Tzatziki

by | Aug 17, 2015 | Feasts & Fasting Recipies

Ingredients

  • 500g strained FULL FAT Greek Yoghurt
  • 1 large cucumber
  • 3 large garlic cloves, crushed
  • 4 tablespoons of olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
  • salt to taste

Method

Strain all liquid from the yoghurt and put in a bowl.

Remove skin from the cucumber and then cut in half lengthways and scrape out all the seeds.

Grate the cucumber with a cheese grater (or chop finely) and strain out as much liquid as possible.

Crush the garlic (use a a garlic press to do this if available). Use 3 clovesfor a stronger taste, if not, possibly only 1 or 2.

Add to the yoghurt along with white wine vinegar, olive oil and salt to taste.

Then add the cucumber and, if possible, let it rest for a few hours so the flavours will blend.

A little fresh mint can be added to this dish.

An illustrated talk by Peter Brooke: What is the purpose of painting? A controversy from the eighth century.

by | Aug 7, 2015 | News

 Peter's talk
 
 
Llaneglwys Village Hall
(near Brecon. Details at http://llaneglwys-village-hall.weebly.com ) Sunday 23rd August at 7.30 pm
 
Towards the end of the eighth century, a church council held in Nicaea, in what is now southern Turkey, ruled that painted images (‘icons’) could be used as objects of veneration. Shortly afterwards a major attack was launched against this Eastern Council under the auspices of Charlemagne, soon to be crowned first Emperor of a renewed ‘Roman’ Empire in the west. This was a major event in the process by which the Western (‘Roman Catholic’) and Eastern (‘Orthodox’) churches separated. But important as the political and theological aspect was, Peter Brooke argues that it also reflected a radical difference between the ‘classical’ art of Greece and Rome and the very different art that had developed in the West and is known as ‘Celtic’ or ‘insular’ art.
 
 

Ecumenical Patriarch

by | Aug 5, 2015 | News

 

Hi sAll Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will be paying a visit to the UK in November arriving on Sunday afternoon of the 1st.

The Ecumenical Patriarch will devote a part of his visit to meet and bless His Flock living in the United Kingdom and Ireland and the other part to a series of official contacts with the Leader of the Church of England and his associates. 

Monday, 2 November 2015, 6:00 pm: Great Vespers at the Divine Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom, Bayswater London. His Holiness will preside in the Vespers and preach to the Congregation. All are invited to attend the Service.