To message Archimandrite Kyril or to arrange a baptism or wedding please email the Parish Priest@bristol-orthodox-church.co.uk (Tel. 01179706302 or 07944 860 955). For more see CONTACTS
UPCOMING SERVICES, FEASTS & FASTS
WEEKLY:
VESPERS: Saturdays, 17.30 (5.30 p.m.)
DIVINE LITURGY: Sundays, 10.30 a.m.
NOTE: ARCHIMANDRITE KYRIL IS CURRENTLY ON SICK LEAVE. IF YOU EMAIL Priest@bristol-orthodox-church.co.uk your message will be directed to Fr Gerald.
PENTECOST: Sunday 31st May.
10.30 a.m. Divine Liturgy.
1.30 p.m. Vespers of the Holy Spirit (with Kneeling Prayers). We bring flowers to hold (either wild or garden).
Confession
Fr Gerald hears confessions before the Sunday Divine Liturgy, but please come early (i.e. before 10.15!) otherwise the Liturgy begins late or you might not be in time. Archimandrite Kyril is currently on sick leave.
Cleaning
We are still in need of regular cleaning help! If you can help, please see Lisa or contact president@bristol-orthodox-church.co.uk
Food Bank
DON’T FORGET THE NEEDS OF OTHERS who do not have enough! Bring contributions please for the box in church.
Church Building
Maintaining a large and aging building like our church is costly. But we have been given it as stewards and we need to hand it on to future generations.
Currently, we await a final assessment and quotes for the roof work, but Initial estimates suggest this is going to be expensive! PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY!
THANK YOU for your generous donations. Without this, we would not have a space to worship in. We are extremely blessed to have our own space that does not need to be shared with other users. If we look after it, the building will be sure to last a few more hundred years and serve our community for many generations to come.
WE ARE CURRENTLY COLLECTING FUNDS to modernize the kitchenette in church to improve our ability to offer hospitality.
SAINTS, FEASTS and FASTS OF THE COMING DAYS
Saints of the British Isles and nearby places are in red.
A copy of the this Perpetual Calendar for the whole year can be had by emailing info@bristol-orthodox-church.co.uk
NOTE: The Apostles’ Fast begins on Monday 8th June and closes on Sunday 28th June.
THURSDAY 4th
Sts Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus (1st). Martyrs Frontasius, Severinus, Severian, and Silanus, of Gaul (1st). Martyr Concordius of Spoleto (c 175). St Metrophanes, First Patriarch of Constantinople (325-6). St Petroc, Abbot of Padstow (Cornwall, 6th). Martyr Astius, Bishop of Dyrrachium in Macedonia (ca. 110). Venerable Father Zosima the Bishop of Babylon (6th c.).
FRIDAY 5th
Martyr Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre (c 362). St Theodore the Wonderworker, Hermit of the Jordan (c 6th). Martyr Boniface (Wynfriþ) of Crediton (Devon), Archbishop of Mainz (754). St Constantine, Metropolitan of Kyiv (1159). Ven. Theodore the Wonderworker, Hermit of the Jordan (ca. 6th c.). Ven. Anubius, Confessor and Anchorite (Egypt, 5th c.). Ven. Abba Dorotheus of Palestine (6th c.). St. Peter of Korcha (Albania).
SATURDAY 6th
St Hilarion the New, Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery (845). St Bessarion the Wonderworker, of Egypt (4th-5th). St Jarlath (Iarlaithe mac Loga), Founder Bishop of Tuam (550). St Branwalator (Branwalader, Breward, Brelade) monk in Cornwall and the Channel Islands (6th). St Jonah, Bishop of Perm (1470). Virgin Martyrs Archelais, Thekla, and Susanna, at Salerno (293).
SUNDAY 7th. 1st Sunday After Pentecost. FEAST OF ALL SAINTS.
Martyr Theodotus Bishop of Ancyra (303). Martyrs Marcellinus and Marcellus, Popes of Rome, and Martyr Priscilla of Rome (304-9). Martyr Valeria of Caesarea in Palestine (284-305). St Colman, Bishop of Dromore (Droim Mór) (6th). St Panagis (Paisios) Basias, Priest (Cephalonia 1888).
MONDAY 8th. BEGINNING OF THE APOSTLES’ FAST.
Translation of the relics of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates (The General) (319). St Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (545). New Martyr Theophanes (1588).
TUESDAY 9th. (Wine and oil)
St Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria (444). St Columba (Colm Cille), Founder Abbot of Iona, Enlightener of Scotland (597). St Cyril of White Lake (Kyril of Belozersk), founder of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery) (1427). Five Nuns beheaded in Persia: Martyrs Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Ennatha (346).
WEDNESDAY 10th (Fast)
Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Constantinople (c 313). St John (Maximovitch), Metropolitan of Tobolsk (1715). Martyr Timothy, Bishop of Prussa (4th c.).
THURSDAY 11th (Fish, wine and oil)
Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas (1st). Mitrophan Chi Sung and the Martyrs of the Boxer Rising (1900). St Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol (1961). Commemoration of the appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt Athos, and the revelation of the hymn It is Truly Right (Axion Estin) (982).
FRIDAY 12th (Fast)
St Onouphrius the Great (4th). St Peter of Mt Athos (734). St Arsenius, Abbot of Konevits (1447). St Alexandra, Abbess of Diveyevo (1789).
SATURDAY 13th (Fish, wine and oil)
Martyr Aquilina of Byblos in Syria (293). St Triphyllius, Bishop of Lefkosia (Nicosia) in Cyprus (c 370).
SUNDAY 14th (Fish, wine and oil)
Commemoration of the Righteous Prophet Elisha (Elissaeus) (9th BC). Martyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna (Crete 3rd-4th). St Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople (847). St Niphon (Mt Athos 1411). St Justin (Popovi) of Ćelije (1979). Glorification of St. John of Kronstadt (1990).