Honouring St Eanswythe: Folkestone, 21-22 March 2026

With great joy, we invite you to a blessed and spiritually enriching weekend of Pilgrimage, Prayer and Fellowship honouring St Eanswythe, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon saint who founded one of England’s earliest nunneries in Folkestone!

📅 Dates: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd March 2026
📍 Location: St Mark & St Fotini Greek Orthodox Church
🏠 Address: 39-41 Dover Rd, Folkestone CT20 1JZ

If you would like to join us, please register by Monday 16th March:
👉 link.ofsjb.org/EventSignup-StEanswythe


❖ Attendance & Support:

This event is free to attend, and Saturday lunch and refreshments are provided. Should you wish to support the Fellowship and the hosting parish of St Mark & St Fotini, donations will be gratefully accepted.

If you wish to stay after Liturgy on Sunday, we will head for lunch by the harbourside with Fr David and the parish.

❖ Get in touch:

If you have any questions about the event, please email us at ofsjbevents@gmail.com or phone Fr David on 07792-0I64I8.

We look forward to seeing you and sharing this special weekend together in prayer, honouring the memory of St Eanswythe, and strengthening our fellowship in Christ.

Lebanon and the monastic revival

In our final virtual visit, this week we will be considering the monastic revival in Lebanon in two locations, Kaftoun and Hamatoura. Our guide will be Amal Morcos who wrote her Master’s Thesis on the revival of monasticism in the Church of Antioch.

Thursday 3 September, 19:00 BST (7pm UK time).*

Register for Zoom details (if you have not done so already) on our dedicated web page, which also has links to the recordings of previous sessions.

Come and See!

* Time zones: For those joining from the US: 2pm EDT; 1pm CDT; 12pm MDT; 11am PDT. Check out the time zone converter if you need it.

Monasticism in the New World!

In this week’s virtual visit, we will be guided around Transfiguration Monastery, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, USA. And even though it will be geographically placed in the New World, there are links back to Europe. Well-known in the US, the monastery deserves to be better known in the UK! Mother Seraphima, choir director at the monastery, will be our guide.

Come and join us on Thursday 27 August, 19:00 BST (7pm UK time)!*

Register for Zoom details (if you have not done so already) on our dedicated web page, which also has links to the recordings of previous sessions.

* Time zones: For those joining from the US: 2pm EDT; 1pm CDT; 12pm MDT; 11am PDT. Check out the time zone converter if you need it.

Autumn colours at Transfiguration Monastery

What are you up to on Thursday?

This is a reminder that we are in the middle of our six virtual visits to monasteries around the world, taking place on Zoom each Thursday evening at 19:00 (7pm UK time).

To get the login details if you have not done so already, please register on our dedicated page. You will also find links to recordings of the sessions there (some have been edited).

We still have some great places to visit:

  • 13 August: Putna Monastery, Romania
  • 20 August: Optina Monastery, Russia
  • 27 August: Transfiguration Monastery, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, USA
  • 3 September: Kaftoun and Hamatoura Monasteries, Lebanon

Come and see!

Photo by Geboiu Dumitru Mihai, used under Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA