In addition, services are held for major feast days and additional services are held throughout the week.
St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church holds Vigil (consisting of Vespers, Matins, and Hours) every Saturday night at 6 pm. Hours and Divine Liturgy are held every Sunday beginning at 9:30 am. According to ancient tradition, a meal and refreshments are offered after Liturgy. Also, in order to offer further spiritual instruction to our young parishioners, church school is taught at several different age groups during refreshments. A Supplicatory Canon is usually chanted on Wednesday nights. Services are held for every great feast. Please see the parish calendar for a full schedule of services.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of this purity of heart. This is why we take on loneliness, fasting, vigils, work, nakedness. For this we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities, and we do so to trap and to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love."