St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2025-02-16
Bulletin Contents
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
New Year Letter from Father John
Announcements
Service Calendar
Message from Father John
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
About Us

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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (509) 547-3968
  • Fax:
  • none / Facebook Group: "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"
  • Street Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301
  • Mailing Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301

Contact Information

Mrs Tamara G Droppo
Board President

[email protected] | 5093668745

Services Schedule

    Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am

or

    In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am

Past Bulletins


St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin

(Updated 2/13/2025)

02/11/2025

Upcoming Services:

Saturday February 15th:

SATURDAY MORNING 10AM SERVICE CANCELED (due to weather)

 5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

Sunday, February 16

10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

 

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco

St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

Serving Tricity Orthodox Christians

627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301 

All are welcome at St. Nectarios!

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Announcements

2025 Calendars and Holy water bottles are now be available at the church.  Yes, the calendars finally arrived!

2024 saint Nectarios Donation letters were mailed in January. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Service Schedule:  The St Nectarios Bulletin lists the full schedule for our regular online and in church Services.

For information, questions, and appointments - call Jim/Tammy Droppo 5O9 366-8745 or send email to [email protected].

 


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New Year Letter from Father John

New Year Letter

January 31, 2025

Dear Parishioners and Friends,

We pray that the New Year brings us peace, good health and prosperity in our daily life. We thank and praise God for all His blessings to us and our families.

We are currently having one in-church Divine liturgy every month with a visiting Orthodox Priest.  Each week, we are continuing to have virtual Services that may viewed on Facebook.  Our goal is to return to weekly Services.

We are a small Mission Parish, as you well know, and we need the support of all our Parishioners and Friends to meet the material and spiritual needs of our Parish. You have helped us in the past and we truly appreciate your generosity. We also count on you to help us financially continue our Church services to all our people in the present.

In addition, we count on your participation in the Divine Liturgy when a Priest is with us and celebrates the Divine liturgy for our spiritual needs. You are also invited to join us in our virtual services for the other Sundays of the month.

God bless you abundantly for your consideration and loving support. May St. Nectarios intercede for all of us. God bless you. 

Please consider formally supporting our Parish in 2025.  A donation form is included.  

We are most appreciative of your cooperation and support.

With love,

Fr. John P. Angelis

The Parish Council

 

A copy of the membership/donation form is available at the Church

and also on the St Nectarios Parish Website


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Announcements

Services

01/29/2025

2024 saint Nectarios Donation letters were mailed in January. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

2025 Calendars and Holy water bottles are now available at the church. Yes, the calendars finally arrived!
 
The St Nectarios Bulletin lists the schedule for all Services. The Bulletin will have any last-minute schedule changes.
 
For information, questions, and appointments - call Jim/Tammy Droppo 5O9 366-8745 or send email to [email protected]
https://bulletinbuilder.org/stnectariospasco/

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Service Calendar

  • Saint Nectarios

    February 16 to March 16, 2025

    Sunday, February 16

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Saturday, February 22

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, February 23

    10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship

    Saturday, March 1

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, March 2

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Friday, March 7

    7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Saturday, March 8

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, March 9

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Saturday, March 15

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, March 16

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

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Message from Father John

 

 THE PRODIGAL SON AND THE LOVING FATHER

 

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is the best known in the Bible.  With this parable, our Church continues the theme of sincere repentance, forgiveness and restoration, as she prepares us to enter the Great Lent Period.  All of us can identify with some of the themes  of this parable in our life. 

In today’s parable the younger son was the real rebel. He considered his loving family as a prison.  Although he had everything he needed, and the love of his father, he wanted to be independent, to do whatever it pleased him, without the loving restrictions of his father.  He demanded his share  of the family property; he turned it into cash and,  lauded, he left for a far away country, where no one knew him.  While he squandered  his money in “loose living,” he had many “free loader” friends.  But as soon as he ran out of money, everybody deserted him.  He was left alone, lonely and starving.  How many times we have seen this picture in our life! 

 The hungry prodigal applied for a job and he was given the lowest job in society—to take care pigs.  He was so hungry that he was eating the husks which the pigs ate.  In his want and miserable state he remembered his home: What he had, before he left his paternal home in rebellion.  Even the servants ate better and were treated kindly in his father’s home.  

 Reality taught him soberness  and he rediscovered his true self.    He  repented for his sinful actions and bad behavior.  He  made the decision to return to his father and ask his forgiveness.    He realized that he was no longer worthy to be called his son, after what he had done to him.  He will only ask his father to make him one of his servants; just to live and work in his house as a servant, like the other  servants.  At least he’ll have enough food to eat  and a place to stay.

  Let us now look at the father of the prodigal son.  He was waiting patiently  for his prodigal son to come to his senses and return.  When the father saw his son coming, he ran to meet him, while  he was still far away.  He tenderly embraced him, kissing him repeatedly.  The repented son began to apologize to his father on his knees.  But the father raised him up and told his servants  to dress him with the best robe; to put shoes on his bare feet and to wear a gold ring on his finger —the sign of his sonship— and to prepare a banquet  to celebrate  the return of his son.  For “my son was lost and he  is now found; he was dead in sin, and he is now alive,” in repentance.  

 This Gospel parable presents the rebellion, repentance and return of the prodigal son.  But the heart of the parable is the “love of the Father.”  The return of the son  had in it the taint of utilitarianism.  The  prodigal repented in his suffering and he returned to survive.  His positive side  was his repentance in humility and his decision to change and do the will of the father.   But the father’s love is pure and divine.  He loved His son always:  when he was with him; when he rebelled;  when he returned. 

 The parents are always ready to welcome  with love their erring sons and daughters who want to come home.   The parents have grown  themselves through the years to acquire the unselfish love of God.  They love their children with an unselfish love  and they want them to mature and come home; to return to God, Who is the Loving Father of the Parable. 

 

With love, Fr. John.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saints and Feasts

February 16

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Through the parable of today's Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, and the greatness of God's compassion. The divine Fathers have put this reading the week after the parable of the Publican and Pharisee so that, seeing in the person of the Prodigal Son our own wretched condition -- inasmuch as we are sunken in sin, far from God and His Mysteries -- we might at last come to our senses and make haste to return to Him by repentance during these holy days of the Fast.

Furthermore, those who have wrought many great iniquities, and have persisted in them for a long time, oftentimes fall into despair, thinking that there can no longer be any forgiveness for them; and so being without hope, they fall every day into the same and even worse iniquities. Therefore, the divine Fathers, that they might root out the passion of despair from the hearts of such people, and rouse them to the deeds of virtue, have set the present parable at the forecourts of the Fast, to show them the surpassing goodness of God's compassion, and to teach them that there is no sin -- no matter how great it may be -- that can overcome at any time His love for man.

February 16

Pamphilus the Martyr & his Companions

This Martyr contested during the reign of Maximian, in the year 290, in Caesarea of Palestine, and was put to death by command of Firmilian, the Governor of Palestine. His fellow contestants' names are Valens, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, and five others from Egypt: Elias, Jeremias, Esaias, Samuel, and Daniel. Their martyrdom is recorded in Book VIII, ch. 11 of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, called The Martyrs of Palestine.

February 16

Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Tone

Although the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers guarded Your most pure body, You arose on the third day, O Savior, giving life to the world. For this reason, the heavenly powers cried out to you, O Giver of Life: Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ! Glory to Your kingdom! Glory to Your dispensation, only Lover of Mankind!

Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Tone

O Father, foolishly I ran away from Your glory, and in sin, squandered the riches You gave me. Wherefore, I cry out to You with the voice of the Prodigal, "I have sinned before You Compassionate Father. Receive me in repentance and take me as one of Your hired servants."

The translations of hymns are under copyright and used by permission. All rights reserved. These works may not be further reproduced, in print or on other websites or in any other form, without the prior written authorization of the copyright holder:

  • Resurrectional Apolytikion in First Tone © Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Tone © Narthex Press
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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. First Tone. Psalm 32.22,1.
    Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us.
    Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.

    The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 6:12-20.

    Brethren, "all things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh." But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body and in your spirit which belong to God.

    Gospel Reading

    Sunday of the Prodigal Son
    The Reading is from Luke 15:11-32

    The Lord said this parable: "There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his belly with the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.' And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry. Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant. And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.' But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, 'Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!' And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"

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    About Us

    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.
    Prayers:  Please send us (or call us) with names of those you would like to be included in our prayers for healing.  Frist names may be entered in the St Nectarios - Pasco Group. 
    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:
     (copy/paste this url) https://www.stnectariostricities.org/ for Welcome to Our Parish Website | St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission (stnectariostricities.org) 
    3)  The online  (copy/paste this url) ../../../../../stnectariospasco/ for 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.

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    Coptic Church Services

    Tri-Cities Coptic Church 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 normally held once per month either in the Tricities or in Spokane.  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 ([email protected]) or access the website: 
     (copy/paste this url) https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/ for https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/

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