Welcome to the website of 'St. John the Evangelist’
Romanian Orthodox Parish in Cambridge, UK!
Romanian Orthodox Parish in Cambridge, UK!
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Important notice - update! Online participation at parish services in the next few weeks in the context of the coronavirus outbreak Since Tuesday, 24 March, the Church of England has moved to close its church buildings for public worship, private prayer and all other meetings and activities except for vital community services until further notice. For the foreseeable future, I will continue to serve the Sunday Divine Liturgy from home and stream the service online. The link to access the streaming for the Sunday Divine Liturgy will no longer be posted publicly in the website, but it will be sent to the parish email list. If you are not on the list but would like to join, please contact me. Exceptionally during this period, please email/text me your prayer requests or lists, both for remembrance at the Divine Liturgy and prayer over the week. In the spirit of love for our neighbour and Christian responsibility, I urge all members of our parish to adhere, with all seriousness, to the rules and guidance set by the authorities regarding hygiene, protection and prevention (including social distancing). Obedience is a fundamental Christian virtue. Please pray fervently at home and in your families during this time. Prayer unites us with God, casts away fear and panic, and increases love and solidarity. With hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is with us in our times of trial, I pray that God would help us emerge safe out of this tribulation. May God multiply our love, our thirst for prayer, and grant us genuine repentance. God bless, Father Dragos |
Parish prayer group during this period of trial
To support each other in prayer during this time, but also to maintain our spiritual communion while we cannot pray together in church, we are calling all members of our parish to join in prayer as a group, everyday at 19:00. We pray for repentance and God's mercy, we pray for all afflicted by the current illness, their families, and for those who care for the sick and isolated, especially doctors and nurses. You can download the short rule of common prayer in pdf format below, or read the prayers on the parish website here (link also in the title above). Lord have mercy! 
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Our parish now has a Milxr account where we will stream prayers and services during the week (especially during Passion Week). Notices about service times will be posted on the parish email list and as "events" on Mixlr. You can listen to the live broadcast via the embedded audio player here on the website, or on Mixlr as recorded podcasts.
Mixlr is also available as an application for: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mixlr-social-live-audio/id583705714 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixlr.android&hl=en_GB |
Special prayer for deliverance from new coronavirus epidemic
Lord, our God, Who are rich in mercy, and with your wise providence govern our life, hear our prayer, receive our repentance for our sins, stop the new infectious disease (the new epidemic), as You once ceased the punishment of Your people in the time of King David. You, Who are the Physician of our souls and bodies, grant recovery to the sick, raising them hastily from the bed of suffering so that they may glorify You, our Merciful Saviour, and protect the healthy ones from any disease. Bless, O Lord, strengthen and protect with Your grace all those who with philanthropy and sacrifice take care of the sick at their homes or in hospitals. Remove all disease and suffering from among the people and teach us to value life and health as Your gifts. Give us, o God, Your peace and fill our hearts with steadfast faith in Your protection, with hope in Your support and with love for You and our neighbour. For it is Yours to have mercy on us and save us, our God, and to You we give glory: to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen. |
Palm Sunday - Epistle Reading
St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 4:4-9 Brethren, rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you. |
PALM SUNDAY 12 April 2020
The Gospel According to John 12:1-18 (RSV) Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at table with him. Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it. Jesus said, "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me." When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. The next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!" And Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it; as it is written, "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!" His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. |
Picture album from the Patron Saint Parish Feast Day
Saturday 11 May - Sunday 12 May
With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif, His Grace Ignatie, Bishop of Husi (RO) celebrated together with us on the Feast of St John the Evangelist
Saturday 11 May - Sunday 12 May
With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif, His Grace Ignatie, Bishop of Husi (RO) celebrated together with us on the Feast of St John the Evangelist
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Useful resource for parents in our parish:
Positive Parenting |
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