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
A Tri-Cities Christian Multinational Orthodox Community
627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301
All are welcome at St. Nectarios!
CANCELED - Saturday January 20th at 10am. In-Church Divine Liturgy at St Nectarios - Father Dean will be joining us.
Saturday January 20th at 5pm Online Vespers Service
Sunday January 21th 10am Online Divine Liturgy Service
Saturday January 27th at 8:30am. Coptic Holy Liturgy
Weather conditions are often uncertain - so please check for the most recent information using the online St Nectarios Bulletin (link below). For additional information) call Jim or Tammy Droppo at 5O9 366-8745.
2024 Ecumenical Orthodox Calendars are available at church or by mail.
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
8:30AM Coptic Holy Liturgy Service
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online
10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
GRATITUDE TOWARD GOD AND FELLOWMAN BEFITS US
Among the ten lepers healed by Jesus was also a Samaritan man. And although Samaritans and Jews were not getting along when they were healthy, in their disease, they accepted each other and lived together in harmony.
When the Samaritan man was healed, he returned praising God. He fell at Jesus’ feet thanking Him for his healing. Jesus asked him, Were not all healed? Where are the other nine? Why did they not return to give thanks to God for their healing? But only this foreigner appreciated the healing and came back to praise God! Jesus rewarded the Samaritan’s faith and gave him also the healing of his soul.
Let us concentrate on the theme of this miracle: The ingratitude of the nine and the thanksgiving and gratitude of the grateful Samaritan. St. Paul warned us that there will come a time when many people would become ungrateful to God and their benefactors and also shameless for their actions. The classical Greeks had also said long ago that shameless behavior follows ingratitude; and they added, people quickly forget the gifts of their benefactors. How many times we have heard the disappointment of many relatives who have helped people here and abroad and who, instead of gratitude, have received insults and defamation!
As Christians we need to follow the example of the grateful Samaritan and praise, thank and glorify God for His innumerable blessings upon us:
He sent His Son Jesus to teach us His Holy Will;
He benefited us with His countless miracles;
He was crucified for our salvation and forgave our sins;
He defeated our archenemy death, rose from the dead and secured eternal life for all of us;
He feeds us spiritually with Holy Communion in every D. Liturgy;
He grants us what we need for our bodies and souls;
He helps us grow in the Faith with the assistance of the Holy Spirit
For all these and the countless other blessings we receive, we should praise, glorify and thank God every moment of our life.
In our liturgical life we express our thanksgiving and gratitude to God. The doxology before the D. Liturgy glorifies God for His many blessings to us. The Holy Eucharist Service reaches its climax when we offer our gifts to God and ask Him to bless us and our offered gifts with His Holy Spirit: We glorify Him, singing, ”We praise You, we bless You, we give thanks to You, O Lord, and we pray to You, our God.”
I’ll conclude with the words of St. John Chrysostom: Our thanksgiving adds nothing to God, but it unites us to God as His children.
With love,
Fr. John P. Angelis
The divine Maximus, who was from Constantinople, sprang from an illustrious family. He was a lover of wisdom and an eminent theologian. At first, he was the chief private secretary of the Emperor Heraclius and his grandson Constans. When the Monothelite heresy became predominant in the royal court, out of hatred for this error the Saint departed for the Monastery at Chrysopolis (Scutari), of which he later became the abbot. When Constans tried to constrain him either to accept the Monothelite teaching, or to stop speaking and writing against it - neither of which the Saint accepted to do - his tongue was uprooted and his right hand was cut off, and he was sent into exile where he reposed in 662. At the time only he and his few disciples were Orthodox in the East (See also August 13).
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Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Tone. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 3:4-11.
Brethren, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
12th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 17:12-19
At that time, as Jesus entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said: "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus's feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then said Jesus: "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" And he said to him: "Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well."
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/