Enjoy a real coffee with Sister Vassa in Oxford!

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.

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Registration Form

 

Latest Changes to the Website

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

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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.

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We have also updated the Youth Page and think you will enjoy the Mosaic Choir‘s YouTube Channel

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Social Media is also something we are trying out.  You can now like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter

Orthodox Bishops for Great Britain and Ireland have a new Website

The Pan-Orthodox Episcopal Assembly of Great Britain and Ireland have a new website.

It can be found at www.episcopalassembly.info 

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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.

Orthodox Youth Festival

Mission in the Modern Age

May Bank Holiday Weekend

Great days of fun and fellowship in the beautiful peak district countryside:

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For more info and application forms visit:
www.orthodoxyouth.co.uk