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Greetings

.... and a small reminder:

Saturday 27 September 2025 (next Saturday) the Service of Vespers will take place at 6pm. As it was announced in our previous communication, Vespers will take place on Saturday, on the Eve of every Sunday that we will have Holy Liturgy in our Community.

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Sunday 28 September 2025: The Blessing of The School Year 2025-2026 will take place after the Holy Service. We are cordially inviting all pupils, children and adults, parents and Members of the Community to come to this Annual Ceremony which is part of our traditions, culture and identity especially when we are far away from the place of birth or our ancestors.

Your presence will show encouragement, respect to the traditions and to the work of the teachers and all who are involved with the running of the School of our Community.

With best wishes to all

Announcement

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas from Saturday 27tth September the Service of Vespers will be celebrated in our Church at 6pm on weekends where the Sunday Liturgy is celebrated in Milton Keynes.

Saturday Vespers is in fact the preparation for Sunday as the church day changes in the evening.

Saturday Vespers consists of an opening prayer, Psalm 103 (Septuagint Orthodox Numbering), Psalm 140 (Septuagint) with hymns of Sunday and the day, an entrance preceded by lights and with the priest holding the censer, petitions and prayers, more hymns and concludes with the Nunc Dimittis and the troparia of Sunday and the day.

Vespers not only marks the change of the church's day, but also through the lamplighting psalm 140 the fact that despite the night is approaching that Christ the Light of the World continues to shine in our lives unendingly. It also refers to the moment in the creation where God said "Let there be light".

There will be a further announcement about a series of talks on the services of the Church in the coming weeks once a guest speaker has been arranged for the first talk.