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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On Saturday July 23, starting at 10AM, Fr Seraphim Majmudar from Tacoma will celebrate a live in-church Divine Liturgy with us. Communion will be available for the faithful. A fellowship time with Fr. Seraphim will follow.
Helen Pinkston: A forty-day memorial Service will be held for Helen Pinkston after Divine Liturgy in the Tricities Saint Nectarios Church on July 23. May her memory be eternal!
NEXT WEEK: Come and enjoy celebrating the TYPICA service. All are especially welcome to this Service.
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Typica Service (in-church)
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
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 All-Seeing God
There is an icon of “an eye” over the royal door, on the iconostasis (Icon screen) in some churches. It symbolizes the “all-seeing God.” That nothing escapes his sight. The prayer to the Holy Spirit refers to Him as “...Present everywhere and filling all things…”God sees and hears everything we do and sayThe saying, “ like an eye, the righteous God sees all things” refers to our life on earth. God sees all our thoughts and actions. The “zoom program” reminded me of this reality, because the camera catches all the movements and records all the sounds of the speaker. In the gospel lesson for judgment Sunday, there is a reference to the final judgment, when this world will come to an end and our judgment will take place. Then our record of deeds on earth would be opened and we will be judged according to what we have done and said on earth. This reminded me of the court scene when the charges against a criminal are read.Since we do not know the date and time of God‘s judgment, we should repent for our sins daily and ask his forgiveness. Only in this way, God will clear our sinful record. We have a gracious God, our father in heaven, who loves us and forgives us when we sincerely repent and confess our sins. His apostle also told us not to go to bed unreconciled, having something against our spouse, children, or our fellow man.Having repented and made our confession, having been forgiven and reconciled, we will pray to God with a spirit of gratitude and thanksgiving; and we would look at Him, like a child looks as his mother, who is there to help and protect him.With love, Fr. John P. Angelis
Saint Christina was from Tyre in Syria, the daughter of a pagan named Urban. Enlightened in her heart to believe in Christ, she broke her father's idols, made of gold and silver, and distributed the pieces to the poor. When her father learned this, he punished her ruthlessly, then cast her into prison. The rulers subjected her to imprisonments, hunger, torments, the cutting off of her breasts and tongue, and finally impalement, in the year 200, during the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus.
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Prokeimenon. Plagal First Tone. Psalm 11.7,1.
You, O Lord, shall keep us and preserve us.
Verse: Save me, O Lord, for the godly man has failed.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 12:6-14.
Brethren, having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
6th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 9:1-8
At that time, getting into a boat Jesus crossed over and came to his own city. And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on his bed; and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven." And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming." But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say 'Rise and walk?' But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" he then said to the paralytic -- "Rise, take up your bed and go home." And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.