Weekly Services
Tuesdays at 8:30a - Daily Matins
Wednesdays at 6:00p - Daily Vespers
Thursday at 8:30a - Daily Matins
Saturday at 5:30p - Great Vespers
Sunday at 9:30a - Divine Liturgy
The Church is also open on Wednesdays for "Open Doors" - confession, meditation and reflection.
Please see our online calendar for dates and times of Feast Day services.
We welcome all visitors to our Divine Liturgy and services. While Holy Communion may only be received by prepared Orthodox Christians, our non-Orthodox guests are welcome to participate in our prayers and hymns and to join us in venerating the Cross and and receiving blessed bread at the conclusion of the Liturgy. Please sign our guest book and join us for refreshments and fellowship after the services.
Feel free to ask questions before or after the services. Any member of our Council or Congregation are glad to assist you. Literature about the Orthodox faith and this parish can be found at the candle desk.
Members of our Parish Council are:
Michael Kuziak - President
Natalie Kucharski - Secretary
Glenn PenkoffLidbeck - Vice President
Susan Egan - Treasurer
Phyllis Sturtevant - Member at Large
Sophia Brubaker - Member at Large
9:30AM Divine Liturgy
11:15AM Church School
Albert
Dates to Note
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - Soup Kitchen: we are ever in need of volunteers!
Sunday, November 16, 2014 - Annual Parish Meeting. Only “members” may vote at the annual meeting. If you have any question as to your membership status, please talk with a parish council representative.
Also, any resolutions that you would like to have considered must be provided, in writing, to a council member no later than 11/9.
We are also looking for nominees for next year’s Diocesan Assembly, to be held in Willimantic.
Parish Events
I am looking for a few volunteers who would be willing to spend some of their time reading and visiting Joan Navarro (and possibly other residents of the assisted living home). I would like to get enough volunteers so that Joan could have visitors every other day or so. Please see me if you would like to help with this ministry.
Events
The cookbook for sale from the Holy Trinity Church in New Britain is available through Susan Davis (She will leave a sign up sheet at the candle desk with an envelope for cost of $15 per copy).
Cookbook title: 'Celebrating over 100 years - Protection of the Holy Theotokos Sisterhood Cookbook' 2014 Edition: Holy Trinity Orthodox Church; New Britain, CT.
If interested, may also email her at lad42@comcast.net
Thank you on behalf of the Sisterhood of Holy Trinity Church
The All Saints (Hartford) annual bazaar is only a month away!:
Fri, Nov 7 - 41st Annual Russian Tea Room & Bazaar - 6pm: Yale Slavic (Ladies) Chorus
Sat, Nov 8 - 10am - 4pm: Tea Room & Bazaar ~5pm: Great Vespers
Sun, Nov 9 - 9am: Pre-Communion Prayers & Hours
 9:30am: Divine Liturgy, Noon - 3pm: Tea Room & Bazaar
(Please see our web site or the bulletin board for more details)
Diocesan and National Church Events
The 18th All American Council will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 20-24th, 2015. We will need a “lay” representative from parish to attend. If you have any interest in participating, please talk with Fr Steven.
You should also know that there is an assessment of $12.50 per member in each parish to help cover expenses for the AAC.
OCAMPR Conference at HCHC, November 6–8, 2014
The Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion presents "Exploring the Mind-Body-Soul Connection: Spirituality in Illness and Healing." Learn more...
Boston Byzantine Music Festival at HCHC
Boston Byzantine Music Festival, November 14 & 15. Performances by Cappella Romana, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Byzantine Choir, and DÜNYA with HCHC’s own St. Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir. Free lectures and workshops. Special HCHC discounts. Information, schedule, and tickets at www.BostonByzantineMusic.org.
CrossRoad 2015 Applications Now Available
Applications for the 2015 CrossRoad sessions are now available online at www.crossroadinstitute.org. Please share with any high school juniors and seniors you know who may be interested in attending this life-changing, 10-day program on our campus this summer.
"Divine Compassion and Women of the Church" Videos
Saint Catherine's Vision is pleased to announce that videos from the Divine Compassion and Women of the Church: Theological Perspectives conference, which was held at HCHC on June 20, 2014, are now available. For full access to the video series, please visit http://goo.gl/XSFSpE.
Seminary Offers Four Hybrid, Online Public Courses in January
In January 2015, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary will be offering four public courses, comprising an online and a residential component. Offerings include three pastoral theology courses and one liturgical music course, taught by experts in their fields: "The Therapeutic Encounter," by Dr. Daniel Hinshaw; "The Parish and Prison Ministry," by The Very Rev. Dr. Nicholas Solak and The Rev. Stephen Powley, executive director, Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM); "Stewardship in American Orthodoxy," by The Very Rev. Dr. Robert Holet; and "The Music and Faith of Arvo Pärt," with Dr. Peter Bouteneff. Learn more...
Olga, Alex, Vera, Richard, Daria, Daria, Evelyn, Alla, June, Nina, Joan, Luke, Aaron, Anne, Alex, Alan, Nadia, Glenn, Kathryn, Ivan, Elena & Jevon and their unborn child, Kyra, Roderick, Albert, Barbara, Irene, Susan, Eva, Richard, Douglas, Kathleen, Dionysia, Krystal and Ezekiel, Elisha, Sharon & William and their unborn child. And for the newly departed Robert.
We commemorate: Synaxis of the Holy Unmercenaries. Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus, of Persia (ca. 341-345). St. Marcian of Cyprus (381-391).
These Martyrs contested in Persia about the year 330, in the reign of Sapor (Shapur) II, King of Persia (325-379). Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus, Persian Christians, confessed Christ before the King, and were put to many torments. Aphthonius and Elpidephorus, drawn to the Faith of Christ through the Martyrs, were beheaded with another 7,000. Saints Acindynus, Pegasius, and Anempodistus were at last burned to death. Two churches were dedicated in their honour in Constantinople. As is often the case in church hymns, there is a play on the meanings of the Saints' names here. Acindynus means "unimperilled"; Pegasius is derived from pegazo--"to gush forth"; Aphthonius is derived from aphthonos-"abundant"; Elpidephorus means "hope-bearing"; Anempodistus means "unhindered." These are all Greek translations of their Persian names.
The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 2:16-20
BRETHREN, you know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
St. John the Baptist Church, Bridgeport
The Connecticut Bible Lecture Series (CBLS) is pleased to announce the fourteenth of its highly successful Semi-annual Lecture Series. Its mission is to educate, inspire, and challenge participants of all backgrounds and education levels to recognize the centrality of sound biblical interpretation for reading, hearing and understanding the Word of God.
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Bridgeport