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
VESPERS: Saturdays, 17.30 (5.30 p.m.)
DIVINE LITURGY: Sundays, 10.30 a.m.
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 also available for Confession when he is in church on Saturday afternoon (Vespers 5,30 p.m.) and most Sunday mornings (from 10.00 a.m.).
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.
For the Sunday of The Tax-collector and the Pharisee (first day of the Triodion): Open unto me, O Give of life, the gates of repentance: for early in the morning my spirit seeks Thy holy temple, bearing a a temple of the body all defiled. But in Thy compassion cleanse it by Thy loving-kindness and Thy mercy.
ADVANCE NOTICE
The Annual Pilgrimage Liturgy in honour of St David of Wales (Dewi Sant) will NOT NOW take place in the parish church of St David, Llanthony, Monmouthshire. The road to Llanthony has been washed away!!
Instead we shall celebrate the Liturgy on Saturday 28th February at 11.00 a.m. in the parish church of St Michael the Archangel in Llanfihangel Crucornau (NP7 8DH). This is the village where you would turn off the A465 to go to Llanthony.
There is a fine pub in the village, The Skirrid Mountain Inn! Otherwise bring lunch. If you fancy a walk, bring all-weather clothing.
This is the Saturday of the first week of the Great Fast, so there will also be a commemoration of St Theodore.
This is not a ‘parish celebration’, though we have supported the event for 50 years!
The celebrant will be Fr Timothy Pearce from Lampeter (Llanbedr), an old friend of our parish. The service will be mostly in English, with a little Welsh.
There will be an “artoklasia” (short festive blessing of loaves) at the end of the Liturgy.
All are welcome! Croeso i bawb!
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
TUESDAY 10th
Martyr Charalampus (Haralambos), Bishop of Magnesia in Thessaly (202). St Zeno the Imperial Postman, solitary (416). St Scholastica, sister of St Benedict, abbess (543). St Anna, Princess of Novgorod (1056).
WEDNESDAY 11th
Martyr Blaise (Blasius), Bishop of Sebaste (c 316). St Cædmon of Whitby, Monk and first poet of the English (c 680). Empress Theodora, Restorer of the icons (c 867). St Demetrius, Wonderworker of Priluk (Vologda 1392).
THURSDAY 12th
New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. St Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch (381). St Mary (Marinus), and her father Eugene, at Alexandria (6th). St Ethelwold (Æðelwold), bishop of Lindisfarne (740). St Alexis (Alexei), Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker (1378). New Martyr Kristo the Gardener (Albania 1748). St Meletius, Archbishop of Kharkov (Kharkhiv) (1840). Iveron (Iberian) Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God.
FRIDAY 13th
Apostles Aquila & Priscilla (1st). St Martinian of Caesarea in Palestine, solitary (5th). Sts Zoe & Photina (Photini) (5th). St Eulogius, Archbishop of Alexandria (607-8). St Stephen (in monasticism Symeon) the Myrrh-flowing, Prince of Serbia (1199).
SATURDAY 14th
St Maron, Hermit, of Syria (5th). St Abraham, Bishop of Charres in Mesopotamia (5th). St Auxentius of Bithynia (c 470). Repose of St Cyril, Equal-to-the Apostles and Teacher of the Slavs (869). St Isaac the Recluse, of the Kyiv Caves (1090).
SUNDAY 15th
Apostle Onesimus, of the Seventy (c 109). St Anthimus of Chios (1960).
MONDAY 16th
Martyr Pamphilus at Caesarea in Palestine (307-9). St Flavian the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (449).
TUESDAY 17th
Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit (c 306). St Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st). St Finan, Bishop of Lindisfarne (661). Martyr Germogen (Hermogenes), Patriarch of Moscow and Wonderworker (1612).
WEDNESDAY 18th
St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome (461). St Agapetus the Confessor, Bishop of Synnada in Phrygia (4th). St Colman, Bishop of Lindisfarne (676).