Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-04-06
Bulletin Contents
Links
Memorials & Prayers
Updates
Calendar
Save the Date
Flyers
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
Wisdom of the Fathers
Saints and Feasts

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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


frsitaras@stsconstantinehelen.com | 760-942-0920

2nd Priest: Rev. Fr. Angelo Maginas


FrAngelo@stsconstantinehelen.com | 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 

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/.

 

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Memorials & Prayers

Memorials

40 day memorial for Anastasia Volkova. Mother of Svetlana Stella Dreyfuss and family. May her memory be eternal.

Prayers

Peter and Lydia Chaconas, Patricia Karetas, Vasil Karounos, Litsa Mitchell, Marianne McDonald, Angele Lorio, Victoria Benzel, Daphne Triphon, George Gillespie, Becky Stathes Parks Snell, Mary Garbis,  Georgia Vourlitis, Katherine Rovos, Nora Paltadakis, Aphrodite Sacorafas, Cynthia Sacorafas, Susan Comitas, Helen Theofan, Nikki Cozakos, Desiree Plagis, Kelee Tsitsikaos, Michael L. Pappas, Vasillos Gavrilos, Emmanuel Stamos (Hatzimanolis), Maria Stamos (Hatzimanolis), Vassili Stamos (Hatizimanolis), Amalia Wadsworth, Paula Elliott, Alexandra Tzatzalos,  Maria Alexandrovna Pavlova, Ron Potts,  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 Venetia, Triantafilia, Angela Guarino, Shelby Shinkle, James Conigliaro, Michael Horgan, Despina Perakis, Yianni Perakis, George Theodosiou, Rosemarie  De Rosa, Pablo Rodriguez. If you would like to add someone to the prayer list, please contact the office.

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Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

EPISTLE READERS: Luke Georgalas in Greek. Amelie Georgalas in English.

PROSFORON OFFERED BY:  Aimilia Mannasakis and Christine Dorudian .

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 HOSTED BY:  The Men's Group. Please join us in Pappas Hall after church.


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Calendar

  • This Week

    March 16 to April 21, 2025

    Sunday, March 16

    Prison Ministry Book Drive 3/16-4/21

    Friday, April 4

    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOYA LENTEN RETREAT

    Sunday, April 6

    YOUTH SUNDAY

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:00AM Memorial

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:00PM Youth Prayer Beads Crafts - Pappas Hall

    12:30PM Hoops & Holy Week

    12:30PM Orthodoxy 101 - Holy Week & Paschal Tradition - Conference Room

    12:30PM Myrrhbearer Tea - After Liturgy

    Monday, April 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, April 8

    9:00AM Silent Prayer

    10:30AM Bible Study with Fr Michael

    6:15PM Youth Board Meeting *rescheduled due to Holy Week*

    6:30PM Philoptochos Board Meeting

    Wednesday, April 9

    6:30PM Presanctified Liturgy

    6:30PM Greek School - Adult Beginners

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Pappas Hall

    Thursday, April 10

    9:00AM Thursday Baking Group

    6:00PM Young Adult Ministry - Game Night at the Church - Pappas Hall

    Friday, April 11

    Pappas Hall RESERVED *Setup for Palm Sunday Luncheon

    6:30PM Retreat #2 Lenten Lock In - GOYA

    Saturday, April 12

    Saturday of Lazarus - Pancakes and Palms (Breakfast hosted by S.S. staff and families; following breakfast, assist with making palm crosses) Phillips Center)

    8:30AM Saturday of Lazarus Orthros

    9:30AM Saturday of Lazarus Liturgy

    7:15PM The Chosen Movie Outing Part 3 (Season 5 Episodes 6 through 8)

    Sunday, April 13

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Palm Sunday (Procession)

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:00PM Palm Sunday Luncheon - Pappas Hall

    6:30PM First Bridegroom Service

    Monday, April 14

    6:30PM Holy Monday - Bridegroom Service

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    Tuesday, April 15

    6:30PM Holy Tuesday - Bridegroom Service

    Wednesday, April 16

    Elevator battery intsall

    9:30AM Holy Wednesday- Presanctified Liturgy

    5:00PM Holy Unction Service

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Pappas Hall

    Thursday, April 17

    9:30AM Holy Thursday - Vesperal Liturgy

    6:30PM Holy Thursday - Twelve Gospels

    Friday, April 18

    Lenten Retreat #3

    Group Confession

    Holy Friday - Office Closed

    8:15AM Morning Hours Service

    11:00AM Removal From Cross Service

    6:30PM Lamentations Service

    Saturday, April 19

    9:30AM Holy Saturday - Renewal Saturday Liturgy

    10:30PM Pre Resurrection/ Pascha Service

    Sunday, April 20

    11:00AM Agape Vespers

    12:30PM Agape Easter Picnic - Outside on Church Grove

    Monday, April 21

    Office closed for Easter Monday

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Save the Date

  • NOW - Apr 21 Philoptochos Prison Ministry Book Drive!
  • NOW - Apr 11 Vote for Cardiff Greek Festival in The Best of North County 2025 Contest! Vote daily at http://www.votenorthcounty.com/ Click on Things to Do, click Annual Event/Festival, then find Cardiff Greek Festival, to cast your vote!
  • NOW - May 31 AHEPA & DOP are accepting applications for our annual Scholarships! - Click https://www.stsconstantinehelen.com/scholarships  or contact Tom K for questions: tkopanod@outlook.com
  • Thu Apr 10 Young Adult Ministry - Game Night - Pappas Hall- 6:00 pm - Contact Eva Marie for more: (858) 353-5737
  • Fri Apr 11 Retreat #2 Lenten Lock In - GOYA (Overnight event) Starting at 5:00 pm *Deatils forthcoming
  • Sat Apr 12 Saturday of Lazarus: Orthros - 8:30 am Liturgy - 9:30 am
  • Sat Apr 12 Saturday of Lazarus - Pancakes and Palms (Breakfast hosted by Sunday School) Phillips center
  • Sat Apr 12 The Chosen - The Last Supper Movie Theater Outing Part 3 (Season 5 Episodes 6 through 8) 7:15 pm 
  • Sun Apr 13 Palm Sunday: Orthros - 8:30 am  Liturgy - 10:00 am Bridegroom Service - 6:30 pm
  • Sun Apr 13 Palm Sunday Luncheon - Pappas Hall - After Liturgy - 12:30 pm
  • Mon Apr 14 Holy Monday -  Bridegroom Service - 6:30 pm
  • Tue Apr 15 Holy Tuesday - Bridegroom Service - 6:30 pm
  • Wed Apr 16 Holy Wednesday: Presanctified Liturgy - 9:30 am - Holy Unction - 5:00 pm
  • Thu Apr 17 Holy Thursday: Vesperal Liturgy - 9:30 am - Twelve Gospels Service - 6:30 pm
  • Fri Apr 18 Holy Friday - Office closed
  • Fri Apr 18 Morning Hours -8:30 am-Removal From Cross -11:00 am -Lamentations -6:30 pm
  • Fri Apr 18 Lenten Retreat #3 - Following Royal Hours service, we will have activities along with a Lenten lunch!
  • Sat Apr 19 Holy Saturday - Liturgy - 9:30 am Pre Resurrection/ Pascha Service - 10:30 pm
  • Sun Apr 20 Easter Sunday - Agape Vespers - 11:00 am Agape Easter Picnic - 12:30 pm on the church grove
  • Wed Apr 23 Saint George - Orthros - 8:30 am Liturgy - 9:30 am
  • Fri Apr 25 Theotokos of the Life Giving Spring - Orthros - 8:30 am Liturgy - 9:30 am
  • Sun Apr 27 Dance & Choral ministry announces elections for 2025. You DO NOT have to have a current dancer or singer to sit on the board. Anyone interested in helping guide the ministry and shape its future is encouraged to complete an application for candidacy. All applications must be submitted NO later than April 15. Elections will be held on April 27, following liturgy. The new board will take over on June 1. If you are interested please submit your application: https://forms.gle/jP9mRESAPDRr1BvN8If you can't make the elections? Request an absentee ballot: danceandchoral@stsconstantinehelen.com
  • Sun Apr 27 Philoptochos Kids n’ Cancer - Newport Country Club - 2:00 pm
  • Sun May 4 FESTIVAL KICKOFF MEETING - We are back! See you in Pappas Hall - After service
  • Sun May 4 DOP Dove Memorials
  • Mon May 5-7 2025 Clergy - Laity Assembly - Saint Nicholas Ranch
  • Tue May 13 Bible Study w/ Fr. Michael resumes. Weekly at 10:30 am (zoom)
  • Sun May 18 Altar Boy Reunion
  • Sun May 18 Spring Parish General Assembly - Pappas Hall - After Liturgy
  • Sun May 18 Philoptochos Board Elections - Pappas Hall - After Liturgy
  • Sat May 31 Taverna Night - Outside at church - 5:30 pm - Come for Greek music & dancing under the stars - Contact Dino for more d_bozonelos@yahoo.com

SOME RECCURING MINISTRY MEETINGS & EVENTS:

  • BIBLE STUDY W/ FR MICHAEL: Tuesday's on Zoom - 10:30 am  (Unless canceled for a service or on break)
  • SILENT PRAYER: Every Tuesday in church - 9:30 am Contact John B for info (858) 480-6363
  • GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Every third Sunday of the month - After Liturgy Contact George for more (760) 936-3042
  • FOCUS OUTREACH: Prep on the Sunday prior to the first Wednesday of every month -  Meal prep, packing, & delivery on the First Wednesday of the month. Contact Paulette A for how you can help (858) 333-1647
  • THURSDAY BAKING GROUP : Phillips Center Kitchen - 9:00 am Contact Toni for exact dates (619) 985-5509
  • YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY (YAL) *Ages 21-35: Contact Eva Marie for event dates (858) 353-5737 
  • GREEK SCHOOL: Classes for all ages & levels. Contact  Andreas or Dina for info (760) 331-7955 | (203) 988-6835
  • CARDIFF GREEK FESTIVAL:Contact Festival Chair Joe B or Tasia M for volunteer opportunities (619) 977-4725 | (760) 715-8217

 

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Flyers

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Eighth Mode

From on high didst Thou descend, O Compassionate One; to burial of three days hast Thou submitted that Thou mightest free us from our passions. O our Life and Resurrection, Lord, glory be to Thee.

Apolytikion for Sun. of St. Mary of Egypt in the Eighth Mode

In thee the image was preserved with exactness, O Mother; for taking up thy cross, thou didst follow Christ, and by thy deeds thou didst teach us to overlook the flesh, for it passeth away, but to attend to the soul since it is immortal. Wherefore, O righteous Mary, thy spirit rejoiceth with the Angels.

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. Eighth Mode. 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 Hebrews 9:11-14.

BRETHREN, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Gospel Reading

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
The Reading is from Mark 10:32-45

At that time, Jesus took his twelve disciples, and he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles; and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise." And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him, and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" And they said to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" And they said to him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared." And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant of James and John. And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

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Wisdom of the Fathers

Before He humbled Himself, only the angels knew him. After He humbled Himself, all human nature knew Him. You see how His humbling of Himself did not make Him have less but produced countless benefits, countless deeds of virtue, and made His glory shine forth with greater brightness? God wants for nothing and has need of nothing. Yet, when He humbled Himself, He produced such great good, increased His household, and extended His kingdom. Why, then, are you afraid that you will become less if you humble yourself?
St. John Chrysostom
On the Incomprehensible Nature of God. 8.46-47. Taken from: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Vol: Mark. Intervarsity Press, 2005, p. 143.

But let no man be troubled at the apostles being in such an imperfect state. For not yet was the cross accomplished, not yet the grace of the Spirit given. But if thou wouldest learn their virtue, notice them after these things, and thou wilt see them superior to every passion.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 65 on Matthew 20, 2,3,4,6. B#54, pp.399-401,403., 4th Century

For with this object He reveals their deficiencies, that after these things thou mightest know what manner of men they became by grace. ... No one shall sit on His right hand nor on His left.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 65 on Matthew 20, 2,3,4,6. B#54, pp.399-401,403., 4th Century

For that throne is inaccessible to all, I do not say to men only, and saints, and apostles, but even to angels, and archangels, and to all the powers that are on high. ... But for whom is it prepared? For them who could become distinguished by their works.
St. John Chrysostom
Homily 65 on Matthew 20, 2,3,4,6. B#54, pp.399-401,403., 4th Century

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Saints and Feasts

April 06

Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

The memory of this Saint is celebrated on April 1, where her life is recorded. Since the end of the holy Forty Days is drawing nigh, it has been appointed for this day also, so that if we think it hard to practice a little abstinence forty days, we might be roused by the heroism of her who fasted in the wilderness forty-seven years; and also that the great loving-kindness of God, and His readiness to receive the repentant, might be demonstrated in very deed.

April 06

Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople

Born in Theia Kome of Phrygia, Eutychius was the son of illustrious parents, from whom he received a pious upbringing. He studied in Constantinople, and became a monk in a certain monastery of Amasia. In 552 he was chosen Patriarch of New Rome, but was exiled in 565 as a result of the machinations of the Origenists. In 577 he was restored to his throne and reposed on April 6, 582.

April 06

120 Martyrs of Persia

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