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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2022-06-19
Bulletin Contents
Announcement
Current Services Schedule
St. Nectarios Service Information
Message from Father John
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Allsaint
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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


Announcement

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DIVINE LITURGY

LIVE CHURCH SERVICE:  Celebrate a live Service with us on Saturday, June 18 at 10:00AM. there will be an in-church Divine Liturgy with Rev. Daniel Triant.  Fellowship time will folow.  This event is a good opporuntiy to meet Father Triant who serves at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Spokane. 

CONGRATULATIONS!  Congratulations to Anna Van Dinter for graduating from high school.  And to Joanna Droppo on her graduation from a university undergraduate program.  We wish them sucess in their future pursuits. 


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Current Services Schedule

  • James Droppo

    June 19 to July 3, 2022

    Sunday, June 19

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, June 25

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

    Sunday, June 26

    10:00AM Typica Service (in-church)

    Friday, July 1

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

    Saturday, July 2

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

    Sunday, July 3

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

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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 usualy 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 online Services on the Saint Nectarios-Pasco Group on Facebook.  Online 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

Next in-church Divine Liturgy at St. Nectarios will be on June 18th.  The Service will start at 10 AM on Saturday Morning.  Father Daniel from the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Spokane will be celebrating Divine Liturgy with us.  All are welcome and encouraged to attend!     
 
A Fellowship Time will follow.  Come and share your Orthodox faith and an ethinc dish with others!  
 

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Message from Father John

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All the Saints of God

05/19/2022

Our Church established “All Saints’ Sunday” to commemorate all the known and unknown Saints who honored God with their lives. They are the first fruits of the Day of Pentecost, of the Descent of the Holy Spirit. When the Saints received the Holy Spirit into their lives, He changed and renewed them. He filled them with inspiration, faith, and an inner desire to do God’s Holy Will. The Saints in Jerusalem devoted themselves to prayer, to the preaching of God’s “Good News” of salvation and to helping other people in need. As followers of Christ, they became a large Christian family and active members of His Body, the Church.

In its daily Holy Services, our Church commemorates one or more Saints who honored and served the Lord with their lives. Some of the Saints even suffered martyrdom for their Faith in Christ. We do not know all their names, but all of them are important to The Lord and His Church. The newly revealed Saints in Oinouses, Lesvos, Saints Raphael, Nicholas and little Irene, are a case in point. All Saints’ Sunday embraces and commemorates all of them, known and unknown. As you know, our Church has also proclaimed and acknowledged new Saints; for example, St. Passions, St. Porphyrios, St. Iakovos. There are many other Saints whom we do not know.

The Saints of God faced temptations and threats from the people around them, as we face ourselves, but they did not succumb to the world. They had fixed their eyes on God, and they judged and evaluated everything in life according to God’s Holy Will. When they recited in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Will be done of earth as it is in heaven,” they meant it. They did not allow either the “sirens” of old or the modern temptations to distract them from their goal and commitment to Christ. St. Paul's Words, “I am crucified with Christ; I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me,” guided them. The Saints were not alone in their spiritual struggle. God was with them. They experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit, as St. Stephen’s martyrdom in the Acts of the Apostles has shown us.

St Paul called the Christians “saints” in his Letters to the different Churches. All of us are called to become saints, hagioi. The word hagios, Saint, means that we have the capability to rise above our earthly, material existence, to be transformed and become heavenly, Godlike. The heavenly element exists in us, the first fruits of the Holy Spirit live in us. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. The Saints Proved this with their sanctified lives. We are called to emulate their example and strive to become Godlike as they did. That’s the reason the Church presents them to us on All Saints’ Sunday!

With love,

Fr. John P. Angelis

 


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Saints and Feasts

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June 19

Our Righteous Father Zenonus

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June 19

The Sunday of All Saints

Honouring the friends of God with much reverence, the Prophet-King David says, "But to me, exceedingly honourable are Thy friends, O Lord" (Ps. 138:16). And the divine Apostle, recounting the achievements of the Saints, and setting forth their memorial as an example that we might turn away from earthly things and from sin, and emulate their patience and courage in the struggles for virtue, says, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every burden, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1).

This commemoration began as the Sunday (Synaxis) of All Martyrs; to them were added all the ranks of Saints who bore witness (the meaning of "Martyr" in Greek) to Christ in manifold ways, even if occasion did not require the shedding of their blood.

Therefore, guided by the teaching of the Divine Scriptures and Apostolic Tradition, we the pious honour all the Saints, the friends of God, for they are keepers of God's commandments, shining examples of virtue, and benefactors of mankind. Of course, we honour the known Saints especially on their own day of the year, as is evident in the Menologion. But since many Saints are unknown, and their number has increased with time, and will continue to increase until the end of time, the Church has appointed that once a year a common commemoration be made of all the Saints. This is the feast that we celebrate today. It is the harvest of the coming of the Holy Spirit into the world; it is the "much fruit" brought forth by that "Grain of wheat that fell into the earth and died" (John 12:24); it is the glorification of the Saints as "the foundation of the Church, the perfection of the Gospel, they who fulfilled in deed the sayings of the Saviour" (Sunday of All Saints, Doxasticon of Vespers).

In this celebration, then, we reverently honour and call blessed all the Righteous, the Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Shepherds, Teachers, and Holy Monastics, both men and women alike, known and unknown, who have been added to the choirs of the Saints and shall be added, from the time of Adam until the end of the world, who have been perfected in piety and have glorified God by their holy lives. All these, as well as the orders of the Angels, and especially our most holy Lady and Queen, the Ever-virgin Theotokos Mary, do we honour today, setting their life before us as an example of virtue, and entreating them to intercede in our behalf with God, Whose grace and boundless mercy be with us all. Amen.

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June 19

Thaddeus (Jude) the Apostle & Brother of Our Lord

The Apostle Jude was of the choir of the Twelve, and by Luke was called Jude, the brother of James the Brother of God (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13), and therefore also a kinsman of the Lord according to His humanity. But by Matthew (10:3), he is called Lebbaeus, surnamed Thaddeus (he is not the Thaddeus who healed the suffering of Abgar, as Eusebius says in his Eccl. Hist., 1:13; see Aug. 21). Saint Jude preached in Mesopotamia, Arabia, Idumea, and Syria, and, it is said, completed the path of his divine apostleship by martyrdom in Beirut in the year 80. Written after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, his is the last of the Catholic (General) Epistles to the believing Jews in the Diaspora. His name (a variant of Judah) means "Praise."

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Fourth Tone

O Merciful One, You came from on high, and condescended to Your three day burial to save us from suffering. You are our Life and our Resurrection. Glory to You.

Apolytikion for All Saints in the Fourth Tone

Your Church, O Christ our God, clothed itself in the blood of Your martyrs from throughout the world, as though it were a robe of linen and purple; through them, she cries out to You, "Send down upon Your people compassion, grant peace to Your commonwealth, and to our souls, great mercy."

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Tone

The world offers You, the author of all creation, as the first-fruits of nature, the God-bearing martyrs. O most merciful, by their intercessions, through the Theotokos, maintain Your Church in perfect peace.

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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. Fourth Tone. Psalm 67.35,26.
    God is wonderful among his saints.
    Verse: Bless God in the congregations.

    The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:33-40; 12:1-2.

    Brethren, all the saints 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. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.

    Gospel Reading

    The Sunday of All Saints
    The Reading is from Matthew 10:32-33; 37-38; 19:27-30

    The Lord said to his disciples, "Every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me." Then Peter said in reply, "Lo, we have left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?" Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many that are first will be last, and the last first."

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