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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2022-08-28
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Saint Nectarios - Bulletin Week of August 13
Announcements
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

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Saint Nectarios - Bulletin Week of August 13

St Nectarios Church Services

All are welcome at Saint 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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Announcements

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THIS WEEK

Services: There will be an online Vespers Service on Saturday (5PM) and in church Typica (reader) Service on Sunday (10AM).  There will be a fellowship time after the Service.  


Please join us at St. Nectarios!

Our Services are mainly in English. Although in the Greek diocese, 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

  • James Droppo

    August 28 to September 11, 2022

    Sunday, August 28

    10:00AM Typica Service (in-church)

    Friday, September 2

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

    Saturday, September 3

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

    Sunday, September 4

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, September 10

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

    Sunday, September 11

    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 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

GOD’S FORGIVENESS, MAN’S CRUEL UNFORGIVENESS

   God has granted us many gifts and talents to use them for our own lives and to also serve others. Jesus compares them to a great sum of money, “myriad talents“.  His steward misused the funds and selfishly used them to satisfy his own pleasures. God was going to punish him for betraying His trust, for using His resources for his personal pleasures. The steward  begged for his master’s leniency and compassion. He promised to repay Him In the near future. His master, God, had compassion upon him. He not only gave you him time to repent; but He also forgave his great debt.

    But this forgiven steward was not compassionate and kind to his fellow servant who owed him a few dollars, “100 Denarii.”  He grabbed him by the neck and threw him into the prison. God, after his cruel behavior, punished him.

    In the Lord’s prayer Jesus instructed us to forgive one another, because none of us is sinless: “forgive us our trespasses (our debts) as we forgive those who trespass against us (our debtors).”  In another occasion, Jesus put it in another way:  “ Let him who has no sins throw the first stone.”  And the older ones left first, until all the accusers left.

    When we practice Jesus’ new  teaching about mutual forgiveness in our daily life we are not alone in our effort. God’s grace inspires and enables us to accomplish this. In addition, He grants us inner peace and spiritual joy.  Jesus gave us a perfect example to imitate: He prayed to His heavenly father to forgive those who crucified him.

    Let us also remember that his resurrection followed his crucifixion. We become victorious when we conquer our anger.  God also grants us inner peace.

With love,

Fr. John P. Angelis

  


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Saints and Feasts

Allsaint
August 28

Synaxis of the Kiev Cave Fathers

On this day, we celebrate the Synaxis of the Kiev Cave Fathers who were laid to rest in the Far Caves of Saint Theodosius in Kiev (see also Sept. 22-28).

Theway
August 28

11th Sunday of Matthew

Allsaint
August 28

Moses the Black of Scete

Saint Moses, who is also called Moses the Black, was a slave, but because of his evil life, his master cast him out, and he became a ruthless thief, dissolute in all his ways. Later, however, coming to repentance, he converted, and took up the monastic life under Saint Isidore of Scete. He gave himself over to prayer and the mortification of the carnal mind with such diligence that he later became a priest of exemplary virtue. He was revered by all for his lofty ascetical life and for his great humility. Once the Fathers in Scete asked Moses to come to an assembly to judge the fault of a certain brother, but he refused. When they insisted, he took a basket which had a hole in it, filled it with sand, and carried it on his shoulders. When the Fathers saw him coming they asked him what the basket might mean. He answered, "My sins run out behind me, and I do not see them, and I am come this day to judge failings which are not mine." When a barbarian tribe was coming to Scete, Moses, conscious that he himself had slain other men when he was a thief, awaited them and was willingly slain by them with six other monks, at the end of the fourth century. He was a contemporary of Saint Arsenius the Great (see May 8).

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Tone

When You descended to death, O Immortal Life, then, the light of Your divinity destroyed Hades. When You raised the dead from the depths of darkness, all the heavenly powers cried out, "Glory to You our Christ, the Giver of Life."

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone

In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: "The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life."

The translations of hymns are under copyright and used by permission. All rights reserved. These works may not be further reproduced, in print or on other websites or in any other form, without the prior written authorization of the copyright holder:

  • Resurrectional Apolytikion in Second Tone © Narthex Press
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    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 First Letter to the Corinthians 9:2-12.

    Brethren, you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to our food and drink? Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same? For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop. If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits? If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

    Gospel Reading

    11th Sunday of Matthew
    The Reading is from Matthew 18:23-35

    The Lord said this parable: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the reckoning, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents; and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.' And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But that same servant, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay what you owe.' So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.' He refused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. Then his lord summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me; and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?' And in anger his lord delivered him to the torturers, till he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."

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