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Monthly Archives: March 2021
Apostles, martyrs and hierarchs appear on our walls
Work is rapidly moving forward on wall paintings on the North and South walls of our beloved church. Apostle Andrew, Emperor Constantine the Great, Cuthbert the Wonderworker, Luke of Simferopol, Oswald the King and Martyr and Alban the Protomartyr of Britain are now nearly complete. Continue reading
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Athos: The Holy Mountain by Sydney Loch
The author of Athos, the Holy Mountain, was a widely travelled Scotsman. At the age of 17 he went to Australia and joined the Australian army at the beginning of the First World War. After 1918 he was in Poland,
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25th anniversary of ordination of Fr Pancratios
On 26 March Father Pancratios, priest in charge of the Church of Saint Barbara and Alban the Protomartyr of Britain (our mother community) celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood! Axios!!! Congratulations!!!
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Update on wall paintings
Latest photographs of the progress of the wall paintings Continue reading
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Weekly Bulletin | 27 March to 4 April
Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. We will continue to broadcast our services live on mixlr.com when possible. The church is open for public worship under the guidance issued by our archdiocese. Appeal from the
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Fr Stephen’s reading List for Lent
Here are some texts / books you might like to read this Lent. It is not intended that you should read them all before Pascha, but try to read them one day. Continue reading
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On keeping God’s commandments
St Theodore the Studite’s homily: Catechesis 103: On keeping God’s commandments and the just threat against those who neglect them.
Brethren and fathers, God, who fashioned us and brought us out of non-existence into being, has placed us in this life as in a schoolroom to learn to gospel of his kingdom. Continue reading
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Celebrating our local saints
If we believe that Orthodoxy today is truly the successor to the Church founded by the Apostles in the first centuries of the Church, then – like the first apostles, we have a duty to ‘ go .. into all
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Miracle sale of Ptolemaic antiquities for church stuns parishioner!
Ptolemaic beads have recently fetched £9,000 at auction to raise funds for the church after being bought at auction in 1966 for only four pounds. Continue reading
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Weekly Bulletin | 21 to 28 March
Schedule of Services The schedule of services for this week is available on our calendar. The New Testament readings and sermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son are available on the archdiocese website. We will continue to broadcast our services live
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Icon with relics of venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves
While in Ukraine in October 2018, Fr Stephen met and concelebrated the Liturgy with Archbishop Jonah Cherepenov of Obukhov, the Abbot of the Trinity Ioninsky Monas-tery, Kiev. Archbishop Jonah generously presented Fr Stephen with six relics from incorrupt saints of
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Weekly Bulletin | 14 March to 20 March
Preparation for Great Lent On the Friday before we start the time of the Triodion and the preparation for Great Lent the Fathers have set us to read the beginning of the second letter of St Peter: “ His divine
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Update on painting of roundels
A selection of photographs showing update on progress on the roundels on the North and South walls of the church. Continue reading
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Archbishop’s Encyclical for the beginning of the Holy & Great Lent 2021
Message of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira & Great Britain for the beginning of the Holy and Great Lent My son, deprive not the poor of his living,and do not keep needy eyes waiting.Do not grieve the one who
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What Do We Really Believe?
Father Stephen’s weekly Zoom meetings help us to really think about what we believe. They are challenging and stimulating. Often, we literally ‘Zoom in’ on knotty problems in our faith. In this day and age, it is essential that every Orthodox Christian can explain, or in some other way, demonstrate the truth of what we believe. The world today is a market place of beliefs and faiths, whether that faith is in a Muslim or Christian God, or in science. Continue reading
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Trailer for “Man of God” released
Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God. Continue reading
First episcopal ordination for 25 years in Archdiocese
With great joy and liturgical grandeur the ordination of Bishop Raphael of Ilion took place at the Church of St Panteleimon and St Paraskevi in Harrow, North-West London, on the feast of the Forty-Martyrs of Sebaste. It was the first
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Catechetical Homily of His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew
Homily at the opening of the Holy and Great Lent Most honorable brothers and blessed children in the Lord, With the good-will and grace of God, the giver of all good things, we are entering Holy and Great Lent,
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Weekly Bulletin | 7 March to 14 March
Bulletin for the 7 March to 14 March. Continue reading
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Historic church in Shrewsbury welcomes diverse new and holy residents
A Crimean Archbishop, two Roman Empresses, a Syrian monk, an Anglo-Saxon hermit, a Galilean fisherman, a Cypriot Shepherd. These are just a few of the saints that will soon be painted on the walls of the Greek Orthodox Church of