December 10
(Updated December 6th, 2023)
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: 2023-12-10
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:
- 2023-12-03
- Publish Date:
- 2023-11-26
- Publish Date:
- 2023-11-19
- Publish Date:
- 2023-11-12
- Publish Date:
- 2023-11-05
- Publish Date:
- 2023-10-29
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
Announcements
UPCOMING SERVICES
IN-CHURCH Liturgy/Fellowship Time with Fr Dean from Seattle 10AM: Saturday Morning December 16th. To arrange for confessions, private discussions, or special prayers during Fr Dean's visit - call/message Jim at 5O9 366 8745 / or email to tricityorthodox@aol.com.
CHURCH ACTIVITIES
The St Nectarios Bulletin has a full schedule of all Services. Please call to register for Zoom-based Services and Activities (Jim Droppo 5O9 366-8745). Most online Services are streamed live to Facebook.
THIS WEEK
Thursday Dec 7th at 7pm Online Orthodox Study Class with Father Tervo
Saturday Dec 9th at 5pm An Online Vespers Service
Sunday Dec 10th at 10am Online Liturgy Service
Sunday Dec 10th at 1 pm Online Enquirers Class with Father John
Current Services Schedule
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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
December 2023
Friday, December 17:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios
Saturday, December 25:00PM Vespers Service - Online
Sunday, December 310:00AM Online Divine Liturgy, Memorial Service
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
Saturday, December 95:00PM Vespers Service - Online
Sunday, December 1010:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
Saturday, December 1610:00AM Divine Liturgy (in-church) will be celebrated with Fr. Dean
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online
Sunday, December 1710:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
Saturday, December 235:00PM Vespers Service - Online
Sunday, December 2410:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM No Enquirers Class Today
Saturday, December 305:00PM Vespers Service - Online
Sunday, December 3110:00AM In-church Typica Reader Service
1:00PM No Enquirers Class Today
Message from Father John
Weekly Message from Father John
GOD’S LOVE has NO LIMITS
“What is impossible for man, it is possible for God”
God gave us the 10 Commandments to guide us in our relation to Him and our fellowman. They are like street signs to help us avoid danger and successfully reach our destination. That is the reason Jesus asked the rich young man in the Gospel if he kept the Commandments. As you recall, he told Jesus that he kept all the Commandments from his youth.
Jesus asked him afterwards to exchange his riches on earth with riches in heaven, to sell all he had, to distribute it to the poor and come to follow Him. This was too much for the rich young man. He was possessed by the comforts and power his riches provided him. That’s why he walked away from Jesus.
If we have been blessed with riches and their power in life, we need to remember not to allow them to possess us, but rather to possess them as a means to an end. To use them frugally for our own needs, and also help others - especially the poor widows and orphans who need our help.
Our Church has placed these biblical passages at this time of the year, because the indigent feel more acutely the cold weather and need our help and protection for their daily sustenance.
There are people in our society who eagerly desire to become perfect in the faith, in their Christian life, who sell everything they have, distribute it to a benevolent organization for the poor and withdraw to a monastery or hermitage. The majority of us do not do that; but we can share a portion of God’s blessings to us with the poor and live the Commandments of God in our daily life. And God would bless us for it.
With humility in our heart and soul and love for God and our fellowman, we pray to Him and at the same time strive to do His holy Commandments. We ask Him to bless us with His Grace, forgive our sins and save us.
With love,
Fr. John Angelis
Saints and Feasts
December 10
Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
December 10
Menas, Hermogenes, & Eugraphos, Martyrs of Alexandria
Saint Menas, according to the Synaxaristes, had Athens as his homeland. He was a military officer, an educated man and skilled in speech, wherefore he was surnamed Kallikelados ("most eloquent"); Eugraphus was his scribe. Both had Christian parents. The Emperor Maximinus (he was the successor of Alexander Severus, and reigned from 235 to 238) sent Saint Menas to Alexandria to employ his eloquence to end a certain strife among the citizens. Saint Menas, having accomplished this, also employed his eloquence to strengthen the Christians in their faith, which when Maximinus heard, he sent Hermogenes, who was an eparch born to unbelievers to turn Menas away from Christ. But Hermogenes rather came to the Faith of Christ because of the miracles wrought by Saint Menas. Saints Menas, Eugraphus, and Hermogenes received the crown of martyrdom in the year 235.
Hymns of the Day
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Second Tone
When You descended to death, O Immortal Life, then, the light of Your divinity destroyed Hades. When You raised the dead from the depths of darkness, all the heavenly powers cried out, "Glory to You our Christ, the Giver of Life."
Apolytikion for Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus in the Plagal Fourth Tone
Since they had slain through their abstinence and struggles the fiery ragings and fierce motions of the passions, the staunch Martyrs of Christ God laid hold on the graces to drive off the pains and illnesses of the sick and work wonders both while living and after death. Strange indeed is the miracle! That these bare bones should pour forth such overflowing streams of cures. Glory be to our only God.
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 Third Tone
On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young Child Who * before the ages is God.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings
Epistle Reading
Prokeimenon. Second Tone. Psalm 117.14,18.
The Lord is my strength and my song.
Verse: The Lord has chastened me sorely.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 6:10-17.
Brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand, therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Gospel Reading
10th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 13:10-17
At that time, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and she praised God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the sabbath day." Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" As he said this, all his adversaries were put to shame; and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
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.
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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