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DIVINE LITURGY SUNDAY 10:00 AM

Seasonal and Occasional Services as posted

ST. NICHOLAS ORTHODOX CHURCH, SOUTHBRIDGE, MA

LENT 2024

PRESANCTIFIED LITURGIES, SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY, AKATHIST 2024

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2024: 6 PM PRESANCTIFIED St Nicholas

SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024: 9:50 AM PAN ORTHODOX LITURGY, St Spyridon, Worcester

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024: 6 PM PRESANCTIFIED St Michael

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024: 6 PM PRESANCTIFIED St Nicholas

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2024: 6 PM PRESANCTIFIED St Michael

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024: 6 PM PRESANCTIFIED St Nicholas

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024: DEANARY AKATHIST St Mary, Worcester

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 2024: 6 PM PRESANCTIFIED St Michael

HOLY WEEK AND PASHKA:

SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024: 10 A.M. PALM SUNDAY LITURGY WITH PROCESSION OF PALMS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2024: 6 P.M. SERVICE OF HOLY UNCTION

THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2024: 6 P.M. MATINS OF HOLY THURSDAY (12 Gospel Readings)

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2024: 6 P.M. Lamentations Service

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024: 9 P.M. PASCHAL MATINS AND LITURGY

(A Paschal Agape Coffee Hour will be held in the Parish Hall following the Liturgy on St. Thomas Sunday, May 12, 2024)

DECEMBER 10, 2023, 10 AM DIVINE LITURGY

Patronal Feast Day and Visit by Bishop Nikodhim

DECEMBER 24, 2023, 10 AM VESPERAL DIVINE LITURGY FOR CHRISTMAS
with Epistle and Gospel Readings for the Sunday of the Holy Ancestors, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

This will be our only Liturgy for Christmas this year. We will resume with the regular practice of celebrating of the Christmas liturgy on the evening of December 24 next year.

SERVICES OF LENT, HOLY WEEK, & PASHKA 2023

LENT:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2023: 6 PM Presanctified Liturgy

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2023: 6 PM Presanctified Liturgy

HOLY WEEK AND PASHKA:

SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2023: 10 AM Palm Sunday Liturgy with the Procession of Palms

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2023: 6 PM Unction Service

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2023: 6 PM Reading of the 12 Gospels of the Lord’s Passion

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2023: 6 PM The Lamentations Service

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2023: 9 PM Paschal Matins and Liturgy

(NEW!!!) SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2023: ST THOMAS SUNDAY Agape Meal in the Parish Hall Following 10 Am Liturgy (Please bring a special dish to celebrate the Feast)

Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 10:00 AM we will celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (Theophany) and the Great Blessing of Water. Please bring your own water bottles from home, if you have them. We will have bottles at church for those who don’t have them at home.

December 24, 2022 at 5:00 PM: Divine Liturgy of St Basil for the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord.
(This will be our only Liturgy for Christmas. There will be no Sunday morning Liturgy.)

Below is the version of the Great Doxology sung before every Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas and on other important occasions.
https://youtu.be/wK72ytggmP4

Our choir director Emily Daly and her husband Stephen Pye made this four part harmony rendition of the Lord's Prayer we sing at St Nicholas. This lovely version of the Lord's Prayer was done over the course of this Sunday (today) afternoon. It requires Emily to sing the alto and soprano part while Stephen sings the bass and tenor parts. Then all the parts have to be put together and uploaded. Thank you Emily and Stephen for sharing this with us. Our regular liturgy will be placed online tomorrow (the process takes a few hours to complete).
https://youtu.be/vxDMCGvgprI

Our choir director, Emily Daly, and her husband Stephen Pye, made a four part harmony recording (in video mode) of one of the settings of the Trisagion (Holy God).
As we move forward, I hope to bring you additional recordings of our liturgical music and add slide shows to them. Its especially nice to hear familiar voices singing and it would be wonderful to add parish photos and icons to the mix.
https://youtu.be/6oxaZ7tNZ58

Please see our "Medidations" page and "The Orthodox Faith" page for videos of the Liturgy and sermon alond with other inspirational sources for Orthodox prayer, worship, and learning.