Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-08-10
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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


[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

Participate in services online via our Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@schcardiff/live

Also available on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stsconstantinehelenCardiff/?ref=bookmarks

Links are available from our website: https://www.stsconstantinehelen.com or search for us on social media using @schcardiff.

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Memorials & Prayers

Memorials

No memorials today.

Prayers

Peter and Lydia Chaconas, Patricia Karetas, Vasil Karounos, Litsa Mitchell, Marianne McDonald, Becky Stathes Parks Snell, Mary Garbis, Katherine Rovos, Nora Paltadakis, Aphrodite Sacorafas, Cynthia Sacorafas, Susan Comitas, Helen Theofan, Nikki Cozakos, Desiree Plagis, Kelee Tsitsikaos, Michael L. Pappas,  Amalia Wadsworth, Paula Elliott, Alexandra Tzatzalos,  Maria Alexandrovna Pavlova, 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, Evie Johnston, Mary Bruscella, Maria Goodin (Demas), Helen Y, Theresa Pappas-Davidson, Max Davidson, Evelyn Davidson, Daniel Anaya, Hanna Sado, Christopher Demas. If you would like to add someone to the prayer list, please contact the office.

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Updates

ANNOUNCEMENTS

EPISTLE READERS: Loucas Koutoufidis in Greek. Georgia Koutoufidis in English.

PROSFORON OFFERED BY:  Christine Dorudian, Laure Bemis, Matina Dale and Nannette List.

SUNDAY SCHOOL:  Sunday School will resume Sunday, September 14.

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: Kathy DeRosa.


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Calendar

  • This Week

    August 10 to August 24, 2025

    Sunday, August 10

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:30PM Orthodoxy 101 Class - Church

    Monday, August 11

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    7:00PM Dance Board Mtg (Zoom)

    Tuesday, August 12

    9:00AM Silent Prayer

    11:30AM Weekly Calendar Meeting

    6:30PM Philoptochos Board Meeting

    Wednesday, August 13

    12:30PM Prime Timers Event - FBI Guest Speaker

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    7:00PM Trisagion

    Thursday, August 14

    11:00AM Funeral

    1:00PM Internment - El Camino Memorial

    2:00PM Makaria (memorial meal) - Pappas Hall

    6:00PM Vespers

    Friday, August 15

    Monthly Vine Submission Due

    8:30AM Orthros - Dormition of the Theotokos

    9:30AM Liturgy - Dormition of the Theotokos

    2:00PM Wedding Rehearsal

    Saturday, August 16

    12:00PM Wedding

    Sunday, August 17

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:15AM Memorials

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:15PM Loss and Bereavement Grief Support Group - Conference Room

    Monday, August 18

    6:30PM Parish Council Meeting - Church Conference Room

    6:30PM Pacific Coast Harmony - Rehearsal

    Tuesday, August 19

    9:00AM Silent Prayer

    9:00AM Festival Baking - Phillips Center Kitchen

    11:30AM Weekly Calendar Meeting

    Wednesday, August 20

    6:00PM Paraklesis

    7:00PM Scout Troop 2000 - Pappas Hall

    Saturday, August 23

    11:00AM Men’s Group Seminar

    5:00PM Vespers

    Sunday, August 24

    8:30AM Orthros

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy

    11:45AM Blessing of the Backpacks-End of Liturgy

    11:45AM Choir Rehearsal

    12:00PM New Apartments General Assembly - After Liturgy

    12:00PM Youth Ministries Expo - Pappas Hall

    7:00PM High School/Adult Dance Practice - Pappas Hall

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Save the Date

  • Mon Aug 18 Parish Council Meeting - Church Conference Room - 6:30 pm
  • Tue Aug 19 Festival Baking - Phillips Center Kitchen - 9:00 am - Contact Toni K for more: (760) 448-5253
  • Sat Aug 23 Men's Group Seminar - Pappas Hall - 11:00 am - Vespers - 5:00 pm - Contact Dino for info: [email protected]
  • Sun Aug 24 New Apartments General Assembly - Pappas Hall - After Liturgy
  • Sun Aug 24 Blessing of the Backpacks & Youth Expo - After Liturgy
  • Tue Aug 26 Festival Baking - Phillips Center Kitchen - 9:00 am - Contact Toni K for more: (760) 448-5253
  • Wed Aug 27 St Phanourios - Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Aug 28 to Sep 1 YAL Conference in Seattle (details to follow)
  • Fri Aug 29 Beheading of John the Baptist - Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Sat Aug 30 Saint Alexander - Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Mon Sep 1 Labor Day - Office closed
  • Mon Sep 1 Ecclesiastical New Year - Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Sat Sep 6 & Sun Sep 7 Cardiff Greek Festival! Saturday; 10:00 am-10:00 pm Sunday; 11:00 am-9:00 pm
  • Mon Sep 8 Nativity of Theotokos - Orthros; 8:30 am Liturgy; 9:30 am
  • Tue Sep 9 Bible Study with Fr. Michael resumes - Every Tuesday - (Zoom) 10:30 am
  • Sun Sep 14 Exaltation of the Holy Cross
  • Sun Sep 14 National back to Church Sunday! Sunday School Resumes
  • Sun Sep 14 Orthodoxy 101 - Church Sanctuary - 12:30 pm Contact Dino or Jeff: (909) 648-3039 | (760) 521-7087
  • Sun Sep 28 Greek School Year Blessing! *Classes resume on Monday, September 29.
  • Sat Sep 20 St Helen Philoptochos General Assembly - Pappas Hall 
  • Sun Sep 28 Blessing of the Surfboards

SOME RECURING MINISTRY MEETINGS & EVENTS:

  • FESTIVAL HIGH SCHOOL & ADULT DANCE PRACTICE DATES: Sunday, August 24: 7-9 pm Tuesday, August 26: 7-9 pm Tuesday, September 2: 7-9 pm Thursday, September 4: 7-9 pm (Pappas Hall)
  • SILENT PRAYER: Every Tuesday in church - 9:30 am Contact John B for info (858) 480-6363
  • BIBLE STUDY W/ FR MICHAEL: Tuesday's on Zoom - 10:30 am  (Unless canceled for a service or on break)
  • PARAKLESIS SERVICE: Wednesdays at 6:00 pm (Unless canceled for a service or on break)
  • STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE: Every first Wednesday of the month - after Paraklesis - Conference Room - 7:00 pm
  • GRIEF SUPPORT: 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 
  • CARDIFF GREEK FESTIVAL: Contact Festival Chair Joe B or Tasia M  (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 Afterfeast of the Transfiguration in the Seventh Mode

Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, showing to Thy disciples Thy glory as each one could endure. Shine forth Thou on us, who are sinners all, Thy light ever-unending, through the prayers of the Theotokos. Light-bestower, glory be to Thee.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Seventh Mode

You were transfigured upon the mount, O Christ our God, and Your disciples, in so far as they could bear, beheld Your glory. Thus, when they see You crucified, they may understand Your voluntary passion, and proclaim to the world that You are truly the effulgence of the Father.
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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 First Letter to the Corinthians 3:9-17.

Brethren, we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw - each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

Gospel Reading

9th Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 14:22-34

At that time, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them. And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear. But immediately he spoke to them, saying "Take heart, it is I; have no fear."

And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me." Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" And when they entered the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God." And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

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Wisdom of the Fathers

The principle and source of the virtues is a good disposition of the will, that is to say, an aspiration for goodness and beauty. God is the source and ground of all supernal goodness. Thus the principle of goodness and beauty is faith or, rather, it is Christ, the rock of faith, who is principle and foundation of all virtues. On this rock we stand and on this foundation we build every good thing (cf. I Cor. 3:11).
St. Gregory of Sinai
On Commandments and Doctrines no. 83, Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 228, 14th century

Christ did not command the winds to cease at that time, but Himself stretched forth His hand and took hold of Peter, because here faith was required of him. When we do not do our part, divine (grace) slows and stands still.. . . it was not the wind that did Peter harm; his lack of faith sank him. Where faith is fruitfu, firm and strong, none of the evils that may befall us can do us any harm.
St. John Chrysostom
The Gospel Commentary edited by Hieromonk German Ciuba, 2002, 4th Century

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Saints and Feasts

August 10

9th Sunday of Matthew

August 10

Laurence the Holy Martyr & Archdeacon of Rome

This Saint, who was born in Spain, was the Archdeacon of the Church of Rome, caring for the sacred vessels of the Church and distributing money to the needy. About the year 257, a harsh persecution was raised up against the Christians by Valerian. Pope Sixtus, who was from Athens, was commanded to worship the idols, and refused; before his martyrdom by beheading, he committed to Laurence all the sacred vessels of the Church. When Laurence was arrested and brought before the Prefect, he was questioned concerning the treasures of the Church; he asked for three days' time to prepare them. He then proceeded to gather all the poor and needy, and presented them to the Prefect and said, "Behold the treasures of the Church." The Prefect became enraged at this and gave command that Laurence be racked, then scourged with scorpions (a whip furnished with sharp iron points - compare II Chron. 10:11), then stretched out on a red-hot iron grill. But the courageous athlete of Christ endured without groaning. After he had been burned on one side, he said, "My body is done on one side; turn me over on the other." And when this had taken place, the Martyr said to the tyrants, "My flesh is now well done, you may taste of it." And when he had said this, and had prayed for his slayers in imitation of Christ, he gave up his spirit on August 10, 258.

August 10

Hippolytus the Martyr of Rome

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