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!
Friday, February 2nd. 7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios
On Saturday February 3rd there will be an Online Vesperal Divine Liturgy Service starting at 5:00 pm. And on Sunday February 4th there will not be an online Divine Liturgy or Enquirers Class. This change allows Father John to join a special Sunday celebration.
NEWS: Saturday February 17th - In-church Divine Liturgy at St Nectarios with Father Dean starting at 10AM.
Upcoming Services and Activities are listed below in the St Nectarios Bulletin. For additional information (and Zoom participation invitations) call Jim or Tammy Droppo at 5O9 366-8745.
7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios
5:00PM Vesperal Divine Liturgy Service - Online
10:00AM No Online Divine Liturgy today
1:00PM No Online Enquirers Class today
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
10:00AM Divine Liturgy (in-church) will be celebrated with Fr. Dean
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online
10:00AM Online Divine Liturgy
1:00PM Enquirers Class with Father John (online zoom)
5:00PM Vespers Service - Online
10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship
1:00PM No Enquirers Class today
THE THREE HIERARCHS
What we believe and treasure as Christians was on the top of the list for Saint Basil, Saint Gregory, and Saint John Chrysostom. Our faith is not our invention and creation; it is God‘s gift to us which aims to guide us in this life and also lead us to eternal life. The great hierarchs dedicated their lives to bringing this faith to others both by word and example. For the Christian faith is not a philosophy or theory, but a way of life. The first name for the Christian faith in the Bible was “the Way!“ Christians lived by what they believed.
The hierarchs wrote numerous commentaries on the Bible to explain the meaning of the Bible for us and to teach us how to apply it in our everyday life. They summarized our Christian faith in creeds we recite today. They composed divine liturgies and many of the hymns that we sing today in our churches. They were true shepherds who dedicated their talents, time, and resources to feed their spiritual flock with the pure teachings of Jesus, the good Shepherd. They laid down even their lives to defend the faith. Saint John Chrysostom, for example, died in exile for his courageous defense of the orthodox faith against the high-handedness of empress Eudoxia.
The families and the needs of the children were also top priorities for the great Hierarchs. Saint Basil, for example, wrote a special book for young people to guide them in their growth and formation of good character. He gathered many examples from the Greek philosophers and the Bible and presented them to the youth for emulation. As Christian parents, we need to be like bees collecting the nectar of good advice from wherever we find it and sharing it with our young children. We need to guide and assist them to build a good character.
As good shepherds, the great Hierarchs attended also to the material needs of the faithful. They created, first of all, benevolent institutions. In addition to building churches, they built schools, orphanages, homes for the aged, and hospitals. They provided meals for the widows and poor daily. Indeed the church responded to the needs of all people, both Christians and non-Christians. Christian love does not know boundaries.
Our church presents the three hierarchs to us to see how they lived and also applied their Christian faith in their everyday life. It now calls upon us to emulate their good example and continue the saving work of Christ in our time through teaching, practicing and responding to the needs of the people around us with charitable works.
With love, Fr. John P. Angelis
This Saint was from Alexandria and was a disciple of Saint John Chrysostom. He struggled in asceticism in a monastery at Mount Pelusium, and became abbot of the monks struggling in that monastery. He wrote a great many epistles replete with divine grace, wisdom, and much profit. Over 2,000 of them are preserved in Volume 78 of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (PG 78:177-1646); according to some, he wrote over 3,000 epistles, according to others, 10,000. He reposed on February 4, 440.
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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 Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:6-15.
Brethren, it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, "I believed, and so I spoke," we too believe, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
15th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 22:35-46
At that time, a lawyer came up to Jesus and asked him a question, to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David." He said to them, "How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet'? If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?" And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
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/