Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am
or
In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am
Our Services are mainly in English. Orthodox faithful from many backgrounds/countries worship in our church. During Services (Divine Liturgy and Typica), we do the Lord's Prayer in all the languages represented by the faithful celebrating the Service.
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Saturday July 23: Fr. Seraphim Majmudar from Tacoma will celebrate Divine Liturgy with us. Communion will be available for the faithful. A fellowship time with Fr. Seraphim will follow.
The Memorial Service that was held for Helen Pinkston may be viewed using the following link. May her memory be eternal!
https://www.facebook.com/100001716983951/videos/1187147738524780/
A forty day memorial for Helen will be held on July 23.
7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios, St. Nectarios, Tricites WA (Zoom)
5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
10:00AM In-church Divine Liturgy and Fellowship Time
5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Typica Service (in-church)
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 have regular in-church Sunday Liturgy Services along with a Sunday School.
THE WITNESS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
The Holy Apostles became martyrs and bore witness to our true Faith. They confessed fearlessly Jesus, the true Son of God and they proclaimed His saving teaching, which He revealed to us for our salvation. The Holy Apostles did not only bear witness to our true Faith, but they also signed their testimony with their own blood. They suffered martyrdom to defend our Faith.Jesus, of course, was the first Martyr, Who revealed and bore witness to His Father’s infinite love for us. He suffered on the Cross to forgive our sins. But as God Incarnate, as God-Man, He rose from the dead as and defeated our arch enemies, the devil and death. He secured for us the victory, eternal life. But we need to be obedient to His teaching and be united with Him by participating in the Holy Sacraments as often as possible. We must keep and live the 10 Commandments which express His Father’s Holy Will.The first 4 Commandments describe and clarify our relationship to our Heavenly Father: Who He is and what He expects from all of us. The other 6 Commandments prescribe and delineate our relationship to our neighbor, to our fellowman.
It is by believing in God and accepting His Revelation to us that we know Who God is and what He expects from us. It is by loving God and our fellowman that we discover the true spirit for relating in love and respect to our neighbors. The Commandments articulate plainly our responsibilities to God and our fellowman.
To help us remember the spirit of the Commandments and our responsibilities to God and Fellowman, both the Old Testament and our Lord Jesus summarized all 10 Commandments into one: “To love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves.” Our Faith in God and our love for our neighbor are interconnected , like the links of a chain. If one link breaks, everything falls down. If we break one Commandment, our relationship to God is disrupted. We cannot say that we believe and love God, if we do not love our neighbor. Jesus told us very clearly, “not the hearers, but the doers of the Law will inherit His Kingdom.” “People will know that you are my Disciples’, “if you keep my Commandments. I kept and did my Father’s Holy Will.”
The Holy Apostles acquired an unwavering faith in God after Pentecost and they loved the people with a compassionate heart. So did all the countless Saints who followed after them. The Apostles, and the Saints after them, bequeathed to us our precious true Faith. Now it is our turn to know our Faith, to live our faith and to pass it on to the next generation with our words and Christian example. This is the best way to honor the Holy Apostles and the Countless known and unknown Saints of our Church.
With love, Fr. John P. Angelis
Today we also commemorate the translation of the holy and incorrupt relics of Saint Philip from the Monastery of Solovki, where he was Abbot, to the Cathedral of the Dormition in Moscow, his Metropolitan throne. This came to pass in 1652, some eighty years after his martyric death in Tver. (See also Jan. 9 and Oct. 5.)
The Martyr Hyacinth, who was from Caesarea of Cappadocia, was the chamberlain of the Emperor Trajan. On being constrained by the Emperor to partake of the sacrifices offered to idols and not wishing to do so, he was shut up in prison without food, where he gave up his spirit to God in the year 108.
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Prokeimenon. Second Tone. Psalm 117.14,18.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 5:1-10.
Brethren, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man -- though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
3rd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 6:22-33
The Lord said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well."