GOSPEL READING

Matthew 6:14-21

Fasting to Be Seen Only by God

14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 16 "Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you

do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

A WORD OF WISDOM

Saint Silouan - words of love

"Our brother is our life," taught the Elder. Through Christ’s love all people are accepted as an indivisible part of our own personal eternal being. The commandment to love your neighbor as you would yourself, he begins to understand as something other than a mere ethical norm; in the word "as" he sees not an indication of the level, or measure, of love, but a sign of the ontological commonality of being.

"The Father does not judge, but has given judgment to the Son... because He is the Son of man" (John 5:22-27). This Son of man, the Great Judge of the world, on Judgement Day will proclaim that "the one among the smallest of these" is Himself; in other words that the being of each individual is held in common with Him, and is included in His own personal being. All of humanity, "all of Adam," he has taken into himself and has suffered for all of Adam.

Archimandrite Sophrony, Saint Silouan, the Athonite
Saint John the Baptist, Essex

DOCUMENTARY

Find your model: Lord Jesus Christ

This movie is a part of a documentary series called 'Find your model' by which we are trying to bring awareness that models exist and that we have only to access them.

Emotion Philms Production

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

Church leaflet in a new version More

Holy Week More

Meeting with Bishop Macarie of North Europe More

Reading the Psalter during the Great Lent More

Come, let us sing a Christmas carol! More

Commemorating Saint Nicholas - the patron saint of the church More

A.S.C.O.R. conferences in commemoration of Fr. Dumitru Staniloae More

Christmas carols More

Commemorating Fr. Dumitru Staniloae - A.S.C.O.R. Conferences More

All events

The First Week of Great Lent

Monday
18:00 – Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete

Tuesday
18:00 – Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete

Wednesday
15:30 – Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
18:00 – Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete

Thursday
14:00 – Holy Mystery of Confession
18:00 – Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete

Friday
15:30 – Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
18:00 – Holy Mystery of Confession

Saturday
08:00 – Matins
09:00 – Holy and Divine Liturgy
17:00 – Vespers with Litia

Sunday
08:00 – Matins
09:30 – Holy and Divine Liturgy

Parish Priest,
Vasile Gavrilă

Open gallery