Holy Trinity Eastern Orthodox Church

The Holy Trinity Journal

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 16:52:26 -0800

Download the first issue (January 2012) of The Holy Trinity Journal, the new monthly newsletter of The Holy Trinity Eastern Orthodox Church Oxnard, California. Click here.

Feast Day of the Holy Trinity Parish

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:37:14 -0700

On the weekend of the Feast of Pentecost, the Holy Trinity parish in Oxnard, California, celebrated its Feast Day with beautiful services and a community festival after the Sunday Liturgy on Pentecost, May 30 (Old Style). The Hierarchical Liturgy for Pentecost was served by His Grace, Bishop Auxentios of Photike, with Archbishop Chrysostomos of Etna in prayerful attendance. Serving with His Grace were the Very Reverend Protopresbyter Dr. James Thornton, Rector of the parish, Archimandrite Akakios, Abbot of the St. Gregory Palamas Monastery in Etna, CA, and Hierodeacon Father Photii, a brother of the monastery in Etna. The Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated in Slavonic, Greek, and English, was chanted in these same lan- guages by the choir of the Convent of St. Elizabeth the Grand Duchess of Russia, in Etna, CA, which travelled to the parish to honor its Feast Day. The services on the previous day were chanted by the parish choir, under the able direction of Mrs. Vera Gor.
Following the Divine Liturgy and the Vespers Service with the special kneeling prayers appointed to it, and before the afternoon parish festivities, His Eminence, Archbishop Chrysostomos celebrated a Memorial Service for Mr. Yakov Popov, one of the original founders of the Holy Trinity parish, the first anniversary of whose repose fell on the parish feast.
The community festival, organized by the church warden (starosta), Mr. Michael Avisov, and his wife Vivian, featured a meal of Russian and other foods, a Russian ensemble that played traditional Russian folk music, and a petting zoo that was set up for the entertainment of the children. The ladies of the parish helped to prepare and to serve the festal meal, and many others from among the parishioners, including a contingent of young Russian Scouts, contributed their labor to making the Feast Day a wonderful occasion for all. The visiting Bishops and monastics were, as always, deeply appreciative of the warm welcome, kindness, and hospitality shown to them by Father James, the warden, and the pious faithful of the Holy Trinity parish.

Following the kneeling service on Pentecost

Bishop Auxentios at the Great Entrance

Very Reverend Protosindjel Dionisije Assigned to Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Convent

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:16:43 -0700

At the beginning of Great Lent 2011, Protosindjel Father Dionisije, the son of the Very Reverend Andreja Dimitrijević (Pastor of our Exarchate Serbian parish of the Holy Archangel Michael in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was assigned by His Grace, Bishop Auxentios to serve the sisterhood of eight nuns at the Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Convent in the isolated hamlet of Bluffton, Alberta, Canada.

Father Dionisije, a monk at the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Monastery in Jordanville, NY, for seven years, is a graduate of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Seminary. He also studied at St. Tikhon’s Theological Seminary. He is pictured above (at center) with (at his right) Schema-nun Mother Ambrosia, Abbess of the Convent, and the sisterhood, which follows a Russian monastic Typikon.