Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church

Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!

Welcome!

Welcome to the website of Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church. We are located in the Western suburban area of Detroit, in Livonia, MI. Our church is a parish of the Diocese of the Midwest of the Orthodox Church in America. Our parish family is comprised of people representing many traditional Orthodox ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Thirty percent of our parish family comprises those who have converted from other religious faiths. We hope that you will visit us and find us to be a warm, friendly, and loving parish. You can obtain information about our parish services, ministries and events, by clicking on the appropriate links on this page.

A Word from the Fathers

Everything in man is old, like a disease, like an old garment hung out on a thorn -- such are all human victories and defeats; and when people think, when they speak, when they labor, they just bring their junk out into the bazaar; young men think like old men, old men think like the dead, the dead smell no worse than those living on earth. Everything is old, like the defeat of ones defeated long ago -- defeated from the beginning, since even the beginning of history is itself a defeat. Thou art the only Novelty, my Conqueror; after the first man Thou art the only New Man. In the sleepy caravan of history, Thou art the only unexpected oasis; in the deaf-like, sultry, tedious expectation of death and burying of life, Thou art the only Thunder. Everything concerning Thee is new, my Jesus, from birth to death and from death to eternity.

-St Nikolai (Velimirovich), Akathist to Jesus the Conqueror of Death, pp.16-17

Schedule of Services

Saturday

Great Vespers and confessions: 5pm

Sunday

Church School (Sept. - May): 9:00am
Divine Liturgy (Sept. - May): 10:00am
Divine Liturgy (June - August): 9:00am

Tuesday

Matins: 5:30am

Wednesday

Reading the Fathers (adult education): 9:00am
Vespers: 6:30pm
Orthodoxy Class (adult education): 7:15pm

Thursday

Divine Liturgy: 7am

(see the parish calendar for specifics)

Announcements

Summer schedule

As we move into summer, our schedule of services and classes will change. Church School will not meet after May 20, so beginning May 27 the Divine Liturgy will begin at 9am on Sunday morning. Also, the midweek adult classes (Reading the Fathers and These Truths We Hold) will not meet during the summer months. As always, please consult the parish calendar for an up to date schedule of services and classes.

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