Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
Publish Date: 2025-06-22
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Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (201) 652-4774 for emergencies: 201 870 2676
  • Fax:
  • (201) 652-0789
  • Street Address:

  • 467 Grandview Avenue

  • Wyckoff, NJ 07481


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Services Schedule

 

Sundays in the fall, winter & spring:

Matins: 9 a.m. &  Divine Liturgy 10a.m. except during the summer

 

Summer hours for Sundays in July and August:

Matins: 8:30a.m.  & Divine Liturgy 9:30a.m.


Past Bulletins


Gospel and Epistle Readings

Matins Gospel Reading

Second Orthros Gospel
The Reading is from Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here; see the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see Him, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.


Epistle Reading

Prokeimenon. First Mode. 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 Letter to the Romans 2:10-16.

Brethren, glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.


Gospel Reading

2nd Sunday of Matthew
The Reading is from Matthew 4:18-23

At that time, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father, and followed him. And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.


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WEEKLY SUNDAY BULLETIN

Memorials: A 40 day memorial for Blanche Hartophilis, beloved wife of the late  Michael, mother of Georgene and her husband Brian, Russell and his wife Claudia and Jackie and her husband Don. Adored grandmother of Samantha, Ryan, Andrew, Connor and Cooper.
A 5 year memorial for George Voulgaris, beloved husband of Suzanne and father of Dorri. Dear uncle and friend.     

May their memory be eternal.        
Fellowship hour is sponsored by the Hartophilis family.

 for CHILDREN ages 5-11:  Our Saint Nicholas Vacation Church School (VCS) June 23-27,  begins tomorrow! On site, right HERE! New: extended hours: 8:30am to 2:30PM!  New: Hellenic Cultural Activities.   You can still register your child(ren) with Tina Mouikis at [email protected] or use the QR code in the attached VCS flyer & register right now!

 Summer Schedule: Our Summer worship schedule begins next Sunday, June 29th.  Orthros at 8:30am & Divine Liturgy at 9:30am.   

 For YOUNG EMERGING ADULTS (YEA), INQUIRERS & everyone:  Scripture Talk is a virtual/remote Bible study with a different Orthodox priest participating in the weekly discussion. Join us every Tuesday, 7-8pm EST, on Zoom. Currently discussing the Gospel of Matthew. Visit www.ScriptureUnveiled.com for the Zoom meeting information. All who seek are welcome, no commitment needed and participants are free to simply listen or to participate.

Camp Good Shepherd (CGS)  METROPOLIS OF NJ overnight camp is for kids ages 8-18 at Sandyston, NJ    July 13-19    Join us for a week of fun, faith, and fellowship. For more info https://www.nj.goarch.org/camp-good-shepherd . Contact Deacon Konstantinos Loukas at 908 301 0500.

 

Philoptochos  News: Sneaker Drive: We will be collecting gently used or new sneakers to bring to the homeless in NYC. We will be accepting MENS SNEAKERS ONLY-size 10 and above. You can drop off the sneakers in the Parish Hall. Any questions reach out to Tammy Spyropoulos at [email protected]  .  We thank you all for your support.

 for those in need:  Center for Food Action (CFA) Requests: Supermarket Gift Cards, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Mac & Cheese, Canned Meat, Tuna & Beans, White & Brown Rice, Pasta & Spaghetti Sauce, Hearty Soups/Low Sodium Soups, Canned Fruit & Vegetables, Low Sugar Cereal, 100% Juice, Coffee, Diapers-sizes 2, 3, & 4, Infant Formula & Baby Food, Ensure or Similar Nutritional Drink, Dental Hygiene Products and Toilet paper. A collection basket is placed under the community bulletin board. Thank you for your support!

 young emerging adults (YEA) Gathering at Fr. Bill & Presvytera’s home in Mahwah on Wednesday, July 9 at 7p.m.    fun, food, FELLOWSHIP & a  surprise ….Your rsvp is required & expected BY JULY 5TH!  to [email protected]

Moms Helping Moms is now “Women Helping Women”!  We have new name! First we were called Young Moms, and then we found out that some of us did not have young children—we had older children—so we became Moms Helping Moms. Then we found out that some of us were not moms, so we made ourselves honorary moms, and now, since we realize that the bottom line is that we are all women, we changed  the ministry name to Women Helping Women!  After all, what’s in a name? A woman by any other name is still a woman. Contact Dr. Eva Krias  at [email protected]

Ladies Prayer Group (LPG), meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30 pm VIA ZOOM, and on the 4th Friday of each month in person in our Theotokos Chapel at 1:00 PMLadies are Encouraged to Join us as we pray informally for our nation, community and specifically for all who need the Lord’s help and healing.  Prayer moves God’s hand!  Call the Parish Office or contact Irene Ayvas at 201-803-2307 ([email protected]), if you wish to attend and/or request prayer.    

E-mail URGENT PRAYER CHAIN: Contact the Church Office or Irene Ayvas 201-803-2307 ([email protected]) if you wish to join the 100 faithful on our prayer chain, who are committed to praying for those facing sudden crisis and urgent needs.   Emails requesting urgent prayers are circulated as needs arise.  It is a simple and powerful way to show our love for others and do “God’s Work”!   

 

FOR EVERYONE:  Sharing & Caring (S&C): Monday, July 7th at 3:00pm in our conference room. Sharing and Caring is for anyone who has suffered a loss of a loved one. All discussions are discreet. Everyone is welcome!
Bake &  Make GREEK Delicacies! You r invited to offer your time & talent!  Just contact Stephanie Pirsos ((she is very friendly) to add your name to the volunteer list and to receive the sign up emails. Tel. 201-760-0326 or email [email protected]

 for everyone: Saint Nicholas Charity GOLF & Pickleball CLASSIC: sign up! Monday, June 30, 2025 @ Edgewood Country Club, River Vale, NJ.  Don't miss this 28th annual Saint Nicholas-sponsored celebration with longtime golf and racquet friends as well as new players and supporters. Not a golfer or a pickleball player, not a problem. Join us as a dinner guest at the country club and help us commemorate our "Guest of Honor", longtime committee member; Fr. James C. Moulketis for a wonderful night of dinner, drinks, raffles, auctions and fun. Contact Jason Fink: 201-206-7310 or Charlie Charllis: 201-245-6057 or [email protected] or Michael Kalliotzis 201661-0755 for more information.

IVING is what we do! Support Christ’s Work Through a Legacy Gift:  Eternity is a very long time! So you can perpetuate any Christ centered ministry or program of our parish through a directed gift/donation to our church through your last will & testament, an endowment or a trust. Contact Fr. Bill for info. Inquiries are confidential.

 FOR PERSONAL SPIRITUAL GROWTH:  We thank all those who have made their Stewardship commitment for 2025! Offer your Stewardship pledge & join the 285 households that have already done so… Let’s reach 300!
Your pledged/fulfilled 2025 stewardship offering provides the majority of funding for our parish ministries and empowers followers of Christ to aid people on their path to grow in the grace & knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Pledge Cards are available in the Narthex. You can also make your 2025 pledge online by visiting our
parish website https://www.stnicholasnj.org/

 

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UPCOMING UP EVENTS

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Archdiocese News

Fr. Peter Spiro Speaks on Human Trafficking at Catholic Church’s Statewide 2025 Safe Environment Conference

06/02/2025

Fr. Peter Spiro, Director of the FREEDOM Ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, was a featured speaker at the 2025 Safe Environment Conference, engaging all three Catholic Dioceses across the state of Tennessee.


Celebrating the Voices of Faith: Congratulations to the 2025 Saint John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival National Finalists! 

06/02/2025

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, the Department of Religious Education (DRE) of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA) is overjoyed to announce the National Finalists of the 41st Annual Saint John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival! 


Ecumenical Patriarchate: Release on the Holy Monastery of Sinai

05/30/2025

The Ecumenical Patriarchate learned with painful surprise that the competent court of Egypt has cast into doubt the centuries-old ownership status of the historic Holy Monastery of Sinai, effectively recognizing the local monastic brotherhood only with the right of usage over its property.


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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First Mode

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!

SAINT NICHOLAS ARCHBISHOP OF MYRA IN LYCIA in the First Mode

 

The truth of things has revealed you to your flock as a rule of faith, an icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance; for this cause, you have achieved the heights by humility, riches by poverty.  O Father and Hierarch Nicholas, intercede with Christ our God that our souls be saved.

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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Saints and Feasts

June 22

Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata

After the expulsion of Eudoxius from the see of Antioch, the Arians of Antioch, believing that Meletius of Armenia would uphold their doctrines, petitioned the Emperor Constantius to appoint Meletius Bishop of Antioch, while signing a document jointly with the Orthodox of Antioch, unanimously agreeing to Meletius' appointment (see Feb. 12); this document was entrusted to Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata. Meletius, however, after his Orthodoxy became apparent, was banished, and the Arians persuaded Constantius to demand the document back from Eusebius, as it convicted their perfidy. Imperial officers were sent; Eusebius refused to surrender the document without the consent of all who had signed it; the officers returned to the Emperor, who furiously sent them back to Eusebius with threats. But so great a zealot for the true Faith, so staunch an enemy of the Arians, so fearless a man of valor was Saint Eusebius, that when Constantius' officers arrived, threatening to cut off his right hand unless he surrendered the document, Eusebius held out both hands. When Constantius learned of it, he was struck with astonishment and admiration.

This took place in 361, the last year of the reign of Constantius; he was succeeded by Julian the Apostate, who was slain in Persia in 363; Jovian succeeded Julian, and Valentinian succeeded Jovian in 364, making his brother Valens Emperor of the East. Valens, who supported the Arians, exiled Eusebius to Thrace in 374. The bearer of the edict of Eusebius' banishment arrived in the evening; Eusebius bade him keep silence, or else the people, learning why he had come, would drown him: and Eusebius, though an old man, left his house alone on foot by night. After Valens was slain at Adrianopole in 378 (see Saint Isaacius, Aug. 3), the holy Eusebius returned from exile under the Emperor Gratian, and he ordained for the churches of Syria men known for their virtue and Orthodoxy. About the year 380, as he was entering a certain village to enthrone its bishop, whom he had consecrated, an Arian woman threw a clay tile from the roof, and it crushed his head; as he was dying, he bound the bystanders with oaths that they not take the least vengeance. Saint Gregory the Theologian addressed several letters to him (PG 37:87, 91, 126-130); he had such reverence for him, that in one letter to him, commending himself to Saint Eusebius' prayers, he said, "That such a man should deign to be my patron also in his prayers will gain for me, I am persuaded, as much strength as I should have gained through one of the holy martyrs.


June 22

Zenon the Martyr & his servant Zenas of Philadelphia


June 22

Anastasia the Serbian


June 22

Alban the Protomartyr of Britain


June 23

3rd Monday after Pentecost


June 23

Agrippina the Martyr of Rome

This Martyr was from Rome and lived in virginity, having Christ alone as her Bridegroom. Of her own accord she courageously presented herself to the pagans as a Christian, and was tortured to death, according to some, in the reign of Valerian (253-260). Her holy relics were then taken to Sicily, where they immediately became a source of great miracles.


June 23

Holy Martyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrius the Deacon and Athanasius the Reader


June 23

The Holy New Bishop Martyrs Gerasimus of Crete, Neophytos of Knossos, Joachim of Cherronisos, Hierotheos of Lampi, Zachariah of Sitia, Joachim of Petra, Gerasimos of Rethymno, Kallinikos of Kydonia, Melchizedek of Kissamos, Kallinikos of Diopolos, and those Martyred with them (1821-1822)


June 23

Mark, Bishop of Ephesus


June 24

Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist

He that was greater than all who are born of women, the Prophet who received God's testimony that he surpassed all the Prophets, was born of the aged and barren Elizabeth (Luke 1: 7) and filled all his kinsmen, and those that lived round about, with gladness and wonder. But even more wondrous was that which followed on the eighth day when he was circumcised, that is, the day on which a male child receives his name. Those present called him Zacharias, the name of his father. But the mother said, "Not so, but he shall be called John." Since the child's father was unable to speak, he was asked, by means of a sign, to indicate the child's name. He then asked for a tablet and wrote, "His name is John." And immediately Zacharias' mouth was opened, his tongue was loosed from its silence of nine months, and filled with the Holy Spirit, he blessed the God of Israel, Who had fulfilled the promises made to their fathers, and had visited them that were sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, and had sent to them the light of salvation. Zacharias prophesied concerning the child also, saying that he would be a Prophet of the Most High and Forerunner of Jesus Christ. And the child John, who was filled with grace, grew and waxed strong in the Spirit; and he was in the wilderness until the day of his showing to Israel (Luke 1:57-80). His name is a variation of the Hebrew "Johanan," which means "Yah is gracious."


June 24

Elizabeth, Mother of the Forerunner


June 27

Joanna the Myrrhbearer


June 27

Sampson the Innkeeper of Constantinople

Saint Samson was from Rome and flourished during the reign of Saint Justinian the Great. Being a physician, he came to Constantinople, where he so distinguished himself for his virtue and his love for the sick and the poor that Patriarch Menas ordained him priest. The Emperor Justinian was healed by him, and out of gratitude built him a large hospital, which was afterwards known as "The Hospice of Samson." Saint Samson is one of the Holy Unmercenaries.


June 28

Finding of the Relics of Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries

These Saints lived during the years of Diocletian. Saint Cyrus was from Alexandria, and Saint John was from Edessa of Mesopotamia. Because of the persecution of that time, Cyrus fled to the Gulf of Arabia, where there was a small community of monks. John, who was a soldier, heard of Cyrus' fame and came to join him. Henceforth, they passed their life working every virtue, and healing every illness and disease freely by the grace of Christ; hence their title of "Unmercenaries." They heard that a certain woman, named Athanasia, had been apprehended together with her three daughters, Theodora, Theoctiste, and Eudoxia, and taken to the tribunal for their confession of the Faith. Fearing lest the tender young maidens be terrified by the torments and renounce Christ, they went to strengthen them in their contest in martyrdom; therefore they too were seized. After Cyrus and John and those sacred women had been greatly tormented, all were beheaded in the year 292. Their tomb became a renowned shrine in Egypt, and a place of universal pilgrimage. It was found in the area of the modern day resort near Alexandria named Abu Kyr.


June 28

Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos

The great defender of the Orthodox Faith against the Iconoclasts, our righteous Father John of Damascus (See Dec. 4), was slandered to the Caliph of Damascus by the Iconoclast Emperor Leo the Isaurian (reigned 717-741). Saint John was accused of sedition and his right hand was cut off. Having asked for the severed hand, Saint John passed the night in great pain, praying for the aid of the most holy Theotokos. Awaking from sleep, he found that his hand had been miraculously restored, with only a red scar about the wrist where it had been severed, as a testimony to the wonderous healing. In thanksgiving, he had a silver hand attached to the icon to commemorate this great miracle. On becoming a monk in the lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified in the Holy Land, John brought the icon with him. There it remained until the thirteenth century, when it was given to Saint Sabbas of Serbia (see Jan. 14), who brought it to Serbia, where it remained for a time. Later, it was miraculously transported by an unguided donkey that carried it to the Serbian Monastery of Hilandar on the Holy Mountain, Athos, where it remains to this day.


June 28

Righteous Fathers Sergius and Herman, Founders of Valaam Monastery

By their life and teachings, our righteous Fathers Sergius and Herman did much to spread and confirm Orthodoxy among the Karelian Finns, who had suffered much oppression at the hands of Swedes of the Latin creed. They founded on Lake Ladoga the renowned Monastery of Valaam, which later became one of the chief centers of the monastic life. Both Saints reposed about 1353.


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Wisdom of the Fathers

Prayer, fasting, vigil and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, do not constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable means of reaching this end. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.
St. Seraphim of Sarov
The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 3, The Little Russian Philokalia Vol. 1; Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood pg. 79, 19th century

Within the visible world, man is as it were a second world; and the same is true of thought within the intelligible world. For man is the herald of heaven and earth, and of all that is in them; while thought interprets the intellect and sense perception, and all that pertains to them. Without man and thought both the sensible and the intelligible worlds would be inarticulate.
Ilias the Presbyter
Gnomic Anthology IV no. 112, Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 61

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