There will be no Liturgy at St. Nicholas Church on Friday, Sept. 21. Archpriest Dimitri will be joining the celebration at the Kursk Root Hermitage in Mahopac, NY (about an hour away). You are welcome to do the same: the Liturgy in Mahopac will begin at 8:30am. There will also be Liturgy at Presentation Church here in Stratford, also at 8:30am.

Schedule change: The Molieben previously scheduled for Saturday afternoon is cancelled; instead, we shall have Liturgy in the morning:

Guests will be bringing an Icon containing a relic of St. Anna, the Lord's grandmother.

Our Synod of Bishops has released this statement concerning recent illegitimate and divisive actions by the Constantinopolitan Patriarchate in Ukraine. Interested readers may also wish to consult this letter (PDF) by Serbian Patriarch Irenej, addressed to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.