Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

Glory be to Jesus Christ!  Glory forever!

We have been live streaming and uploading youtube versions of daily services (scroll down on this page) celebrated by Fr. Steven and Matushka Cindy, and/or parish faitfhful through zoom, at their home for some months now.  Holy Transfiguration parish has celebrated daily services for many years, and this is in keeping with that practice. It has been quite heartening to receive photos of faithful placing i-pads in their icon corners to pray together with us;  we have also heard feedback from as far as Alaska and Florida that many are joining us for these services during such challenging times.  As we are beginning to open the church at the present time, these services are augmenting those celebrated in church.

Please note that since these services are live-streamed and uploaded as youtube videos daily, it now takes a good deal of time for this page to load for viewing.  Consequently, services from March through May are now on a separate page, here.  Below are services beginning June 1 through the present. 

To see the service schedule, please click here to view weekly bulletins.  This is shared with all our faithful each week, with the schedule of services celebrated at our home so all can join us.  Links found there include access to our facebook page that you can also reference here.  Each day on the live stream and recorded version of services, Fr. Steven verbally shares the service schedule for the coming days also.  If you "like" our facebook page, you will actually receive notifications when we "go live" with services.

Please join us in prayer as we continue to celebrate the liturgical services as fully as possible from home during our continued coronavirus pandemic.

With prayers and love in Christ,

Fr. Steven

Services for the 38th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am. You can find texts here.  This is already the 3rd preparatory Sunday before the beginning of Great Lent.  Please join us in prayer.

On Friday evening we will be celebrating Vespers commemorating the Repose of St. Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn, at 5:30pm.  You can find texts here.  To read the life of this American Saint, click here to view on oca.org.  Please join us for Vespers in remembering the Saints who have shown forth in the North American lands.

We will be celebrating a more festal Vespers on Tuesday, February 23rd, at 5:30pm.  You can find the texts here.  This feast commemorates the first and second finding of the head of John the Baptist.  Please join us!

We begin to draw services texts from the Lenten Triodion for the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee.  We will celebrate Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 36th Sunday after Pentecost will include virtual Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  We will be commemorating Zacchaeus, as another announcement of the coming of Great Lent.  Please join us in prayer.

Joyous Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple!  Services for the 35th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers (virtual) on Saturday evening at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple will include Vespers (virtual) on Monday evening, Feb. 1st, at 5:30pm, and Obednitsa, (virtual) on Tuesday, at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here, and here for Obednitsa order and festal antiphons.   Please join us to celebrate this feast!

Services for the 34th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  In addition to the focus on the Resurrection of our Lord, we will be commemorating the Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John.  You can find the texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the Synaxis of the Three Great Ecumenical Teachers and Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom, will include Vespers on Friday afternoon (virtual) at 5:30pm, and Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at Three Saints Church in Ansonia on Saturday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  If you would like to attend Liturgy at Three Saints, please be in touch with them ahead of time to be sure there is room for you to attend.

Services for the 33rd Sunday after Pentecost will include a Memorial Service on Saturday at 4:30pm, followed by Vespers at 5:00pm, both virtual.  On Sunday morning we will plan to celebrate Divine Liturgy at 9:00am.  On this day we will commemorate the New Martyrs of Russia, and the Sanctity of Life Sunday.  Click on the links above to see either the texts or the prayers for this special Sunday.  Please join us in prayer!

Services for the 32nd Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  In addition to the Resurrection we will be comemorating St. Anthony the Great.

Services for the Sunday after the Theophany Feast will inlcude Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning at 9:00am.  There will still be an opportunity on Sunday to fill holy water containers to take home with you even though we are postponing houseblessings for the present time.  You can find texts here, from our OCA website.

Please join us in prayer.

Services for the Feast of Theophany will include Vespers with OT readings on Tuesday evening, January 5th, at 5:30pm.  Divine Liturgy and blessing of water will be celebrated on January 6th, beginning at 9:00am.  You can find texts for Vespers here, and Liturgy here. We will bless water after the Liturgy, so please bring a container to be filled to take some home.

Please join us in prayer!

Services for the Sunday Before/Forefeast of the Theophany Feast will include Vespers (virtual), January 2nd, at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy (church) on Sunday morning at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here.  As a reminder to faithful of Holy Transfiguration Church, please plan to bring a containter with your name on it for Holy Water.

Please join us in prayer.

Services for the Feasts of Circumcision and St. Basil the Great will include Vespers on Dec. 31st at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, at 9:00am.  you can find text here.  Please join us in prayer.

Christ is Born!  Glorify Him!

Services for the Sunday after and the 3rd day of the Nativity Feast includes the commemoration of David the King, Joseph the Just, and James, the Lord's Brother.  We plan to celebrate Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy at 9:00am on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in the joy of the Nativity of our Lord!

Christ is Born!  Glorify Him!

Services for the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ will include a vigil (virtual) on Thursday night at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Friday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts for Compline, Matins, and Liturgy, by clicking on each of the words. 

Blessed Nativity Feast!

Services for the 28th Sunday after Pentecost, December 19-20, include the Sunday before the Nativity, commemorating the Holy Ancestors of Christ, and the Forefeast.  We will celebrate Vespers virtually on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Liturgy on Sunday at church.  You can find texts here.  Please plan to join us in prayer!

For this 27th Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate the Holy Forefathers (2nd Sunday before the Nativity) and the repose of St. Herman of Alaska.  We will celebrate Vespers (virtual) at 5:00pm on Saturday, and the Divine Liturgy, on Sunday, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please pray together with us!

Services for the 26th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers (virtual) on Saturday evening at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, at 9:00am.  In addition to the Resurrection we will be celebrating the Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 25th Sunday after Pentecost will incude Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.

As has been announced in church, if you are either traveling a long distance for Thanksgiving, or receiving family members traveling a long distance, please consider self-quarrantining from attending Liturgy on Sunday morning, out of an abundance of caution.

Services for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost will include Saturday Vespers (virtual) at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, at church, 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please pray together with us!

Services for the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple will include Vespers with Litya at church on Friday evening at 5:30pm, and Obednitsa (virtual) on Saturday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in this celebration!

Services for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost will include virtual Vespers on Saturday, at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer as we begin the Nativity Fast on Sunday!

As we prepare to enter into the Natiivity Fast, some prefer to call it the St. Philip's Fast.  The Holy Apostle Philip is commemorated on November 14th.  We will celebrate a more festal Vespers at 5:30pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers (virtual) at 5pm on Saturday, and Divine Liturgy (in church) on Sunday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. In addition to the Resurrection, we will be commemorating the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jegudiel, and Barachiel.

Please join us in prayer!

Services for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost will include virtual Vespers on Saturday, at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy in church on Sunday at 9:00am (remembering that we turn our clocks back on Saturday night.  You can find texts here.  In addition to the main focus of our Lord's Resurrection, we will be commemorating the Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries, Cosmas and Damian.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost include Vespers (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy at church on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

On this 19th Sunday, in addition to celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord, we will commemorate the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke.  You can find texts here for Saturday Vespers (virtual) at 5:00pm, and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning at 9:00am at church.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, including the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council will include virtual Vespers on Saturday at 5pm, and Divine Liturgy at 9am on Sunday.  You can find texts for the weekend here.  Thank you for praying with us.

On Monday, October 5, we will celebrate Vespers for the Feast of the Glorificdation of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts, and Apostle to America, at 5:30pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost will include home Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning, at church, at 9:00am.  You can find texts for the weekend here. 

We are blessed to be returning to church for Sunday Liturgy for the first time since March 15th!  Services for the weekend will include virtual Vespers on Saturday, 5:00pm, and LIturgy in church on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Thanks be to God for this blessing.

Services for the Feast of the Exaltation/Elevation of the Most Precious Cross will include Vespers on Sunday following our Obednitsa, and Liturgy at 9:00am in church on Monday, Sept. 14th.  You can find texts for these services here.

Services for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for these services here.  Please note, as the Elevation Feast occurs on Monday, we will follow the Obednitsa with Vespers.

Services for the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos will include Vespers with Litya at church at 5:30pm on Monday night, and Obednitsa on Tuesday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts for services here from our OCA website.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers on Saturday, and Obednitsa on Sunday.  You can find texts for services here.

Please join us in prayer!

Services for the 12th Sunday of Pentecost will include Vespers on Saturday, at 5:00pm, and Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for the weekend here.  The Beheading of John the Baptist afterfeast will be part of our commemoration.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the Beheading of the Holy Glorious, Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John will include live-stream Vespers on Friday night at 5:30pm, and Divine Liturgy in church (with request to attend in advance) on Saturday morning at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here. 

Please be reminded this is a strict fast day, and join us in prayer. 

This coming weekend, the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, we will celebrate the leavetaking of the Dormition Feast.  You can find texts for the weekend here.  Services will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Obednitsa on Sunday, 9:00am. 

Please join us in prayer!

Services for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, also commemorating the Image of Christ not made by Hands, will include Home Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Obednitsa on Sunday, at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here from our OCA website.

Please join us in prayer!

Services for the Feast of Dormition will include Home Vespers on Friday night at 5:30pm.  You can find texts here from the OCA website.

Thank you for joining us in prayer!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

This weekend we continue the celebration of our patronal feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord, and the 50th anniversary of the Glorificadtion of St. Herman of Alaska.  We will celebrate Vespers at 5:00pm EDT, and the Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here.

We celebrated in April the 50th anniversary of the granting of our autocephaly.  Only months later, in August, we now celebratethe 50th anniversary of the glorification of St. Herman!  These are most significant foundational moments for our Orthodox Church in America.  May we learn well the lessons offered through these anniversary markers, and continue our best efforts to carry forward the precious gift of Orthodoxy here in North America, through the prayers of all the saints, known and unknown, who have shown forth in this land!

A brief video presentation was shared during virtual coffee hour this morning of Fr. Steven's pilgrimage to Kokiak and Spruce Island in 1986.  You can view it here.  As a member of the immigrant community coming to North America, he was indeed blessed to encounter the missionary roots of Orthodoxy in North America, through the Alaskan faithful descended from those encountering the early missionaries like St. Herman and St. Innocent!

This afternoon we celebrated a Panikhida remembering the following 1 year anniversaries of repose:

• Archpriest Steven Belonick
• Mat. Eva Kopcha
• Natalya, sister of our parishioner Daria

and newly departed, including those who lost their lives in the recent explosion on Beirut, Lebanon.

Memory eternal!

We plan to celebrate our Patronal Feast of Transfiguration with Vespers on Wednesday at 5:30pm and Obednitsa onThursday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for services here.  Please plan to join us in prayer!  We currently do not have power in the local area, and were unable to live-stream Vespers.  A youtube audio recording of the Obednitsa is available below.

This weekend, as we have entered into the Dormition Fast, we will celebrate Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Obednitsa on Sunday, 9:00am, EDT.  You can find service texts here.  The celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord will include the commemoration of the Translation of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen.  Please join us in prayer.

On Friday, as we enter into the Dormition Fast (August 1-15, the Dormition of the Theotokos Feast) we will celebrate the third feast of the Most Precious Cross of the Lord:  Procession of the Honorable Wood of the Lifegiving Cross of the Lord.  We will celebrate a more festal Vespers on Friday at 5:30pm, EDT. You can find texts for Vespers here.  Please join us in prayer!

Services for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, including the commemoration of St. Jacob Netsvetov, will include Vespers on Saturday, July 25th, 5:00pm, EDT, and Obednitsa, 9:00am.  You can find service texts here, from our OCA website. 

Services for the 6th Week of Pentecost will include Vespers at 5pm on Saturday, July 18, 2020, EDT, and Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for both days here.  Please remember that readings can be downloaded from the OCA website. 

Thank you for joining us in prayer!

On Tuesday we will celebrate Vespers for the Feast of St. Vladimir, Equal to the Apostles, at 5:30pm EDT.  You can find texts here. 

Please join us in prayer!

Services for this 5th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers, 5:00pm, EDT, and Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here.  Please join us in prayer!

Services being offered this 4th weekend after Pentecost will include:

Saturday Vespers, 5:00pm, EDT

Sunday Obednitsa, 9:00am

You can find texts for this weekend's services here.

Please join us in prayer!

For the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the pillars of the apostolic community, we plan to celebrate Vespers immediately following Sunday's Obednitsa.  Then on Monday we will celebrate Obednitsa for the feast.  You can find texts for the feast here.  Please join us in prayer!

You can find texts for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost here.  We plan to celebrate Vespers at 5:00pm on Saturday, and Obednitsa on Sunday morning at 9:00am.  Please join us in prayer.

Immediately following Obednitsa, we plan to celebrate Vespers for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.  Please see the posting for the feast for texts.

We will celebrate Vespers for the Nativity or birth of St. John the Baptist on Tuesday, June 23rd, at 5:30pm, EDT.  You can find texts for the feast here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the Sunday of All Saints of North America will include Saturday Vespers at 5:00pm EDT, and Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for these services here.  Obednitsa order can be downloaded here.  Please be patient with us if you are following on facebook, as we are making some necessary changes in order to continue offering quality live-stream services while our church remains closed.

Happy Father's Day to all our fathers!  Memory eternal to those who have reposed in the Lord.  May God grant many years to our fathers who remain with us!

The first Sunday after Pentecost is the Sunday of All Saints, as all the saints reveal the light of Christ through their words and deeds!  You can find the texts for Saturday (Vespers, 5pm EDT) and Sunday (Obednitsa, 9am) here.  You can also find the order of Obednitsa for the Sundays after Pentecost here.  Please join us for live stream services over the weekend!

Just a reminder that we will not be celebrating daily Vespers tomorrow, Wednesday, but will return to celebrate Vespers on Thursday evening, at 5:30pm, EDT. 

Greetings in the Lord!

As we prepare for the Feast of Pentecost, here is a photo of our church, now adorned in green altar covers.  For those attending Dn. Mark's presentation tonight, see also the presentation of the Feast of Ascension above the high place, with the Pentecost Icon in the center of the church, revealing continuity between these feasts as we discussed.

Please take a moment to prepare by downloading the service texts incldued here so you can follow along with us at home!  Service texts for Vespers tonight (5pm EDT) are here.  On Sunday, we will celebrate the Obednitsa specially blessed for the Feast of Pentecost here.  Immediately following the Obednitsa will be Kneeling Vespers.  You can find the Vespers texts here.  All the Vespers texts are just slightly revised for our use from those available on the OCA website, where you can also find, follow and/or download the Scripture readings.

Holy Transfiguration Church members are invited to join virtual coffee hour that will begin after the conclusion of services.  Please see separate e-mail with the link.

We look forward to your joining us in prayer!  May God richly bless us with the procession of the Holy Spirit on the Feast!