Greek Orthodox Youth of Great Britain

by | Jun 22, 2015 | News

Summer Camp 2015:

Sunday 26th July – Sunday 2nd August

http://goygbcamp.wix.com/goygb

 

“GOYGB helps lead the youth of the church to Christ in an Orthodox Christian environment.
Here they can learn and experience their faith through education, recreation, worship, fellowship and fun.”

frpanteleimon@goygbcamp.org.uk

 

Talk on the East-West schism

by | Jun 15, 2015 | News

7.30 pm on Sunday 23rd August in Llaneglwys Village Hall – Entrance £3.00 (children £1.50) to include light refreshments

What is the purpose of painting? A controversy from the eighth century.

An illustrated talk by Peter Brooke

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 Service Capel y Ffin

by | Jun 4, 2015 | News

capel y finn

Saturday 22nd August 2015

Ecumenical Service at St Mary’s Church, Capel y Ffin, Llanthony, Gwent.
15.30hrs
Preacher, Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia

Prior to the Service Pilgrims are offered to walk the three miles from Llanthony to Capel y Ffin