We look forward to the annual Christmas Concert of the Mosaic Choir, back in Covent Garden by kind permission of Corpus Christi Catholic Church. A wonderful way to celebrate Christmas with friends and family of all backgrounds!
Join us in music and fellowship to celebrate Christmas with carols and songs from around the world. Free entry, with charity collection to be split between Corpus Christi Church and Olive Branch Aid
Posters for download:
Metropolitan Kallistos, President and founder of the Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist died peacefully in the early hours of 24 August 2022, having earlier received the Holy Mysteries. His support for the Fellowship, for its associated activities such as the Youth Festival and Mosaic Choir, was generous and unstinting.
A memorial service will be held at the forthcoming summer conference in Walsingham 25-29 August, where Metropolitan Kallistos is pictured below, preaching during our 2015 conference on pilgrimage in the same place.
Memory Eternal! Christ is Risen!
Booking is now open for the OFSJB conference on Angelic Beings. 25-29 August 2022 in Walsingham, Norfolk UK. Please register as soon as you can, places are limited! This is our first in-person conference in 3 years.
As well as talks, services and time to socialise, there will also be time to explore Walsingham and the surrounding area. We will celebrate the Divine Liturgy twice, on Sunday and for the feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist on Monday.
We are happy to announce our main speaker, Father Stephen De Young from the Parish of the Archangel Gabriel, in Lafayette, Louisiana in the United States. Father Stephen is well-known for his podcasts on Ancient Faith Radio, the Whole Counsel of God, and the Lord of Spirits podcast with Father Andrew Stephen Damick. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts from the University of Balamand, and a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Amridge University.
We will also welcome Tamara Penwell from the Parish of St John of Kronstadt in Bath. Tamara is an experienced iconographer.
Fees: Full adult fee £315; OFSJB member £280; child 5-16 £120; child under 5 free. Attendees are asked to declare if they are willing to share rooms in the accommodation of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. If you have any concerns about the fees, please email the Chair, Margaret Haig to discuss how the Fellowship can help you attend financially.
The timetable will be confirmed in due course, but we will assemble in the afternoon of Thursday 25 August and depart after the Divine Liturgy on Monday 29 August.
Following successful virtual visits last summer and winter, the Fellowship is delighted to announce:
Come and listen to talks about these wonderful saints and witnesses who can teach us so much in living the faith in the modern world. Come and see!
Taking place every Monday, 19 July-23 August, 19:00-20:30 BST (London, UK) on Zoom.
Sign up here whether you want to attend one or all of the series. See you there!
You can download the poster below to further advertise with your parish and community. Right mouse click on the jpeg image and ‘save image as’ or download the pdf file.
Not only is the Youth Festival now accepting applications on its website, but there is no age restriction because it will be online! And it will be free to attend (with donations welcome).
Join us in fellowship and learning on the topic of Faith, not Superstition: Seeking Orthodox Christian Spirituality
There will be talks by fantastic speakers and time to spend together in prayer and enjoyment. More information to follow!
28-31 May 2021, on Zoom
The Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist now has a YouTube channel! Subscribe, share with your friends and watch our videos as a way to learn more about the Orthodox faith, but also feel free to watch videos again! As we move into the Great Fast, we hope making these videos even more accessible will provide spiritual nourishment.
Our own videos have been uploaded from recent events including
These videos have also been put together as playlists for your convenience so the videos are brought together thematically as well as being able to watch them individually. We have also been able to create a other playlists thanks to the historic material still available elsewhere on YouTube with our friends.
More videos will be added when we can: subscribe, watch, like, comment, share, encourage people to join the Fellowship!
The Women’s Ministries Initiative has teamed up with the Centre for Applied Theology to run a monthly series of events January-June 2021 on Living Christianity Today – Loving Christianity Today. These sessions will be on Zoom and a link is on the WMI events page.
This year’s OFSJB Study Weekend has been moved online, so more of you can attend! It will be hosted by the Parish of St John the Theologian in Cambridge. This is a wonderful opportunity to dive into the Psalms in depth and find out why they are so important. There will be prayers and a chance to meet the Orthodox communities in Cambridge, as well as the talks set out below. An Eventbrite link will be available very soon to register – keep a look out!
A Facebook Event has been created and an Eventbrite link will be available very soon to register – keep a look out!
Behold now, what is so good or so joyous as for brethren to dwell together in unity?
Psalm 132:1
We have sent out copies of the 2021 Calendar and Lectionary to everyone on the repeat order list. Unfortunately we have discovered that some copies have a printing error with some pages appearing blank.
It would be really helpful if you could check your calendar and notify us if it has been affected. Also let us know if you would like it replaced. Please email us at OFSJBCalendar@gmail.com.
The Calendar and Lectionary uses the Revised Julian (New Style) Calendar, and sets out feasts, saints, readings, fasting rules and the music tone of the week. It’s useful in your Church building, but also in your home. If you would be interested in purchasing a copy, use our contact form on our dedicated web page or email OFSJBCalendar@gmail.com.
Just two weeks until our winter series of Virtual Visits to Saints and Holy Places: don’t forget to sign up for Zoom details!
In our sessions, we will be meeting:
Please join us!
The Fellowship is delighted to announce that we will be holding another series of Virtual Visits this winter, this time to Saints and Holy Places. We hope that the current restrictions will feel a bit lighter when you can attend these talks, find out about inspiring saints and places of pilgrimage, and ask questions of our great speakers!
As before, we ask you to register for details of the events using our dedicated page. See you there!
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