Taken from our Facebook timeline
Our Summer Conference started with His Grace Bishop Angaelos talking about Living Alongside people of other faiths – witnessing to our faith before the world.
This was followed by talks by Metropolitan Kallistos, Father Philip Hall, Dr Mangala Christine Frost, Bede Gerrard and Marina Robb.
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Location: Dovedale House, Ilam, Staffordshire, DE6 2AZ, UK
Dates: Thursday 26th May – Monday 30th May 2016 Contact: ofsjbyouthuk@gmail.com |
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The Festival program will include discussion groups, prayers and services, a Liturgy on the Sunday, workshops, games, music and other entertainment, walks and sharing of information on various Orthodox events and organisations in the UK and abroad. One evening will feature a ‘Hot Potato Session’, which is a chance to ask more difficult questions anonymously in a confidential and friendly environment to be answered by the clergy and speakers in attendance.
At this Conference the Fellowship will consider
the witness of the Orthodox Church in today’s diverse society.
Speakers to include
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Our Annual Summer Conference sadly came to a close today.
It was held at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and was both a pilgrimage and a conference on the theme of Pilgrimage.
Here are some highlights from our Facebook Page
A full report, including many of the talks, will appear in the next edition of Forerunner.
Sign up as a member today to get a copy. Videos to follow.
Friday 3rd July:
Metropolitan Kallistos addresses the OFSJB conference on Sacred Space: the Presence of God in Thin Places
Saturday 4th July:
A really fascinating talk about Russian Pilgrimage to Mount Athos by Dr Nicholas Fennell Watch out for the millennium celebrations of Russians on Athos in 2016!
Metropolitan Kallistos sprinkles the pilgrims at the Fellowship’s summer conference/
This was followed by a potted history of Orthodoxy in Walsingham by Fr Philip Steer.
An earlier written version of the talk can be found here [pdf]
Did you know that St Nikolai Velimirovic served the Liturgy here several times after being released from Dachau concentration camp? St Nikolai, pray to God for us!
In the afternoon, Fr Pancratios Sanders challenged us to go on more pilgrimages in the right spirit: to the Holy Land, to sites of martyrdom, to monasteries, wonder – working icons… and to sites associated with British Saints like Holywell.
The panel at the Fellowship summer conference: Fr Pancratios Sanders, Metropolitan Kallistos, Dr Nicholas Fennell and Fr Philip Steer. Led by our new Fellowship Chairman, Bede Gerrard.
Challenging questions on how much hardship a pilgrim should endure, expecting the unexpected and what their top tips would be for a Pilgrimage Survival Guide.
Sunday 5th July:
So the Fellowship summer conference came to a fitting end with the Divine Liturgy, where Metropolitan Kallistos reminded us that we are icons of the cherubim, participating in the eternal Divine Liturgy where Christ is both He that offers and He that is offered.
There was lots of time to make friends and meet new people too:
See you at our future events; stay tuned to our website! www.ofsjb.org.uk
You may be familiar with the YouTube sensation “Coffee with Sister Vassa” but now is your opportunity to have a real cup of coffee with her. You will also learn from two of the most eminent Orthodox Theologians in the UK, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware and Father Andrew Louth of Durham University. This time on a weightier theme.
The Women’s Ministries Initiative is hosting its second study day, looking at themes of Personhood, the Individual, Solitude and Loneliness.
Full details can be found on the Women’s Ministries page
Women’s Ministries Initiative: Networking, Educating, Communicating
Women and Men in Christ, let us see the Church flourish with positive changes
Women’s Ministries Initiative
Study Day Series on Anthropology and Theology
‘The Person and the Individual:
Solitude and Loneliness’’
17 October 2015 in Oxford, at Lady Margaret Hall
Speakers: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (Oxford),
Sister Vassa Larin (Vienna) and Rev’d Prof Andrew Louth (Durham)
Programme:
From 10am – arrivals, registration, tea-coffee* at Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall
10:30 – Welcome and Presentation on the Women’s Ministries Initiative
11:00 – Metropolitan Kallistos Ware – Introduction to the theme
11:30 – Sr Vassa Larin: ‘Solitude vs. Loneliness in the Age of the Internet’ followed by discussion
13:00 – Lunch*
14:00 – Prof Andrew Louth: ‘Philosophical Approaches to Personhood: East and West’ followed by discussion
16:00 – Departure
*n.b. Bookings for food and drink including tea and coffee have now closed for late registrants (after 1st September). You are welcome to bring your own food and drink to this event.
For registration and membership enquiries please contact Dr Elena Narinskaya.
Please register in advance (Elenarinskaya @yahoo.co.uk). Membership forms can be send via e-mail on request.
Welcome to our new website! We hope you like it so far.
We have been working on a few changes and hope to have lots more content and information for you by the end of the summer.
Meanwhile, here are some of our latest updates
We have a new Videos page
At the moment we only have content from our 2013 and 2014 Study Weekends, but hope to add more from upcoming events.
Also, we now have an archive vault for Forerunner. It contains previous issues of Forerunner and other articles of interest.
We have also updated the Youth Page and think you will enjoy the Mosaic Choir‘s YouTube Channel
Social Media is also something we are trying out. You can now like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter
The Pan-Orthodox Episcopal Assembly of Great Britain and Ireland have a new website.
It can be found at www.episcopalassembly.info
The Episcopal Assembly is one of thirteen bishops’ assemblies that have been established in different geographical regions throughout the world. It is made up of all the active, canonical Orthodox bishops with churches in Britain and Ireland.
Some of their most important documents and statements can be found here.
These include a recent Statement on the Persecution of Christians and Pastoral Recommendations On Preparation for and Receiving of Holy Communion.
Background
The Assembly was established in accordance with the Decision of the 4th Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference, held in Chambésy, Switzerland in 2009, at which representatives from all the universally-recognized autocephalous Orthodox churches met and considered the situation of the Orthodox communities in the Diaspora, that is, in countries outside the canonical territories of the established Local Orthodox Churches. The Assemblies are designed to promote cooperation among the Churches and to prepare the way for the resolution of the canonical anomalies associated with overlapping jurisdictions.
Great days of fun and fellowship in the beautiful peak district countryside:
The Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist 