Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2024-10-06
Bulletin Contents
Links
Memorials & Prayers
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts
Calendar
Save the Date
Flyers
Updates

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Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (760) 942-0920
  • Fax:
  • (760) 942-3603
  • Street Address:

  • 3459 Manchester Ave. #32

  • Cardiff-By-The-Sea, CA 92007

Contact Information

Proistamenos: Rev. Fr. Michael Sitaras


[email protected] | 760-942-0920

2nd Priest: Rev. Fr. Angelo Maginas


[email protected] | 760-942-0920

Parish Council President: Spiro Kailas


858-699-5953

Services Schedule

SUNDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

 

WEEKDAYS/SATURDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

9:30AM Divine Liturgy

 

Past Bulletins


Links

You may follow the text of the service on your smartphone using the Digital Chant Stand app, or follow online at https://dcs.goarch.org/goa/dcs/dcs.html

For the livestream on Facebook search for @stsconstantinehelenCardiff or use this link, facebook.com/stsconstantinehelenCardiff/.  You may also watch the livestream on our website, https://www.stsconstantinehelen.com/.

The church wifi password is:  20LordisMyRock!

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Memorials & Prayers

Memorials

40 day memorial for Marion Cardasis. Mother of Peter (Syd) Cardasis. Grandmother to Cristin and Charisse.

 34 year memorial for Louis Walter and 13 year memorial for Mary Ellen Walter. They are survived by their children, Despina (Tim) George (Julie), Irene (Ed), grand children Samatha (Michael), Ginger, Georgia & Sophia, and great grand children Ellie and Jack.
 
Prayers
Demetria Sarantopoulos, Peter and Lydia Chaconas, Patricia Karetas, Vasil Karounos, Litsa Mitchell, Brittany Howland, Marianne McDonald, Angele Lorio, Victoria Benzel, Daphne Triphon, Yvette Hamud, George Gillespie, Becky Stathes Parks Snell, Mary Garbis, Jeff Richardson, Anne Fierros, Georgia Vourlitis, Katherine Rovos, Nora Paltadakis, Peter Fellios, Aphrodite Sacorafas, Cynthia Sacorafas, Anthony Lizardy, Susan Comitas, Helen Theofan, Nikki Cozakos, Stavroula Georgopoulos, Desiree Plagis, Kelee Tsitsikaos, Michael L. Pappas, Vasillos Gavrilos, Despina Geotas, Freddi Zulim, Georgia Stamos Zulim, Emmanuel Stamos (Hatzimanolis), Maria Stamos (Hatzimanolis), Vassili Stamos (Hatizimanolis), Anton Vasilevich Ovslenko, Petr Sergevich Pavlov, Caron Gray, Nathaniel Cochran, Amalia Wadsworth, Terri Urosevich, Sofia Urosevich, Zackary Allen, Paula Elliott, Rachel Mandel, Sean Tubbs, Duane Tubbs, Alexandra Tzatzalos, Henry Schrik, Alex Rigopoulos, Maria Alexandrovna Pavlova, Ron Potts, Lexi Rogers, Espe Reyes, Nasia Ampelas, Connie Moulios, Chris Panagos, Harry Chris Karnazes, Mary Karnazes, Peter Stacy, Spiro Kailas, Al Wadsworth, Carol Robinson, Derek Miller, Anelia Delcheva, Nancy Gilbert, and Toula Panos, Zoey Lavdas, Gerry Ranglas, Sofia Osborne, Pamela Potts. If you would like to add someone to the prayer list, please contact the office.

 

 

 

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Sixth Mode

Angelic powers were above Thy tomb, and they that guarded Thee became as dead. And Mary stood by the grave seeking Thine immaculate Body. Thou hast despoiled Hades and wast not tried thereby. Thou didst meet the Virgin and didst grant us life. O Thou Who didst arise from the dead, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Apostle Thomas in the Third Mode

O Holy Apostle Thomas, intercede with the merciful God that He grant unto our souls forgiveness of offences.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Mode

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.
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Gospel and Epistle Readings

Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. Sixth Mode. Psalm 27.9,1.
O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance.
Verse: To you, O Lord, I have cried, O my God.

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.

Gospel Reading

3rd Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 7:11-16

At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep." And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"

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Wisdom of the Fathers

He who truly wishes to believe in God must be lifted above himself, his mind, and even the whole world. For this reason, the value of faith is considered higher than the value of man. It is even higher than the value of the whole world. Therefore, the reward of faith should be higher than all of man's possessions along with the glories of this world. The reward of faith is God.
Fr. Matthew the Poor
Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way, p. 74, 20th century

That dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. But there meets him Christ, the Life and Resurrection, for He is the destroyer of death and of corruption; He it is "in Whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); He it is Who has restored the nature of man to that which it originally was; and has set free our death-fraught flesh from the bonds of death.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke, Homily 36.42, p. 153., 5th Century

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Saints and Feasts

October 06

The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas

The name Thomas means, "twin." He was one of the Twelve, a Galilean by birth. Sophroneus (not the famous Patriarch of Jerusalem [7th Century, celebrated March 11], but a friend of Jerome's), quoted also by Jerome, says that Saint Thomas preached to the Parthians, Pesians, Medes, Hyrcanians, Bactrians, and neighbouring nations. According to Heracleon, the Apostle died a natural death; according to other accounts, he was martyred at Meliapur His tomb was known by Saint John Chrysostom to be at Edessa in Syria, to which city his holy relics may have been translated from India in the fourth century.

October 06

Eroteis the Martyr of Cappadocia

October 06

3rd Sunday of Luke

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Calendar

  • This Week

    October 6 to October 21, 2024

    Sunday, October 6

    YOUTH SUNDAY

    Choir and Church Musicians Sunday

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:30AM Memorials

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:15PM Opalakia Dance - Preschool Rooms

    12:30PM Youth Event - Regional Event Beach Day (after Liturgy)

    12:30PM Atromitoi Dance - Phillips Center

    1:00PM Metropolis SD Beach Day

    5:00PM Meraki Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meli Dance- Phillips Center

    Monday, October 7

    4:00PM Greek School - Children Lvl A

    4:00PM Greek School - Children Lvl B/C

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Conference Room

    Tuesday, October 8

    9:00AM Silent Prayer

    10:30AM Bible Study (via Zoom)

    6:30PM Philoptochos Board Meeting

    7:00PM Meli Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meraki Dance- Pappas Hall

    Wednesday, October 9

    6:00PM Atromitoi Dance- Phillips Center

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Pappas Hall

    Thursday, October 10

    6:00PM Orthodoxy On Tap

    Saturday, October 12

    1:30PM Baptism

    6:00PM Men's Group Meeting and Dinner

    Sunday, October 13

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:30AM Pilgrimage of Discovery Presentation - Pappas Hall

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:15PM Opalakia Dance - Preschool Rooms

    12:30PM Atromitoi Dance - Phillips Center

    12:30PM Orthodoxy 101 - Church Tradition: Spirituality

    5:00PM Meraki Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meli Dance- Phillips Center

    Monday, October 14

    4:00PM Greek School - Children Lvl A

    4:00PM Greek School - Children Lvl B/C

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    Tuesday, October 15

    9:00AM Silent Prayer

    10:30AM Bible Study (via Zoom)

    6:15PM Youth Board (Zoom)

    7:00PM Meli Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meraki Dance- Pappas Hall

    Wednesday, October 16

    6:00PM Atromitoi Dance- Phillips Center

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Pappas Hall

    Thursday, October 17

    7:00PM Dance Board Meeting - Conference Room

    Saturday, October 19

    4:00PM Trunk or Treat (All Families)

    Sunday, October 20

    Stewardship Sunday

    40-Day Blessing

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:15PM Loss and Bereavement Grief Support Group - Classrooms

    12:15PM Opalakia Dance - Preschool Rooms

    12:30PM Atromitoi Dance - Phillips Center

    5:00PM Meraki Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meli Dance- Phillips Center

    Monday, October 21

    Monthly Vine Submission Due

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Save the Date

  • Every Tuesday: Bible Study with Fr. Michael (Zoom) 10:30 am
  • 2024-25 Sunday School - Visit the link to register! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScC9vK4exYqvx6JSsockGU0adWzK1880sU5epaEWf5DraZCpQ/viewform
  • Greek School Begun! Contact Greek School Director for additional info: 760-331-7955 or visit  https://www.schgreekschool.com/
  • FOCUS Outreach - The first Wednesday of every month in Pappas Hall Kitchen from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Contact Barbara Anaya for additional info:  (760) 419-9699
  • Oct 13th Pilgrimage of Discovery Presentation by, Eva Marie Kailas - Pappas Hall - After Liturgy
  • Oct 19th Trunk or Treat (All youth and families) 3:00 pm -6:00 pm Contact Brianne Froumis for info: (619) 933-3153
  • Oct 23rd Prime Timers: Mark your calendars! Lunch will be served, followed by a showing of the 2004 Community Talent Show.  Acts by the parish council, prime timers, Sunday school teachers, baking group, Philoptochos and more.  More information to follow. Contact Eleni Tignor or Barbara Anaya for more: (760) 697-9121 | (760) 419-9699
  • Oct 23rd-25th Jr. Philoptochos Baking for Rancho Coastal Event on October 26th. Contact Maria Leslie for details
  • Oct 26th St. Demetrios - Orthros: 8:30 am - Liturgy: 9:30 am
  • Oct 26th Bach Collegium Concert - Church Sanctuary
  • Oct 29th Parish Council Zoom Meeting 6:00 pm
  • Nov 2nd Philoptochos Annual Fall Fundraiser, Comedy Night with Basile - Pappas Hall - 6:00 pm
  • Nov 3rd First chance for PC candidates to meet with Father Michael
  • Nov 10th Veteran’s Sunday; 2d chance for PC candidates meet with Father Michael
  • Nov 13th Prime Timers Friendsgiving Potluck - Pappas Hall - 11:30am - Contact Eleni Tignor or Barbara Anaya for more: (760) 697-9121 | (760) 419-9699
  • Nov 17th Fall Parish General Assembly: approve 2025 budget,and select board of elections *Last chance for PC candidates to meet with Father Michael
  • Nov 17th Light The Path, 2:00 pm -Los Coyotes Country Club 8888 Los Coyotes Drive Buena Park, California
  • Nov 17th GOYA Friendsgiving 
  • Nov 22nd PC Statements of Candidates due
  • Nov 24th Hope/Sprouts/Joy Thankful Craft - After Liturgy - Pappas Hall
  • Nov 24th Send PC Candidate info to parish with reminder of election
  • Dec 7th Masters of Harmony Christmas Concert
  • Dec 8th  Parish Council Elections
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Flyers

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Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

EPISTLE READERS:James Rigopoulos in Greek. Nicholas Boldt in English.

PROSFORON OFFERED BY:  Christine Dorudian, Matina Dale, Sophia Dafnis, and Maria Kladouras.

SUNDAY SCHOOL:  Welcome back students! Sunday School classes start  today! Sunday school students (and family members) and teachers should come forward for communion first then go downstairs to their classrooms.

COMMUNION: The newly baptized/chrismated should come forward first.  Everyone else please wait until your row is called by the Parish Council.  If you wish to receive a blessing only, please come forward when your row is called for Communion and ask for a blessing when you approach the Priest.  Communion is offered to Orthodox Christians who are baptized/chrismated in the Orthodox faith, who are in good standing, and who are prepared to receive the Holy Gifts.  

FELLOWSHIP: The Youth Ministries will be providing fellowship this Sunday.

NATIONAL CHURCH MUSIC SUNDAY: This Sunday, October 6th honor the contributions of our church's choir, church musicians, and chanters - for their service to our Parish!


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