Great Vespers for the Feast of St John the Baptist. 23.06.15
Talk on the East-West schism
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
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
Brecon Political and Theological Discussion Group
The Illness and Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition
A talk by Peter Brooke
In the Three Horseshoes Inn, Orchard Street, Llanfaes, Brecon
on Thursday 18th June 2015 at 7.30 pm
‘The Illness and Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition’ (English translation: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Livadia, Greece, 1993) is the title of a book by Hierotheos Vlachos, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos in Greece, a sequel to his ‘Orthodox Psychotherapy’ which attracted a great deal of attention in Greece when it was first published in the 1980s. Metropolitan Hierotheos argues that whereas the Western tradition tends to understand the economy of salvation judicially in terms of atonement for an offence committed against God, the Orthodox tradition understands it therapeutically as a process of healing. ‘The Church … is a spiritual hospital …’. This is the theme Peter hopes to develop with a very disparate group of people in the ‘Brecon Political and Theological Discussion Group’.
The text of Peter’s talk can now be read here.
The Marriage of David & Sophia
The Marriage of David & Sophia
Congratulations to David & Sophia on their marriage.
Many Years
Fr Tikhon talks about the situation in Ukraine
Blessed are the peacemakers
Father Tikhon Vasilyev gave a talk last week in Brecon
He spoke about the current situation in Ukraine.
He talked from his own personal experience of living in Doneskt and the role of the Church in times of war.
His monastery is currently engaged in caring for the elderly & the sick , the fair treatment of prisoners and the admonishment of those who seek to provoke conflict.
Fr Tikhon & Peter Brook in Brecon
Discussion group in Brecon
The next Discussion Group event is on Thursday 14th May when Father Tikhon Vasilyev who is a hieromonk (a monk who is also a priest) in the Orthodox Church will talk and lead a discussion on The Humanitarian Crisis in East Ukraine. His monastery is situated near Donetsk at the heart of the present troubles. There is huge destruction in East Ukraine and many people who have lost their homes and livelihood are taking refuge in the monastery. Fr Tikhon will describe both the scale of the problem and what the monastery is trying to do to help.
Then, on Thursday 18th June, our own Peter Brooke will talk and lead a discussion on The illness and cure of the soul in the Orthodox tradition. Peter will consider, in the light of Orthodox teaching, what Christians mean when they say that Christ ‘overcame death’.
All at 7.30 pm and all at the Three Horseshoes pub in Orchard Street Brecon
Christos Voskrese! Christos a Inviat! Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!
Visit of Metropoliton Kallistos to Lampeter
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