May 28
(Updated May 27th)
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!
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2023-05-28
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
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
Contact Information
Services Schedule
Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am
or
In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am
Past Bulletins
- Publish Date:
- 2023-06-04
- Publish Date:
- 2023-05-21
- Publish Date:
- 2023-05-14
- Publish Date:
- 2023-05-07
- Publish Date:
- 2023-04-30
- Publish Date:
- 2023-04-23
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
Announcements
UPCOMING SERVICES
This Week:
Saturday Evening May 27th. 5 PM Online Vespers Service, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday Morning May 28th. 10 AM. In-church Typica (reader) Service. Plan on celebrating this Service with us. And joining us for our Light Lunch Fellowship Time following the Typica Service. Bring a dish to share - or just come and enjoy!
Next in-church Divine Liturgy:
Saturday, June the 10th. 10 AM Father Michael Tervo will celebrate Divine Liturgy with us at Saint Nectarios (the leave-taking of Holy Pentecost). Mark the date - and join us for the Service and light lunch Fellowship Time following the Typica Service.
Current Services Schedule
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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
May 28 to June 11, 2023
Sunday, May 2810:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
Friday, June 27:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios, St. Nectarios, Tricites WA (Zoom)
Saturday, June 35:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday, June 410:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
Saturday, June 1010:00AM ** In-Church Divine Liturgy - Father Michael Tervo
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online, St Nectarios, Tri-Cities WA
Sunday, June 1110:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
Message from Father John
GUARDIANS OF THE TRUTH
As individuals, we appoint guardians for our children and estate, to carry out our wishes. We give power to our guardians to act on our behalf, to protect what is valuable and precious to us. As a Nation, we place guards over our national treasures and tightly reinforce their security. Whoever dares to violate the sacredness and security of our national treasures is apprehended and persecuted.
The Church is the Guardian of God’s Truth. Jesus revealed to His Disciples the Truth about His Father, Himself and the Holy Spirit. He enabled them, through the Holy Spirit, to understand His Truth and pass it on to their successors, the clergy and the lay people who believed through them. Both clergy and laity together are the guardians of God’s saving truth. As such, we have a sacred responsibility to first live God’s Truth in our lives and then to pass it on in all its purity to the coming generations.
The 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council safeguarded the Truth of our Church. When Arius began to distort the Truth of the Bible and Holy Tradition and teach heresies about the Person of Jesus Christ, the Holy Fathers confronted him and refuted his impious heresy. They gathered together in Nicaea in 325 A.D. To state unequivocally the True Belief and Teaching of the Orthodox Church. The Nicene Creed, which they composed, clearly articulates the Teaching of the Orthodox Church about Jesus, the Son of God: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-Begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages. Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with the Father, through Whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was Incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man…”
Many of the Holy Fathers present at the Council of Nicaea carried on their bodies the marks of persecution. Some had been blinded, others had had their ears, noses, and hands cut off, or had lost other members of their bodies, because they dared to confess Christ as their Lord and True God. Among the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council were great charismatics and miracle-workers, such as St. Spyridon and St. Nicholas, and great theologians, like St. Athanasius. All of them were great guardians of the Truth and used their gifts to proclaim the pure Faith of God’s Church.
Saint Paul had warned the Elders of the Church of Ephesus in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles about the forthcoming attacks from within and outside the bosom of the Church. In our times we have seen many persecutions of the Orthodox Church. We cannot control the temptations and persecutions that will come on our way. However, we can control our response to them by knowing and living our Faith and by being ready to bear witness to the people around us. This is the legacy and the example of the Holy Fathers left for us to follow. They became imitators of Christ and His Apostles and true Guardians of the Truth.
Let us imitate and follow them with our words and Godly life.
With love,
Fr. John Angelis
Saints and Feasts
May 28
Fathers of the 1st Council
The heresiarch Arius was a Libyan by race and a protopresbyter of the Church of Alexandria. In 315, he began to blaspheme against the Son and Word of God, saying that He is not true God, consubstantial with the Father, but is rather a work and creation, alien to the essence and glory of the Father, and that there was a time when He was not. This frightful blasphemy shook the faithful of Alexandria. Alexander, his Archbishop, after trying in vain to correct him through admonitions, cut him off from communion and finally in a local council deposed him in the year 321. Yet neither did the blasphemer wish to be corrected, nor did he cease sowing the deadly tares of his heretical teachings; but writing to the bishops of other cities, Arius and his followers requested that his doctrine be examined, and if it were unsound, that the correct teaching be declared to him. By this means, his heresy became universally known and won many supporters, so that the whole Church was soon in an uproar.
Therefore, moved by divine zeal, the first Christian Sovereign, Saint Constantine the Great, the equal to the Apostles, summoned the renowned First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, a city of Bithynia. It was there that the shepherds and teachers of the Church of Christ gathered from all regions in the year 325. All of them, with one mouth and one voice, declared that the Son and Word of God is one in essence with the Father, true God of true God, and they composed the holy Symbol of Faith up to the seventh article (since the remainder, beginning with "And in the Holy Spirit," was completed by the Second Ecumenical Council). Thus they anathematized the impious Arius of evil belief and those of like mind with him, and cut them off as rotten members from the whole body of the faithful.
Therefore, recognizing the divine Fathers as heralds of the Faith after the divine Apostles, the Church of Christ has appointed this present Sunday for their annual commemoration, in thanksgiving and unto the glory of God, unto their praise and honour, and unto the strengthening of the true Faith.
May 28
Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene
All information concerning this Martyr has been lost, except that he presented himself before the tyrants, mocked the idols, suffered many unspeakable torments, and was finally drowned in the sea.
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal Second Tone
O Christ, the angelic powers appeared at Your tomb, the guards were as dead, and Mary stood by the sepulcher, seeking Your sacred body. You destroyed Hades yet remained untouched by it. You encountered the Virgin and through her, bestowed Life. Glory to You who has risen from the dead!
Apolytikion for Holy Ascension in the Fourth Tone
O Christ our God, You ascended in Glory and gladdened Your disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. Your blessing assured them that You are the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world.
Apolytikion for Fathers of the 1st Council in the Plagal Fourth Tone
You are greatly glorified, O Christ our God, who established our Fathers as luminaries upon the earth, and through them led us all to the true Faith. O Most compassionate, glory to You.
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 Plagal Second Tone
O Christ our God, upon fulfilling Your dispensation for our sake, You ascended in Glory, uniting the earthly with the heavenly. You were never separate but remained inseparable, and cried out to those who love You, "I am with you and no one is against you."
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Fourth Tone. Daniel 3.26,27.
Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers.
Verse: For you are just in all you have done.
The reading is from Acts of the Apostles 20:16-18, 28-36.
IN THOSE DAYS, Paul had decided to sail past Ephesos, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. And from Miletos he sent to Ephesos and called to him the elders of the church. And when they came to him, he said to them: "Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. In all things I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, 'it is more blessed to give than to receive.' " And when he had spoken thus, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
Gospel Reading
Fathers of the 1st Council
The Reading is from John 17:1-13
At that time, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do; and now, Father, you glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made.
"I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you; for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you did send me. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are mine; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."
St. Nectarios Services
Overview of St. Nectarios Services
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:
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