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St. Nectarios is
a parish of Metropolis of San Francisco of the Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of America
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Services:
Sunday Morning Liturgy
9:00
AM Orthros
10:00
AM Liturgy
Wednesday
Paraklesis (service)
to Saint Nectarios 7:00 PM
Church is open:
Monday thru Friday
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday:
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Our services are in
Greek & English
Office Hours:
9:00
AM – 4:00 PM
Email Address:
stnectarioschurch@gmail.com
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Our Request to Visitors/worshipers
The most important things we request to each worshippers attending
church services is to do all that is in our power to see that a decorum
and atmosphere is maintained so that all of the congregation is able to
pray sincerely, peacefully, meaningfully.
To receive Holy Communion
All
non-Orthodox visitors to our parish are welcome and may receive the
blessed bread (Antidoron) at the end of the Divine Liturgy. However to
receive Holy Communion, you must be baptized and confirmed in the
Orthodox Church. You must also have prepared under the spiritual
direction of your Father Confessor, which presumes participation in the
Sacrament of Confession. Before approaching the Communion Chalice, we
should not have any foreign matter in or on our mouth; this includes
food, gum, lipstick, etc. Please come up the middle aisle with reverence
and humility. When receiving, please place the cloth under your chin,
wipe your mouth and then hand the cloth to the next person.
Reverence and Good
Manners are Required
You should remember that upon entering the Church, especially during
services, you are in the House of God. Reverence and good manners are
required so as not to disturb those who are already engaged in prayer. No
irrelevant conversation should take place, either in the Narthex or in
any part of the Church.
According to actual church service
procedures, each and every member of the congregation is required to be
seated in the pews at the beginning of the service.
Whenever the Priest is facing the
people or outside of the altar and either giving censer or blessing,
everyone should stand wherever they are.
There are several parts of the
service during which no one should be moving about. Wherever a person
happens to be at these moments, he or she should stop and stand
reverently, until the proper time to proceed. These parts of the service
are the following:
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The Procession of the Priest and Acolytes
with the Gospel.
·
Reading of the Holy Gospel
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The Cherubic Hymn and the Great Procession
of the Priest and Acolytes with the Holy Gifts
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The recitation of the Nicene Creed (in
which the entire congregation should participate
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The prayers of offering, i.e., "Take
, eat... and the prayer the consecration of the Holy Gifts
·
The Sermon
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Any special services (memorial services,
processions, prayers).
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What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
The Eastern Orthodox Church is one of the
oldest religious institutions in the world, teaching that it is the continuation of
the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Jesus Christ in
his Great
Commission to
the apostles, and practicing what it understands to be the original
faith passed down
from the Apostles (Holy Tradition).
United
in communion with the Latin Church for the first half of its history
and with the Oriental
churches for
the first quarter of its history, Orthodoxy spread throughout the Roman and later Byzantine Empires and beyond,[8] playing a prominent role in
European, Near Eastern, Slavic, and some African cultures. Its most
prominent Episcopal see has resided in Constantinople since that city's founding in AD
324, centuries before the East–West
Schism around
1054. Nevertheless, Orthodoxy has no Papacy or bishopric of similar authority.
The commonly-used but unofficial designation of "eastern"
derives from its geographical placement in relation to the
"western" churches, which became (Roman)
Catholic,
and the historical function of Constantinople as the capital city of the
eastern part of the Roman Empire.
Orthodoxy
Almost from the very beginning,
Christians referred to the Church as the "One, Holy, Catholic (from the Greek καθολική, or
"according to the whole, universal") and Apostolic
Church". The Orthodox Church claims that it is today the
continuation and preservation of that same Church.
A number of other Christian churches also
make a similar claim: the Roman Catholic
Church,
the Anglican
Communion,
the Assyrian Church and the Oriental
Orthodox Churches.
In the Orthodox view, the Assyrians and Orientals left the Orthodox
Church in the years following the Third Ecumenical Council of
Ephesus (431)
and the Fourth Ecumenical Council of
Chalcedon (451),
respectively, in their refusal to accept those councils' Christological definitions. Similarly, the churches
in Rome and Constantinople separated in an event known as the East–West
Schism,
traditionally dated to the year 1054, although it was more a gradual
process than a sudden break. The Church of
England separated
from the Roman Catholic Church, not directly from the Orthodox Church,
for the first time in the 1530s (and, after a brief reunion in 1555,
again finally in 1558). Thus, though it was united to Orthodoxy when
established through the work of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in the early 7th century, its
separation from Orthodoxy came about indirectly through the See of Rome.
To all these churches, the claim to
catholicity (universality, oneness with the ancient church) is important
for multiple doctrinal reasons that have more bearing internally in each
church than in their relation to the others, now separated in faith. The
meaning of holding to a faith that is true is the primary reason why
anyone's statement of which church split off from which other has any significance
at all; the issues go as deep as the schisms. The depth of this meaning
in the Orthodox Church is registered first in its use of the word
“Orthodox” itself, a union of Greek Orthos
(“straight”, “correct”, “true”,
“right”) and Doxa (“Glory” as in Doxa Patri”, “Glory to the Father”).
All members of the Orthodox Church
profess the same faith, regardless of race or nationality, jurisdiction
or local custom, or century of birth. Holy Tradition encompasses the
understandings and means by which that unity of faith is transmitted
across boundaries of time, geography, and culture. It is a continuity
that exists only inasmuch as it lives within Christians
themselves. It is not static, nor an observation of rules, but
rather a sharing of observations that spring both from within and also in
keeping with others, even others who lived lives long past. The Holy
Spirit maintains the unity and consistency of the Holy Tradition to
preserve the integrity of the faith within the Church, as given in the
Scriptural promises.
The
shared beliefs of Orthodoxy, and its theology, exist within the Holy
Tradition and cannot be separated from it, for their meaning is not
expressed in mere words alone. Doctrine cannot be understood unless it
is prayed. To be a theologian, one must know how to pray, and one who
prays in spirit and in truth becomes a theologian by doing
so. Doctrine must also be lived in order to be prayed, for without
action, the prayer is idle and empty, a mere vanity, and therefore the
theology of demons. According to these teachings of the
ancient church, no superficial belief can ever be orthodox. Similarly,
reconciliation and unity are not superficial, but are prayed and lived
out.
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