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Synaxarion for Palm Sunday

Posted on 27 April 2024 by admin

On this day, the Sunday of Palms, we celebrate the radiant and glorious Feast of the Entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. Verses Sitting on a foal, He Who stretched out the Heavens By a word seeketh to

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Holy Week & Pascha in Shrewsbury 2024

Posted on 24 April 2024 by admin

Orthodox Christian Holy Week and Pascha will be celebrated with great solemnity once again in Shrewsbury in 2024 from 27 April to 5 May. This year, we enter Holy Week with the reception of eight catechumens on Lazarus Saturday. Below

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Schedule of Services for Holy Week and Pascha in Shrewsbury 2024

Posted on 23 April 2024 by admin

You will find below the schedule of services for Holy Week and Pascha in English, Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Russian

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Ordination of Stephen Edwards to the Holy Diaconate

Posted on 22 April 2024 by admin

On Saturday, 20 April 2024, Mr Stephen Edwards was ordained to the Holy Diaconate at the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers. His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene celebrated the Divine Liturgy. Protopresbyter Stephen Maxfield, Oeconomos Timothy Pearce and Presbyter

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The Matins of the Bridegroom Services

Posted on 14 April 2025 by admin

The first three evenings of Holy Week are marked by the beautiful and solemn Bridegroom Matins services, focusing on Joseph the Excellent, the Parable of the Ten Virgins, and the Anointing of the Lord by the penitent woman. Each service calls us to be vigilant and prepared for Christ’s coming, with oil in our lamps—representing the Holy Spirit and compassion—and hearts ready for repentance like the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet. Continue reading →

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Synaxarion for Saturday of the Akathistos Hymn

Posted on 19 April 2024 by admin

On the fifth Saturday of the Great Fast, we celebrate the praise of our Most-holy Lady, theTheotokos and Ever-virgin Mary, during which “it is not permitted to sit.” VersesThe city in thanksgiving and watchfulness doth praiseHer who upholdeth and constantly

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Saturday of the Akathist Hymn

Posted on 17 April 2024 by admin

By Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos [On the Fifth] Saturday [of the fast] we chant the Akathist Hymn during Matins. In our days however this does not happen except in the holy monasteries, since in the parishes it is chanted the evening before, on Friday

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That this Pascha is a type of the future and eternal Pascha

Posted on 16 April 2024 by admin

This Pascha is for one day and it passes, while that Pascha has no successor. From it pain, grief and sighing have fled away; there everlasting joy awaits. Continue reading →

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Visit of His Grace Bishop Maximos to Shrewsbury

Posted on 15 April 2024 by admin

On Sunday of St John Climacus, 14 April 2024, His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene presided over Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St Julian’s Church in Shrewsbury town centre. The service was concelebrated by the Revd Protopresbyter Stephen

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Bishop Maximos to visit Shrewsbury on 14 April.

Posted on 12 April 2024 by admin

On Sunday, 14 April, His Grace, Bishop Maximos, will make a pastoral visit to the Church in Shrewsbury. He will preside at the Divine Liturgy for the Fourth Sunday of the Fast: St John Climacus, at St. Julian’s Church, Shrewsbury,

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First Homily for the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Posted on 5 April 2024 by admin

 By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly

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Why go to church?

Posted on 2 April 2024 by admin

The simple answer to this question is “To meet God and share in His Life”. But how does this happen? Let us start by asking some fundamental questions. What is the Church here for? What is the distinctive and unique

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Catechism for the Great Fast

Posted on 30 March 2024 by admin

Starting 31 March, there will be short catechism sessions after the Divine Liturgy during the period of the Great Fast. The theme of the catechism is living the Orthodox Christian life. Everyone is welcome to attend. After a ten-minute introduction,

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Homily on the Annunciation by Saint Photios the Great

Posted on 24 March 2024 by admin

Joyful is today’s festival, and splendid is the joy it conveys to the ends of the earth. The joy it yields scatters old sorrow; the joy it yields banishes the curse of the world, inaugurates the raising of him who

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Forgiveness Sunday at St. Julian’s Church

Posted on 19 March 2024 by admin

On 17 March, our community held its first Sunday service at Saint Julian’s Church in Shrewsbury town centre at the kind invitation of the owner, Mr Andrew Wright and his wife Lexie. Andrew and Lexie are well-known in Shrewsbury and

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First Divine Liturgy at St. Julian’s Church, Shrewsbury

Posted on 13 March 2024 by admin

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas, and as announced last Sunday, we will be celebrating our first Divine Liturgy at St. Julian’s Church, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, SY1 1UT, this Sunday, 17 March.  Matins will start at 9.30am.  The

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Visit of His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene to Shrewsbury for his name day

Posted on 24 January 2024 by admin

On Sunday, 21st January 2024, His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene presided at Matins and celebrated the Divine Liturgy. The Very Reverend Protopresbyter Stephen Maxfield and Presbyter Panteleimon Maxfield served with His Grace. We were honoured to have His Grace

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2023 Christmas Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas

Posted on 21 December 2023 by admin

Beloved in Christ, As we approach the Great Feast of the Nativity, I would like to call to mind a beautiful, almost haunting, Christmas carol, which has its origins as a Latin hymn. “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is a

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Thanks on the occasion of a new icon

Posted on 18 December 2023 by admin

Dearly beloved fellow travellers, We are absolutely delighted with the very first exterior icon at our church, of the Proto-Martyr Stephen and the Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria, our own patron saints. How amazing that God has led us to

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Four received into the Orthodox Church

Posted on 26 November 2023 by admin

On Saturday, 4th November 2023, at the Holy Church of the 318 Holy Fathers, Shrewsbury John, Steve, Zoe and Amy were received into the Orthodox Church after a period of instructional catechism. Many years!

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