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St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2017-07-30
Bulletin Contents
Schedule of Services
Special Services
News & Events
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese News
Assembly of Bishops News
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Hymns of the Day
Kontakion of the Fallen Asleep
Saints and Feasts
Wisdom of the Fathers
Loavesfishes
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St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 408.605.0621
  • Street Address:

  • 9th and Lincoln, Carmel-by-the-Sea

  • ,
  • Mailing Address:


  • PO Box 5808 Carmel by the Sea, CA 93921

Contact Information

Priest: Father Ion Coman


fatherion@gmail.com | 408.605.0621

Services Schedule

  • Sunday Orthros and Divine Liturgy: 8:30 a.m.
  • Week day feasts Orthros and Liturgy: 8:30 a.m. - see Liturgical Calendar
  • Paraklesis most Wednesdays: 6 p.m. - see Liturgical Calendar

Past Bulletins


Schedule of Services

Saturday, July 29
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, July 30
    8:30am  Orthros + Liturgy 
Tuesday, August 1 Dormition Fast Begins/ Saint Seraphim of Sarov (old calendar)
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Wednesday, August 2
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
    7:00pm  Dinner and Group Discussion
Thursday, August 3
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Friday, August 4
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Saturday, August 5
    6:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, August 6 HOLY TRANSFIGURATION
    8:30am  Orthros + Liturgy
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Monday, August 7
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Tuesday, August 8
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Wednesday, August 9
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
    7:00pm  Dinner and Group Discussion
Thursday, August 10
   6:00pm  Paraklesis
Friday, August 11
    6:00pm  Paraklesis
Saturday, August 12
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, August 13
    8:30am  Orthros + Liturgy
    12:00pm  Orthodoxy 101/ Catechism Class
    6:00pm  Paraklesis

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Special Services

This Sunday's memorial service is for:
- The servant of God Zlatan Drumev (9 days), husband of Olga and the father of Rumiana.
- The servant of God Andromahi, grandmother of Mahi Falida who passed suddenly in Greece a few days ago.

May their memory be eternal!
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News & Events

SAN JOSE CHOIR

Unfortunately, the choir from our sister church in San Jose will not be able to visit with us this Sunday as intended. We hope to find another opportunity this fall. We are thankful for their desire to come down to Carmel and worship with us.


NEW: FAMILY EVENINGS

With great excitement, we are preparing for the first FAMILY EVENING. This is a new ministry centered around the need to bring families together for fellowship and spiritual growth and to enable us all to develop as members of Saint John's family.

This is a potluck dinner event that will take place on Friday, July 28 from 5:30 p.m. at the Community Center in La Mesa, Monterey. The time and the location are set to enable families with younger children to participate. Child care will be provided for the time of the adult time together. If you can, please bring a dish to share - Friday's are fasting days.

The schedule is as follows:

  • 5:30 - 6:00pm - Family potluck dinner -we all eat together.
  • 6:00 - 7:00pm - Short movie/ presentation, small group discussions and fellowship.
  • 7:00 pm - More fellowship time...

This first gathering will begin "A Journey to Fullness" as seed for the group discussions.


A JOURNEY TO FULLNESS

This is the title of the newly released set of short presentations by Father Barnabas Powell. We will watch them together and discuss in small groups how we our journey takes us to the fullness of the original Christian Faith. Excellent material, professionally crafted and put on the screen with much love and enthusiasm. The first episode will be shown and discussed at the first FAMILY EVENINGS gathering on Friday, July 28.


PARISH ASSEMBLY MEETING

Our Parish Assembly Meeting scheduled for Sunday, August 6, following Divine Liturgy.  We encourage you to attend this important meeting of all parishioners to learn all the news. You won't want to miss it!


ORTHODOXY 101/ CATECHISM CLASS

A new Orthodoxy 101/ Catechism cycle will begin on Sunday, August 13 to end at the end of the Great and Holy Lent. The meetings will take place on Sundays after the coffee hour, the first one being an Introductory class. To sign up for the class, please contact Father Ion.


PARAKLESIS, POTLUCK AND WORKSHOP

Next week's Wednesday Paraklesis will be followed by the small group discussion inspired by the delicious potluck dinner. We will partake of some Desert Wisdom and we will discuss about applying it to our lives in the modern age.

6:00pm – Paraklesis
6:45pm – Lenten Potluck dinner and discussion: "Desert Wisdom"


PHILOPTOCHOS NEWS

Congratulations to our new board of directors, and much gratitude for your love and enthusiasm for our chapter of Philoptochos.
 
The board of directors, and executive board members are as follows:
 
Chapter Advisor -- Rania Zavitsanos
President – Alexandra Mouzas
1st VP – Marianna Leontis
Treasurer – Rania Zavitsanos
Recording Secretary – Jenny Stuhlmiller
Corresponding Secretary – Christina Pressas
Board Member – Chris Georgalos
Board Member --  Sandy Sanders
Board Member --  Sheila Doyle-Rickenbacker, also serving as alternate Corresponding Secretary, and Event Committee
Board Member --  Ann Zavitsanos
 
Events:
- Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, 8-8 at 5:30
- Camp Agape 2017, 8-17,18,19,20  If anyone is interested in becoming a volunteer at this year’s Camp, please contact Alexandra Mouzas 619-518-2755 or alex@alexandramouzas.com
- Fall General Breakfast Meeting & Lecture with Father Milutin on Saturday, September 16 at 10:00AM Secombe Hall, details to follow.


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GREEK FESTIVAL PREPARATIONS

We finished cooking the Karithopita (Walnut Cake), and another three hundred Dolmades for the Taverna Night. Pastitsio is being prepared this Friday and Saturday. There will only be two more chances to join the cooking team for fellowship and service and to learn some delicious recipes. Remaining on the schedule are: Galaktoboureko (custard pie with phyllo) and Apricot Baklava. Please join us; “Many hands make light work.”

Upcoming Cooking Schedule - all cooking to take place in Salinas, unless otherwise noted.

    Tuesday, August 15 Galactobouriko 12
    Thursday, August 17 Galactobouriko 9
    Tuesday, August 29 Apricot Baklava, 12 pm
    Thursday, August 31 Apricot Baklava 9 am
    Question about this event? Call Sandy Sanders at 831.229.1937

     Friday, July 28, after 4:00 Pastitsio sauce & noodles
     Saturday, July 29, from 10:00 am - assemble Pastitsio
     Question about this event? Call Rania Zavitsanos at 831.402.4111

Bring with you a sack lunch and your apron.  More dates will be announced for other items soon.


NEW: CONNECT!

We now have three new Facebook Groups for you to consider:

  • Families - for parents (and grandparents) to keep in touch and plan events.
  • Newbies - for catechumens and new people in our community.
  • Military - for families of the military in the area, both active and retired.

These are closed groups. Add your friends who might enjoy being part of them or, to join, please contact Julia Wheeler.


SERVING THESE SUNDAYS

The teams on duty these coming Sundays are:

July 30
   Welcoming:  Anthony Zavitsanos
   Parish Council Member:  Euthimios Saites
   Fellowship: Everyone!! - always 5th Sunday of the month.

August 6
   Welcoming:  Anne Zavitsanos
   Parish Council Member:  Hussam Ibrahim
   Fellowship: Team 1 (Gold) – always 1st Sunday of the month


SUNDAY SCHOOL SUMMER BREAK

The Sunday School will enjoy the summer break until September. See you in church!


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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Eighth Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from John 20:11-18

At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that He had said these things to her.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. Psalm 28.11,1.
The Lord will give strength to his people.
Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.

The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 1:10-17.

BRETHREN, I appeal to you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brethren. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispos and Gaius; lest any one should say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any one else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Gospel Reading

8th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 14:14-22

At that time, Jesus saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat." They said to him, "We have only five loaves here and two fish." And he said, "Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the crowds. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Mode

By means of Your Cross, O Lord, You abolished death. To the robber You opened Paradise. The lamentation of the myrrh-bearing women You transformed, and You gave Your Apostles the order to proclaim to all that You had risen, O Christ our God, and granted the world Your great mercy.

Apolytikion of St. John the Baptist in the 2nd Mode

The memory of the just is celebrated with hymns of praise, but the Lord's testimony is sufficient for you, O Forerunner; for you have proved to be truly even more venerable than the Prophets, since you were granted to baptize in the running waters Him Whom they proclaimed. Wherefore, having contested for the truth, you did rejoice to announce the good tidings even to those in Hades:  that God has appeared in the flesh, taking away the sin of the world and granting us great mercy.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Grave Mode

Upon the mountain were You transfigured, and Your disciples beheld Your glory as far as they were able, O Christ our God; so that when they would see You crucified they might understand that Your Passion was deliberate, and declare to the world that in truth You are the Father's radiance.
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Kontakion of the Fallen Asleep

Remember, O Lord, as good, your servants, and forgive whatever sins in life they committed, for no one is without sin, except you the Mighty One; and grant rest to them who have been removed from among us.

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Saints and Feasts

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July 30

8th Sunday of Matthew

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July 31

Joseph the Righteous of Arimathea

Saint Joseph of Arimathea was a prominent Jewish leader during the time of Jesus Christ. He is mentioned in the Gospels as being a rich man from Armiathea who was a secret disciple of Christ due to his status in the Sanhedrin. After the crucifixion and death of our Lord, Joseph approached Pontius Pilate out of piety and asked for the body of Jesus so that he might bury it honorably. He, together with Saint Nicodemus, removed the body of Christ from the cross in the presence of the Theotokos and the Myrrh-Bearing Women, wrapped it in a linen shroud, anointed it with spices, and laid it in a new tomb that he owned. This disciple later traveled the world proclaiming the Gospel until he reposed in peace in England. The Church commemorates him individually on July 31st and along with the Myrrh-Bearing Women and Nicodemus on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha (the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearers).

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August 01

Procession of the Precious Cross

Because of the many diseases that occur in the month of August, the custom prevailed of old in Constantinople to carry the precious Wood of the Cross in procession throughout the city for its sanctification and its deliverance from illnesses. It was brought forth from the imperial treasury on the last day of July and placed upon the Holy Table of the Great Church of the Holy Wisdom; and beginning today, until the Dormition of the Theotokos, it was carried in procession throughout the city and was set forth for veneration before the people.

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August 04

Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus

The Seven Youths hid themselves in a certain cave near Ephesus in the year 250, to escape the persecution of Decius. By divine grace, a sleep came upon them and they slept for 184 years, until the reign of Saint Theodosius the Younger, when the doctrine of the resurrection was being assailed by heretics. They then awoke, that is, were resurrected, confirming in the sight of all the bodily resurrection; and again after a short time, by divine command, they reposed in the Lord in the year 434.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

And another thing too we learn, the self-restraint of the disciples which they practised in necessary things, and how little they accounted of food.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 49 on Matthew 14, 4th Century

For being twelve, they had five loaves only and two fishes; so secondary to them were the things of the body: so did they cling to the things spiritual only. And not even that little did they hold fast, but gave up even it when asked.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 49 on Matthew 14, 4th Century

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