On Saturday 24 October and Sunday 25 October we will have services for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council.  Matins will be served from 6.00pm on Saturday evening and the Hours and Divine Liturgy will be served from 9.00am on Sunday morning.

Our 2026 parish Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 12.00pm on Sunday 22 November.  The agenda will include important presentations about our building project and other future plans.  Further information about our AGM will be made available ASAP.

On Saturday 10 October and Sunday 11 October we had services for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of Venerable Chariton the Confessor (+350 AD).  Matins was served on Saturday evening and the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served on Sunday morning.  As Saturday 10 October was for us a day of commemoration of the departed, Matins on Saturday evening was preceded by a general panikhida.  Those attending the panikhida brought, as an act of kindness in memory of their departed ones, non-perishable foods and new personal care products to be passed to a local charitable organisation for relief of the homeless.  At Divine Liturgy on Sunday our small church was full and many received Holy Communion.  The customary prayers were offered for the unity of the Orthodox Church, peace in Ukraine, and peace in the Holy Land.

On Saturday 26 September and Sunday 27 September, the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, we had services for the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.  All-night Vigil with the blessing of wheat, wine, oil and five loaves and the bringing out of the Cross was served on Saturday evening and the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served from on Sunday morning.  At Divine Liturgy the customary prayers were offered for the unity of the Orthodox Church, peace in Ukraine, and peace in the Holy Land.

On Saturday 12 September and Sunday 13 September we had services for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of the Translation of the Relics of Right-believing Prince Peter and Princess Febronia, the Wonderworkers of Murom (+1228 AD, relics translated 1992).  Matins was served on Saturday evening and the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served on Sunday morning.  At Divine Liturgy the customary prayers were offered for the unity of the Orthodox Church, peace in Ukraine, and peace in the Holy Land, and the newly-baptised infant Nicholas received Holy Communion for the first time.  At the end of Divine Liturgy there was a brief moleben to Saints Peter and Febronia, the heavenly patrons of family life, love and faithfulness.

The August 2026 issue of “Word of the Church” (“Церковное Слово”), the official journal of the Australian-New Zealand Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), is now available in our parishes. This is the third issue for 2026.  Content includes articles in English and Russian on the ninetieth anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky); a working bee at Rookwood Cemetery (NSW) organised by the National Organisation of Russian Scouts; Elder Paisius; “Valaam – Russia’s Northern Athos’”; the repose of Protodeacon Boris Evstigneev; episcopal directives; and more.  Copies are $5.00.