On Tuesday 4th August a Panikhida will be celebrated at the graveside of Metropolitan Anthony at Brompton Cemetery, London, at 10:30am. This year is the 12th anniversary of the repose of the ever-memorable Vladyka.
Saint Anne's Orthodox church in Northampton is organising a pilgrimage to venerate Saint Boniface on 18 July 2015. Please find details in the attached leaflet.
Please join us for the patronal festival of our parish - the feast of St Peter and St Paul, to be celebrated this year during the last weekend of June.
For all the photos from the Conference 2015 taken by James Hyndman, please click here.
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REPORT ON DEANERY CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL 22-25 MAY 2015
Once more members of the Deanery gathered at High Leigh, greeting familiar faces and learning to know new ones. Our theme was The Beauty of Holiness. It was appropriate then that at the centre of our programme were Saturday's Vigil and the Liturgy on Sunday. This year we had the joy of the presence of not only Archbishop Job but also Bishop John, who together concelebrated with 14 priests, a protodeacon and three deacons. During the Liturgy the Archbishop ordained two candidates, firstly as acolytes then as Readers; one then went on to be ordained Subdeacon.
In this Deanery Conference / Festival Newsletter edition we are enclosing two important documents.
1. The Joining Instructions: please do read this document, as it contains useful details about the venue; its facilities; when and how you can register; what to bring etc.
This latest edition of the Newsletter is to tell you that a timetable for the Deanery Conference and Festival has been agreed, and is now posted on the website; also would those of you who have not yet applied to come, please take a look, and think hard about what you will be missing! There is still time - closing date for applications is the 31st March 2015.
The list of workshops for this year's Conference and Festival is now available for people who have applied to give us their preferences - either online at the website, or by downloading a hard copy, and sending the completed form to Irina Gusarova (her contact details can be found on the form).
In this newsletter we would like to remind you that the deadline for the conference applications is 31 March 2015. This year this is a strict date, as High Leigh now use different method for entering data. Exceeding our deadline to register the names of the people attending with High Leigh, will mean possible cancelation of the whole conference.
Beloved brothers and sisters, dear children in the Lord,
Our Lord Jesus Christ grafts us into His body, inviting us to become saints, “just as He is holy.” (1 Peter 1.16) Our Creator wants us to be in communion with Him in order to taste His grace, which is to participate in His sanctity. Communion with God is a life of repentance and holiness ; whereas estrangement from God, or sin, is identified by the Church Fathers with “evil of the heart.” Sin is not natural, but derives from evil choice” (Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogue 1, Immutabilis, PG 83.40D) or from the evil spirit, since “no one sins, who promises faith,” according to Ignatius of Antioch, the “God-bearer.”
On Tuesday 4th August a Panikhida will be celebrated at the graveside of Metropolitan Anthony at Brompton Cemetery, London, at 10:30am.
This latest edition of the Newsletter is to tell you that a timetable for the Deanery 
In this newsletter we would like to remind you that the deadline for the conference applications is 31 March 2015. This year this is a strict date, as High Leigh now use different method for entering data. Exceeding our deadline to register the names of the people attending with High Leigh, will mean possible cancelation of the whole conference. 
