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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2023-01-08
Bulletin Contents
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
Announcements
Current Services Schedule
Message from Father John
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
St. Nectarios Services
Baptism
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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

Contact Information

Mrs Tamara Droppo
Board President

jgdt@aol.com | 5093668745

Services Schedule

    Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am

or

    In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am

Past Bulletins


St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco

 

A Tri-Cities Christian Orthodox Community

St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301 

All are welcome at St. Nectarios!


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Announcements

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Annoucements

Nectarios Greek Orthodox Services

Online Services with Father John in Seattle:

     (Special Service) Thursday Jan. 5th at 6pm. Online Divine Liturgy Service in the evening. 

     Saturday Jan. 7th at 5PM. Online Vespers Service 

     Sunday Jan. 8th at 10AM.  Online Divine Liturgy Service with Father John in Seattle  

In-Church Service with Fr. Seraphim Majmudar:  

     Saturday Jan. 14th at 10am.  Divine Liturgy Service

Divine Liturgy Service will be celebrated with Fr. Seraphim Majmudar from Tacoma.  Communion for the faithful will be served.  We are very fortunate to have Fr. Seraphim visiting us in January.  He is in the process of getting ready to move from Tacoma to his new assignment at a church in California.  We are very glad that he is willing to take time in January to come and celebrate Divine Liturgy with us.  Please plan on coming to the Service - and wishing him well in his new assignment! 

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. 

The Online Services will be streamed to Facebook.  To view online Saint Nectarios Services on Facebook (Group “Saint Nectarios – Pasco”) use the link: 

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/  

If you wish to participate directly in any of our online Services (via a Zoom Meeting), just send a request to tricityorthodox@aol.com - and we will add you to our invitation list.


Monthly Orthodox Coptic Services

Monthly Orthodox Coptic Services started in the Tri-Cities in December.  The next Coptic Service is planned for January 20 or 21.  For questions and information about the planned Orthodox Coptic Services, please contact Nader Samaan  (nader.samaan@yahoo.com)


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Current Services Schedule

  • St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

    January 2023

    Sunday, January 1

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Thursday, January 5

    6:00PM Special Online Divine Liturgy

    Friday, January 6

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

    Saturday, January 7

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

    Sunday, January 8

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, January 14

    10:00AM In-Church Divine Liturgy

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

    Sunday, January 15

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, January 21

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

    Sunday, January 22

    10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy

    Saturday, January 28

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

    Sunday, January 29

    10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship

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Message from Father John

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SUNDAY AFTER THEOPHANY

Repent, (Change your mind), For the kingdom of God is at hand!”

The gospel lesson (Matt.4:4-17) for the Sunday after Theophany, sets the terms for our salvation:“ Repent, Metanoite, change your way of thinking!”   Why?  Because the Kingdom of God, “God’s Rule” has already touched us, has arrived. 

Man was created to be in communion with God, to live in God‘s presence. But his disobedience of God allowed something foreign to come into his nature, sin. For man succumbed to the devil’s temptation and allowed the devil and sin to come into him. God did not create sin.  Sin is a parasite which the devil introduced in God’s good nature, after man sinned.

When Christ came, He asked the people to “Repent, to change their way of thinking, and return in humility to God.”  For God has always loved man and wants him to return to Him, to his original communion with Him.  God’s love has the true antidote to heal him from his illness, his sin.  The antidote, the medicine, is His love who sent His Beloved Son to the world to save him.  Christ taught man afresh His Father’s Holy Will, confirmed His teaching with His miracles, poured out His blood on the Cross for his salvation, rose from the dead and ascended to heaven to open the way for man to hope and follow.

As we have entered the New Year, God has renewed His Saving invitation to all of us:  “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.”  God has done His part for our salvation, our renewal.  Now He wants our free response and willing cooperation with His Divine Will to renew and save us.

Without self-awareness and repentance, we resemble a car that has taken out its brakes and is rolling down the hill to its destruction.  But the good driver uses his breaks to control the speed and direction of his car.  The same way, the wise, believing person follows the saving teachings of God, repents for his daily sins and returns in repentance to God to find forgiveness and receive God’s abundant Grace in His Sacraments to live His daily Christian life.

Happy New Year to All!

With love,

 Fr. John P. Angelis


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Saints and Feasts

Baptism
January 08

Sunday after Epiphany

Allsaint
January 08

George of Hozeva

Saint George lived about the beginning of the ninth century in Palestine, in a certain monastery called Hozeva, which lies in a great ravine between Jerusalem and Jericho.

Allsaint
January 08

Domnica the Righteous of Constantinople

Saint Domnica was from Carthage. During the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the Great, she came with four other virgins to Constantinople, where she was baptized by Nectarius, the Patriarch of Constantinople. She remained in Constantinople and became known for her extreme asceticism, the miracles that she worked, and the grace of prophecy that adorned her. She lived until the days of the Emperors Leo and Zeno, reposing in peace about the year 474.

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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 Theophany in the First Tone

Lord, when You were baptized in the Jordan, the veneration of the Trinity was revealed. For the voice of the Father gave witness to You, calling You Beloved, and the Spirit, in the guise of a dove, confirmed the certainty of His words. Glory to You, Christ our God, who appeared and enlightened the world.

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

You appeared to the world today, and Your light, O Lord, has left its mark upon us. With fuller understanding we sing to You: "You came, You were made manifest, the unapproachable light."

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  • Resurrectional Apolytikion in Plagal of the First Tone © Narthex Press
  • Apolytikion for Afterfeast of the Theophany in the First Tone © Narthex Press
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. First Tone. Psalm 32.22,1.
    Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
    Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

    The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 4:7-13.

    BRETHREN, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (in saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

    Gospel Reading

    Sunday after Epiphany
    The Reading is from Matthew 4:12-17

    At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

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    St. Nectarios Services

    Overview of St. Nectarios Services

    St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
     
    Once a month, we are celebrating in-Church Divine Liturgy on Saturdays.  We are thank-full for the Priests that are willing to come and officiate at these Services.  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.

     


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    Phone: (509) 547-3968
    Fax: none / Facebook Group: "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"

    Email: tricityorthodox@aol.com
    Web: http://www.stnectariostricities.org

    Street Address:
    627 West Bonneville Street
    Pasco, WA 99301

    Mailing Address:
    627 West Bonneville Street
    Pasco, WA 99301 Services Schedule:

     

     

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