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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Orthodox Crossing: Young Joseph
During the passing of the ambient sun of Lazarus Saturday, the lovingly be-haired Young Joseph was baptised through our church into the ever-loving mystery of Christ’s salvation. Joseph Llewellyn-Jones had been attending church and catechumen classes from before my family
Thomas Didn’t Believe So That All May Believe (St. Gregory the Great)
Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. He was the only disciple absent; on his return, he heard what had happened but refused to believe it. The Lord came a second time;
Posted in Feasts, Saints & History, Introduction to Orthodoxy
Tagged Orthodox, Orthodoxy, Renewal Week, Thomas Sunday
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Archbishop Nikitas’s Homily for Pascha 2023
Beloved in the Lord, On the joyous occasion of this Feast of Feasts, allow me to share with you the final stanza from one of the kontakia on the Resurrection of our Lord, written in the sixth century by the
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Tagged Archdiocese of Thyateira, Holy Week, Orthodox, Pascha
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Homily on Holy Saturday: The Lord Descends into Hades
St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus (403 A.D.) Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is
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Tagged Descent into Hades, Easter, Holy Saturday, Holy Week, Orthodox, Orthodoxy, Pascha
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The Services of the Passion and Tasks for Holy Week
Please help us to prepare for the Feast of Feasts Preparations are well underway for the Feast of Feasts, Christ’s Holy Resurrection. Help is needed with the following Tasks: Place no-Parking cones along Dove Close before the services on Thursday
A song of Romanos the Melodist for the Feast of Palms
Introductory Note The first Proemium and first Strophe are still used in the Triodion for Palm Sunday as Kontakion and Ikos. The second Proemium is used as the Ypakoe for the feast. It is written in the Plagal of the 2nd [6th]
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Tagged Entry into Jerusalem, Feast of the Palms, Holy Week, Orthodox, Orthodoxy, Palm Sunday
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Πρόγραμμα Ιερών Ακολουθιών Μεγάλης Εβδομάδας και Πάσχα
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Tagged Holy Week, Orthodox, Orthodoxy, Pascha
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Programme for Holy and Great Week
Christ is risen! To all those attending the Midnight service for Holy and Great Pascha (15/16 April) there is no parking on the road leading to the church (Dove Close). There is parking on Sutton Road and other kerbside parking
Synaxarion for the Saturday of Lazarus
By Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos On this day, the Saturday before Palm Sunday, we celebrate the Raising of Lazarus, the holy and righteous friend of Christ, who lay for four days in the tomb. Verses Thou lamentest, O Jesus: this belongeth
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