(Updated 3/22/2024)
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!
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
Serving Tricity Orthodox Christians
627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301
All are welcome at St. Nectarios!
Thanks to Father Dean for visiting us and celebrating Divine Liturgy with us last Saturday.
Prayers: Please send us (or call us) with names of those you would like to be included in our prayers for healing this week. Frist names may be entered in the St Nectarios - Pasco Group.
Participate! Saint Nectarios Church - Pasco WA USA invites you to participate in online Services listed below in the St. Nectarios Bulletin.
1) Viewing participation: Services are streamed live to the Facebook Group - "Saint Nectarios - Pasco". Please feel free to comment on the service - we appreciate all feedback.
(For those without a Facebook account, just skip the step where you are asked to create a Facebook account - and you will proceed to being able to view Services.)
2) For active participation: The group that conducts the online Services invites those with experience as an Eastern Orthodox chanter or reader, to join the active participants group. Also, Faithful and Orthodox Enquirers are also welcome to join as a (perhaps a little scary, but rewarding) learning experience. A diverse group of people conduct our Services. Selected prayers and chants are read/performed in different languages. Current Services typically include English, Greek, Arabic, Slavic, and Spanish.
This Week
Friday, March 22: 7PM Online Small Compline Service
Saturday March 23: 5 PM Online Vespers Service
Sunday March 24: 10 AM Online Divine Liturgy Service
Sunday March 24: 1 PM Online Enquirers /Fellowship Class with Father John
Sunday March 24: 7PM Online Vespers Service (tentative)
For information, questions, Zoom invitations - call Jim or Tammy Droppo at 5O9 366-8745.
There will be an on-line St. Nectarios Parish Council (Zoom) Meeting on next Saturday afternoon starting at 3:30PM (before the online Vespers Service). All active members (and those wishing to become active members) are invited to join this meeting. The Zoom link for joining this meeting is
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91815677880?pwd=d1dpNWNGelJxMktZcU43L25VR0JKZz09
Meeting ID: 918 1567 7880
Passcode: 827009
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St. Nectarios Parish Council Meeting Agenda
Opening Prayer
Introductions
Items to be considered:
1. Financial statement for 2023
2. Budget for 2024
3. Pledging Status for 2024
4. Plans for the Future
5. Proposed appointment of a "Steering Committee" to replace the Parish Council.
6. Other unscheduled items.
7. Schedule meeting date and time for next meeting.
Closing Prayer
7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
7:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
3:30PM Parish Council Meeting
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
7:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
7:00PM Compline Service - Online
10:00AM Divine Liturgy (in-church) will be celebrated with Fr. Dean
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
7:00PM Vespers Service
7:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
7:00PM Great Compline Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
7:00PM Small Compline Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
7:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
7:00PM Great Compline Service
7:00PM Small Compline Service
5:00PM Vespers Service - Zoom / Facebook Online
10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
1:00PM No Enquirers Class today
FAITH, HOPE, TRUST, FULFILLMENT
Today’s Epistle lesson declares the great faith of the spiritual Leaders of the Old Testament and their hope and trust in God. Theirs was not an empty faith, but one faith confirmed by God’s revelation to them, and by His signs and wonders. The Saints of the Old Testament experienced God’s presence in their life. St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that the Jews always sought concrete signs from God in order to believe. We have seen how Jesus Himself confirmed His teaching with miracles. So did His Apostles and the Saints who followed after them.
God’s promises are not empty promises. All His promises have been fulfilled by Him. To give you one example, God promised through Isaiah the Prophet that, “A Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and she shall call His name, Emmanuel, God is with us.” Tomorrow we will celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, God’s Good News, which Archangel Gabriel brought to Virgin Mary. God kept His promise.
We and our children are bombarded daily with conflicting messages from our surrounding secular society. As a result, we become confused, and we do not know whom to believe. We need to separate our eternal faith in the trustworthy promises of God, which He has already fulfilled, from the changeable and ephemeral promises of this secular world. We are also called to believe God’s other promises which He will fulfill in His time, which He alone knows and controls.
The secular society’s promises are ephemeral, changeable, uncertain, and they come and go. They are like the weather systems that come and go and they cannot provide us with certainty and security. But God’s promises are true and certain that we can trust.
Let us live our daily life guided by God’s Holy Commandments and attend the Liturgical Services of our Church in order to strengthen our faith and spiritual life. The Great Lent provides us with many opportunities for this purpose.
With love,
Fr. John P. Angelis
For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June 14), established Orthodoxy anew. This ever-memorable Queen venerated the icon of the Mother of God in the presence of the Patriarch Methodius and the other confessors and righteous men, and openly cried out these holy words: "If anyone does not offer relative worship to the holy icons, not adoring them as though they were gods, but venerating them out of love as images of the archetype, let him be anathema." Then with common prayer and fasting during the whole first week of the Forty-day Fast, she asked God's forgiveness for her husband. After this, on the first Sunday of the Fast, she and her son, Michael the Emperor, made a procession with all the clergy and people and restored the holy icons, and again adorned the Church of Christ with them. This is the holy deed that all we the Orthodox commemorate today, and we call this radiant and venerable day the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is, the triumph of true doctrine over heresy.
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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 St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40.
Brethren, by faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Sunday of Orthodoxy
The Reading is from John 1:43-51
At that time, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
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.
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.
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/