Starting June 1, Saturday Great Vespers will start at 5:30 with Confessions afterwards. One of the most important ways we can prepare oursevles for the Sunday Divine Liturgy is to participate at Saturday Great Vespers. Moving the time to 5:30 will allow us to come to Vespers and then leave plenty of time for your summer evening activities. Saturday Great Vespers last about 40 minutes and introduces the theme for the Sunday Liturgy.

 The Great Feast of Pentecost, the Decent of the Holy Spirit upon the Lord's disciples, and also commonly referred to as the "Birthday of the Church" will also be a fun day of fellowship at St. Gregory's this year. We are planning to have an afternoon full of food and fun. There will be face-painting for the kids, lots of food, music and fellowship for all. Mark your calendars for Sunday, June 23 and enjoy the Feast Day first with worship and then a feast for food.  A sign-up sheet is posted in the Fellowship Hall for bringing your favorite foods to share.

St. Gregory of Nyssa Orthodox Church is a parish of the Orthodox Christian Faith located in Seaford, NY (on the south shore of Long Island).  We are a member of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A., under the spiritual leadership of His Eminence, the Most Reverend Archbishop Demetrios, Locum Tenens.  We are an autonomous diocese under the spiritual protection of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness, Bartholomew I.

St. Gregory of Nyssa Church serves those who seek to worship the Triune God in the English-language.  We are faithful people from various ethnic backgrounds, including people of American, Carpatho-Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Arab heritage.  The parish is also comprised of numerous converts to the Orthodox Faith.

Our doors are open to all people who are seeking the True Faith and we hope that you will consider making St. Gregory’s your spiritual home.

For a brief history of the American Carpatho-Russian Diocese, click here and for a history of St. Gregory's, click here.