Four people (three young men and a baby girl) were baptized on the eve of Holy Theophany! Glory to God!

Anthony was baptized on Lazarus Saturday at St. Elizabeth's. Congratulations!

We were blessed to celebrate the Lord's Nativity this January 7th, followed immediately by Sunday after Nativity and our Very Rev. Fr. David's nameday. Many thanks to Nichole & Pavel L’vov who again opened their home for St Elizabeth’s Annual Christmas Party on Sunday after Nativity. It was a wonderful day of celebration and fellowship for all of us. May the Lord bless them!

We celebrated a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on the Feast of our heavenly Patroness, the venerable Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth and the 24th anniversary of the founding of our parish. We were blessed and honored with the visit of Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan on this special day as he ordained our new Deacon Father Michael and tonsured Reader Timothy. Special thanks to all that helped with cleaning, decorating and setting up the trapeza and donating. S Prazdnikom!

Thank you to our parishioner that funded the acquisition of the new brass bell and those who helped in its installation. Special thank you to Rocky Hill FD and Montgomery FD for coordinated assistance in lifting it up to the belfry. God bless them!

Elizabeth Maxey attends services at St. Paul's church in Incheon S. Korea where Fr. Daniel is the rector.

Fr. John Strickland speaks on his book The Making of Holy Russia.  Fr. John was invited by the Forovsky society of Princeton University to give this talk.  Several of our parishoners attended as did others in the Orthodox community. Fr. John is a priest at St. John of Damascus Church and a professor at St. Katherine College. Fr. John has a podcast "Paradise and Utiopia" that's available from Ancient Faith Radio.

St. Elizabeth's has received a very generous anonymous donation pledge towards our Building Fund in the amount of $10,000. For every dollar that we receive towards the Building Fund (until December 31st)...it will be matched up to this $10,000 amount.

Please consider helping us now as we try to raise money to match this generous donation. For more information on how you can help...visit our Building Fund Web Page.