Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-01-05
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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


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Services Schedule

SUNDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

10:00AM Divine Liturgy

 

WEEKDAYS/SATURDAYS

8:30AM  Orthros

9:30AM Divine Liturgy

 


Past Bulletins


Memorials & Prayers

Memorials

12 year memorial for James Anthros and 10 year memorial for Georgia Anthros, parents of Barbara Anaya and Harry Anthros; grandparents of James, Yvette,and Ken, great grandparents of Marty, Anisa, Nikos and Zoe.

Churching

40 day blessing for baby Elizabeth (mother: Zoe Springer)

Prayers

Demetria Sarantopoulos, Peter and Lydia Chaconas, Patricia Karetas, Vasil Karounos, Litsa Mitchell, 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, 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, Nathaniel Cochran, Amalia Wadsworth, Terri Urosevich, Sofia Urosevich, Zackary Allen, Paula Elliott, Rachel Mandel, Sean Tubbs, Duane Tubbs, Alexandra Tzatzalos,  Maria Alexandrovna Pavlova, Ron Potts, Lexi Rogers, Espe Reyes, Nasia Ampelas, Connie Moulios, Chris Panagos, Harry Chris Karnazes, Mary Karnazes, Peter Stacy, Al Wadsworth, Carol Robinson, Derek Miller, Anelia Delcheva, Nancy Gilbert, Toula Panos, Zoey Lavdas, Sofia Osborne, Pamela Potts, Anastasia Proesel, and VenetiaIf you would like to add someone to the prayer list, please contact the office.
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Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

EPISTLE READERS: loanna Mellos in Greek. Nicholas Georgalas in English.

PROSFORON OFFERED BY:  Christine Dorudian and Amalia Mannasakis

SUNDAY SCHOOL:  Students (with their families) and teachers should come forward first for Communion, then proceed downstairs for Sunday School classes.

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: Provided by Cardiff Greek Dance Ministry


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Calendar

  • This Week

    January 5 to January 12, 2025

    Sunday, January 5

    YOUTH SUNDAY

    Vasilopita Sunday & Blessing of the Water

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:15AM Memorials

    11:15AM Churching

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    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, January 6

    8:30AM Ephiphany - Orthros

    9:30AM Epiphany - Liturgy

    4:00PM Greek School - Children Lvl A

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

    6:00PM FDF Choral Group Practice - Church Sanctuary

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    Tuesday, January 7

    8:30AM St. John the Baptist - Orthros

    9:30AM St. John the Baptist - Liturgy

    6:30PM Daughters of Penelope/AHEPA Meetings

    7:00PM Meli Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meraki Dance- Pappas Hall

    Wednesday, January 8

    6:00PM Atromitoi Dance- Phillips Center

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Pappas Hall

    Thursday, January 9

    10:00AM Wedding Rehearsal

    6:00PM YAL Orthodoxy on Tap @ Harland Brewery in One Paseo in Del Mar

    Saturday, January 11

    3:00PM Epiphany Event hosted by St. Gregory of Nyssa @ La Jolla Cove

    3:30PM Wedding

    Sunday, January 12

    Souper Bowl of Caring canned soup drive

    PC Oath of Office

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:15PM Opalakia Dance - Preschool Rooms

    12:30PM Atromitoi Dance - Phillips Center

    12:30PM Orthodoxy 101 - Church History: The Councils

    3:00PM Baptism

    5:00PM Meraki Dance - Phillips Center

    7:00PM Meli Dance- Phillips Center

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Save the Date

  • Jan 11th Epiphany Event hosted by St. Gregory of Nyssa @ La Jolla Cove - 3:00 pm
  • Jan 12th - Feb 9th Souper Bowl of Caring canned soup drive - Tackle Hunger!  Drop off canned soups at church. 
  • Jan 15th Prime Timers Chair Yoga & Lunch - 11:00 am - Pappas Hall
  • Jan 17th St. Anthony Liturgy Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Jan 20th MLK Jr. Day - Office closed
  • Jan 20th 10am to Noon Day of Service - Prepare hygiene kits for those in need - Pappas Hall
  • Jan 25th Dance Groups Workshop - Phillips Center - Contact Laura G for more: (858) 752-3611
  • Jan 25th Dance Preview Glendi - Our dancers have been working hard to prepare for FDF- Come and see!  Pappas Hall
  • Jan 30th Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs Liturgy - Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Jan 30th Master Calendar Meeting for Ministry Leaders (Zoom) 4:30 pm
  • Feb 1st Philoptochos Annual Membership Brunch in Pappas Hall
  • Feb 20th YAL (ages 21-35) Prosforo and Pizza in Pappas Hall
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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode

Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.

Apolytikion for Eve of Epiphany in the Fourth Mode

River Jordan was turned back by Elisseus' mantle once, when the fiery man of zeal Elias had been taken up; then were its waters divided hither and thither. The running streams became dry passage unto him, truly as a sign and type of Baptism, whereby we pass to the other side of the shifting stream of this fleeting life. Christ hath appeared in the Jordan River, to sanctify the waters.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Mode

In the running waters of the Jordan River, on this day the Lord of all crieth to John: Be not afraid and hesitate not to baptize Me, for I am come to save Adam, the first-formed man.
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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 Timothy 4:5-8.

TIMOTHY, my son, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.

For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.


Gospel Reading

Sunday before Epiphany
The Reading is from Mark 1:1-8

The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophets, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way; the voice of one crying in the wilderness: prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.' John was baptizing in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."


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Wisdom of the Fathers

It was for that reason that Joshua, son of Nun, removed his sandals (Cf. Jos. 5:15), in order that he also could preserve the gift of so great a function for Him who was to come. It is for that reason that John says, 'A man is coming after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose,' ...
St. Ambrose of Milan
Seven Exegetical Works, 4.22, 4th Century

'And He is the expectation of the nations' ... Therefore it is said to Moses, 'Remove the sandals from your feet' (Exo. 3:5). Otherwise Moses, who was chosen as leader of the people, might be thought to be the bridegroom of the Church.
St. Ambrose of Milan
Seven Exegetical Works, 4.22, 4th Century

Everyone that preaches true faith and good works, what does he do but prepare the way of the Lord so that He may come into the hearts of his hearers, and may make straight the path for God, forming right dispositions within them by the words of his exhortations?
St. Gregory the Great
On the Mystical Church, P. G. 76 (cols 1159-1170) in Toal, I:89, Sixth Century

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Saints and Feasts

January 05

The Holy Martyrs Theopemptus and Theonas

When the persecution of Diocletian broke out in 290, Saint Theopemptus, a bishop, was taken for his confession of Christ, and convicted Diocletian to his face for his error and ungodliness. Remaining unhurt after cruel tortures, he was given poison to drink, which had been prepared by a sorcerer named Theonas. Protected by divine grace from this also, he drew Theonas to Christ, and after other torments, was beheaded. Saint Theonas was cast into a pit and buried alive.


January 05

Syncletiki of Alexandria

Saint Syncletike was from Alexandria in Egypt. She lived eighty-three years in virginity and asceticism, and became the leader and teacher of many nuns. What Saint Anthony the Great was to men, she became to women: a model of mortification of the flesh, of patience in afflictions, and of wise instruction; for this, she is known a "Amma," a title corresponding to "Abba." Towards the end of her long life, she was stricken with an exceedingly painful disease, which she endured with faith and magnanimity. She reposed in the middle of the fourth century. It is said of Saint Syncletike that she was the virgin who hid Saint Athanasius from the Arians for more than a year in the environs of Alexandria, and it is to Saint Athanasius that her life is ascribed (PG 18:1488-1557).


January 05

Sunday before Epiphany


January 05

Eve of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ


January 05

Gregory of Akrita


January 05

Apollinaria of Egypt


January 06

The Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

About the beginning of our Lord's thirtieth year, John the Forerunner, who was some six months older than Our Saviour according to the flesh, and had lived in the wilderness since his childhood, received a command from God and came into the parts of the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto the remission of sins. Then our Saviour also came from Galilee to the Jordan, and sought and received baptism though He was the Master and John was but a servant. Whereupon, there came to pass those marvellous deeds, great and beyond nature: the Heavens were opened, the Spirit descended in the form of a dove upon Him that was being baptized and the voice was heard from the Heavens hearing witness that this was the beloved Son of God, now baptized as a man (Matt. 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:1-22). From these events the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and the great mystery of the Trinity were demonstrated. It is also from this that the present feast is called "Theophany," that is, the divine manifestation, God's appearance among men. On this venerable day the sacred mystery of Christian baptism was inaugurated; henceforth also began the saving preaching of the Kingdom of the Heavens.


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