September 18
St Nectarios Church Services
All are welcome at Saint Nectarios!
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2022-09-18
Bulletin Contents
Weekly Saint Nectarios Bulletin
Announcements
Current Services Schedule
St. Nectarios Service Information
Message from Father John
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
General Information
- Phone:
- (509) 547-3968
- Fax:
- none / Facebook Group: "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"
- Email:
- tricityorthodox@aol.com
- 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
- Publish Date:
- 2022-09-11
- Publish Date:
- 2022-09-04
- Publish Date:
- 2022-08-28
- Publish Date:
- 2022-08-21
- Publish Date:
- 2022-08-14
- Publish Date:
- 2022-08-07
Weekly Saint Nectarios Bulletin
Announcements
You are invited to join us at St. Nectarios!
Our Christain Orthodox Services are mainly in English. Orthodox faithful from many backgrounds/countries worship in our Services. During Divine Liturgy Services, the Lord's Prayer is conducted in multiple languages - representing the backgrounds of the faithful celebrating the Service.
THIS WEEKEND
Saint Nectarios will have an online Vespers Service on Saturday (September 17) at 5pm and an online Liturgy Service on Sunday (September 18) at 10am. These Services will be streamed to Facebook. If you wish to participate directly in any of our Service, please send a request to tricityorthodox@aol.com
To view online Saint Nectarios Services on Facebook (Group “Saint Nectarios – Pasco”) use the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/
Saturday Liturgy
Mark the date! Saturday October 8th. A Christain Orthodox Divine Liturgy Service will be celebrated with Fr. Seraphim Majmudar from Tacoma. The Service will start at 10AM. Communion for the faithfull will be served.
A fellowship time will be held after the Service. It is a tradition at St. Nectarios to bring food items to share during this fellowship time. This currently is a pot-luck activity where you can bring a favorite dish to share. You are invited to come and share in this Christian Orthodox fellowship!
Current Services Schedule
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James Droppo
September 18 to October 2, 2022
Sunday, September 1810:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
Saturday, September 245:00PM Vespers Service -Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday, September 2510:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
Saturday, October 15:00PM Vespers Service -Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday, October 210:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
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.
The post pandemic goal for St. Nectarios - Pasco is to again have regular Sunday Liturgy Services along with Sunday School Classes. You are welcome to join us in working on this quest.
Currently, 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/
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/
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/
Message from Father John
Current Message
THE GREATEST SYMBOL OF LOVE
The Cross is the greatest sign of God’s love. It is God’s sign, sent to us from heaven to redeem and replace the negative signs of life. Christ died on the Cross in order to do away with the enmity that divided people and in order to reconcile them to himself. “While we were His enemies, He died for us.” “For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him may not die, but have everlasting life.”
The Cross of Christ embodies and personifies God’s great love for us. The Cross reconciles us to one another; it empowers and enables us to reach out to our fellow persons in need and to help them.When we allow the love of Christ to inspire and motivate us, then there is no limit to what we can do for others. For the Cross of Christ is wisdom and power; it enables us to find countless ways to serve others for the glory of God.
When the Church presents to us the precious Cross for our veneration, it invites us to commit ourselves to Christ and to ask ourselves what we can do for the people around us.
When various church committees came to a pastor to complain that people are not volunteering anymore, the pastor removed the Cross from the altar the following week. When the people inquired about the Cross, the pastor told them that the Cross had lost its true meaning and had become a mere decorative symbol. It was important for their salvation to look into themselves to recapture the true meaning of the Cross before he wouldrestore it on the altar.
Indeed, the Cross stands for God’s sacrificial love for us and Christ’s redemptive work for our salvation. Let these divine gifts become ours by reaching out to our fellow people.
With love,
Fr. John P. Angelis
Saints and Feasts
September 18
Eumenius the Wonderworker, Bishop of Gortynia
This Saint took up the monastic life from his youth, and later became Bishop of Gortynia in Crete. He travelled to Rome, and to Thebes in Upper Egypt, where through his prayers he ended a drought; there also, after working many miracles, he reposed in deep old age. His holy relics were returned to Gortynia and buried at the place called Raxos.
September 18
Ariadne the Martyr
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal First Tone
O Faithful, let us sing a hymn of praise and worship to the Logos, coeternal with the Father and the Spirit, who was born of the Virgin for our salvation. Of His own will He went upon the Cross in the flesh and suffered death, to raise the dead through His glorious Resurrection.
Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Holy Cross in the First Tone
Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting our rulers to prevail over adversaries, and protecting Your commonwealth by Your Cross.
Apolytikion for the Church in the First Tone
The Offspring of Selyvria and Guardian of Aegina, the true friend of virtue who appeared in the last years. Oh Nectarios we faithful honor you as a godly servant of Christ! For you bring forth healings of every kind for those who piously cry out: Glory to Christ who has glorified you, Glory to him who made you wondrous, glory to him who workest healings for all through you.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone
Lifted up on the Cross by Your free will, Christ God, grant mercies to the new commonwealth that bears Your name. Gladden our faithful rulers by Your power, giving them victories over their adversaries. May Your alliance be for them a weapon for peace, an invincible standard.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
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 Galatians 2:16-20.
Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gospel Reading
Sunday after Holy Cross
The Reading is from Mark 8:34-38; 9:1
The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."