Church Services
This Week’s
Schedule of Services:
SUNDAY, October 13th, 2019 – Sunday
of the 7th Ecumenical Council
SUNDAY, October 13th, 2019 –Sunday of the 7th
Ecumenical Council
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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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All kids 6 to 18 yrs. of age are invited to attend Sunday
School right after the Holy Communion. The location is at the back of the
property in the last modular buildings.
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A Seventh-Year Memorial Service will be offered for the soul
of the departed Servant of God, Maria Antoniou, beloved mother of Christos,
Constantinos, and George Theoharatos. Eternal be her memory. A First-Year Memorial Service will also
be offered for the soul of the departed Servant of God, Thomas Panos, beloved uncle of Christos, Constantinos,
and George Theoharatos. Eternal be his memory. Coffee & refreshment will be
offered by Christos and Jeannie Theoharatos.
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12:30 pm Paraklesis to Saint Nectarios
WEDNESDAY, October 16th, 2019
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7:00 pm -Paraklesis Service to Saint Nectarios.
FRIDAY, October 18th, 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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Apolytikion for the Fathers.
Plagal of the Fourth Tone
You are greatly
glorified, O Christ our God, who established our Fathers as luminaries upon
the earth, and through them led us all to the true Faith. O Most
compassionate, glory to You.
Ἀπολυτίκιον τῶν Πατέρων.
Plagal of the Fourth Tone
. Ὑπερδεδοξασμένος
εἶ, Χριστὲ
ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ φωστῆρας
ἐπὶ γῆς τοὺς Πατέρας ἡμῶν
θεμελιώσας,
καὶ δι' αὐτῶν πρὸς
τὴν ἀληθινὴν
πίστιν, πάντας ἡμᾶς
ὁδηγήσας·
πολυεύσπλαγχνε,
δόξα σοι.
Kontakion for the Fathers.
The Son, who ineffably
shone from the
Father, was of woman
born dual in nature.
Knowing this, we do
not deny the depiction
of His form, but
piously making inquiry,
we faithfully venerate
it. And therefore, the
Church, holding the
true Faith, salutes the
image of Christ's incarnation.
Κοντάκιον τῶν
Πατέρων.
Ὁ ἐκ Πατρὸς
ἐκλάμψας
Υἱὸς ἀῤῥήτως,
ἐκ γυναικὸς ἐτέχθη διπλοῦς τῇ φύσει,
ὃν
εἰδότες, οὐκ ἀρνούμεθα
τῆς μορφῆς
τὸ
ἐκτύπωμα, αὐτὸ
δὲ εὐσεβῶς
ἀνιστοροῦντες,
σέβομεν
πιστῶς. Καὶ
διὰ τοῦτο,
τὴν
ἀληθινὴν πίστιν κρατοῦσα ἡ
Ἐκκλησία,
ἀσπάζεται
τὴν εἰκόνα
τῆς Χριστοῦ
ἐνανθρωπήσεως.
Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council
On the
Sunday that falls on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we chant the
Service to the 350 Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which
gathered in Nicaea in 787 under the holy Patriarch Tarasius
and during the reign of the Empress Irene and her son, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to refute the Iconoclast heresy,
which had received imperial support beginning with the Edict issued in
726 by Emperor Leo the Isaurian. Many of the holy Fathers who condemned
Iconoclasm at this Holy Council later died as Confessors and Martyrs for
the holy Icons during the second assault of Iconoclasm in the ninth
century, especially during the reigns of Leo the Armenian and Theophilus.
The Decision of the Council
Concerning the teaching of icons
Venerating
icons, having them in churches and homes, is what the Church teaches.
They are "open books to remind us of God." Those who lack the
time or learning to study theology need only to enter a church to see the
mysteries of the Christian religion unfolded before them.
Concerning the doctrinal significance of icons
Icons are
necessary and essential because they protect the full and proper doctrine
of the Incarnation. While God cannot be represented in His eternal nature
("...no man has seen God", John 1:18),
He can be depicted simply because He "became human and took
flesh." Of Him who took a material body, material images can be
made. In so taking a material body, God proved that matter can be
redeemed. He deified matter, making it spirit-bearing, and so if flesh
can be a medium for the Spirit, so can wood or paint, although in a
different fashion.
“I do not worship matter, but the
Creator of matter, who for my sake became material and deigned to dwell in
matter, who through matter effected my salvation…” —St. John of Damascus
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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