Come and See! No 177 September 2020

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland

The Orthodox Christian Parishes of: All Saints of Lincolnshire, Lincoln, St. Anne and All Saints of Worcestershire, Worcester. Archbishop: Metropolitan SILOUAN. Lincoln: St Matthias Church Centre Burton Road, Lincoln, LN1 3TX Parish Priest: Archimandrite Philip.

From Fr. Philip:

We continue to open gradually and with great care. The onrush of confessions has eased now so I will be coming to Lincoln at the times I used to: That is from Saturday afternoon (confessions at 6pm) until Monday in the night. If you need me outside that time (in case of emergencies) I will return from the monastery. Fr. Alban or Fr. George may also be available if necessary.

Services in September:

To come to services you need to book in with Fr. Philip.

All will be the Divine Liturgy at 10am: 6th: 13th Sunday after Pentecost. Miracle of St. Michael the Archangel.Tone 4. 13th: 14th Sunday after Pentecost. Forefeast of the Elevation of the Cross. Tone 5. 20th: 15th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 6. 27th: 16th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 7.

To book in please follow the instructions on page 5

Thank you!

A big thank you to those who have worked to keep the Temple open over the last few months – and to those who will continue to do so.

• Gardening of various sorts, shrubs, herbaceous plants, the grass, trees, fruit, blown in rubbish. • Putting bins out for collection. • Cleaning and tidying the Temple interior. This includes sterilising all the surfaces that have been, (may have been!) touched during the past services as well as all the normal cleaning. • Dealing with finances (we are not receiving anything like enough to break even now.) • Quite a lot of administration. • Sorting out the car park. • Iconography (see if you can spot what is new!) • Helping with services: singing, serving, ushering, crowd control (including funerals). • Checking the church during the week. • Plumbing jobs. • Concreting the safe box and changing screws.

Please note that the car park is now (HOPEFULLY) making us some money. You may part there at any time BUT the car park charges are as above (except on Sunday when it is free). If you have any questions about this, please talk to Fr. Philip.

The car park is cashless (I know that is a problem for some people) and the instructions are clear and simple to follow.

Fruit: There is a lot of fruit around the church: apples, peaches, black berries, there were figs. Please feel free to pick what you can eat. Given the chilly summer some of these are rather later than usual.

Church Instructions:

1. You must register your name with Father Philip, 07969 332740, [email protected], or in person if you want to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in the Church starting from August 9th. The first 28 names will be taken: any in excess will be added to the list for the following week. If you are not on that list, you will not be able to attend. A register system of all those present will be created and administered strictly to facilitate the NHS Test and Trace service. You may, therefore, have to tell the authorities who you have been with if we are identified as a source of this virus.

2. The Church can be attended only by people who:

• do not have COVID-19 symptoms. • are not vulnerable people. • do not have an underlying health risk.

3. You are to maintain a 2-metre social distance between households, and please don’t be offended if other people try to maintain a 2 m gap as this is the recommended distancing measure.

5. The toilets in the church will remain closed.

6. You must wear a face mask/face cover when in the church, it prevents the transmission of the virus. It is also a legal requirement, which if infringed, may cause you in getting a fine.

7. Only sit in the designated area marked with a green tick, which ensures social distancing rules.

8. You cannot light a candle, but you can pray in front of the ones already lit.

9. The live broadcasting of the Sunday and major Feast services will be continued on Youtube.

10. There will be no refreshments or coffee after the Divine Liturgy.

11. Antidoron will be given at the end of the service. Strict hygiene standards will be observed, and the piece of bread will be given by a person who has washed hands thoroughly, for at least 20 seconds, and wears gloves: the bread will be dropped into each person’s hand inside a plastic bag.

12. You can give the names for the commemoration of the living and departed to Father Philip for commemoration at the Divine Liturgy.

13. There will be no singing and only one server.

14. There is a strict ONE-WAY system.

15. We will not be serving Matins so the service will begin with the Divine Liturgy.

IF YOU HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS OF CORONOVIRUS, OR IF YOU ARE SHELTERING OR BEING SHELTERED OR IF YOU HAVE UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITION, THEN PLEASE STAY HOME!

At the end of the Liturgy please leave immediately.

We will continue to LIVE STREAM from the Church on Sunday Mornings. The same site will be used. GOD BLESS YOU!

Metropolitan PAUL and Archbishop JOHN

His Eminence Metropolitan Paul of Aleppo, and Archbishop John kidnapped and still missing in Syria. It is now seven years and five months since Metropolitan PAUL and Archbishop JOHN were kidnapped.

Metropolitan SILOUAN http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk/ Parish Priest: Fr. Philip, 07969 332740 email: [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/Fr.Philip twitter.com/FrPhilip http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/comeandsee https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWMaefJYqFEZkYiK2WmeEw https://www.orthodoxmonastery.co.uk/ Subdeacon: Fanourios Lambert Reader: John Kirkwood Newsletter Editor: Fr. Philip. St Matthias Church Centre, Burton Road, Lincoln, LN1 3TX Parish Website: www.allsaintslincs.org.uk www.facebook.com/groups/AllSaintsLincoln/ www.facebook.com/COG.Lincoln www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWMaefJYqFEZkYiK2WmeEw Safeguarding Officers for Lincoln: Emma Bonner. Safeguarding Officers for Worcester: Melangell Roe Smith.

Standing Order Form.

To the Manager

Bank Address:

I/we hereby authorise and request you to debit my/our

Account Name*

Account Details

Sort Code Account Number Amount Frequency Monthly

Beginning date End date: / / / / And credit

All Saints of Lincolnshire, 33-35 High Street, Grantham, NG31 6PH, Lincolnshire.

Sort Code: 20 34 60 Account: 70353175

Quoting reference: All Saints of Lincolnshire.

Signed: Date:

Name in Block Capitals:

* Please ensure that the actual name on/of the account is included in this box so that we can accurately match your payment to our records.

Please print this page off and send it to your Bank Manager.

Gift Aid:

Name: ______

Address: ______

______Postcode: ______

Tel/ mobile: ______Email: ______

2. If you are a UK taxpayer, please tick the box below to join the Gift Aid scheme. Doing so will mean that we can claim up to 25p extra for every £1 you give, at no additional cost to you!

Yes, I am a UK taxpayer. Please treat all donations I make to All Saints of Lincolnshire as Gift Aid donations until further notice. I am a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations to charities and Community amateur sports clubs (CASCs) in that tax year, it is my responsibility to pay any difference. All Saints of Lincolnshire will claim 25p on every £1 donated. Please let us know if you want to cancel the declaration, change your name and/ or address or no longer pay enough tax on your income and/or capital gains.

Signed: Date:

Please print off this page and send it to: The Administrator, St. Matthias Church Centre, Burton Road, Lincoln. LN1 3TX

Gift Aid Information When the All Saints of Lincolnshire receives a donation from a UK taxpayer, we are entitled to claim an amount of tax (calculated at the basic rate of income tax in that year) paid on that donation. Once you have given your permission for us to do this on your behalf (by filling in this Gift Aid form), there is no need for you to do anything else. All that is required is that you must be a taxpayer and that you would have paid or will pay enough Income and/or Capital Gains Tax to cover all the Gift Aid claimed on all your donations to all charities and Community amateur sports clubs in that tax year. Please note that it is your responsibility to pay any difference. The amount of tax we claim will be 25% of the total value of your donations in that tax year. Furthermore, if you are a higher taxpayer, you are also entitled to claim the difference between the basic rate which we will claim and the amount of tax you have actually paid. For further details on how you can do this, please contact your tax office. If your tax situation changes and your gifts will no longer be eligible for the Gift Aid scheme, please contact us and we will amend your record accordingly.

MONEY!

Even though the Church is closed for the moment we still have expenses that we need to pay. THANK YOU to all who made donations last month! We made £760.00

If you get onto the Parish Website you’ll find a way of making donations: http://allsaintslincs.org.uk/

Only if you can, please use the forms below to put money into our Church account.

Children’s Space:

Troparion – Tone 4 Supreme Commander of the Hosts of the Heavens, we, the unworthy, importune and beseech thee that by thy supplications thou encircle us in the shelter of the wings of thine immaterial glory, guarding us who now fall down and cry to thee with fervour: Deliver us from dangers of all kinds, as the great Marshal of the heavenly hosts on high.

Kontakion – Tone 4 By thy holy nativity, O pure one, Joachim and Anna were delivered from the reproach of barrenness; and Adam and Eve were delivered from the corruption of death; thy people do celebrate it, having been saved from the stain of iniquity, crying unto thee: The barren doth give birth to the Theotokos, who nourisheth our life.

Read: Matthew 21:33-42 WHAT DO YOU THINK? 1. What is a tenant farmer?

2. What does a tenant farmer pay to the landlord?

3. In this story, which is an allegory, there are many "characters" who represent real-life players at the time of Jesus.

4. In the story, which group of characters gets killed? These are the prophets.

5. Who do you think the landlord's son is? He is also the cornerstone referred to in the last paragraph.

6. The vineyard is Israel, given to the religious leaders for their care. Why were the Jewish leaders angry after hearing this story?

About the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos - 8th September Long ago, in the land of Israel, there lived a righteous couple named Joachim and Anna. They were descended from the great Jewish kings, David and Solomon. But there was one thing that made Joachim and Anna very sad – they were very old and had not been able to have any children. Among the Jewish people, a family was worthless if there were no children. Remember the stories in the Old Testament of Abraham and Sarah and of Hannah and her son Samuel. So, Joachim and Anna were very sad. But they loved God very much and went every day to the Temple to give gifts. Finally, one day, the Temple servants refused to accept their gifts and told Joachim and Anna that they were cursed since they could have no children. Anna cried and went home. But Joachim was so sad that he went out to a mountain. There he fasted and prayed for forty days. At the end of the forty days, God sent an angel to Joachim and Anna. The angel had wonderful news: even though they were so old, they would have a baby girl. And this little girl would be the one spoken of by the prophets many years before – the one chosen by God to be the mother of His own Son. The angel told them to dedicate the daughter to the service of God. And so, Joachim and Anna had a baby girl and named her Mary. And Mary is known to this day as the Theotokos – the Mother of God. We remember Joachim and Anna every liturgy when the priest names them for us at the very end.

Icon Colouring for September:

September’s Puzzle

Saints for September

St Eanswyth Abbess

Reposed 640

Remembered September 12

St Eanswyth (also spelled Eanswythe or Eanswide) was an Anglo-Saxon princess, a daughter of the king of Kent. Tradition has it that Eanswith founded the Benedictine Folkestone Priory, the first nunnery in England. She was supported in this by her father, Eadbald, who ruled as king of Kent from 616 to 640 CE.

While the monastery was under construction, a pagan prince came to Kent seeking to marry Eanswythe. King Eadbald, whose sister St. Ethelburga had married the pagan King Edwin two or three years before, recalled that this wedding resulted in Edwin's conversion. Eanswythe, however, refused.

This was the first women's monastery to be founded in England. St. Eanswythe lived there with her companions in the monastic life, and they may have been guided by some of the Roman monks who had come to England with St. Augustine in 597. She remained at the abbey until her death.

The first monastic site became abandoned by the 10th century, and began to be eroded by the sea, a problem which also afflicted a new foundation of 1095. A 18 site further inland was provided for a new foundation of Folkestone Priory by William de Abrincis in 1137, with a church dedicated to St Mary and St Eanswythe. Saint Eanswith's day falls on September 12. Traditionally, this is the date on which her remains were translated to the new church in 1138. The priory was closed at the Reformation, and the Church became Folkestone Parish Church. During restoration work at the church in 1885 human remains were discovered in a lead reliquary, embedded within the church wall, which were identified as a 12th-century vessel, and the bones of a young woman. This led to the conclusion that they could be the translated relics of Saint Eanswith, hidden away at the Reformation. A new expert analysis by historians and archaeologists concluded in March 2020 that the remains are almost certainly that of Eanswith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eanswith and http://www.synaxarion.org.uk/11SouthEastSaints/Eanswyth/Eanswyth.html

Saint Ailbe or Elvis Bishop

Reposed 528

Remembered September 12

St Ailbe founded a monastery at Emly in Co Waterford. He was a friend of St Declan, and like him was a hermit and evangelist in the early 5C in the south of Ireland. He may have been a bishop. It is said that he made people ‘not only Christians but saints’- a saying which sums up everything about early Irish (and British) saints. The 9C Rule of Emly still exists. His holy well can be found in Emly churchyard.

He was Bishop of Emly in Munster. It is very difficult to sift out the germs of truth from among the mass of legends which have gathered round the life of this Irish saint. Beyond the fact, which is itself disputed, that he was a disciple of St. Patrick and was probably 19 ordained priest by him, we know really nothing of the history of St. Ailbe. Legend says that in his infancy he was left in the forest to be devoured by the wolves, but that a she-wolf took compassion upon him and suckled him. Long afterwards, when Ailbe was bishop, an old she-wolf, pursued by a hunting party, fled to the Bishop and laid her head upon his breast. Ailbe protected his old foster-mother, and every day thereafter she and her little ones came to take their food in his hall. The Acts of St. Ailbe are quite untrustworthy; they represent Ailbe as preaching in Ireland before St. Patrick, but this is directly contradicted by St. Patrick's biographer, Tirechan. Probably the most authentic information we possess about Ailbe is that contained in Cuimmon's eulogium: Ailbe loved hospitality. The devotion was not untruthful. Never entered a body of clay one that was better as to food and raiment. His feast, which is 12 September, is kept throughout Ireland.

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01234b.htm and http://www.sy