Sat Jun 16, 2012 @09:15 - Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire |
Sat Sep 08, 2012 @09:00 - Lastingham, North Yorkshire |
Subscribe to RSS FeedAt the approach of a great feast you must watch yourself with particular care. The enemy endeavours beforehand to chill your heart towards the event being celebrated, so that you will not honour it by whole-heartedly considering its reality. He acts upon us through the weather, or through the food and drink we have taken, or through his own arrows thrown plentifully at the heart and inflaming the entire person, at which time evil, impure and blasphemous thoughts occur to us, and we feel thoroughly averse to the solemnity (of the feast). We must overcome the enemy by forcing ourselves to meditate and pray devoutly.
St. John of Kronstadt
Meditations on the Orthodox Life from the Early Church Fathers, Ascetics, Saints and Righteous
Croyland 2010
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On Saturday 12th. June as is our custom we led a pilgrimage to Crowland to honour the memory of St. Guthlac and to venerate the skull of St. Theodore, bearing the mortal wound inflicted by a Viking sword. The weather was perfect for our open air Divine Liturgy and the numbers attending were significantly larger than previously.
The concelebrants as well as myself were Fr. Dennis, Fr. Samuel (Audley), Fr. Dimitris (Romanian parish, Boston) and Fr. Deacon Ian. We were also pleased to have Fr. Elia with us from Oxford who ably organised the veneration of the relics.
Our thanks to the Anglican priest at Crowland for his warm hospitality and to the driver of our minibus John who got us there and back in safety and comfort. It is always a pleasure to meet with old friends on these occasions and to make the acquaintance of new Orthodox friends.
Hopefully our pilgrimage to Lastingham in September will be equally memorable.
Fr. George