May 26, 2009 Parish Feast Day of St. Nicholas Church in Poughkeepsie
St Nicholas Parish in Poughkeepsie, NY, marks its feast day in the
spring, May 22 according to the new calendar. This year, the date fell
on a Friday, so on the following Sunday, His Grace Bishop Jerome of
Manhattan officiated at Divine Liturgy at the church. His Grace was
joined in the service by Parish Rector Protopriest Alexander Donchenko
and Priest Ilya Gun. Before Divine Liturgy, His Grace ordained
Vladimir Komendantov to the rank of reader; Vladimir is a grandson of
the late Protopriest Peter Nikolaev, the first Rector of St Nicholas
Church.
After Liturgy and a procession of the cross
with a moleben to St Nicholas the Miracle-worker of Myra, the Parish
Sisterhood invited all the worshipers to a trapeza luncheon with an
enormous selection of delicious food. The weather was magnificent, and
those in attendance did not soon depart. During lunch, Tatiana
Labodina, who participated in the construction of St Nicholas Church
in 1951, gave the Parish a photograph as a gift taken during the
consecration of the church by the late Archbishop Nikon (Rklitsky,
+1976).
Alexei Klimoff
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here
for a photo-report by Ekaterina Piskareva.
St Nicholas Parish in Poughkeepsie, NY, marks its feast day in the
spring, May 22 according to the new calendar. This year, the date fell
on a Friday, so on the following Sunday, His Grace Bishop Jerome of
Manhattan officiated at Divine Liturgy at the church. His Grace was
joined in the service by Parish Rector Protopriest Alexander Donchenko
and Priest Ilya Gun. Before Divine Liturgy, His Grace ordained
Vladimir Komendantov to the rank of reader; Vladimir is a grandson of
the late Protopriest Peter Nikolaev, the first Rector of St Nicholas
Church. 
