Help Beautify Our Church Sponsor Pascha Lilies
Help HTOC purchase the Pascha lilies that adorn our church for Pascha. Sign-up in the narthex or donate online at https://onrealm.org/holytrinityoca/give/lilies
Thank you! SOUP-er Sunday Success
We would like to extend a big Thank You for Making SOUP-er Sunday a success!
We are truly overwhelmed by the incredible support and generosity shown at our recent SOUP-er Sunday luncheon! Thanks to all of you who attended and contributed, we were able to raise an astounding $3,702 for Project Mexico! A significant step toward our $6,000 Matthew 25 drive goal this lent!
A special shoutout goes to our amazing Sunday school students (and parents/teachers) who not only crafted delicious soups but also served up smiles to all our guests. 
We also want to extend a thank you to Wegman’s and Weiss for their invaluable support and contributions. Your partnership helped make this event a success.
Project Mexico is an Orthodox Christian charitable organization that operates in the vicinity of Tijuana, Mexico. Project Mexico operates a boy’s orphanage that helps raise around 25 orphaned or abandoned boys (at any given time). They also run an extensive homebuilding program to provide housing for some of the poorest and most vulnerable families in their area, as well as running a rescue orphanage for abandoned infants. It is our hope to raise at least $6000 this year to support Project Mexico, which is enough to feed all of the admittedly-voracious, mostly teenage boys for 6 weeks or to build one housing unit for a family in need.
WANTED: Psalm Readers During Saturday Confessions
It is our parish’s custom that for the privacy of the penitent and the edification of those waiting in line, the Psalter is read during Saturday evening confessions. If you are interested in reading the Psalter during this time, please click here to sign up. If you are a native speaker of a language other than English, it may be possible to read it in that language. No chanting experience necessary, you are welcome to simply read the psalter aloud.
Come join us as we celebrate The Nativity of Our Lord!
All are welcome to come to any and all of the services!
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Steward Sunday 2023
Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon
for Steward Sunday
November 5, 2023
Liturgy of Saint James Oct 22nd
The Feast of St. James “the Lord’s Brother” falls annually on October 23rd, and it is customary in many parishes for the ancient “Liturgy of St. James” to be celebrated on that day. This year, however, we have been blessed by our bishop to serve the James liturgy on October 22nd, as the Sunday which falls closest to the feast of St. James.
The St. James Liturgy was the typical parish liturgy of Jerusalem, Palestine, Mount Sinai, Georgia, and parts of the Levant from the 4th century until the time of the Crusades and was prayed almost daily by great saints of the Church such as Cyril of Jerusalem, Sabbas the Sanctified, and John Climacus. It is very distinct from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, with no antiphons at the beginning, the singing of the hymn “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent” at the entrance of the gifts, a unique anaphora, litanies with the refrain “remember, O Lord our God,” the singing of “O Taste and See” at communion, and many, many other diverse and distinct features.
Come, let us pray together on this blessed occasion with these words and songs from Holy Zion, the Mother of Churches
