritan is used derisively many times in the Gospel narrations. After the Ascension of the Lord, and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the woman of Samaria was baptized by the holy Apostles and became a great preacher and Martyr of Christ; she was called Photine, and her feast is kept on February 26.

Allsaint
May 22

Basiliscus the Martyr, Bishop of Comana

This Martyr was from the city of Amasia on the Black Sea, and a nephew of Saint Theodore the Tyro (Feb. 17). When his fellow Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus had been crucified (see Mar.8), Basiliscus was shut up in prison. As he was praying the Lord to count him also worthy to finish his course as a martyr, the Lord appeared to him, telling him first to go to his kinsmen and bid them farewell, which he did. When it was learned that he had left the prison, soldiers came after him, and brought him to Comana of Cappadocia, compelling him to walk in iron shoes set with nails. He was beheaded at Comana, and his body was cast into the river, during the reign of Diocletian (284-305).

Allsaint
May 22

Holy New Martyrs Demetrius and Paul of Tripoli

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Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal First Tone

Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs He has granted life.

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone

The women disciples of the Lord heard from the angel, the joyful news of the Resurrection and the repeal of the sentence imposed upon our forefathers. With pride they said to the Apostles, "Death is vanquished, Christ our God is risen bestowing upon the world His great mercy."

Apolytikion for Mid-Pentecost in the Plagal Fourth Tone

Mid-way in the feast, refresh my thirsty soul with the flowing waters of piety. For You cried out to all, O Savior, "Let him who thirsts come to me and drink." You, O Christ our God, are the Fountain of Life, glory to You.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Tone

Though You went down into the tomb, You destroyed Hades' power, and You rose the victor, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women, "Hail!" and granting peace to Your disciples, You who raise up the fallen.

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  • Apolytikion of Great and Holy Pascha in the Plagal of the First Tone © Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Resurrectional Apolytikion in Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
  • Apolytikion for Mid-Pentecost in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. Fourth Tone. Psalm 103.24,1.
    O Lord, how manifold are your works. You have made all things in wisdom.
    Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

    The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 11:19-30.

    In those days, those apostles who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord. News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose; for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord. So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabos stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius. And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea, and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

    Gospel Reading

    Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
    The Reading is from John 4:5-42

    At that time, Jesus came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

    There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

    Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."

    Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to him.

    Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him food?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

    Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony. "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard ourselves, and we know that this is indeed Christ the Savior of the world."

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