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Please read the attached notice about the cancellation of the Children’s Summer Camp 2021
 

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Spiritual Heritage Foundation Seminar from Moscow: ‘Crises and Our Life in Christ’ Monday 31st May 5pm BST (7pm Moscow Time)

Speakers:
Andrew Sherwood (UK) - Orthodox Layman who knew Metropolitan Anthony for many years Leonid Gliberman (Moscow) Ph D in Technical Science, School Headmaster
Elena Utenkova-Tikhonova (Moscow) - Artist and Writer
Chair:
Victoria Bogdanova – Teacher, Friend of MASSHF

• To join the seminar on Zoom, please go to cutt.ly/antsur_may31 (Password: 111111)
• To watch the Seminar with English translation on YouTube, go to cutt.ly/antsur_31
• To read the text for discussion, a 1986 talk by Metropolitan Anthony – ‘The Challenge of the Modern World’, visit: t1p.de/ia4p

On-line book launch of Fr Christopher Knight’s Science and the Christian Faith. A Guide for the Perplexed

Hosted by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, on Monday 7 June 2021, from 18.30 to 19.30 (BST). For more information and Zoom link to join, see:

iocs.cam.ac.uk/book-launch-science-and-the-christian-faith-by-fr-cristopher-knight/

Please see the article below.

Fr Patrick.

Our Nomadic Pascha

To quote Fr Anthony Hughes in our issue of 25th April, 'Each Holy Week is different.’  Well, Holy Week and Pascha have certainly felt very different for us from last year to this.  Last year, we were in the depths of the first Covid lockdown.  Celia had come up with the idea of putting out a weekly newsletter to keep us in touch with one another, and since we could not go to church, we turned small corners of our houses into churches.  Father Peter, so recently ordained, gave huge comfort by livestreaming services from Barnfield Road not only to us in the parish but to a much wider circle.  Some of us quietly read the services from the Triodion.  On Easter Day many of us joined a Zoom party which was the nearest we could get to greeting one another with a kiss.

The most obvious practical difference this Pascha was that churches could open for public worship.  This presented problems for us, though.  Not only was Saint Anne's quite unsuitable for any gathering with social distancing, but – and this was much more difficult – Fr Peter was hugely absent.  As Lent proceeded it seemed we had nowhere to meet and no-one to lead us.

To get the book, click here: spckpublishing.co.uk/science-and-the-christian-faith

At the Liturgy on Saturday 5th December 2020, presided by our Archbishop Nikitas, the ordination of Deacon Stephen (Morys Ireland) took place, assigned to serve at the parish of Saint Peter & Saint Paul in Clapham.

Gabriel Keenes, who will assist Father Constantine in our Guildford community, was ordained Reader.

The Metropolitan Anthony Foundation is hosting an online seminar about Father Peter Scorer, priest of the Orthodox Church and grandson of Professor Semyon Frank.

Date: 10th December at 4:00pm GMT  (7:00pm Moscow time ).
Place: YouTube (Russian) and Zoom (simultaneous English translations)

Father Peter was laid to rest at Exeter Higher Cemetery on Friday 18th September 2020. Covid-19 regulations made it impossible for the funeral service to be held at Saint Anne's, so it was decided in the light of a forecast of good weather that the entire ceremony should take place at the cemetery close to the grave. Even so, attendance had to be limited to 30 people only, and all those who were there were aware that they were representing the many, many friends and colleagues who could not be present.

The Revd Presbyter Peter Scorer reposed in the Lord on Friday, September 11, 2020.

He was ordained into the diaconate by the late Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh and made a Priest by Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain serving 47 years as a Deacon.

He was a student of Father Alexander Schmemann and served the Orthodox Parish of the Holy Prophet Elias in Devon.

May his Memory be Eternal!