Category Archives: General

Adult Spiritual Education, General, Ministries, Services

Schedule of services and events for May 7 – May 14

Monday, May 8
7 PM – Spirituality Class

Tuesday, May 9
8:30 AM –Hours
9 AM – Prayer Group

Wednesday, May 10
9 AM – Divine Liturgy Feast of Mid-Pentecost
7 PM –Catechism Class

Thursday, May 11
9 AM – Divine Liturgy Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius

Thursday, May 11
7 PM – Wake for Fr. William George Ss. Peter and Paul, Rockaway, NJ
7 PM – Rectory/Classroom Meeting in Danbury

Friday, May 12
10 AM – Funeral for Fr. William George at Ss. Peter and Paul Rockaway, NJ

Saturday, May 13
9 AM – Cemetery Clean up
5 PM – Vespers

Sunday, May 14
10 AM – Divine Liturgy – Mother’s Day
11:30 AM – Mother’s Day Breakfast

Readers Schedule
5/14 – Bob Faubel
5/21 –Susan Paltauf
5/28 – Suzanne Molineaux

Coffee Hour
5/14 – Mother’s Day Breakfast
5/21 – OPEN
5/28 – OPEN

Adult Spiritual Education, General, Services

Schedule of services and events for April 30 – May 7

Monday, May 1
7 PM – Spirituality Class

Tuesday, May 2
8:30 AM – Paschal Hours
9 AM – Prayer Group

Wednesday, May 3
7 PM –Catechism Class

Thursday, May 4
8:30 AM – Akathist

Friday, May 5
9 AM – Old Testament Class
1 PM to 5 PM – Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen

Saturday, May 6
5 PM – Vespers

Sunday, May 7
10 AM – Divine Liturgy
12:30 PM – Parish Council

Readers Schedule
5/7 – Susan Paltauf
5/14 – Bob Faubel
5/21 – Christopher Mihaly
5/28 – Suzanne Molineaux

Coffee Hour
5/7 – Natalia Budyonny
5/14 – Mother’s Day Breakfast
5/21 – OPEN
5/28 – OPEN

General, Services

Schedule of Services and Events for April 23 – April 30

There are no services this week, as Fr. Luke is way in Florida from Monday to Wednesday for an OCMC Board of Trustee’s meeting and then in Pennsylvania at Camp Nazareth for the Priest Synod meeting from Thursday to Friday.

Saturday, April 29
8:30 AM – OYMT training session lead by Andy Lekos of OCMC
5 PM -Vespers

Sunday, April 30
10 AM – Divine Liturgy followed by an OYMT pancake breakfast fundraiser.

Readers Schedule
4/30 – Paul Toaso
5/7 – Bob Faubel
5/14 – Susan Paltauf

Coffee Hour
4/30 – OYMT Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
5/7 – Budyonny

Adult Spiritual Education, General, Ministries, Services

Schedule of Services and Events for April 16 – April 23

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen!

 

On this Most Bright and Glorious Feast of our Lord Resurrection, I greet everyone with joy filled exclamation: Christ is Risen! I am grateful for all of you have taken seriously this Lenten journey that has been given to us by our Church.  Your efforts have allowed you to safely enter into the harbor our Lord’s Resurrection.  For all of us who have taken up the Cross of Lent, God’s grace has made this day that much brighter and joy filled!  You have seen and experienced that Pascha, if only for a brief moment, is about Life and how to have it more abundantly!  You have learned that by cooperating with God’s grace you can come to better recognize Christ in our every day life and be able choose Him above all else.

May the Light of the Risen Lord always shine upon us,

In the Risen Christ,

Fr. Luke Mihaly

 

Saturday, April 15
11 PM – Nocturnes, Matins, Divine Liturgy followed by the blessing of Baskets and Agape Meal – HOLY PASCHA

NO FASTING for Bright Week

Sunday, April 16
12 noon – Paschal Vespers – Blessing of Baskets

Monday, April 17 – Bright Monday
9 AM –Divine Liturgy with Procession
7 PM – Spirituality Class

Tuesday, April 18 – Bright Tuesday
9 AM – Divine Liturgy

Wednesday, April 19
6:30 PM – Monthly St. Nectarios Anointing Service – Rescheduled
7 PM – Catechism Class

Thursday, April 20
6:30 PM – Parish Dinner out at The CUE Restaurant.  Please consider carpooling

Friday, April 21
9 AM – Old Testament Class

 Sunday, April 23
10 AM –Divine Liturgy

Readers Schedule
4/23 – Harry Fong
4/30 – Paul Toaso
5/7 – Bob Faubel
5/14 – Susan Paltauf

Coffee Hour
4/16 – PASCHA
4/23 – OPEN
4/30 – OYMT Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

General

Great and Holy Friday Sermon 2017

Great and Holy Friday 2017

During this week there have been many images from the services in the hymnography of our church of marriage and wedding.  It is hard to imagine and think why would the Church have such images of marriage and wedding at this time of the liturgical year that leads us to Christ’s death and ultimately his resurrection?  These images are very important and purposeful because at the heart of this is God wedding Himself to us through Christ’ death and resurrection.  This is the wedding feast that all of us are invited to participate in.

            We should remember that at every wedding in the Orthodox Church the bride and groom wear crowns or wreaths upon their heads.  There are many images that come to mind, but I often remind couples that the wedding crowns that we wear are a reminder of the sacrificial love that is expected of us if we desire to enjoy the communion that is marriage.  Too often marriage is portrayed by the world as something that each individual should get something out of, i.e. most often fulfillment, happiness, gratification.   In stark contrast to this the Church presents to us the crown of thorns.  To remind us that there is something much more to marriage, indeed, something more to life, than fulfillment, happiness or gratification. 

            And here, the Church presents to us a crucified and buried Lord as the means of true communion and intimacy with God.  Heaven is not cheap; not everyone enters.  Narrow is the gate that one must enter and Our Lord has shown us the way.

            What our Lord shows us today as he lies here in the tomb, that if we want true communion, if we want true, deep, joy and not just the fleeting feeling of happiness, if we want a wellspring of God grace springing up within us and not an immediate gratification of our passing desires, then we must go through the crown of thorns.  We need to follow the example of our Lord to experience our own death to our selfish wants and desires in order to attain that most intimate communion with God and through God with all those around us.

            By brothers and sisters:  Do not be afraid for our Lord has trod this path before us, he has blazed that trail that leads from death to life, from the grave to the empty tomb, from earth to heaven.  Every obstacle has been taken away it is only up to us to pick up our cross, deny ourselves and follow Him.

Fr. Luke Mihaly – Great and Holy Friday Sermon 2017

General, Services

Schedule of service and events for April 9 – April 16

Monday, April 10
9 AM – Bridegroom Matins
6 PM – Presanctified Liturgy

Tuesday, April 11
9 AM – Bridegroom Matins
6 PM – Presanctified Liturgy

Wednesday, April 12
9 AM – Bridegroom Matins
 12 noon – Presanctified Liturgy
6 PM – Holy Unction Service

Thursday, April 13
9 AM – Vesperal Liturgy – Institution of the Eucharist
7 PM – Matins and the Reading of the 12 Passion Gospels

Friday, April 14
9 AM – Royal Hours
7PM – Great & Holy Friday Vespers with Procession and Guarding the Tomb

Saturday, April 15
9 AM – Vesperal Liturgy
 11 PM – Nocturne, Paschal Matins, Paschal Divine Liturgy followed by blessing of the Baskets and Agape Meal

Sunday, April 16
12 Noon – Paschal Vespers

 Readers Schedule
4/16 – Paul Sulich
4/23 – Harry Fong
4/30 – Paul Toaso

Coffee Hour
4/16 – PASCHA
4/23 – OPEN

Adult Spiritual Education, Choir, General, Services

Schedule of services and events for April 2 – April 9

Monday, April 3
7 PM – Spirituality Class

Tuesday, April 4
8:30 AM – Lenten Hours

Wednesday, April 5
6 PM – Presanctified Liturgy followed by Lenten Meal
7 PM – Catechism Class

Thursday, April 6
8:30 AM – Lenten Hours
9 AM – Prayer Group

Friday, April 7
9 AM – Lenten Hours
9:30 AM – Old Testament Class
6 PM – Presanctified Liturgy

Saturday, April 8
9 AM – Divine Liturgy for Lazarus Saturday
10 AM – Family and Youth Retreat – Making Palm Crosses, Dyeing Eggs, making Luminaries and Prayer Ropes preparing for Palm Sunday and Pascha
5 PM – Great Vespers with Litya for Palm Sunday

Sunday, April 9
10 AM – Divine Liturgy Feast of PALM SUNDAY
11:30 AM – Lenten Cook Off

Patriarchal Pence Collection—On Palm Sunday, April 9th we will have our annual collection for the Patriarchate of Constantinople

Readers Schedule
4/9 – Suzanne Molineaux
4/16 – Paul Sulich
4/23 – Harry Fong
4/30 – Paul Toaso

Coffee Hour
4/9 – Lenten Cook Off
4/16 – PASCHA

General, Services

Schedule of services and events for March 26 – April 2

Monday, March 27
7 PM – Spirituality Class

Tuesday, March 28
8:30 AM – Lenten Hours
9 AM – Perogies
7 PM – Kielbasa Session

Wednesday, March 29
6 PM – Presanctified Liturgy followed by Lenten Meal
7 PM – Catechism Class

Thursday, March 30
8:30 AM – Lenten Hours
9 AM – Prayer Group
6 PM – Canon of St. Andrew/life of St. Mary

Friday, March 31
9 AM – Lenten Hours
9:30 AM – Old Testament Class
11:30 AM – Set up for Bake Sale
6 PM – Service and presentation at St. George’s

Saturday, April 1
10 AM to 3 PM – Easter Craft & Bake Sale
5 PM – Vespers

Sunday, April 2
10 AM – Divine Liturgy St. Mary of Egypt
11:30 AM – Church School
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM– Easter Craft & Bake Sale
12:30 PM – Parish Council Meeting

Readers Schedule
4/2 – Susan Paltauf
4/9 – Suzanne Molineaux
4/16 – Paul Sulich
4/23 – Harry Fong
4/30 – Paul Toaso

Coffee Hour
4/2 – Bundra
4/9 – Lenten Cook Off
4/16 – PASCHA

 

Bake and Craft Sales, Fundraisers, General

Easter Craft & Bake Sale, April 1 and April 2

Easter Bake & Craft Sale Holy Trinity Orthodox Church 74 Joe’s Hill Road, Danbury, CT 06811 Featuring Fresh Kielbasa, Easter Breads, Rolls, Perogies and much more! Saturday, April 1st  10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. & Sunday, April 2nd 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Orders: 203-797-8326 Rectory: 203-748-0671 www.holytrinitydanbury.org

Order Form:  Easter 2017-1 ORDER FORM

Please place your pre-orders for:

  • Our homemade Perogies, including, Sauerkraut and Potato-Cheese-Jalapeno
  • Homemade Fresh Kielbasa
  • Stuffed cabbage
  • Assorted Nut and Fruit rolls
  • Pascha Bread
  • Our Famous Russian Tea Cookies
  • Also: Kolachi cookies, baked goods, butter lambs & homemade jams will be available first come, first served on the day of the sale

Baba’s Kitchen Will Be Open April 1st

Serving lunch: Eat in or take out. Featuring our famous perogies, stuffed cabbage, kielbasa, and more.

Adult Spiritual Education, General, Services

Schedule of services and events for March 19 – March 26

Monday, March 20
7 PM – Spirituality Class

Tuesday, March 21
8:30 AM – Lenten Hours
9 AM – Cookies

Wednesday, March 22
6 PM – Presanctified Liturgy followed by Lenten Meal
7 PM – Catechism Class

Thursday, March 23
8:30 AM – Lenten Hours
9 AM – Prayer Group

Friday, March 24
9 AM – Lenten Hours
9:30 AM – Old Testament Class
6 PM – Paraklis service

Saturday, March 25
8:30 AM – Liturgy for the Feast of the Annunciation
10 AM – Family and Youth Outing to Maple Syrup farm
5 PM – Vespers

Sunday, March 26
10 AM – Divine Liturgy – Sunday of St. John Climacus
11:30 AM – Church School

Readers Schedule
3/26 – Susan Sulich
4/2 – Susan Paltauf

Coffee Hour
3/26 – Suzanne
4/2 – Bundra
4/9 – OPEN
4/16 – PASCHA