Sunday 5th February 1:00pm Parish meeting after the Liturgy Saturday 25th February 1:00-4:00pm Parish Pancake party at St Mary Abbot’s church hall, Kensington. 26nd – 29th May Deanery of Great Britain & Ireland Annual Conference: “Let us Attend! Attentiveness to the Word of God in prayer and everyday life” at High Leigh Conference Centre, Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Herts EN11 8SG All ages are welcome – there will be a children’s pr

Confession is an important, an essential part of our armoury, vital to our Christian development, essential to personal growth in our life in Christ. In the tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church there is a ruling, certainly a strong expectation, that believers will have confession on every occasion before receiving Communion. So important is this preparation considered to be, this self-examination has often developed into a period of retreat, <govéniye>, accompanied by f

INTRODUCTION TO LENT, BY METROPOLITAN ANTHONY OF SOUROZH – A talk given to the London Group of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius on Saturday 17th February 1968. Contrary to what we may think or feel, Lent is a time of joy, because it is a time when we come back to life. It is a time when we shake off what is bad and dead in us in order to become able to live, and to live with all the vastness, and all the depth, and all the intensity to which we are called. Unless w