On Sunday March 2nd the trustees were sworn in for the year 2025 …God grant them many years!
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St. Nicholas Church applied for and was chosen as a recipient for a defibrillator for our church. We are so thankful to the Troy Savings Bank Charitable Foundation for this grant. We had been talking about purchasing an AED device and we were lucky to have received an email announcing an invitation to apply for a grant. We hope we never have to use the defibrillator, but in the event there is an incident, we have the tools to act quickly. Many thanks and God Bless the Foundation for all that they do.
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Today, Saturday January 11, we once again got together to prepare the pierogis for our upcoming Flea Market/Craft Fair to be held May 10, 2025. Thank you to all who volunteered today as always...
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Theophany January 6, 2025 - 01/06/25
On January 6, 2025 we celebrated the feast of Theophany. Dave Oreshan, John Serbalik and Joe Molesky were the candleholders.
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President Barb Gerzonich accepts certificate for AED defibrillator from American Red Cross and Troy Savings Bank representatives, December 17. St. Nicholas Church was awarded a grant for the life saving device.
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On December 15th our church celebrated a great St. Nicholas Day, including a Yolka. Several children were in attendance and St. Nicholas came and gave presents to them and they all had happy faces when opening them. There was wonderful food as usual, with many contributing their favorite, including many delicious desserts. Thank you to all who make this happen every year.
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Again we were happy to have Abouna John and Khouriya Anna and their children from St George’s Orthodox Church in Albany join us for our patronal feast day Vesperal Divine Liturgy. It made the feast extra special. The children received gold chocolate coins from St Nicholas and we enjoyed a great meal prepared by Patricellli’s in Troy.
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Today, December 1, we received John Gaito into the orthodox church. Sadly, we lost Susan, his wife earlier this year but I know that Susan was looking down today on John and happy that he became Orthodox. May God grant him many more happy healthy years.
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On Sunday, November 3, we began the year long catecumenate of Colin Supernaw… Colin is from Plattsburgh and is attending SUNY at Albany. We hope and pray that his study of the church and prayer will lead him to be baptized in the Orthodox faith.
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Welcome to St Nicholas Orthodox Church! We hope you will enjoy your visit. We are a parish of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), serving Christ in the Cohoes and Greater Albany Capital Region. Our liturgical services are primarily in English with small sections in Church Slavonic, Romanian, Greek or Arabic depending on the needs of the congregation at that time.
Our parish has an average of 35 people for a Sunday Liturgy with an outreach of over 100 who come to our church at some point in the church year. Our church is mainly composed of second and third generation people with origins from Lemkovyna (a region now part of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia).
Recently, our church has become the spiritual home of a smattering of immigrants from Romania, Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Russia and our own community here in America. Our mission is to expand our Christian family by embracing all people who want to share a life in Christ and to be the home for people of all backgrounds.
For information regarding church matters only please call Fr. Terenti at 518-369-2430. DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER FOR FLEA MARKET QUESTIONS. For flea market inquiries please call 518-867-4102 or email us at: saintnicholasfleamarket@gmail.com.
The monthly bulletin is available by clicking "Monthly Bulletin" on the top menu and following the link. The monthly calendar which lists the services and meetings for the month is available by going to the "Schedule" link on the top. Certain parts of the bulletin are not provided on this website, for example candle listings. If you contact Fr. Terenti, he can provide those to you.
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