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 at church or virtually through zoom.  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. 

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, older, archived services can be found here.  Below are more current services.. 

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

On the 27th Sunday after Pentecost, (Dec. 9-10), we will be celebrating a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, followed by Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer!

On December 5-6 we will be celebrating the Feast of St. Nicholas, with Great Vespers and Litya on Tuesday at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Wednesday, Dec. 6th at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we celebrate this universal saint during the Nativity Fast!

On the 26th Sunday after Pentecost (Dec. 2-3) we will be celebrating the Prophet Zephaniah, and God-willing will have celebrated the consecration of Archimandrite Benedict, Bishop-elect of Hartford and the New England Diocese on the previous Friday and Saturday.  Consequently, we will not be celebrating Vespers on Saturday, but will be celebrating the Divine Liturgy on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please pray for our Bishop-Elect as we approach his consecration!

With the leavetaking of the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos on Saturday, the 25th Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 25-26) will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer during this Thanksgiving holiday weekend!

The Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple will include Great Vespers with Litya on Monday, Nov. 20th, and Divine Liturgy on Tuesday, Nov. 21st.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the Feast!

As we begin the Nativity Fast, this weekend, Nov. 18-19, will include Vespers on Saturday, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we begin this time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

On this weekend of Nov. 11-12 we will be celebrating a Memorial Service (4:30pm) and Vespers (5:00pm) on Saturday, and a Baptismal Liturgy on Sunday.  You can find texts here.

In the Slavic Tradition, we celebrate the Synaxis of the Unmercenary Saints on the first Sunday of November.  We will celebrate Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please note that these are not available on the OCA website.  Please join us in praying for our unmercenary healers!

Services for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost will include Great Vespers on Saturday (plesae note, at 4:00pm after the diocesan assemblies), and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Our 60th Diocesan Assembly will be convening here at Holy Transfiguration Church in new Haven on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 27-28.  Vespers is scheduled for 6:00pm on Friday, and Divine Liturgy for 8:00am on Saturday, commemorating the repose of Venerable Job of Pochaev.  You can find texts here.  Please pray for our diocese as we prepare to nominate a candidate to be our next hierarch.

Services for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost (Oct. 22) will include Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning.  Saturday evening Vespers are canceled as Fr. Steven will be traveling, related to a wedding service on Friday, Oct. 20th, out of state.  You can find texts here.  Please join us on Sunday for the Divine Liturgy!

Services for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Oct. 14-15) will include Great Vespers on Saturday and Divine Liturgy.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer!

Services for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, including the Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Coucil, will include Great Vespers and General Confession on Saturday, Oct. 7, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday the 8th.  You can find texts here.  Please join us for these services!

Services for the 17th Sunday after Pentecoost includes the remembrance of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos!  You can find texts here as we plan for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. 

Services for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, include the remembrance of the new martyrs Juvenaly, and Peter the Aleut.  The litya for this service includes verses for the new martyrs, St. Herman, and St. Innocent, the saints depicted on our diocesan icon with the Mother of God that currently resides at HTOC.  You can find texts here. Please pray with us for our diocese on this day!

Services for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost represents the Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross, and the Martyr Sophia and her daugthers, Faith, Hope, and Love.  You can find texts here.

Services for the Feast of Exaltation of the Cross will include Great Vespers on Sept. 13th, with Fr. Joseph Lickwar.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this feast 40 days after the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord!

On the 14th Sunday after Pentecost we commemorate the Sunday before the Elevation of the Most Precious Cross, and the afterfeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.  On Saturday we will celebrate a Memorial Sevice at 4:30pm, followed by Great Vespers at 5:00pm.  On Sunday we will celebrate the Divine Liturgy at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we transition between these great feasts!

To view tonight's Memorial Service, please click here.

To view tonight's Vespers service, please click here.

On Thursday and Friday, Sept. 7 and 8, we will celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.  We will celebrate Great Vespers with Litya on Thursday, at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Friday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this first feast of the new liturgical year!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

The 13th Sunday after Pentecost is also our Labor Day weekend.  We will celebrate Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please pray together with us!

Services for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist will include Great Vespers with Litya, on Monday, Aug. 28, at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this most solemn feast.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

On the weekend of August 26 and 27, the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, we will be celebrating Great Vespers, Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy, Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we prepare for the beginning of the new liturgical year!

On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 19-20, we will be celebrating the Repose of St. Alexander Hotovitzky, with Vespers on Saturday, at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. 

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

For the Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, we will be celebrating Great Vespers with Litya on Monday, Aug. 14, at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

On Saturday, and Sunday, Aug. 12-13, we will celebrate a Memorial Service (40th day for Bob Muthersbaugh) at 4:30pm and Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  We will be celebrating the leavetaking of the Transfiguration Feast, and St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.  You can find texts here. 

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

On the 9th Sunday after Pentecost we will celebrate our Patronal Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord!  We will celebrate vigil on Saturday evening at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy with blessing of fruit on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating our patronal feast!

To view tonight's vigil, click here.

Services for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost (July 29-30) will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we prepare to enter into the Dormition Fast beginning on August 1st.

Services for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost (July 22-23) will include Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am  Vespers are canceled for this Saturday.  For your reference, service texts can be found here.  Please join us in prayer.

On this 6th Sunday after Pentecost we commemorate the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils.  We will celebrate a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in remembering the Holy Fathers establishing our Orthodox Faith in the midst of the promulgation of many heresies!

The 5th Sunday after Pentecost, July 8 and 9, will include Great Vespers and General Confession on Saturday evening at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

On the 4th Sunday after Pentecost, July 1 & 2, we will be commemorating St. John Maximovitch, the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, with Great Vespers on Saturday and Divine Liturgy on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in remembering one of our American Saints!

We will celebrate the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul with Great Vespers with Litya on Wednesday, June 28, and Divine Liturgy on Thursday, June 29 at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

This Sunday, June 24, 25 we will celebrate the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, the Sunday of All Saints of the British Isles.  Please note, the texts included here are not available on the OCA website.  Please join us for Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  Please join us in celebrating these saints of our church.

To view tonigh'ts Vespers, click here.

We will be celebrating Great Vespers for the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, on June 23rd, at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here. 

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This Sunday, June 17-18, we will celebrate the 2nd Sunday of Pentecost, commemorating All Saints of North America.  We will be celebrating Great Vespers with Litya on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Also, all are invited to All Saints of North America in Salisbury for an Akathist to all the saints who have shown forth in this land at 4:00pm.  More information is available here.  Please join us in celebrating all the saints who have shown forth in North America.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

The first Sunday after Pentecost is "All Saints", as the saints of the church radiate the light of Christ in their lives, through the Grace of the Holy Spirit.  We will celebrate Great Vespers with Litya on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit!

This weekend is the Feast of Holy Pentecost, June 3-4.  We will celebrate Great Vespers with Litya on Saturday at 5:00pm, and the Divine Liturgy at 9:00am, followed by Kneeling Vespers.  You can find texts here for the feast, and here for Kneeling Vespers.  Please join us in celebrating this Feast, 50 days after Pascha!

Joyous Feast of Ascension!  This weekend we will celebrate the 7th Sunday after Pascha, commemorating the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council.  You can find texts here.  We will celebrate Great Vespers on Saturday evening at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  We will also be praying for our veterans in anticipation of Veterans Day.  Please join us in celebrating the Feast!

On Thursday, May 25 we will celebrate the Feaet of Ascension.  After celebrating Vespers on Tuesday night, the leavetaking of Pascha, we will celebrate Great Vespers with Litya on Wednesday evening, and Divine Liturgy on Thursday morning.  You can find leavetaking texts here, and texts for the Feast of Ascension here.  Please join us in celebrating the feast.

Christ is Risen!  On this sixth week of Pascha we commemorate the Blind Man, and this year Sts. Constantine and Helen.  We will be celebrating a Memorial Service at 4:30pm followed by Great Vespers at 5:00pm.  On Sunday we will celebrate Divine Liturgy at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the feast!!

To view tonight's Memorial Service,  click here.

To view tonight's Vespers Service, click here.

On the 5th Sunday of Pascha, during the Midfeast of Pentecost, we remember the Samaritan Woman.  We will celebrate Great  Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You  can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the Feast of Pascha!

Christ is Risen!  We have already reached the midpoint of the 50 days between Pascha and Pentecost.  We will celebrate Vespers on Tuesday evening at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy with lesser blessing of water on Wednesday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the midfeast!

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen!

On this 4th Sunday we commemorate the Paralytic, and the repose of St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre.  We will celebrate Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in keeping the feast!

To view tonight's Vespers celebrted by the newly ordained Priest Mark, click here!

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen!  The 3rd Sunday of Pascha returns us to many of the hymns of Holy Week and Pascha, in commemorating the Myrrh-Bearing Women who were the first to reach the tomb and find it empty.  We celebrate all who bear their names!  You can find texts here for Saturday Vespers at 5:00pm  (preceded by Church School at 3pm, and Memorial Service at 4:30pm), and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am. 

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's Vespers Service, click here.

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen!

On the Second Sunday of Pascha we remember the Apostle Thomas.  This year we also  remember the Greatmartyr and Wonderworker, George (remembered on April  23rd).  We will celebrate Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am. You can find texts here.  Please join us in keeping the feast!

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Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen!

Paschal Matins and Divine Liturgy, beginning at midnight early on April 16, 2023

Paschal Vespers, noon, April 16th.  View Vespers here.

Bright Monday, Divine Liturgy, April 17, 2023, 9:00am.

Paschal Vespers, April 18th, 2023, 5:30pm.  To view tonight's Vespers, click  here.

During the latter part of Holy Week we will be celebrating:

Holy Thursday Vesperal Divine Liturgy. Click here for texts.

Matins of Holy Friday.  Click here for texts.

Holy Friday:  Royal Hours.  Click here for texts.

Holy Friday, Vespers with Entombment.  Click here for texts.  Click here to view service.

Matins of Holy Saturday.  Click here for texts.  Click here to view service.

Holy Saturday Vesperal Divine Liturgy.  Click here for texts.

Here are texts for Bridegroom Matins:

Celebrated on Holy Monday here.  To view this night's service, click here.

Presanctified Liturgy Tuesday morning here.

Celebrated on Holy Tuesday here.  To view this night's service, click here.

Celebrated on Holy Wednesday here.  To view this night's service, click here.

This coming weekend (April 8-9) we will:  complete the 40 days of Great Lent, and enter into a weekend of celebration between Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday.  On Friday evening we will celebrate Vespers at 5:30pm, and Divine Liturgy on Saturday at 9:00am to commemorate the raising of Lazarus.  You can find texts here.  Then Saturday we will celebrate a shortened vigil at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us for this weekend celebration in advance of entering Holy Week!

To view Lazarus Saturday Vespers, click here.

To view Palm Sunday Vespers, click here.

On the fifth Sunday of Great Lent April 1-2, we will be commemorating St. Mary of Egypt, during Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in remembering St. Mary as a model of repentance!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

The Feast of Annunciation occurs on Saturday this week, with the leavetaking on Sunday, celebrating the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.  We will be celebrating a Presanctified Liturgy on Friday evening at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here for this service.  Then over the weekend we will celebrate Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for the weekend here.  Due to the feast, the commemoration of St. John Climacus is transferred.  Please join us in celebrating this great feast occurring during Great Lent!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

On Saturday and Sunday, March 18-19, we will be celebrating the Veneration of the Cross, the midpoint of the Great Lenten journey.  On Saturday we will celebrate Great Vespers with the placement of the cross.  Liturgy on Sunday will include veneration of the most precious cross.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the presence of the Most Precious Cross to empower us toward Holy Week!

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

to view tonight's Vespers, click here.

On Wednesday, March 15th we will be celebrating the Presanctified Liturgy at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing the Great Lenten journey. 

Services for the Second Sunday of Great Lent (Mar. 11, 12), will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am. commemorating St. Gregory of Palamas.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing the Great Lenten journey.

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's Vepsers service, click here.

Our Presanctified Liturgy on Wed. Mar. 8, 6:00pm will commemorate the 40 Holy Marytrs of Sebaste.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in commemorating these holy martyrs!

Services for the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the first Sunday of Great Lent, will include a Memorial Service on Saturday at 4:30pm, followed by Great Vespers at 5:00pm.  Divine Liturgy will be celebrated on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Later on Sunday, Mission Vespers will be celebrated at Holy Ghost Orthodox Church, beginning at 4:00pm.  Please join us in celebrating the Sunday of Orthodoxy!

Click here to view tonight's Memorial Service.

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On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings during this first week of Great Lent we will be celebrating Great Compline with the Canon of St. Andrew.  You can find texts here.

To view Monday night's service, click here.

To view Tuesday night's service, click here.

To view Thursday night's service, click here.

The Sunday of the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25, 26, includes the remembrance of the Repose of St. Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn.  We will celebrate a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, and Great Vespers at 5:00pm.  On Sunday we will celebrate the Divine Liturgy, followed by coffee hour and Forgiveness Vespers, as the beginning of our Great Lenten Journey.   You can find texts for the weekend here, and texts for Forgiveness Vespers here.  Please joinn us as we enter once again the Great Lenten journey. 

Please note, there are several options for the remembrance of St. Raphael, moved from the first day of Great Lent, so this particular version of Vespers texts differs from that on the OCA website for this day (see rubrics, p. 313-314).

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To  view tonight's Vespers, click here.

To view Vespers with Rite of Forgiveness, click here.

On Saturday and Sunday, February 18-19, we will be celebrating already the 3rd preparatory Sunday before Great Lent, the Sunday of the Last Judgment.  We will have Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we prepare for the beginning of Great Lent.

On the weekend of February 11-12, 2023 we will celebrate the Sunday of the Prodigal son, with Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, Feb. 12th.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we celebrate these preparatory Sundays before the beginning of Great Lent.

Joyous Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple!  We will continue the celebration of this feast over the weekend of Feb. 4 & 5, with Vespers and General Confession on Saturday, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, also commemorating the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee.  You can find texts here.  This will also be the date of our annual meeting.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the feast!

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Services for the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple, Feb. 1 and 2, will include Vespers with Litya on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2023, and Divine Liturgy on Wednesday, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebraitng the feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the 33rd Sunday after Pentecost (Jan. 28-29) will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  At noon we will also celebrate Vespers with Litya for the Feast of Three Hierarchs and Ecumenical Teachers.  Liturgy will be celebrated at Three Saints Churchin Ansonia for their patronal feast day on Monday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here for the feast.

To view Saturday's Vespers, click here.

To view the Three Hiearch Festal Vespers, click here.

On the weekend of January 21-22, 2023 we will be remembering two important groups, the Newmartyrs of Russia who perished during the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, and the Sanctity of Life Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in the weekend's services:  Memorial Service at 4:30pm, Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am. 

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

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Services for this coming weekend (Jan. 14-15) will include Vespers led by Subdeacon Nektary on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us for divine services! 

Joyous Feast of Theophany!  Services for the 30th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers on Saturday, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the Feast of Theophany!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the Theophany Feast will include:  Royal Hours on Wednesday, Jan. 4th, at 5:30pm, Vigil on Thursday January 5th, including Great Compline and Blessing of Water.  On Friday morning we will celebrate Divine Liturgy for the feast.  Please join us in celebrating this wonderful feast!

To view Royal Hours, click here.

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Services for the Sunday before Theophany will include the commemoration of the Circumcision of our Lord and St. Basil the Great.  We will celebrate Great Vespers with Litya on Saturday, Dec. 31st at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  We will also offer prayers at the beginning of the new year.  Please join us in celebrating this Sunday before Theophany!

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Services for the Nativity Feast will include: (texts are linked to highlighted service names)

Royal Hours, (Friday, Dec. 23, 5:30pm)

Vigil, (Great Compline,   Matins) Saturday, 4:00pm

Divine Liturgy of St. Basil, Sunday, 9:00am

Divine Liturgy, Synaxis of the Theotokos and Righteous Ones, Monday, 9:00am

Please join us in celebrating this wonderful feast!

To view Royal Hours, click here.

To view tonight's vigil, click here.

The Sunday before the Nativity, (Dec. 17-18) is the Sunday of the Holy Ancestors.  See the icon of the root of Jesse.  Dn. Mark will lead Vespers at 5:00pm on Saturday, and then Divine Liturgy will be celebrated on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in reflecting upon the geneology presented before the birth of Christ.

On Monday, December 12, we will celeberate Great Vespers with Litya for the Repose of St. Herman of Alaska, at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here.  St. Herman is now identified as Equal-to-the-Apostles.  Please join us in remembering this first saint to be remembered here in North America!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

This coming weekend, Dec. 10-11, is already the Second  Sunday before the Nativity Feast!  We will be celebrating Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer!

Services for the Feast of St. Nicholas (Dec. 5-6) will include Great Vespers with Litya on Monday evening, and Divine Liturgy on Tuesday morning.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the 25th Sunday after Pentecost, Dec. 3-4, 2022, includes a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, and Great Vespers at 5:00pm on Satuday.  On Sunday we will celebrate the Divine Liturgy.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we continue our journey through the Navitiy Fast. 

Please click here to view tonight's Memorial Service.

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Services for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 26-27) will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. 

Services for the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple will include Great Vespers with Litya after coffee hour on Sunday, Nov. 20, and Divine Liturgy on Monday, Nov. 21st, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this great feast in the midst of the Nativity Fast!

Blessed Nativity Fast.  Services for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Nov. 19-20, will include Church School at 3:00pm, Great Vespers at 5:00pm on Saturday, and Divine Liturgy at 9:00am on Sunday.  We will be celebrating Proskomedia in the middle of the church beginning at 8:15am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Services for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 12-13) will include Vespers with Dn. Mark on Saturday, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find text here, that will include commemorating St. John Chrysostom.  Please join us in prayer as we prepare for the beginning of the Nativity Fast.

Services for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 5-6) will include a Memorial Service on Nov. 5th at 4:30pm, followed by Great Vespers at 5:00pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in worship!

To view the Memorial Service, click here.

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Services for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost (Oct. 29-30) will include Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Vespers will not be celelbrated on Saturday due to the Diocesan Assembly up in VT and NH. 

Services for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Oct. 22-23), will include Vespers with Dn. Mark on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy with Fr. James Parnell on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in commemorating St. James, the Brother of the Lord.

Services for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, Oct. 15-16, will include Vespers with Dn. Mark on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy, Sunday, 9:00am.  We will be commemorating the Holy Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council.  You can find texts here.

Services for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost (October 8-9) will include the commemoration of St. Tikhon, Confessor Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener of North America.  We will begin with a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, followed by Great Vespers with Litya at 5:00pm.  You can find texts here.  On Sunday we will also be observing the celebration of church musicians.

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

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Services for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost (Oct. 1-2) will include the Obednitsa by Dn. Mark on Sunday, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the Divine Liturgy.

Services for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Sep. 24-25), will include the celebration of the Divine Liturgy with Archpriest John Jillions, on Sunday, Sep. 25th, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the Divine Liturgy!

Services for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Sept. 17-18) will continue with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Most Precious Cross.  Dn. Mark will lead Vespers on Saturday, at 5:00pm, and Archpriest John Jillions will be with us on Sunday to lead the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this wonderful feast of the Cross.

Services for the Exaltation of the Most Precious Cross will include the Obednitsa led by our Subdeacon Paul on Wednesday, September 14th, at 9:00am.  You can find texts for this service here.  Please join us in celebratin this Feast of the Cross of the Risen Lord!

Services for this weekend (Sep. 10-11) will include the celebration of teh Resurrection, and the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Most Precious Cross, even as we continue the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.  You can find texts here.  Let us also remember the anniversary of the terrorist attack  on our country on 9-11-2001.  Please join us for these services.

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's Vesper Service, click here.

The feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos will include Vespers with Litya on Wednesday, Sept. 7th, at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Thursday morning, Sept. 8th at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, September 3-4, 2022, will include Great Vespers with General Confession on Saturday, Sept. 3rd, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us as we enter the new liturgical year!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the New Liturgical Year will include Great Vespers on Wednesday evening, at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the new liturgical year!

Services for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost will include Reader Vespers with Subdeacon Nektary on Saturday at 5:00pm (Fr. Steven will be in Bridgeport), and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  In addition to the Resurrection, we will be commemorating the uncovering of the relics of St. Job of Pochaev, and Venerable Moses the Ethiopian.  You can find texts here that include the troparion and Kontakion for Venerable Moses.

Addtionally, as the Beheading of St. John the Baptist will occur on Monday August 29th, we will be celebrating Vespers after coffee hour on Sunday.  You can find texts here for the feast.

Click here to view Vespers for Beheading of St. John the Baptist.

Joyous Feast of Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos!  Services for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost will continue the Dormition Feast.  We wil be celebrating a Panikhida (Memorial Service) at 4:30pm, followed by Great Vespers at 5:00pm.  Divine Liturgy will be celebrated on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the feast!

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the Feast of Dormition will include Vespers following Coffee Hour on Sunday, Aug. 14, and Divine Liturgy on Monday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.

To view today's Vespers, click here.

Services for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost will included Vespers on Saturday, Aug. 13 at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

We will be continuing the Transfiguration Feast as we celebrate the 8th Sunday after Pentecost, with Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in worship!

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

We will be celebrating our Patronal Feast of Holy Transfiguration on August 5 and 6!  We will celebrate Vigil on August 5th at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Saturday, August 6, 2022, with the blessing of fruit.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating our patronal feast!

Click here to view tonight's vigil.

Services for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost (July 30-31) will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us! 

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost will include Obednitsa on Sunday at 9:00am.  In addition to the Resurrection, we will be commemorating the Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb.  You can find texts here.

Services for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost will include Vespers with Dn. Mark on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  We will be commemorating, in addition to the Resurrection of our Lord, the First Six Ecumenical Councils.  You can find texts here.  Please come and pray with us!

Services for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost will include the commemoration of St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves, founder of Monasticisim in Russia.  We will be celebrating a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, followed by Vespers at 5:00pm.  Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 9:00am on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  Please join us!

Please click here for tonight's Memorial Service.

Please click here for tonight's Vespers Service.

Services for the Sunday of All Saints of the British Isles will include Vespers on Saturday, July 2nd at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating these saints of our church!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

The Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul will include Great Vespers with Litya on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Wednesday, June 29th, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the feast!

Please click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Services for the Sunday of All Saints of North America will include Great Vespers with Litya on Saturday, June 25th, at 5pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday June 26th at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in commemorating all the saints who have shown forth in this American land! 

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Prayers for the newly reposed servant of God, Yuliya Eisenmann included a Panikhida on Thursday evening, and Funeral Service on Friday morning.

You can view the Panikhida here.

You can view the Funeral Service here.

May Yuliya's memory be eternal.

Services for the Nativity of St. John the Baptist will include Vespers at 2pm on Thursday, June 23rd.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this feast, before calling hours and services for our newly reposed servant of God, Yuliya Eisenmann later in the day on Thursday, and Friday morning. 

Services for the First Sunday after Pentecost, Commemorating All Saints, will include Great Vespers with Litya on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 5:00pm, and Divine LIturgy on Sunday, June 19th at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  We will also be remembering fathers on Father's Day.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Before the Pentecost Feast, we will celebrate a Memorial Service on Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 4:30pm to remember our recently departed, and anniversaries of repose.  Services for Pentecost will begin with Great Vespers and Litya at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  After the Divine Liturgy we will immediately celebrate Kneeling Vespers.  You can find texts for the Feast here, and for Kneeling Vespers, here.  Please join us in celebrating this Great Feast!

To view today's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's festal Vespers, click here.

Upon celebrating the Ascension Feast earlier in the week, on the Seventh Sunday after Pascha (June 4-5) we commemorate the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council.  We will celebrate Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please pray with us as we continue our journey toward the Feast of Pentecost.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the Ascension Feast will include Great Vespers with Litya on Wednesday, June 1st at 6:00pm, and Divine LIturgy on Thursday morning,June 2, 2022, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us for celebrating the feast! 

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Click here to view Vespers on the day of the feast.

Christ is Risen! 

Services for the 6th Week of Pascha, May 28-29, will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine LIturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. 

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Christ is Risen!

Services for the 5th Sunday of Pascha, commemorating the Samaritan Woman, will include Vespers with Dn. Mark on Saturday, May 21st at 5:00pm, and Divine Lturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.

No facebook livestream for Saturday Vespers this week.

Services for Midfeast of Pentecost will include Vespers on Tuesday evening af 6:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Wednesday at 9:00am, followed by the lesser blessing of water.  You can find texts here.  Come and celebrate the middle of the feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

To view Vespers of Leavetaking, click here.

Christ is Risen!

Services for the Fourth Sunday, commemorating the Paralytic will include Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Let us continue to celebrate the Paschal Feast!

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the 3rd Sunday after Pascha will include commemoration of the Myrrhbearing Women and St. John the Theologian.  You can find texts here.  We will celebrate Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Christ is Risen!  Services for St. Thomas Sunday will include Vespers on Saturday  at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.   You can find texts here. 

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Services of Holy Week and Pascha that have been live-streamed on facebook will be made available here as youtube videos.  Please note that as these services are longer than typical Vespers, it is taking extended periods of time for them to process through.  Please be patient as this work is completed.

Matins of Holy Friday with the Reading of 12 Gospels, click here.

Vespers with Entombment of our Lord, on Holy Friday, click here.

Matins of Holy Saturday, click here.

Paschal Vespers, click here.

Services for Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday follow the end of the 40 days of the Great Lenten journey.  We will celebrate Vespers on Friday evening at 5:30pm, and Divine Liturgy on Saturday morning at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Later on Saturday we will celebrate Great Vespers w/ Litya at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find Palm Sunday texts here.  Later on Sunday all are invited to Christ the Savior Church, in Southbury, for Bridegroom Matins, at 4:00pm.  Please join us in these days of celebration before we begin the journey of Holy Week!

To view Vespers of Lazarus Saturday, click here.

To view Vespers of Palm Sunday, click here.

On Sunday, April 10th, the 5th Sunday of Great Lent, we will be welcoming His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon as he makes an archpastoral visit.  He will be making his entrance at 9:00am on Sunday morning.  During the Liturgy Dn. Ambrose Powell will be ordained to the Holy Priesthood.  On Saturday evening we will celebrate Vespers at 5:00pm, commemorating St. Mary of Egypt.  You can find texts here.  Please join us on this wonderful occasion of an archpastoral visitation!

To view Saturday night Vespers, click here.

To view hierarchical Liturgy with ordination of Dn. Ambrose Powell to the Holy Priesthood, click here.

Services for the 4th Sunday of Great Lent will include Vespers on Saturday, April 2nd, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, April 3rd, at 9:00am.  We will be commemorating St. John Climacus.  You can find texts here.

We will also be hosting our CT Deanery clergy and faithful for Mission Vespers at 4:00pm on Sunday afternoon.  You can find texts here.

Please join us for these coming services!

To view Saturday Vespers, click here.

Services for the Feast of St. Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts, Apostle to America, Metropolitan of Moscow, will include Presanctified Liturgy on Wednesday evening, 6:00pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this American Saint!

Services for the 3rd Sunday of Great Lent, the Veneration of the Precious Cross, will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, with the placing of the most Precious Cross, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find service texts here.  Please pray together with us!

To view Saturday Vespers, click here.

Services for the Feast of Annunciation will include pre-feast celebration of Presanctified Liturgy on Wednesday at 6:00pm, Matins on Thursday at 6:00pm, and then Vesperal Divine Liturgy on the evening of the feast on March 25, 6:00pm.  This is one of the latest Liturgies celebrated in the course of the liturgical year.  You can find service texts for Wednesday here, an order of service for Matins on Thursday here, and service texts for Friday's Liturgy here.  Please join us in celebrating this Joyous Feast in the midst of our Great Lenten journey!

To view Festal Matins, click here.

Services for the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent will include Vespers on Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  We will be commemorating St. Gregory Palamas.  Please join us in prayer.

To view tonight's Vesper, click here.

Services for the Sunday of Orthodoxy will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy at 9:00am on Sunday, March 13, 2022.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.  We are also returning to lenten vespers this week, so Vespers will be celebrated at 4:00pm at Holy Ghost Church.  Please join us in prayer.

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights of the first week of Great Lent we celebrate the Service of Great Compline with Canon of St. Andrew, at 6:00pm.  You can find the service text here, and the irmoi musical settings here. You can find text for Wednesday night's Presanctified Liturgy here.

Please join us in celebrating this most meaningful service as we get underway on our Great Lenten journey. 

View Monday night's service here.

View Tuesday night's service here.

View Thursday's service here.

Services for Forgiveness Sunday (Expulsion of Adam from Paradise), March 5-6, 2022 will include the remembrance of the 40 Holy Martyrs, as this feast fall during Clean Week.  Services will include  Vespers on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 5:00pm, Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am, and after Coffee Hour Vespers with the rite of forgiveness.  You can find texts for Saturday and Sunday morning here,  and Sunday Vespers, here.  Please make every effort to come to church on Sunday so we can begin this Great Lenten journey together!

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Click here to view Forgiveness Vespers.

Services for the Sunday of the last Judgment and Repose of St. Raphael, Feb. 26-27, 2022, will include a Memorial Servie on Saturday at 4:30pm, Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday.  In addition to this third preparatory Sunday before Great Lent, we will also be remembering St. Raphael, of Brooklyn, one of our American Saints.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer, especially during this tragic time of the invasion of Ukraine.

Click here to view tonight's Memorial Service.

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Services for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, second preparatory Sunday before Great Lent.  Feb. 19-20, 2022, will include Vespers with Dn. Mark on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine LIturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. 

As Fr. Steven will be in Bridgeport, there will not be livestream from Facebook on Saturday.

Services for the 1st Preparatory Sunday before Great Lent, Feb. 12-13,2022, will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  We begin including texts from the Triodion this weekend, that will carry us through Nocturne of Pascha!  Please join us in worship, and pray for our council members as they are installed on Sunday.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Joyous Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple!  Services for the 33rd Sunday after Pentecost, Feb. 5-6, 2022, will include Great Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm followed by General Confession, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing to celebrate the feast! 

Click here to see tonight's Vespers.

Services for the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple will include Great Vespers with Litya on Tuesday, Feb. 1st, and Divine Liturgy on Wednesday, Feb. 2nd.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating this feast, on the 40th day of the Nativity of our Lord on Dec. 25th!

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Services for the 32nd Sunday after Pentecost will also be commemorating the Three Holy Hierarchs:  Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chryostom.  Weather permitting, we will be celebrating a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, Great Vespers with Litya at 5:00pm on Saturday, and Divin Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here. 

Please remember especially our Yale OCF, as the Three Holy Hierarchs is their patron feast!  Please pray together with us!

To view tonight's Memorial Service, click here.

To view tonight's Vesper service, click here.

Services for the 31st Sunday after Pentecost include Vespers on Saturday, Jan. 22nd at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am, commemorating the newmartyrs of Russia.  You can find the texts here.  Please join us in remembering these heroes of the faith!

Services for the 30th Sunday after Pentecost, Jan. 15-16, 2022, will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  We will be commemorating the chains of the Holy Apostle Peter.  Please join us in worship!

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Sunday, January 9th will be the Sunday after the Theophany Feast.  We will be celebrating a Memorial Service at 4:30pm, Great Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in worship.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

Services for the Feast of Theophany will include Royal Hours on Tuesday, January 4th, at 5:30pm, Vigil (with Great Blessing of Water), on Wednesday, Jan. 5th, and Divine Liturgy on Thursday, Jan. 6th.  You can find text here for Compline, and here for Liturgy, from our OCA website.

Click here to view Royal Hours

Click here to view Vigil

Services for the Sunday before Theophany, Jan. 1-2, 2022, will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  January 2nd is the Repose of St. Seraphim of Sarov.  Thank you for joining us in prayer.

To view tonight's Vespers, click here.

We will be celebrating the Feast of Circumcision, St. Basil the Great, and the new calendar year, on Dec. 31st and Jan. 1st.  We will celebrate Vespers with Litya on Friday evening at 5:00pm.  On Saturday we will celebrate the Divine Liturgy with prayers for the new year.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in celebrating the feast!

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

Services for the Midfeast of Pentecost include Vespers (virtual) on Tuesday, May 25, and Divine Liturgy with lesser blessing of water on Wednesday, May 26, at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in the Midfeast celebration!

Christ is Risen!

Services for the 4th Sunday of Pascha will include Vespes (virtual) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and the Divine Liturgy in church on Sunday, May 23rd.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in continuing the Paschal celebration!

Christ is Risen!

Services for the 3rd Sunday will include Saturday Vespers (virtual) and Divine Liturgy at church on Sunday.  You can find texts here.  After Liturgy, and outside coffee hour, we will be blessing graves at Evergreen Cemetery. 

Indeed He is Risen!

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen! 

Services for the 2nd Sunday of Pascha will include virtual Saturday Vespers at 5pm, and Sunday Liturgy at Church at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  There will be an Easter egg hunt after Liturgy, and we will also be blessing cemetery graves at Beaverdale Cemetery.

Please look here for recorded services during Bright Week:

Vespers of Bright Tuesday, May 3, 2021

Vespers of Bright Wednesday, May 4, 2021

Vespers of Bright Friday, May 7, 2021

During Holy Week this year we will be celebrating a combination of virtual and in-church services.  Please click on the links below for service texts and video recordings.

Bridegroom Matins of Holy Monday:  service text,  video link

Bridegroom Matins of Holy Tuesday: service text,  video link

Presanctified Liturgy of Holy Tuesday:  service text, video link

Bridegroom Matins of Holy Wednesday: service text, video link

Bridegroom Matins of Holy Thursday: service text,  video link

Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Thursday:  service text, video link

Matins of Holy Friday with Reading of 12 Gospels:  video link

Royal Hours of Holy Friday:  service text, video link

Vespers of Holy Friday:  service text

Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday:  service text

Our 40 days of Great Lent ends on the eve of Lazarus Saturday.  We will celebrate the following services as we enter these two days of celebration, Lazarus Saturday, and Palm Sunday, April 23-25, 2021.  To find the recordings of these services, please click on the name of that service below that will include the youtube link.  Services marked with a (v) are virtual, the others will be at church.

Friday, April 23, 5:30pm:  Memorial Service (v) (for several of our faithful whose 40th day occur during Holy Week, including RoseAnn Maldera).

Friday, April 23, 6:00pm.  Matins of Lazarus Saturday (v)  (you can find texts here for Matins and Liturgy)

Saturday April 24, 9:00am  Divine Liturgy Lazarus Saturday (we will bless palms after this for faithful to pick up during the course of the day on Saturday)

Saturday April 24, Vespers for Palm Sunday Feast (v) (you can find texts here)

Sunday, April 25, 2021  Divine Liturgy, Palm Sunday 

Please join us in prayer during these special days of celebration between our Great Lenten journey, and Holy Week.

Services for the 5th Sunday of Great Lent include the commemoration of St. Mary of Egypt.  We will celebrate Vespers virtually on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  You can read her life here.  Both the texts and life are from our OCA website.  Please join us in prayer.

On the fourth Sunday of Great Lent we commemorate St. John Climacus.  We will celebrate Vespers virtually at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy at church on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer!

On Monday April 5th we will celebrate Vespers commemorating the repose of St. Tikhon, Confessor Patriarch of Moscow, and Enlightener of North America, at 5:30pm.  This feast is transferred from April 7th to April 6th this year.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in remembering one of our American Saints!  Click here to see scenes of St. Tikhon's life on the panels of the icon shown here.

Click here to view tonight's Vespers.

On this 3rd Sunday of Great Lent we are given the opportunity to venerate the Precious Cross of our Lord.  (The photo is from the Exaltation Feast in the fall.) We will celebrate Great Vespers (virtually) on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.   Please join us in prayer for this meaningful mid-point of the Great Lenten journey!

Friday afternoon at 5:30pm we will be celebrating Vespers with the remembrance of the Departed.  Saturday is the second of three memorial Saturdays.  You can find texts for tonight here.  We will be praying for the departed members of our pairsh community. 

You can view tonight's service here.

On Wednesday evening, March 31st,  we will celebrate the Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts, commemorating the Repose of St. Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to America at 6:00pm.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in commemorating the lives of our American Saints!

We will celebrate Vespers at 5:00pm on Saturday, and the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here, including our commemoration of St. Gregory Palamas.  Please join us in prayer.

We will be celebrating the Annunciation Feast on March 25th, the only great feast occurring during Great Lent.  Due to this reality, the actual celebration of the feast is one of the latest liturgies in the year.  Typically we celebrate Vespers on the eve, and Liturgy on the morning of the feast.  For Annunciation we celebrate Liturgy in the evening of the day of the feast, along with the synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.  The celebration of the feast also varies depending on where this feast falls during the week.  The Archangel Gabriel is the one who came to the Theotokos to bring her glad tidings that she will bear a son through being overshadowed by the Grace of the Holy Spirit.  Her response reflects her being the quintessential example of our human nature to aspire to:  "Let it be to me according to Your will."  May we seek this posture with respect to our present Great Lenten effort.

This year, the eve of the Feast is Wednesday, and the feast on Thursday.  We will celebrate the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts on Wednesday evening, and a Vesperal Divine Liturgy on the evening of Thursday, March 25th.  Please click on the link for each day's service texts.

On the first Sunday of Great Lent we commemoroate the restoration of the Holy Icons in the Church in 843.  The Image of Christ "not made with hands" is the first reflection of the face of Christ, sent to Abgar the Prince of Odessa, bringing healing to him.  The icons are not themselves objects of worship, as argued by the iconoclasts, against the second commandment, but instead draw us into the reality of the feast or person depicted, as windows. 

We also on this day remember a more recent event.  It was on the Sunday of Orthodoxy in 1891 that word reached St. Alexis that the Pokrov (St. Mary's) Cathedral community in Minneapolis had been received from the Unia into the Russian Orthodox Church.  He had waited a year while serving the parish and working in a bakery to learn that their journey home was fruitful.

We will celebrate Great Vespers virtually on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts here.

Please come and worship with us!

On Wednesday evening we will celebrate our first Presanctified Liturgy, including the commemoration of St. Nikolai of Zhicha, one of our American Saints.  You can find texts here.  You can also read his life here, from our OCA website.  St. Nikolai is the author of the Prologue from Ochrid, and served as Rector of St. Tikhon's Seminary.  Holy Saint Nikolai pray unto God for us!

During the first week of Great Lent we will celebrate Great Compline with the Canon of St. Andrew each evening at 6:00pm.  The text of this canon is filled with Scriptural references to aid us in taking up a sincere and heartfelt posture of repentance as we seek to return to God.  Through the course of the week we will post the service recordings here.

Monday night

Tuesday night

Thursday night

Services for the Sunday of the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise (Cheesefare Sunday) will include Vespers at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning.  You can find texts here.  Following Divine Liturgy we will proceed with the celebration of Vespers with the Rite of Forgiveness.  You can find texts here for Vespers.  Please join us in prayer as we prepare to enter into Great Lent!

At tonight's Vespers, 5:30pm, we will commemorate all the righteous monastics.  You can find texts here.  Please join us in prayer.

Here is the link for tonight's Vespers.

On Monday evening we will celebrate Vespers commemorating the Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, at 5:30pm.  It is a rare occasion to celebrate this feast outside of Great Lent.  You can find texts here and read the account of their martyrdom here, both from the OCA website.  Please join us in commemorating these heroic martyrs. 

You can access the video recording of tonight's Vespers here.

Services for the Sunday of the Last Judgment (Meatfare Sunday) will include Vespers on Saturday at 5:00pm, and Divine Liturgy on Sunday at 9:00am.  You can find texts for the weekend here.  Please plan to join us in prayer. 

Friday afternoon's Vespers is on the eve of a Memorial Saturday.  We will celebrate Vespers at 5:30pm that includes prayers for the departed. You can find texts for tonight here.  We will be praying for and remembering: newly departed, anniversary remembrances from early March, and all the departed faithful of our parish at the service today.  Please join us in prayer.

You can access the youtube version of the service here.

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.