A sense of place. Everywhere has it, but we are always looking for it and hope to sense it the moment we come upon it. I did when I first started working as a stagehand for Aldeburgh Music at Snape

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On this day, the first of September, our Church celebrates the memory of the venerable Symeon the Stylite. Our venerable Father Symeon was born about the year 390 in a certain village named Sis, in the mountain region of Cilicia

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On Sunday 9 July, His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitene will make a pastoral visit to the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers. His Grace will preside at Matins at 9 a.m. and the Divine Liturgy. All are encouraged to

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

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The time has arrived for our annual membership renewals. This year, the Community Board decided to extend the community membership to those who offer their time and talent as an offering as well as those who offer money. Below is

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Please help the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers to expand its ministries through your gifts of time, talent or money. Thanks to the considerable efforts, commitment and dedication of our members, 2022 was an excellent year for our church.

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Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain has awarded Presvytera Catherine the Archdiocesan Cross of Christ the Saviour on the occassion of her retirement. As the country was preparing for the Big Help Out, to mark His Majesty The King’s

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Edmund Bowe and his son, Luke, have recently made a new Table of Prothesis for the church. As you will all know, before the audible part of the Liturgy begins there is a separate service when the bread and the

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“I have no tears, no repentance, no compunctionBut as God do Thou Thyself, O Saviour, bestow them on me.”(Canon of St Andrew, Canticle two v25) Dear brothers and sisters As we enter the second half of the journey towards Holy

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How you can help people in Turkey and Syria Following the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, we have launched an emergency appeal fund. On Monday at 4:17am local time a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey near the city of

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2023 wall calendars are now on sale in the church for £10. We have printed some beautiful and useful wall calendars for 2023. The calendars include all of the major feasts of the church along with the fasting rules for

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Our annual Saint Nicholas Festival will take place after the Divine Liturgy on 4 December at the Serbian Church in Telford. This festival, occurring annually on the first Sunday in December, has become one of our most popular events of

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Memory Eternal! Christ is risen! Michael Edward Asser’s 80th birthday was on May 22nd, 2022; he died on October 10th, 2022. Michael was born in Tottenham, London and grew up in Bedfordshire. He left school at 16, worked in Luton

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We continue as a community to help the plight of those who are suffering because of the war in Ukraine.  We must continue to encourage and help as many refugees as possible, providing succour and comfort where needed and to

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Many members of our church are in regular contact with refugees fleeing Ukraine. We are receiving news first hand from those experiencing the horrors of the war. It is one thing to read the accounts in a newspaper but it

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First of all, all of us Orthodox Christians must be deeply ashamed that we find two Orthodox Christian countries fighting each other.  This is a terrible witness to the World. In our community there are Russians, Ukrainians and half Russian,

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Thank you all so much for your kind donations of items for Ukrainian refugees and of time sorting these before being sent to the Ukrainian border. The organisation that we have been working with – the Shropshire Eastern European Organisation

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This year we have two beautiful new Christmas Cards for sale, printed from icons of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, painted by Aidan Hart.   The cards (with envelopes) are blank inside for your own message

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