Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco
St. Nectarios Greek
Orthodox Mission Church
627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301
All are welcome at St. Nectarios!
Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am
or
In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am
St. Nectarios Greek
Orthodox Mission Church
627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301
All are welcome at St. Nectarios!
THIS WEEKEND:
Saturday Nov. 12th at 5pm. An online Vespers Service
Sunday Nov. 13th at 10am . 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. To view online Saint Nectarios Services on Facebook (Group “Saint Nectarios – Pasco”) use the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/
Mark the date! Saturday November 19th. 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!
Thanks to Fr. Dean from Seattle for coming and celebrating Vesperal Divine Liturgy on Saint Nectarios Feast Day.
7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios, St. Nectarios, Tricites WA (Zoom)
5:00PM Vespers Service -Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
7:00PM St Nectarios Feast Day Celebration - All are welcome!
5:00PM Vespers Service -Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
10:00AM Divine Liturgy (In Church) with Fr. Seraphim Majmudar
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 Typica Reader Service + Fellowship (in church)
OUR DEBT TO AND HONOR OF ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
We express our gratitude and we honor our human benefactors for their generosity and gift to us. They make our earthly life more comfortable and enjoyable. We also have intellectual and spiritual benefactors that add depth and meaning to our life on earth and also give us the perspective and certainty of eternal life. One such person was Saint John Chrysostom, whom we honor and commemorate this Sunday.
John’s father died when he was still a small child. His mother, still very young, assumed the responsibility of raising her little son in the Christian faith and sending him to the best schools of that time.
Intellectually he was very gifted. He studied under the mentorship and guidance of the best orator and teacher of his times, Livanios. He had such admiration and love for John for his gifts that he was planning to appoint John his successor in his oratorical school. But John was a devout Christian and Livanios was a non-Christian Orator.
As a deacon and a priest, St. John Chrysostom was preaching the word of God daily in the church of Antioch. We have his sermons, His commentaries, on practically all the books of the new testament and also on some books of the old testament. He was such a mellifluous preacher that he was surnamed Chrysostom, “gold-mouthed.” The words were flowing like honey from his mouth and fed the minds and souls of his audience. St. John also shortened the D. Liturgy of St. Basil and made it available to the Churches for their Sunday worship.
St. John Chrysostom‘s fame spread everywhere and the emperor of the Byzantine empire stole him from Antioch and brought him to Constantinople. He appointed him as the Patriarch of Constantinople. St. John continued his gifted preaching in the church of Saint Sophia. He preached God’s truth for all to hear. He also developed great philanthropy for the poor. He fed 3000 people every day. In his prophetic preaching he chastised the empress Eudoxia when she placed her statue in front of the church. He was threatened and chastised and exiled for his criticism of the palace and of the Royal family for their immorality and mistreatment of the people.
St. John was a true servant of God. He Fearlessly preached the word of God and was not afraid of human threats and persecutions.
Saint John was sent away from his church to exile as a true servant of God. He had offered to his flock all the gifts our precious Lord had given him.
Mistreated St. John died in exile.
Our church honors his memory on November 13. She invites all the faithful to imitate the example of St. John, to love our faith, to live it in their daily life and bear witness to it, as he did.
With love,
Fr. John P. Angelis
This greatest and most beloved of all Christian orators was born in Antioch the Great in the year 344 or 347; his pious parents were called Secundus and Anthusa. After his mother was widowed at the age of twenty, she devoted herself to bringing up John and his elder sister in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. John received his literary training under Anthragathius the philosopher, and Libanius the sophist, who was the greatest Greek scholar and rhetorician of his day. Libanius was a pagan, and when asked before his death whom he wished to have for his successor, he said, "John, had not the Christians stolen him from us." With such a training, and with such gifts as he had by nature, John had before him a brilliant career as a rhetorician. But through the good example of his godly mother Anthusa and of the holy Bishop Meletius of Antioch (see Feb. 12), by whom he was ordained reader about the year 370, he chose instead to dedicate himself to God. From the years 374 to 381 he lived the monastic life in the hermitages that were near Antioch. His extreme asceticism undermined his health, compelling him to return to Antioch, where Saint Meletius ordained him deacon about the year 381. Saint Meletius was called to Constantinople later that year to preside over the Second Ecumenical Council, during which he fell asleep in the Lord. In 386 Bishop Flavian ordained John presbyter of the Church of Antioch. Upon his elevation to the priesthood his career as a public preacher began, and his exceptional oratorical gifts were made manifest through his many sermons and commentaries. They are distinguished by their eloquence and the remarkable ease with which rich imagery and scriptural allusions are multiplied; by their depth of insight into the meaning of Scripture and the workings of God's providence; and, not least of all, by their earnestness and moral force, which issue from the heart of a blameless and guileless man who lived first what he preached to others. Because of his fame, he was chosen to succeed Saint Nectarius as Patriarch of Constantinople. He was taken away by stealth, to avoid the opposition of the people, and consecrated Patriarch of Constantinople on February 28, 398, by Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who was to prove his mortal enemy.
At that time the Emperor of the East was Arcadius, who had had Saint Arsenius the Great as his tutor (see May 8); Arcadius was a man of weak character, and much under the influence of his wife Eudoxia. The zealous and upright Chrysostom's unsparing censures of the lax morals in the imperial city stung the vain Eudoxia; through Theophilus' plottings and her collaboration, Saint John was banished to Pontus in 403. The people were in an uproar, and the following night an earthquake shook the city; this so frightened the Empress Eudoxia that she begged Arcadius to call Chrysostom back. While his return was triumphant, his reconciliation with the Empress did not last long. When she had a silver statue of herself erected in the forum before the Church of the Holy Wisdom (Saint Sophia) in September of 403, and had it dedicated with much unseemly revelry, Saint John thundered against her, and she could not forgive him. In June of 404 he was exiled to Cucusus, on the borders of Cilicia and Armenia. From here he exchanged letters with Pope Innocent of Rome, who sent bishops and priests to Constantinople requesting that a council be held. Saint John's enemies, dreading his return, prevailed upon the Emperor to see an insult in this, and had John taken to a more remote place of banishment called Pityus near the Caucasus. The journey was filled with bitter sufferings for the aged bishop, both because of the harshness of the elements and the cruelty of one of his 310 guards. He did not reach Pityus, but gave up his soul to the Lord near Comana in Pontus, at the chapel of the Martyr Basiliscus (see May 22), who had appeared to him shortly before, foretelling the day of his death, which came to pass on September 14, 407. His last words were "Glory be to God for all things." His holy relics were brought from Comana to Constantinople thirty-one years later by the Emperor Theodosius the Younger and Saint Pulcheria his sister, the children of Arcadius and Eudoxia, with fervent supplications that the sin of their parents against him be forgiven; this return of his holy relics is celebrated on January 27.
Saint John was surnamed Chrysostom ("Golden-mouth") because of his eloquence. He made exhaustive commentaries on the divine Scriptures and was the author of more works than any other Church Father, leaving us complete commentaries on the Book of Genesis, the Gospels of Saints Matthew and John, the Acts, and all the Epistles of Saint Paul. His extant works are 1,447 sermons and 240 epistles. Twenty-two teachers of the Church have written homilies of praise in his honour. Besides his feasts today and on January 27, he is celebrated as one of the Three Hierarchs on January 30, together with Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory the Theologian.
It should be noted that, because September 14 is the Exaltation of the Cross, the Saint's memory has been transferred to this day.
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Prokeimenon. First Tone. Psalm 48.3,1.
My mouth shall speak wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding.
Verse: Hear this all you nations.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 7:26-28; 8:1-2.
Brethren, it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.
8th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 10:25-37
At that time, a lawyer stood up to put Jesus to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have answered right; do this, and you will live."
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.' Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed mercy on him." And Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
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.