April 07
(Updated 4/2/2024)
Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Serving Tricity Orthodox Christians
627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301
All are welcome at St. Nectarios!
St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2024-04-07
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:
- 2024-03-24
- Publish Date:
- 2024-03-17
- Publish Date:
- 2024-03-10
- Publish Date:
- 2024-03-03
- Publish Date:
- 2024-02-25
- Publish Date:
- 2024-02-11
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
Announcements
Annoucements
IN CHURCH SERVICES DURING APRIL
Saturday, April 13: 10:00AM Divine Greek Orthodox Liturgy (Fr. Dean)
Saturday, April 20: 8:30AM Coptic Holy Liturgy (Guest Priest)
ONLINE THIS WEEK
Friday, April 5th: 7PM Online Akathist Hymn to Saint Nectarios
Saturday April 6th: 5PM Online Vespers Service
Sunday April 7th: 10AM Online Divine Liturgy
Sunday April 7th: 1PM Enquirers Class
Saint Nectarios Church - Pasco WA USA invites you to join us for these in-church and online Services. For online Services, view on Facebook (Group - "Saint Nectarios - Pasco").
For information and questions - call Jim or Tammy Droppo at 5O9 366-8745.
Current Services Schedule
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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
April 2024
Monday, April 17:00PM Great Compline Service
Friday, April 57:00PM Akathist to St. Nectarios
Saturday, April 65:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
Sunday, April 710:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online
1:00PM Enquirers Class (Tentative)
Monday, April 87:00PM Great Compline Service
Friday, April 127:00PM Small Compline Service
Saturday, April 1310:00AM (IN CHURCH) Divine Liturgy will be celebrated with Fr. Dean
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
Sunday, April 1410:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online
1:00PM Enquirers Class (Tentative)
Monday, April 157:00PM Great Compline Service
Friday, April 197:00PM Small Compline Service
Saturday, April 208:30AM (IN CHURCH) Coptic Holy Liturgy Service
10:00AM Vesperal Liturgy of St. Basil (Online)
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
Sunday, April 2110:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online
1:00PM Enquirers Class (Tentative)
Monday, April 227:00PM Great Compline Service
Friday, April 267:00PM Small Compline Service
Saturday, April 2710:00AM Saturday Morning. Palm Folding Activity
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
Sunday, April 28Receive a Blessed Palm Cross at the Typica Service
Orthodox Palm Sunday
10:00AM Palm Sunday - Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
7:00PM Bridegroom Service (Online)
Monday, April 297:00PM Bridegroom Service (Online)
Tuesday, April 307:00PM Bridegroom Service (Online)
Message from Father John
Weekly Message from Father John
SUNDAY OF THE VENERATION OF THE PRECIOUS CROSS
On the Third Sunday of Great Lent in our Church,
We respectfully venerate the precious Cross.
We recall the Crucifixion of Christ our Savior.
With compunction we kiss His precious Cross.
We don’t venerate a simple cruciform wood.
We venerate Christ’s Divine, precious Cross.
Christ saved us with His death on the Cross;
When His human Body was nailed on the Cross.
Whatever touches God with faith is sanctified,
As the former execution instrument of the cross.
God takes and uses the everyday simple elements;
Through them He bestows upon us His divine Grace.
He takes the simple, running, refreshing water;
He sanctifies it with His Grace into Holy Water.
He takes the pure, virgin oil of the olive tree,
And He makes it Holy Unction, for our healing.
To the bread and wine, that we offer with piety,
We invoke with fervent prayer the Holy Spirit
To descent, to sanctify us and our gifts to Him;
In order to partake of them for our salvation.
We, the inquisitive mortals on our planet earth,
Want to analyze everything, instantaneously.
But the inscrutable and divine realities of God,
We can only experience with awe; mystically.
Our Merciful, Benevolent God invites us daily,
To come to His Temple with abiding, living faith .
To receive the H. Sacraments with awe and piety.
Our spiritual experience will solve our rational quest.
The Uncreated Grace of God is not illogical or irrational;
His Grace is Divine, Spiritual, invisible, super-logical.
Our five senses are incapable of comprehending it;
Our soul and noetic mind shine when they experience it.
You cannot see God’s Grace coming from somewhere.
But you experience it in your being, as it enlightens you.
Recall the shining Grace on St. Seraphim’s of Sarov face,
His whole being shone with grace to enlighten his visitor.
Our Church invites us to approach the Precious Cross:
To venerate the Divine Cross with awe and compunction.
His divine Grace, which mortals receive through the Cross,
God also will bestow upon us, to make us His friends.
With love,
Fr. John P. Angelis
Saints and Feasts
April 07
Sunday of the Holy Cross
With the help of God, we have almost reached the middle of the course of the Fast, where our strength has been worn down through abstinence, and the full difficulty of the labour set before us becomes apparent. Therefore our holy Mother, the Church of Christ, now brings to our help the all-holy Cross, the joy of the world, the strength of the faithful, the staff of the just, and the hope of sinners, so that by venerating it reverently, we might receive strength and grace to complete the divine struggle of the Fast.
April 07
Calliopus and Akylina the Martyrs
The holy Martyr Calliopius was from Perga in Pamphylia, brought up in piety by his godly mother Theocleia. When the persecution of Maximian broke out, Saint Calliopius presented himself of his own accord before the Governor Maximus in Pompeiopolis of Galatia. After he had suffered many torments, his mother visited him in prison and encouraged him in his martyrdom. After this, his thrice-blessed mother, upon learning that he was to be crucified on Holy and Great Thursday, bribed the tyrants to defer it one day, that he might imitate the Lord's Crucifixion on the same day that He suffered it. The holy Martyr Calliopius received the crown of martyrdom on Holy and Great Friday in the year 304, being crucified upside down.
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad, for the Lord by His Might, has created a Dominion. He has conquered death by death, and become the first-born of the dead. He has delivered us from the depths of Hades, and has granted the world great mercy.
Apolytikion for Sun. of the Holy Cross in the First Tone
Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting our rulers to prevail over adversaries, and protecting Your commonwealth by Your Cross.
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 Fourth Tone
To you, Theotokos, invincible Defender, having been delivered from peril, I, your city, dedicate the victory festival as a thank offering. In your irresistible might, keep me safe from all trials, that I may call out to you: "Hail, unwedded bride!"
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
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 4:14-16; 5:1-6.
BRETHREN, since we have a high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. And one does not take the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee"; as he says also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Gospel Reading
Sunday of the Holy Cross
The Reading is from Mark 8:34-38; 9:1
The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
St. Nectarios Services
Overview of St. Nectarios Services
ST. NECTARIOS GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION CHURCH
Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco.
This Tri-Cities Christian Orthodox Community has a church located at 627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301. All are invited to attend. A light lunch fellowship time normally follows the In-Church Liturgy and Typica Services.
Prayers: Please send us (or call us) with names of those you would like to be included in our prayers for healing. Frist names may be entered in the St Nectarios - Pasco Group.
INFORMATION SOURCES
For information on services and activities, you may:
1) access our "Saint Nectarios - Pasco" Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/
2) access the church website:
Welcome to Our Parish Website | St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission (stnectariostricities.org)
3) The online Saint Nectarios Bulletin is the best source of up to date) information on church Services and activities. ( http://bulletinbuilder.org/stnectariospasco/ )
NOTIFICATIONS
To receive the weekly Services Reminder by email, please send an email request.
For those not connected to the internet, please call Jim (on 5O9 366 8745) to request either
a) by a phone call on the 'week of the in-church Service'
or
b) by a weekly smart-phone Service reminder text message.
CHURCH SERVICES
Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy. Each month, we try to have at least one Divine Liturgy (with a visiting Priest). That Service is normally on a Saturday (or a Special Service/Feast weekday) and is scheduled when a Priest is available. In addition to communion during the Service, private meetings with the Priest are available by appointment (for personal matters, planning future events, and Confession).
Special Invitation - Saint Nectarios Church welcomes all: During Divine Liturgy, which is mostly in English, the Lord's Prayer is said by parishioners in their native languages. Currently the prayer is normally said in English, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Greek. If you wish to participate (and perhaps add a language), just let us know.
On most weeks, we remotely celebrate Saturday Vespers and Sunday Online Divine Liturgy with Father John in the Seattle area. During the remote Divine Liturgy, Communion is served to Father's attending family and friends - but is unavailable to those participating online.
Online Greek Orthodox Vespers and Other Special Services are normally celebrated online with Father John in Seattle. The link for joining Zoom to actively participate in on-line Services is
https://goarch.zoom.us/j/98009355049?pwd=UmttUUN2aG4raUc4WS9Zelo1REYxdz09
On the last Sunday of each month, there normally is a Typica Reader Service with a Parish Fellowship Time. This in-Church Service is held as an opportunity to bring the local community together - and hopefully eventually returning St. Nectarios to having a full time Priest.
All are welcome to join in the celebration these Christian Orthodox Services.
Tri-Cities Coptic Church Services
Saint Mary and Saint Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church. This Coptic Church is currently holding services at the St. Nectarios Church. A Saturday or Sunday Holy Liturgy with a visiting Priest is nromally held once per month. All are invited to attend. A fellowship time and Christian Study Class for older students normally follows the Services. For more information, please contact Nader Samaan (nader.samaan@yahoo.com) or access the website:
https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/
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Have Bulletin input? Have Suggestions/Questions? Want Help or Information?
Call the Editor, Jim Droppo, 5O9 366-8745.