Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever! It is with great joy that we greet you on behalf of the entire parish community of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church. We are located within the Greenville section of Norwich, CT. We are a small but growing community dedicated to the Building up of the Body of Christ by fulfilling and proclaiming the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. As you journey to Southeastern Connecticut, we extend an invitation to you to come and join us in prayer and fellowship. All our services are in English and all are welcome to come and worship with us.
| October 4 |
Reader Service @ 9:30 am |
| October 11 |
Divine Liturgy @ 9:30 AM |
| October 18 |
Reader Service @ 9:30 am |
| October 25 |
Reader Service @ 9:30 am` |
| November 1 |
Divine Liturgy @ 9:30 AM |
| November 8 |
Reader Service @ 9:30 am |
| November 15 |
Divine Liturgy @ 9:30 AM |
| November 22 |
Reader Service @ 9:30 am |
| November 29 |
Divine Liturgy @ 9:30 AM |
Welcome to St. Nicholas Church!
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever! It is with great joy that we greet you on behalf of the entire parish community of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church. We are located within the Greenville section of Norwich, CT. We are a small but growing community dedicated to the Building up of the Body of Christ by fulfilling and proclaiming the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. As you journey to Southeastern Connecticut, we extend an invitation to you to come and join us in prayer and fellowship. All our services are in English and all are welcome to come and worship with us.
Let no one make a beginning of a good work which brings no fruit to perfection (cf. Lk. 8:14), nor declare his faith in Christ only with His tongue. – St. Gregory Palamas
Let no one make a beginning of a good work which brings no fruit to perfection (cf. Lk. 8:14), nor declare his faith in Christ only with His tongue. – St. Gregory Palamas
Saint Euthymius the New of Thessalonica and Mt Athos, in the world was named Nicetas, and he was a native of the city of Ancyra in Galatia. His parents, Epiphanius and Anna, led virtuous Christian lives, and from childhood their son was meek, pious and obedient. At age seven he was left fatherless…
The Hieromartyr Lucian, Presbyter of Antioch, was born in the Syrian city of Samosata. At twelve years of age he was left orphaned. Lucian distributed his possessions to the poor, and went to the city of Edessa to the confessor Macarius, under the guidance of whom he diligently read Holy Scripture…
Saint John, Bishop of Suzdal, entered one of the monasteries of Suzdal while a youth. For his virtuous and humble life, the saint was made the first Bishop of Suzdal and Nizhegorod in 1350. Bishop John merited a great mercy of God: Prince Boris of Suzdal saw how an angel of God attended the saint…
Saint Lucian the Presbyter lived in the XIII century, and suffered martyrdom under Batu around 1243. Nothing else is known about him. Saint Lucian's relics are in the Far Caves of Saint Theodosios, and his Feast Day is on October 15, because of his Patron Saint, Hieromartyr Lucian, the Presbyter…
The Holy Martyrs Sarbelus and Bebaia (Barbea) of Edessa were brother and sister, suffering in the second century under the emperor Trajan for confessing Christianity. Saint Sarbelus was a priest of the idols at Edessa, but was converted to Christ by a certain bishop, then he and his sister were…
Saint Sabinus, Bishop of Catania in Sicily, fervently desiring to serve the Lord, withdrew into the wilderness. Here he led a strict ascetic life and received from the Lord gifts of wonderworking and discernment.
The Icon of the Mother of God, the “Multiplier of Wheat”, was painted at the blessing of the Elder Ambrose (October 10) of the Visitation Optina wilderness monastery. Saint Ambrose, a great Russian ascetic of the nineteenth century, was ardent with a childlike faith towards the Mother…
