Australian and New Zealand Diocese (ROCOR)

Christ is Risen!

Important Announcement!

Metropolitan Hilarion will be presiding over the Apodosis of Pascha service, at the Archbishop’s Chapel, Croydon.

The Paschal Matins will be sung in English immediately followed by the Divine Liturgy (also according to the Paschal Typica).

It will be held Tuesday May 26, commencing at 11.30 pm.

The service is expected to conclude at approx. 1.30am, following which light refreshments will be offered in the church hall. Please be mindful of our neighbours and keep street noise down to a bare minimum.

Please forward this to your friends and colleagues in our community.

The patrons of the Archbishop’s chapel, Croydon

18 Chelmsford Ave, Croydon
For further information: 0418 458 363 – Archpriest Michael Boikov

6th Sunday of Pascha – Sunday of the Blind Man

Homily From “The One Thing Needful,” Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

Last Sunday, the Sunday of the Samaritan woman, the Holy Church told us how Christ raises a person from an earthly, carnal state of mind to the state in which a human being thirsts to worship God and pray to Him. You see, the Samaritan woman came to the well for physical water which satisfies only earthly thirst. But when Christ revealed her sins to her, and she ran to Him in repentance, then in her awakened spiritual thirst, the thirst for Living Water springing up into everlasting life, the thirst for communion with God, her first question was about prayer: where one should worship God, how to pray. Now today’s Gospel gives us a model for prayer. (more…)

6th Sunday of Pascha – Sunday of the Blind Man

Kontakion, tone 4: Having the eyes of my soul blinded, I come to Thee, O Christ, like the man blind from birth, and with repentance I cry to Thee: Thou art the bright Light of those in darkness. (more…)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Christ is Risen!

The Orthodox Church of the Holy Annunciation at 163 Park Rd Wooloongabba, with God’s help will soon begin services.

The coming Saturday (this refers to the past Saturday, 16th May – webmaster) commencing at 8:00am we will be holding a general clean up of the grounds and church building. As you can imagine as the church has not been used for several years there is a lot of work to be done. If anyone is able to come and lend a hand even for a short time it would be greatly appreciated. If you have access to items that can be used for cutting back trees etc or cleaning materials for inside the church then please also bring them along… if you have access to a ute or trailer that too would be handy to help with rubbish runs.

We hope to commence services the following weekend and as soon as I can confirm that I will post with the details but at this stage I expect we will serve Matins on Saturday the 23rd of May at 6:00pm and Liturgy at 8:00am on Sunday morning. (more…)

5th Sunday of Pascha – Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Homily From “The One Thing Needful,” Sermons of Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

“Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink” (Jn. 4:6-7). The Samaritan woman became filled with confusion and doubt of a purely worldly nature: How could He, a Jew, ask to drink from her, a Samaritan? The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. And even more, He said that if she knew Who He was, then she herself would ask drink from Him, and He would give her Living Water. How could He give her something to drink? Why, He didn’t even have anything to draw water with, and the well was deep. (more…)

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5th Sunday of Pascha – Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Kontakion, tone 8: Having come to the well by faith, the Samaritan woman beheld Thee, the Water of Wisdom, of which she drank lavishly, and inherited the kingdom on high, where her praises are sung eternally (more…)

Mid-Pentecost

Troparion, tone 8: Having come to the middle of the Feast, refresh my thirsty soul with the streams of piety; for Thou, O Saviour, didst cry to all: Let him who thirsts come to Me and drink. O Christ our God, Source of Life, glory to Thee.

Kontakion, tone 4: When the Feast of the law was half over, O Lord and Creator of all, Thou didst say to the bystanders, O Christ our God: Come and draw the water of immortality. Therefore we fall down before Thee and cry with faith: Grant us Thy bounties, for Thou art the Source of our Life. (more…)

В светлые Пасхальные дни в Австралийско-Новозеландскую епархию приезжает Первоиерарх Русской Зарубежной Церкви, митрополит Восточно-Американский и Нью-Йоркский ИЛАРИОН, который одновременно является управляющим православными приходами на Зеленом континенте.

Незадолго до отъезда в Австралию с владыкой Иларионом встретилась наш корреспондент в Нью-Йорке Татьяна Весёлкина.

— Ваше Высокопреосвящество, Ваш приезд в возглавляемую Вами епархию обещает быть, как всегда, насыщенным. Где планируете служить в первые дни своего пребывания в Австралии, с кем встретиться?

— Первым делом по прибытии в Австралию поблагодарю Господа Бога за возможность снова быть рядом с прихожанами епархии, где мне довелось служить незабываемые годы до моего избрания на пост Предстоятеля РПЦЗ. В Австралии я планирую находиться два месяца. За это время мне хотелось бы посетить как можно больше храмов, обителей, встретиться со священнослужителями и прихожанами. (more…)

4th Sunday of Pascha – Sunday of the Paralytic

Kontakion, tone 3: By Thy divine presence, O Lord, raise my soul which is terribly paralyzed by all kinds of sins and misguided actions, as of old Thou didst raise the paralytic, that saved I may cry to Thee: O compassionate Christ, glory to Thy power. (more…)