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

Brecon Political and Theological Discussion Group

by | Jun 1, 2015 | News

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.