St Nectarios Church Services
All are welcome at Saint Nectarios!
Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am
or
In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am
All are welcome at Saint 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.
There will be three Services:
1) Friday at 7pm. Akathist Hymn to Saint Nectarios, Wonderworker of Aegina and Pentapolis
2) Saturday at 5pm. An online Vespers Service, and
3) Sunday at 10am. An online Liturgy Service.
These Services will be streamed to Facebook. If you wish to participate directly in any of our Services (Zoom Meeting), please send a request to tricityorthodox@aol.com
A Saturday Inchurch Divine Liturgy Service in September is planned. The date of this Service will be announced in upcoming Bulletins.
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Vespers Service -Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
5:00PM Vespers Service -Online, 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.
USE YOUR RICHES WISELYMaterial, intellectual, spiritual and other riches are gifts of God to us. God granted them to us through inheritance or through our acquisition; we acquired them through His gifts and abilities to us. Naked we were born in this world and we’ll leave this world without any of our possessions.Riches are given to us to use them wisely for good and not misuse them for evil. The ancient Greeks called money chrimata, items to be used. In a light spirit, someone said that “the gold coins were made round in order to roll and not to stay in one place.” Money is not a value of itself; rather it has value when it is used and shared with others. The riches are given to us for our needs but also to help those in need of assistance.Many times, we don’t take the advice of our parents or of otherwise people when we have extra blessings. The young man made the same mistake in today’s gospel lesson. When we grow older, we realize what great mistakes we made in our selfishness.God has given us a spiritual way to correct and reverse the damage. He called it repentance and confession. The Prodigal Son used it, found his true self, and he returned to his father.A man had a thriving restaurant business. A beggar came to the back door of his restaurant and asked him to give him something to eat. Rudely, he told him to go away. He had no time for him. His mother, who was visiting him, told him, “Son, give him something to eat. He is hungry. And you have so much. Sometimes God comes to us in the guise of the poor and hungry.” And his mother prevailed on him. He fed him.Let us also return to our Heavenly Father, if we have gone astray. Let us also use wisely His gifts to us, as He has told us. For our true destination is life with God forever. Our Christian Faith and love and our Godly deeds are our ticket to it.With love,Fr. John P. Angelis
Saint Babylas was the twelfth Bishop of Antioch, being the successor of Zebinus (or Zebinas); he was beheaded during the reign of Decius, in the year 250, and at his own request was buried in the chains with which he was bound. The Emperor Gallus (reigned 351-354) built a church in his honour at Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, to put an end to the demonic oracles at the nearby temple of Apollo. When Julian the Apostate came in 362 to consult the oracle about his campaign against the Persians, the oracle (that is, the demon within it) remained dumb until at last, answering Julian's many sacrifices and supplications, it told him, "The dead prevent me from speaking." It told Julian to dig up the bones and move them. Julian, then, in the words of Saint John Chrysostom, "leaving all the other dead, moved only that Martyr." He commanded the Christians to take away Saint Babylas' bones, which they did with great solemnity and triumph. When this had been done, a thunderbolt fell from heaven destroying with fire the shrine of Apollo, which Julian did not dare rebuild. Saint John Chrysostom preached a sermon on this within a generation after.
The Prophet Moses-whose name means "one who draws forth," or "is drawn from," that is, from the water-was the pinnacle of the lovers of wisdom, the supremely wise lawgiver, the most ancient historian of all. He was of the tribe of Levi, the son of Amram and Jochabed (Num. 26:59). He was born in Egypt in the seventeenth century before Christ. While yet a babe of three months, he was placed in a basket made of papyrus and covered with pitch, and cast into the streams of the Nile for fear of Pharaoh's decree to the mid-wives of the Hebrews, that all the male children of the Hebrews be put to death. He was taken up from the river by Pharaoh's daughter, became her adopted son, and was reared and dwelt in the King's palace for forty years. Afterward, when he was some sixty years old, he fled to Madian, where, on Mount Horeb, he saw the vision of the burning bush. Thus he was ordained by God to lead Israel and bring it out of the land of Egypt. He led Israel through the Red Sea as it were dry land and governed the people for forty years. He wrought many signs and wonders, and wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, which are called the Pentateuch. When he reached the land of Moab, he ascended Mount Nabau, on the peak called Phasga, and there, by divine command, he reposed in the sixteenth century before Christ, having lived for some 120 years. The first two Odes of the Old Testament, "Let us sing to the Lord" and "Attend, O heaven, and I will speak," were written by him. Of these hymns, the first was chanted by the shore of the Red Sea as soon as the Israelites had crossed it; the second, in the land of Moab, a few days before his repose. The Holy High Priest Aaron was the elder brother of the Holy Prophet Moses. He was appointed by God to serve as the spokesman of Moses before the people, and also before Pharaoh, in Egypt. Afterwards, in the wilderness, he was called to the ministry of the high priesthood, as narrated in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers in the Old Testament. The name Aaron means "enlightened."
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Prokeimenon. Third Tone. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 15:1-11.
Brethren, I would remind you in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you hold it fast -- unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
12th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 19:16-26
At that time, a young man came up to Jesus, kneeling and saying, "Good Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" And he said to him, "Why do you call me good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments." He said to him, "Which?" And Jesus said, "You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and You shall love your neighbor as yourself." The young man said to him, "All these I have observed; what do I still lack?" Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."