Author Archives: Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

Holy and Great Friday

Posted on 2 May 2024 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

On this day, Holy and Great Friday, we celebrate the awesome, holy, and saving Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ – the spitting, the blows with the palm of the hand, the buffeting, the mockery, the

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Holy Unction

Posted on 30 April 2024 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

14Are any among you sick? Let them call for the presbyters of the Church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the Name of the Lord.15The prayer of faith will heal those who are sick and the

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Holy and Great Monday

Posted on 28 April 2024 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

By Archimandrite Epiphanios Theodoropoulos On Great Monday, we commemorate the virtuous Joseph (son of the patriarch Jacob and grandson of Abraham), a type of our Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph, the beloved son of his father, was at first thrown into

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Our Duties for Holy and Great Week

Posted on 27 April 2024 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

By Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes of Florina This very day is clothed with the bright robes of the first-fruits of the Lord’s passion. Come, then, all feast lovers, let us welcome it with songs. (Kathisma, Great Monday). We have arrived, my beloved, at the saving

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Let your light shine – ministries of our church

Posted on 8 June 2023 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

Dearly beloved in the Lord In my email earlier this week, I appealed to people of our church to put themselves forward for candidates for election on the Church Board – the leadership team responsible for furthering the mission of

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Can you help the mission of the Church by labouring in its service?

Posted on 7 June 2023 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

Dearly beloved in the Lord With His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas’s blessing, we will be bringing forward our biannual Church Board elections this year to 18 June 2023. It is an exciting time for the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers.  It

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Theodosius baptised on Feast of Pentecost

Posted on 6 June 2023 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

On the Feast of Holy Pentecost, Theodosius Ip was received into the Orthodox Church. Many Years Theodosius!

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West Midlands branch of Christian Orthodox Thyateira Youth to be launched

Posted on 17 May 2023 by Fr Panteleimon Maxfield

The Archdiocese’s youth ministry organisation, Christian Orthodox Thyateira Youth (COTY), is establishing a “hub” in the West Midlands. With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, Christian Orthodox Thyateira Youth is established as a Ministry for Young People

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