Every second Saturday of the month, Divine Liturgy in English of Sunday - Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family, Duke Street, London W1K 5BQ.
4pm Divine Liturgy. Next: 13th November 2021

Very sadly, the Divine Liturgy in English at 9-30 am on Sundays at the Holy Family Cathedral, Lower Church, have had to be put on hold. Until the practicalities we cannot use the Lower Church space. Hopefully this will be resolved very soon. Please keep checking in here for details.

Owing to public health guidance, masks should still be worn indoors and distance maintained. Sanitisers are available. Holy Communion is distributed in both kinds from the mixed and common chalice, by means of a separate Communion spoon for each individual communicant.

To purchase The Divine Liturgy: an Anthology for Worship (in English), order from the Sheptytsky Institute here, or the St Basil's Bookstore here.

To purchase the Divine Praises, the Divine Office of the Byzantine-Slav rite (in English), order from the Eparchy of Parma here.

The new catechism in English, Christ our Pascha, is available from the Eparchy of the Holy Family and the Society. Please email johnchrysostom@btinternet.com for details.

Monday 3 March 2014

Myrrh-Streaming Icon, "Softening of Evil Hearts" arriving at the Crimea / OrthoChristian.Com

Pravoslavie reports:

On Saturday, March 1, 2014, the Myrrh-Streaming Icon of the Mother of God, "Softening of Evil Hearts", was to arrive at Sevastopol. The meeting of the shrine was to take place at 14.00 at St. Vladimir's Cathedral in the Chersonese. For the time of the stay of the wonder-working icon at St. Vladimir's Cathedral the admission to the territory of the "Chersonese- Tavrichesky" National reserve is free for veneration of the relic. The icon will be staying at the cathedral for 24 hours, reports the press service of the Sevastopol Deanery.

One of contemporary shrines of Great Rus is the "Softening of Evil Hearts", or "Seven Arrows" Wonder-Working Icon of the Holy Theotokos. This myrrh-streaming icon is kept in the village of Bachurino of the Moscow region, where with the blessing of Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)—a well-known Optina Elder and confessor of Patriarch Kirill—a chapel was constructed for it.

The Wonder-Working Icon of the Queen of Heaven is arriving at Sevastopol with the blessing of the Church hierarchy and at the invitation of Orthodox Christians of the Crimea.

02 / 03 / 2014

Myrrh-Streaming Icon, "Softening of Evil Hearts" arriving at the Crimea / OrthoChristian.Com

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