Bulletin 6 May 2022

Christ is risen!

Christ is risen! – Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! – Христос воскрес! – Христосъ воскресе! – Hristos a înviat! – Atgyfododd Crist! – Христос васкрсе! – ክርስቶስ ተነሳ ከሙታን – !المسيح قام! حقا قام – Христос възкресе!

Thank You!!!

Thank you to all those who helped so much throughout Holy Week through to Thomas Sunday:

To those who cared for the beauty of the church with decorations and cleaning, preparing the lamps etc
To those who prepared food for the Feasts and Episcopal Visits
To those who chanted
To those who helped with the manual labor – erecting marquees, cleaning the toilet etc
To those who kept order in the church and looked after new people who attended

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Congratulations

On 10 April Ava-Rose HUTANU was baptised.

On Saturday 18 April, Lazarus Saturday, we received five people into the Orthodox Church. Two by Baptism : Lucy Watson and Melangell Bowe and three by Chrismation: Katherine Jones, John Bowe and Anna Bowe.

May God fortify them and strengthen them in the Faith and grant them Many Years!

Patronal Feast: 5 June

The Feast of our church – the 318 Godbearing Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council of Nicaea – is on 5 June this year.

4 June, 6pm: Festal Vespers with Liti
5 June, 9am: Matins for the Feast
5 June, 10.30am: Divine Liturgy
Refreshments following the Liturgy

Pentecost Summer Barbecue

Festal Icon Decoration Workshop

Would you like to learn how to decorate the festal icons of the church with flowers? Sister Theovouli will be running a workshop at the beginning of June ahead of our Patronal Feast to teach us how to do this in the way she has been taught in the Monastery of Chrysopigi, Crete. Please register your interest using this form:

Prosphora baking workshop

Would you like to learn to bake Prosphora – the bread used in the Divine Liturgy? Diakonissa Yiota will be holding a baking workshop in late May early June.

Please register your interest on the form below and Yiota will be in touch …

Click here to register your interest

Wednesday Scripture Study

Scripture study on Wednesday evenings have resumed. We are continuing with The Religion of the Apostles by Father Stephen De Young. The link for joining is as follows:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81629854019?pwd=UzN5b3NTL1h0STJMd2E2ZW1kSHlJZz09

Meeting ID: 816 2985 4019 | Passcode: 926265

Visits of His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene

We were very pleased to receive His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene on Friday 15 April when he came to our church for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. We had a good attendance for a Friday evening and five Read More »

Beneath Thy Compassion: Exploring the Marian Devotion of the Early Church

by Theo Andreou Over one thousand years stands between these two images of the Mother of God tenderly embracing her Son. They testify to the truth of Mary’s own words in Luke 1:48: ‘For behold, from now on all generations will Read More »

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