St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
R.O.C.O.R
343 N. Maple St., Enfield, CT 06082
Welcome To St.Nicholas Orthodox Church
W.Springfield,MA 1953-2014
W.Springfield,MA 1953-2014
W.Springfield,MA 1953-2014
Relocated Enfield ,CT 2014
Relocated Enfield ,CT 2014
Relocated Enfield ,CT 2014
 The Nave
The Nave
The Nave

Greetings! Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church is the R.O.C.O.R. parish for the greater Springfield and Western MA and Northern Connecticut area since c.1952 under the authority, blessing, and protection of His Emminence NICHOLAS, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad.

Our services are primarily in English with some Church Slavonic. We follow the Julian Calendar liturgically as is the tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. Our parishioners come from throughout the Pioneer Valley & northern Connecticut. Visitors are always welcome—please have a glance at our schedule of services and come visit St. Nicholas Orthodox Church now located just over the Massachusetts border in Enfield, CT.


 

Service Times
Regular Weekly Services
 
Weekly Services

Saturday Vigil 6:00pm

Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30 am

      Hours 9:10 am,

      Holy Communion preparatory prayers 8:30am

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Feast Day
Weekday - Feast Day Services

 

unless otherwise announced

   Vigil 6:30 pm Great Vespers with Litia, Matins, First Hour

     Divine Liturgy 7:00am,Third & Sixth Hours at 6:40am

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Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

 9/20 Vigil 6:30 pm Great Vespers with Litia, Matins, First Hour

 9/21  Divine Liturgy 7:00am,Third & Sixth Hours at 6:40am

Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross

9/26 Vigil 6:30 pm Great Vespers with Litia, Matins, First Hour

 9/27  Divine Liturgy 7:00am,Third & Sixth Hours at 6:40am

 

 

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Daily Calendar
Daily Saints - Prologue from Ochrid
The Prologue of Ohrid: September 9th

1. Ss Joachim and Anna.

St Joachim was of the tribe of Judah, and a descendant of King David. Anna was the daughter of Matthan the priest, of the tribe of Levi as was Aaron the High Priest. This Matthan had three daughters: Mary, Zoia and Anna. Mary was married in Bethlehem and bore Salome; Zoia was also married in Bethlehem and bore Elisabeth, the mother of St John the Forerunner; and Anna was married in Nazareth to Joachim, and in old age gave birth to Mary, the most holy Mother of God. Joachim and Anna had been married for fifty years, and were barren. They lived devoutly and quietly, using only a third of their income for themselves and giving a third to the poor and a third to the Temple, and they were well provided for. Once, when they were already old and were in Jerusalem to offer sacrifice to God, the High Priest, Issachar, upbraided Joachim: 'You are not worthy to offer sacrifice with those childless hands.' Others who had children jostled Joachim, thrusting him back as unworthy. This caused great grief to the two aged souls, and they went home with very heavy hearts. Then the two of them gave themselves to prayer to God that He would work in them the wonder that He had worked in Abraham and Sarah, and give them a child to comfort their old age. God sent them His angel, who gave them tidings of the birth of 'a daughter most blessed, by whom all the nations of the earth will be blessed, and through whom will come the salvation of the world.' Anna conceived at once, and in the ninth month gave birth to the holy Virgin Mary. St Joachim lived for eighty years and Anna for seventy-nine, and they both entered into the kingdom of God.

2. Commemoration of the Third Ecumenical Council.

This Council met in 431 in Ephesus, in the time of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger. Two hundred fathers gathered at it. The Council condemned Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, for his heretical teaching on the most holy Virgin Mary and the birth of the Lord. Nestorius would not call the holy Virgin the Mother of God, but only the Mother of Christ. The holy fathers, in condemning Nestorius's teaching, confirmed that the holy Virgin be called the Mother of God. Besides this, it confirmed the decisions of the First and Second Councils, especially the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, laying down that no-one may add anything to, or take anything from, this Creed.

3. The Holy Martyr Severian.

He was a nobleman of Sebaste. At the time of the martyrdom of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (March 9th), he succoured them in prison, encouraging and serving them. After their glorious death, he was also-arrested, whipped and tortured for Christ, and finally hanged from a tree with a heavy stone round his neck and another hanging from his feet. Praising God for everything, he breathed his last in the reign of the Emperor Licinius, in the year 320.

4. St Theophanes, Confessor and Faster.

After a life pleasing to God, in which he underwent much suffering for Christ, he died peacefully in the year 299.

5. St Nicetas the Man of God.

He lived in Constantinople in the twelfth century. His life was so pleasing to God that the doors of the church opened of themselves before him, and the icon-lamps lit spontaneously. At the desire of Sozon, a deacon, and at Nicetas's prayers, a priest with whom Sozon had quarrelled and with whom he remained estranged, appeared from the other world. There appeared first a row of priests robed in white, then a row in red vestments. Sozon recognised his adversary among them, and made his peace with him. This happened at night in the church at Blachernae.

Ladies' Afternoon Tea Fundraiser - May 7, 2023

Thank you to everyone who supported the Ladies' Afternoon Tea through donations, labor, and participation. It was a wonderful day! Please see the Gallery page for photos of the event.

Sincerely,

 

The ladies of St. Nicholas parish

 

Proposed Entry
Planned Entry
Planned Entry
Planned Entry
Entry drawing
Proposed Entry
Evening Prayers -

Audio - Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville Prayer Book


Jordanville Readings -

Daily Audio Readings - Holy Trinity Monastery


Morning Prayers, -

Audio - Holy Trinity Monastery-Jordanville Prayer book


Prayers in English - MYRIOBIBLOS -

Prayers - Text


Donations to the Church: Options available
Entry Construction
Entry Construction - $40,000.00
Restricted donation for Church Entrance w/cross and cupola started 01/01/2020

Restricted Fund: Formal entry porch with Cross, Cupola at main entry doors leading to parking lot.

$14,279.18 raised of $40,000.00
36%
From the Rector

If necessary, St. Nicholas Liturgical services will utilize the parish Hall in addition to the Nave of the Church providing an expanded area for worship.

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 If by necessity church attendance is not possible, you may participate in liturgical services at home using the following resources for texts, and sites for internet broadcast- streaming of services.  Our chuch does not stream services.

For Readers Texts, Rubrics/How To, and Calendar Specific

Weekly Liturgical Texts and Resources

Saint Jonah.org Readers services

Sites where to find streaming services:

Slavonic & English

Eastern American Diocese - list

StJohn the Baptist Cathedral, DC 

Holy Epiphany ROC, Boston

English

St. Xenia ROC, Methuen, MA

Holy Cross Monastery