(Updated May 3rd - New Bulletin)
Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
A Tri-Cities Christian Orthodox Community
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
Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
A Tri-Cities Christian Orthodox Community
627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301
All are welcome at St. Nectarios!
CHRIST is RISEN!
This Week
Friday Evening May 5. 7PM Online Akathist Hymn to Saint Nectarios, Wonderworker of Aegina and Pentapoli. Feel welcome to join us on Facebook - and read this special service for healing of the sick along with us.
Saturday Evening May 6. 5 PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday Morning May 7. 10 AM Online Divine Liturgy Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
In Church Services Later this Month
Saturday May 13th. 10 AM A Christian Orthodox Greek Divine Liturgy Service will be celebrated with Fr. Daniel Triant. The Service will start at 10AM. A fellowship time will be held after the Service. You may bring food items to share during this fellowship time - or just come and enjoy!
Sunday May 21st. 9 AM to 11 AM, In-church Orthodox Coptic Morning Services. A fellowship time and Childrens Christian Study Class will follow the Services. For more information please contact Nader Samaan (nader.samaan@yahoo.com).
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
10:00AM In Church Divine Liturgy Service with Fr. Daniel Triant
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Service to be determined
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
9:00AM Coptic Liturgy Service
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
The paralytic by the pool of Siloam did not have anyone to help him to get into the pool when the angel brought God’s healing to its waters. The paralytic was very discouraged after thirty-eight years of waiting for healing. So, when Jesus approached him and asked if he wanted to be healed, the paralytic expressed to Him all his pain and frustration: “I have no one to help me to get into the pool when the angel stirs the water.”
Jesus told him “don’t say I have no one to help me.” “Rise, take up your mat and go home!” “But sin no more. Otherwise, something worse would fall upon you!”
The medical profession repeatedly warns us of the consequences of harmful substances on our health. If we heed their warning, we would avoid the pain of the diseases and disabilities they bring about to our health. We reap the fruits of both the psychosomatic influences and harmful substances. Sin has altered the good nature of God in many ways that some of its plants and minerals have become harmful to us. Unfortunately, unkind people use these substances to control and harm other people. We need to protect ourselves and our families from them.
Sin has great consequences. God sent His Son to us to free us from sin. He forgave our sins and wants us to confess our sins, when, out of weakness or disobedience to Him, we sin against His saving Commandments. Forgiven, only then we will find inner peace in our life and experience the joy of His Resurrection and victory over our enemy, the devil and sin.
With love,
Fr. John P. Angelis
Close to the Sheep's Gate in Jerusalem, there was a pool, which was called the Sheep's Pool. It had round about it five porches, that is, five sets of pillars supporting a domed roof. Under this roof there lay very many sick people with various maladies, awaiting the moving of the water. The first to step in after the troubling of the water was healed immediately of whatever malady he had.
It was there that the paralytic of today's Gospel way lying, tormented by his infirmity of thirty-eight years. When Christ beheld him, He asked him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" And he answered with a quiet and meek voice, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool." The Lord said unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." And straightaway the man was made whole and took up his bed. Walking in the presence of all, he departed rejoicing to his own house. According to the expounders of the Gospels, the Lord Jesus healed this paralytic during the days of the Passover, when He had gone to Jerusalem for the Feast, and dwelt there teaching and working miracles. According to Saint John the Evangelist, this miracle took place on the Sabbath.
On this day in the year 351, not long after Cyril had succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem, during the reign of Constantius, the son of Saint Constantine the Great, on the day of Pentecost, the sign of the Cross appeared over Jerusalem. Saint Cyril, in his letter to the Emperor Constantius, says, "At about the third hour of the day, an enormous Cross, formed of light, appeared in the heaven above holy Golgotha and reaching to the holy Mount of Olives, being seen not by one or two only, but manifest with perfect clarity to the whole multitude of the city; not, as one might suppose, rushing swiftly past in fancy, but seen openly above the earth many hours in plain sight, and overcoming the beams of the sun with its dazzling rays" (PG 33:1 16q).
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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 Acts of the Apostles 9:32-42.
In those days, as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints that lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity. In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, "Please come to us without delay." So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive. And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Sunday of the Paralytic
The Reading is from John 5:1-15
At that time, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water; whoever stepped in first after the troubling of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked.
Now that day was the sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet." But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.' "They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your pallet, and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
IN-CHURCH:
Sunday in-church Services. Most Sundays will have a Greek Orthodox Typica Reader Service starting at 10AM. However, some Sundays will have a celebration of a Divine Liturgy Service. A Christian Sunday Divine Liturgy Service may be either Greek Orthodox or Coptic Orthodox depending on the availability of a Priest to officiate. All are welcome to come and celebrate these Divine Liturgy Service.
Saturday Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Each month, there is normally at least one Saturday Greek Othodox Divine Liturgy Service with a visiting Priest.
Christian education classes for the youth are held after in-church Divine Liturgy Services
ONLINE:
Vespers and Other Special Services are normally celebrated online with Father John in Seattle.
The link for joining Zoom on-line Services is
https://goarch.zoom.us/j/98009355049?pwd=UmttUUN2aG4raUc4WS9Zelo1REYxdz09
Most Services will be streamed live to Facebook Group: 'Saint Nectarios - Pasco'
LATEST INFOMATION: The latest updates to the schedule of Services at St. Nectarios may be viewed in the St Nectarios Bulletin using the following link: The Bulletin is updated whenever changes occur and is, as a result is the best source for most recent Service schedules.
http://bulletinbuilder.org/stnectariospasco/
FACEBOOK GROUP - Saint Nectarios - Pasco. 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 Facebook link: