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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2022-08-14
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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


Saint Nectarios - Bulletin Week of August 13

St Nectarios Church Services

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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Announcements

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SPECIAL EVENT

August 13:  In-church Divine Liturgy Saturday Morning Starting at 10:00AM. Fr. Seraphim Majmudar from Tacoma, who was just here in July, has volunteered  to come again in August to celebrate Divine Liturgy with us.  Communion will be available for the faithful.

A fellowship time with Fr. Seraphim will follow the Services.  Fr. Seraphim has been very generous in taking the time to come and celebrate Divine Liturgy with us in the Tri-Cities   In a recent visit he challenged us to start having more of our faithful attend the church services.  

All are welcome at St. Nectarios! Please consider joining us ON Saturday August 13 for Orthodox Christian Worship and Fellowship.  


THIS WEEK

There will be an online Vespers Service on Saturday (5PM)and an online Liturgy Service on Sunday (10AM).  If you would like to join either of these Services live on Zoom, please let us know and we will send you a direct link to the Service.


Please join us at St. Nectarios!

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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Current Services Schedule

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    August 14 to August 28, 2022

    Sunday, August 14

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, August 20

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

    Sunday, August 21

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, August 27

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

    Sunday, August 28

    10:00AM Typica Service (in-church)

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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'
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 have regular in-church Sunday Liturgy Services along with a Sunday School.    


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Message from Father John

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Weekly Message

Spend Time to listen to God and enjoy His Blessings

The people came to Jesus Christ in the desert to hear His teaching.  For He spoke with authority about what God required of His people.  The people  were so deeply absorbed in His teaching that the sun began to go down.  Jesus’ Disciples came to Him and asked Him to release the people to go to the surrounding villages to find something to eat.  But Jesus told them that they themselves should offer them supper.  They told Jesus  that they only had 5 loaves  of bread and  2 fish. How could they feed all of them?  

 Jesus knew what He was going to do.  So He told His Disciples to bring to Him the loaves and the fish.  Jesus looked up to His Father, Blessed them and started dividing them into pieces.  His disciples became His servers.  All the thousands of people ate and they also had leftovers.  Jesus told His Disciples to collect them so that nothing should go  wasted.

The moral teaching of this miracle is to teach us  to seek first to learn the will of God and then to put it into practice in our daily life; to share with our fellowman what God has offered us.  He then would multiply it to meet both our needs and the needs of the people; and we would also have something left over.

The liturgical Hymn. that we sing after the blessing of the five loaves, summarizes well God’s teaching to us:  “The rich became poor and went hungry;  but those who seek after the Lord  (and do God’s will) would never be deprived of anything.”

With love,

Fr. John P. Angelis

  


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Saints and Feasts

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August 14

The Holy Prophet Michaias (Micah)

This Prophet (whose name means "who is like God?"), was a Morasthite from the land of Judah. He prophesied more than fifty years in the days of Joatham, Ahaz, and Hezekias, Kings of Judah. These kings reigned in the eighth century before Christ. From this it is clear that this Michaias is not the one who was the son of Iembla (or Imlah-III Kings 22:8), who censured Ahab and was murdered by Ahab's son Joram, as the Synaxaristes says; for this Joram reigned the ninth century before Christ. Yet Michaias was still prophesying, as mentioned above, in the days of Hezekias, who was a contemporary of Hosea and Esaias, and of Hoshea, the last King of the ten tribes of Israel, when that kingdom was destroyed by Salmanasar (Shalmaneser), King of the Assyrians (IV Kings 17: 1 - 16; 18: 1). This Michaias is sixth in rank among the minor Prophets. His book of prophecy is divided into seven chapters; he prophesied that the Christ would be born in Bethlehem (Michaias 5: 2). In the reign of Saint Theodosius the Great, the holy relics of the Prophets Michaias and Abbacum were found through a divine revelation to Zebennus, Bishop of Eleutheropolis (Sozomen, Eccl. Hist., Book VII, 29).


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August 14

Forefeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary


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August 14

Holy Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apameia


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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 Forefeast of the Dormition in the Fourth Tone

In faith, O ye people, leap for joy while clapping your hands; and gather in gladness on this day with longing and shout in radiant jubilance. For the Theotokos cometh nigh to departing from the earth unto the heights; and we glorify her with glory as the Mother of God in our unceasing hymns

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone

In the Immaterial Spirit, the whole world hath been mystically adorned upon the glorious memory; and it doth cry to thee joyously: Rejoice, O Virgin, thou boast of the Christian race.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Tone. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 3:9-17.

Brethren, we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw - each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.


Gospel Reading

9th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 14:22-34

At that time, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them. And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear. But immediately he spoke to them, saying "Take heart, it is I; have no fear."

And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me." Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" And when they entered the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God." And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.


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