Church Services
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This Week’s
Schedule of Services:
SUNDAY, October 6, 2019 – Third Sunday
of Luke
SUNDAY, October 6th, 2019 –Third Sunday of Luke
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9:00 am
-Matins/Orthros
Click
this link to Orthros/Matins Gospel Reading
10:00 am - Divine Liturgy.
Click
this link to Epistle Reading
Click this link to Holy Gospel Reading
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No Sunday School today.
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Parish Council meeting will be held right after coffee hour
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There will be no 12:30 pm Paraklesis to
Saint Nectarios
WEDNESDAY, October 7th, 2019
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7:00 pm -Paraklesis Service to Saint Nectarios.
FRIDAY, October 11th, 2019,
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5:30 PM—Greek School Elementary
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6:30 PM—Greek School Intermediate
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Resurrectional Apolytikion.
Grave Mode
By means of Your
Cross, O Lord, You
abolished death. To
the robber You opened
Paradise. The
lamentation of the myrrhbearing
women You transformed,
and You
gave Your Apostles the
order to proclaim to
all that You had
risen, O Christ our God, and
granted the world Your great mercy.
Ἀπολυτίκιον
Ἀναστάσιμον.
Ἦχος βαρύς.
Κατέλυσας τῷ Σταυρῷ
σου τὸν
θάνατον, ἠνέῳξας
τῷ Λῃστῇ
τὸν
Παράδεισον, τῶν Μυροφόρων
τὸν θρῆνον
μετέβαλες, καὶ τοῖς
σοῖς Ἀποστόλοις
κηρύττειν ἐπέταξας·
ὅτι ἀνέστης
Χριστὲ ὁ
Θεός, παρέχων τῷ
κόσμῳ τὸ μέγα
ἔλεος.
Resurrectional Kontakion.
No longer will death's
dominion have
power to detain mortal
men. For Christ went
down and smashed and
destroyed its powers.
Now Hades is bound,
and the Prophets in
unison exult and
declare: The Savior has
appeared to those with
faith. Come out, you
faithful, to the Resurrection.
Κοντάκιον Ἀναστάσιμον.
Οὐκέτι τὸ κράτος
τοῦ θανάτου, ἰσχύσει
κατέχειν τοὺς βροτούς·
Χριστὸς γὰρ
κατῆλθε συντρίβων,
καὶ λύων τὰς δυνάμεις
αὐτοῦ, δεσμεῖται
ὁ ᾍδης, Προφῆται
συμφώνως ἀγάλλονται.
Ἐπέστη λέγοντες
Σωτήρ, τοῖς ἐν πίστει,
ἐξέρχεσθε
οἱ πιστοὶ
εἰς τὴν
ἀνάστασιν.
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The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas
The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas was
born in the Galilean city of Pansada and was a
fisherman. Hearing the good tidings of Jesus Christ, he left all and
followed after Him. The Apostle Thomas is included in the number of the
holy Twelve Apostles of the Savior.
According to Holy Scripture, the holy
Apostle Thomas did not believe the reports of the other disciples about
the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: “Unless I see in His hands the print of
the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my
hand into His side, I will not believe” (John 20:25).
On the eighth day after the Resurrection,
the Lord appeared to the Apostle Thomas and showed him His wounds. “My
Lord and my God,” the Apostle cried out (John 20:28). “Thomas, being once
weaker in faith than the other apostles,” says Saint John Chrysostom,
“toiled through the grace of God more bravely, more zealously and
tirelessly than them all, so that he went preaching over nearly all the
earth, not fear-ing to proclaim the Word of God
to savage nations.”
Some icons depicting this event are
inscribed “The Doubting Thomas.” This is incorrect. In Greek, the
inscription reads, “The Touching of Thomas.” In Slavonic, it says, “The
Belief of Thomas.” When Saint Thomas touched the Life-giving side of the
Lord, he no longer had any doubts.
According to Church
Tradition, the holy Apostle Thomas founded Christian churches in
Palestine, Mesopotamia, Parthia, Ethiopia and India. Preaching the Gospel
earned him a martyr’s death. For having converted the wife and son of the
prefect of the Indian city of Meliapur [Melipur], the holy apostle was locked up in prison,
suffered torture, and finally, pierced with five spears, he departed to
the Lord. Part of the relics of the holy Apostle Thomas are in India, in
Hungary and on Mt. Athos. The name of the Apostle Thomas is associated
with the Arabian (or Arapet) Icon of the Mother
of God (September 6).
Apolytikion
of Apostle Thomas
Third Tone
O Holy
Apostle Thomas, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant our
souls forgiveness of sins.
Kontakion of Apostle Thomas
Fourth Tone
Christ's Apostle, who was filled
with God's divine grace, he who was His genuine and faithful servant in
all truth, all-lauded Thomas exclaimed aloud in deep repentance: Thou art
both my God and Lord.
Special Announcement:
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We need volunteer teachers for our Sunday
School Program for September, 2019 up to May, 2020. If interested please
contact Peter Klentos at 714-466-0356 or send
him email at peter.klentos@sbcglobal.net.
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If someone wants to sponsor the coffee hour,
there is a sign-up sheet in the Hall. Please write legibly your name next
to the date you want to sponsor
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We need oil (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) for the
Church, please donate.
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Please notify us if someone in the member of
the family or yourself is sick, so that we may offer healing prayer.
2019 GREEK FESTIVAL OF TEMECULA VALLEY HOSTED BY
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of Temecula
41132 Guava St, Murrieta, CA
92562
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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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