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!
SERVICES THIS WEEK
Monday March 13 , 2023
7:00PM Great Compline Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Friday March 17 , 2023
7:00PM Small Compline Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Saturday March 18, 2023
4:00PM to 4:45PM Enquirers Class - Online. A recent book on Orthodoxy has been tentatively selected as a study guide. The book is by Presvytera Jeannie Constantinou entitled "Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind."
5:00PM to 5:45PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday March 19 , 2023
10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
The link for joining these Zoom meetings is:
https://goarch.zoom.us/j/98009355049?pwd=UmttUUN2aG4raUc4WS9Zelo1REYxdz09
Most Services will be streamed live to Facebook Group: 'Saint Nectarios - Pasco' Please contact us by email, if you would like an invitation to join the live Zoom-based Service with Father John.
Bottles of blessed holy water and 2023 Ecumenical Calendars are available at the Church.
Links to Recent Saint Nectarios Service Videos
Divine Liturgy - Saturday March 11, 2023 with Father Dean from Seattle.
Great Compline. Monday Evening March 6, 2023, Fr. John P. Angelis and Saint Nectarios Choir
https://www.facebook.com/100001716983951/videos/159345876964657/
Additional Lenten Services Videos are available on Facebook Group "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"
Orthodox Coptic Services will be on April 23rd (Sunday), and May 21st (Sunday). These Services are being held in the main seating area of the St Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church in the Tri-Cities WA.
All are invited to attend these Services - when there is an overlap of the Greek Online Services and the Copic Services, the faithful may choose to attend either.
For questions and information about the planned Orthodox Coptic in-church Services and youth education activity, please contact Nader Samaan (nader.samaan@yahoo.com).
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
7:00PM Compline Service - Online
7:00PM Compline Service - Online
4:00PM Orthodox Online Enquirers Classes - Saint Nectarios Church
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
4:00PM Orthodox Online Enquirers Classes - Saint Nectarios Church
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
4:00PM Orthodox Online Enquirers Classes - Saint Nectarios Church
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios, St. Nectarios, Tricites WA (Zoom)
4:00PM Orthodox Online Enquirers Classes - Saint Nectarios Church
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
Christ's Cross is the most powerful symbol of victory and the most beloved ornament of the Christians. For the Cross of Christ stands for the love of God for us. It shows us how much God loves us. His only-begotten Son took on our human nature, fulfilled His Father’s Will, which we had failed to do, and He died on the Cross in order to defeat sin and death and grant us eternal salvation and freedom.
In our Lenten effort to do the Will of God and to conform our daily lives to the teaching of Christ, we encounter many obstacles. Some of them spring from within, our personal weaknesses, and others from the outside. Remember, for example, the spreading of the coronavirus and our limitation to go to our Church Temple to worship God and to receive Holy Communion and the blessing of Christ’s Cross.
Our Journey towards Easter appears uphill and difficult. To encourage and strengthen us, our Church presents to us the veneration of the Cross of Christ. It seeks to first remind us that all those who wish to follow Christ must carry their own personal crosses. Secondly, it reassures us that we are not alone in our efforts. Christ is with us to help us and inspire us with His Cross to continue our journey until we reach our destination. We believe in a victorious Risen Lord.
After we baptize and/or anoint a child or an adult, we place the cross around his/her neck with these words: “Whoever wants to come after me let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” The Christian life is a continuous effort to follow Christ. The Lenten Season accentuates this effort and reminds us of our need to discipline our bodies and feed our spirits. But we cannot do it alone. We need God’s presence and assistance.
Let us set aside time every day to pray, to read the Gospel of St. Mark, the Letter to the Hebrews, The Book of Isaiah the Prophet, The Book of the Proverbs, the Psalms, and the Book of Genesis. These Lenten Biblical Readings, together with other Lenten books and practices, offer us spiritual nourishment and guidance. God is speaking to us through them.
Let us also fast according to our ability, examine ourselves spiritually, confess our sins to God in repentance and come frequently to Holy Communion, when our Sunday Services are available to us in person. There can be no true spiritual life without participating in the life-giving Sacraments, when they are available to us.
Finally, let us become generous in our almsgiving towards our needy brothers and sisters, especially during this testing period of the Coronavirus.
With love, Fr. John P. Angelis
Saint Gregory was born in Rome to noble and wealthy parents about the year 540. While the Saint was still young, his father died. However, his mother, Sylvia, saw to it that her child received a good education in both secular and spiritual learning. He became Prefect of Rome and sought to please God even while in the world; later, he took up the monastic life; afterwards he was appointed Archdeacon of Rome, then, in 579, apocrisiarius (representative or Papal legate) to Constantinople, where he lived for nearly seven years. He returned to Rome in 585 and was elected Pope in 590. He is renowned especially for his writings and great almsgiving, and also because, on his initiative, missionary work began among the Anglo-Saxon people. It is also from him that Gregorian Chant takes its name; the chanting he had heard at Constantinople had deeply impressed him, and he imported many elements of it into the ecclesiastical chant of Rome. He served as Bishop of that city from 590 to 604.
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Prokeimenon. Plagal Second Tone. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 1:10-14; 2:1-3.
IN THE BEGINNING, Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment, like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end." But to what angel has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet?" Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?
Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him.
Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
The Reading is from Mark 2:1-12
At that time, Jesus entered Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak thus? It is a blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your pallet and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"-he said to the paralytic-"I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home." And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"