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Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2024-02-11
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Schedule of Services
Special Services
Stewardship News
News & Events
Assembly of Bishops News
Saints and Feasts
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Mattevng
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Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • 408.605.0621
  • Street Address:

  • 9th and Lincoln

  • Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
  • 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

 

Weekend services: the weekend schedule is fixed for most of the year. The services take place in Carmel-by-the-Sea, at All Saints Church, lower level, 9th and Lincoln.

Saturdays: 5:00pm Vespers

Sundays:   8:30am Matins

                   9:45am Liturgy

Week-day services: during the week we may celebrate the major feast days of the Church either in Carmel or in Salinas. Please check the calendar! The schedule pattern is:

Wednesdays:  6:00pm Paraklesis

Eve of feasts: 6:00pm Vespers

Feast days:    8:30am Matins

                       9:45am Liturgy

Past Bulletins


Schedule of Services

Note: our services are posted on Zoom unless specified otherwise.    

Friday, February 9
    6:00pm  Vespers
    7:00pm  Orthodoxy 101: Journey to Fullness
Saturday, February 10   Saint Haralambos
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, February 11 
    8:30am  Matins
    9:45am  Liturgy
Monday, February 12
    9:00am  Church University: Prayers and Bible Study (online)
    7:00pm  Missions and Evangelism Committee
Tuesday, February 13
    9:00am  Church University: Prayers and Bible Study (online)
    9:30am  Food Bank Distribution - Community Service
    7:00pm  Parish Council Meeting
Wednesday, February 14
    9:00am  Church University: Prayers and Bible Study (online)
    10:00am  Book Forum
    6:00pm  Paraklesis Service
    6:45pm  Catechism
Thursday, February 15   Saint Anthimos of Chios
    9:00am  Church University: Prayers and Bible Study (online)
Friday, February 16
    9:00am  Church University: Prayers and Bible Study (online)
    7:00pm  Orthodoxy 101: Journey to Fullness
Saturday, February 17   Saint Theodore the Tyro
    5:00pm  Vespers
Sunday, February 18
    8:30am  Matins
    9:45am  Liturgy
    11:30am  Parish-wide PPE Assembly (Preserve, Prosper, Ensure)
    12:30pm  Philoptochos Board

For more information, go to  //www.stjohn-monterey.org/parish-calendar

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Special Services

This Sunday will pray over Jason Mareskes as this will be his last one before moving to his new assignment in Texas. Jason graduated from the DLI (Arabic) and he is looking forward to continuing his career with the military while serving the Lord.

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Stewardship News

BE ONE OF OUR 2024 STEWARDS

Here is  how we are doing  with our 2024 Stewardship:

  • Goal: $185,000 ($2,825 per Stewardship Family, as an average, or $235 per month)
  • Total pledged: $145,304 (80% of budgeted pledge)
  • Number of Stewards: 37 (We had 58 stewards last year)
  • Median pledge: $1,875 (half pledged are above $1,875 and half pledged are below)

Thank you to those pledging this year:

Miriam Aguilar – Dr. Michael & Marilyn Bachik - Rosina Barou - Sophie Cominos Britton - Gloria Cervantes - Father Ion & Presbytera Ana Coman - Nicholas Delis - Olga Drumev - Christine & Max Dzwonczyk - Nick & Mary Alice Fettis - Georgia Filice - Lillian Filice - George Georgalis – Michelle& Connie Georgalos - Simi Georgalos - Michael Georgariou - Oleg Golovan - Maria Grover - Despina Hatton - Elaine Hustedt - Hussam & Mimi Ibrahim – Mike & Mary Kanalakis - Sokratis & Christina Kouvaris - Charles Leontis - Tom Maheras - Edward & Melanie Mar - Eleni Mattheakis - Lannette Moutos - Stephanie Muntean - Joanne Pagonis - Christina Pullos – Euthimios & Charlotte Saites – Steven & Kathy Shaw - Aida & Nadir Tadros – Matt & Angelina Taylor - Jim & Angela Wagoner – David & Nadia Zajicek

Please join in Living the Gospel by offering gratitude through tithing (10% of income), or perhaps through a 1% increase from 2023's giving towards this goal.

Make your 2024 pledge HERE

Living the Gospel


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News & Events

TONIGHT: VESPERS FOR SAINT HARALMBOS

This evening, 6pm.

Read about Saint Haralambos HERE.


TONIGHT: ORTHODOXY 101 - A JOURNEY TO FULLNESS

A ministry led by Angela Wagoner

JOURNEY TO FULLNESS: An Introduction to the Fullness of the Original Christian Faith

The Journey to Fullness presentations and small group discussions are offered via Zoom on Fridays from 7pm. Always check the schedule online for this week.

TONIGHT'S CLASS: ORTHODOX WORSHIP

Adult Education


WELCOMING AND HOSPITALITY: SERVING THIS SUNDAY

A Ministry led by Angelina Taylor

Sunday, February 11
   Parish Council: Euthimios Saites
   Greeter: Anthony Zavitsanos 
   Fellowship Gratitude Meal: ORANGE TEAM - Thank you to Mimi, Mary, Marissa, Christine, and Melanie

Community

Sunday, February 18
   Parish Council / Greeter: Mary Kanalakis
   Fellowship Gratitude Meal: GOLD TEAM – Thank you to Ita, Christine D, Christine T, and Angelina

Community


OUTREACH MINISTRIES

Ministries led by Despina Hatton

FOOD BANK: Tuesday, February 13 9:00 -10:30am @St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Seaside.

LADIES I-HELP: Thursday, February 29 and Tuesday, March 5. Cooking - 4-5pm, Dinner with the ladies - 5-6pm. Plan to stay for prayers in the chapel after dinner.

We are also adding a meal preparation on the fifth Thursday of the month (which will happen only 4 times in 2024). The next one is on Thursday, February 29.

Community


FOOD BANK TEAM FELLOWSHIP

The Food Bank servers will gather for a potluck lunch after serving this Tuesday. If not in the loop yet, please contact Despina for details.


CHURCH UNIVERSITY

A Ministry led by Father Ion

Study of Scriptures, church hymns and lives of the saints. Week days, 9:00am online.

Worship, Education, Community


BOOK FORUM

A Ministry Led by Kathy Shaw

Meeting every Wednesdays, 10 am, on Zoom.

According to God's Will, a rich, stimulating and edifying short text. Order your copy online from HERE.

Brief review: "The task of man’s earthly life is preparing himself for eternal salvation and blessedness. To attain this, a man must live in a holy and pure manner - that is, according to God’s will." In this short but incisive treatise the reader is guided on a spiritual journey that begins with the awakening of conscience and the realization of the presence of both sin and virtue in the world, culminating in a union with God: that is “a living, personal relationship with the one we love.” In following the path of this ascent, the author delineates many of its markers and stresses that these have both personal and societal aspects. This book is suitable for both private reading and group study. Questions for discussion or contemplation are interspersed throughout this edition. A short biography of the author is also included.

Adult Education, Community


FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: LADIES' NIGHT OUT THIS WEEK

A Ministry led by Ali and Marissa Castaneda

  • Men's Night Out: Thursday, February 22.
  • Women's Night Out: Thursday, February 22.  

Community


ADULT EDUCATION/CATECHISM CLASS

A Ministry led by Father Ion

All are invited to deepen the knowledge of the Orthodox faith. We meet in person from 6:45pm, after the 6pm service on Wednesdays, subject to other events in our community. Join the class for learning and fellowship! The class is also posted on Zoom unless otherwise specified in the community schedule/ calendar.

Living the Gospel, Community


CLERGY-LAITY CONFERENCE 3/4-5

Clergy-Laity Conference
March 4-5, 2024

Clergy and lay leaders of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco will have the opportunity to gather at Saint Nicholas Ranch and Retreat Center in Dunlap, CA on March 4 – 5, 2024 for the Clergy-Laity Assembly.

It will be a special honor to welcome His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America who will offer an Archpastoral Message for the attendees.

You may register to attend HERE.
Please let Thimi know if you are planning to attend.


ONLINE RESOURCES

Most of our services and some ministry meetings are available online.
Witness remotely:
  1. Zoom with video here.
  2. By phone dial - add the following string to your address book: 16699006833,,9475885646#,,,,*871732#
Liturgical texts at Ages Initiatives here. Select the date and the service of interest. Then, choose pdf if you want to print, or DCS for viewing on the screen (which also has a night mode).
Lighting Candles remotely is possible through our Light a Candle website. Click this link: Light a Candle

 


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Saints and Feasts

Mattevng
February 11

16th Sunday of Matthew

Theodora
February 11

Theodora the Empress

As for the renowned Empress Theodora, she was from Paphlagonia and was the daughter of a certain Marinus, the commander of a military regiment. While being the wife of the Emperor Theophilus, the last of the Iconoclasts, she adorned the royal diadem with her virtue and piety; as long as her husband Theophilus lived, she privately venerated icons, despite his displeasure. After his death, she restored the holy icons to public veneration; this is commemorated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the First Sunday of the Great Fast. She governed the Empire wisely for fifteen years, since her son Michael was not yet of age. But in 857 she forsook her royal power and entered a certain convent in Constantinople called Gastria, where she finished the course of her life in holiness and reposed in the Lord. Her sacred incorrupt remains are found in Corfu, in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Cave, in the capital city of the island (see also Dec. 12).

Allsaint
February 15

Our Righteous Father Anthimus the Elder of Chios

Theotyrn
February 17

Theodore of Tyre the Great Martyr

Saint Theodore who was from Amasia of Pontus, contested during the reign of Maximian (286-305). He was called Tyro, from the Latin Tiro, because he was a newly enlisted recruit. When it was reported that he was a Christian, he boldly confessed Christ; the ruler, hoping that he would repent, gave him time to consider the matter more completely and then give answer. Theodore gave answer by setting fire to the temple of Cybele, the "mother of the gods," and for this he suffered a martyr's death by fire. See also the First Saturday of the Fast.

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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Third Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:9-20

When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. After this He appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table and He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw Him after He had risen. And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. 3rd Mode. Psalm 46.6,1.
Sing praises to our God, sing praises.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations.

The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:1-10.

Brethren, working together with him, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Gospel Reading

16th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 25:14-30

The Lord said this parable: "A man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." As he said these things he cried out: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

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