Wednesday 20th February 2019, 10.00 Morning Mass and 18.30 Evensong
at St Paul’s Anglican Church, 27 Filellinon street, Syntagma, Athens
The Junior Choir and the Choir of St Lawrence Church, Catford will join and worship along with British choral settings to supplement the mass and evensong- Organ postludes
ENTRANCE FREE- Donation required
THEODORE/ Taste the Music series
Thursday 21st February 2019, 21.00
at St Paul’s Anglican Church, 27 Filellinon street, Syntagma, Athens
Theodore and his band returns to St Paul’s Anglican Church to present piano songs using rock orchestration tools with acoustic aesthetics
Organized by: United We Fly
ENTRANCE BY TICKETS 12 euros
Information and tickets pre-sale: Viva.gr
Tel. 2106985340 (10.00-18.00)
Thursday 7th Feburary, Friday 8th February and Saturday 9th February 2019, 21.00
at St Paul’s Anglican Church, 27 Filellinon street, Syntagma, Athens
“Repentance of vanity”, Ecclesiastes said, “vanity of vanity, everything vain”.
After performances in BIOS, the Ecclesiastes, directed by Antonis Antonopoulos will be performed at St. Paul’s Anglican Church for only 3 performances.
An artistic choreography for the Old Testament archetypal text. A chamber opera for the futility of human nature.
The weather you mourn and the time you dance.
The performance tells the story of Ecclesiastes with music and dance terms. Lowtronik composes the electronic sound landscape on stage, and Antonis Antonopoulos directs the course of man from his primitive and animal payment in the quest for his divine substance. Through the Twelve Chapters of Ecclesiastes, this binary orchestra explores the boundaries between musical narration and representation.
Organized by: Antonis Antonopoulos
ENTRANCE BY TICKETS 12 and 8 Euros
Information and tickets pre-sale: Viva.gr
https://www.viva.gr/tickets/
GEORGE ZERVOS- Radio Pepper Church Sessions
Monday 4th February 2019, 20.30
at St Paul’s Anglican Church, 27 Filellinon street, Syntagma, Athens
On the 4th Church Sessions organized by Radio Pepper 96.6 FM, GEORGE ZERVOS and his band will perform swing and rock’n’roll songs
Organized by: Radio Pepper 96.6 FM
ENTRANCE BY INVITATIONS ONLY
Information and invitations: Radio Pepper 96.6 FM, https://www.pepper966.gr/
Tel. 213 018 9066 | E-mail: pepper9660@gmail.com
Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan
Before preaching this homily Fr. Leonard used a jug from Cana in Galilee to illustrate the change of water into wine.
The Church universal has designated this week, including this Sunday as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. I would like to make a brief commentary on this universal phenomenon.
It is true that division between human beings is a sin against the image of God in each of us. It must therefore be even more of a sin when those of us who know Christ are divided, for Christ is the mirror image of the unity of God, and we as Christians are called to be Christ-like, and therefore unity must be part of our DNA as Christians.
This unity is not easily achieved by us, because it is so easy for us to conform to the likeness of the evil one, who sows the seeds of division between us. In biblical language, not always popular in our own day, the devil rejoices in our human squabbles and our disagreements, and when nation takes up arms against nation because in such division we give oxygen and energy to his divisive work. He focusses on the life of the church, and when he can create argument in the life of the church, he distracts us from our main mission in the world – our mission not only to preach the word of God, but to witness in real life in our human relationships to the Godly characteristics of love, beauty, grace, and compassion.
So it is indeed right, it is our duty and our joy in this Epiphany season to remind ourselves of our first calling as baptized Christians not only to have our own lives transformed and transfigured, but also to transfigure the life of the whole church, and to proclaim humanity blessed .
In 2 weeks time when Bishop Robert is with us we will have some people baptized and confirmed. In this precious sacrament we will be reminded that every human being is loved by God, and indeed crowned by God in glory. In baptism each of us is a new creation.
The miracle of water turned into wine is a type of this change that happens to us when we are incorporated into life together in Christ. That life is at its most perfect when it is lived in unity. Disunity is a sin against God, and so we must pray fervently that Christ’s Church universal can be one in him, but also that our own Christian community can be one in our relationships with each other. We are not all the same, and God preserve us from being uniform – such uniformity is not even needed in his universal church, but it is when we are united in the person of Christ that our cup will be full to the brim and running over.
Song: Running over, running over, my cup’s full and running over.
For the Lord saved me, I’m as happy as can be.
My cup’s full and running over.
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death on Wednesday 16th January, of our Honorary Treasurer Mr Maurice Ashford.
His funeral took place at St Paul’s on Wednesday 23rd January and our Senior Chaplain Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan officiated. Read his tribute below.
January – June 2019
Introduction
Our Christian faith doesn’t stand still.
Life’s journey – the places and people, joys and sorrows we have known; they all have an influence on the shape of our faith today.
And there is always more to ask, learn and discover.
Anglican Story is a series of sessions designed to help us explore who we are, what we believe and how that affects what we do, as Christians in the Anglican tradition.
Each session will begin with a Bible reading and introductory talk on a particular theme from Fr James, followed by a time of discussion and exploration of the issues it raises for each of us.
No question will be out of bounds and we will hopefully discover some answers from, and with, each other.
We will end each session with a period of quiet reflection to consider all we have shared.
No matter for how long or short a time you have been aware of your faith, why not take this opportunity for refreshment and enrichment in the company of fellow pilgrims on the way?
Schedule
Sessions will last approx. 1.5 hours and will be held twice monthly on Wednesdays, once a month at the Swedish Centre (following on from Community Connect, at approx. 12.30pm) and the alternate week in St Paul’s Church, immediately after the midweek service (approx.10.45am).
The dates, venues and topics for each session are outlined below. [Key: SwC = Swedish Centre; StP = St Paul’s Church]
Although the sessions will be most valuable for those who are able to attend the whole course, the individual sessions will also be ‘standalone’ and it will be possible to dip in and out if you’re unable to make every one.
On the 2nd Wednesday of January 2019, Community Connect Athens met for the first time in 2019 to wish everyone a Happy New Year and to cut the Vassilopitta.
There were warm sausage rolls and other cakes to munch on with our coffee prior to the cutting of the Vassilopitta. Fr James said a short prayer and blessed the cake and the children blew out the candle!
For those of you who live outside Greece, the Vassilopitta is a large cake in which the bakers have placed a “gold” coin. When the cake is cut, whoever gets the coin in their slice of cake is purported to have Good Luck all year round!
Fr James Harris
If a picture is worth a thousand words, be sure that an illusion hides more than a million.
Enter the fascinating world of illusion which will trick your confidence…and confuse you completely… Visit us and you will be thrilled because nothing is what it seems, especially not here!
[Our installations are a] reminder that our assumptions about the world we perceive are often nothing but a spectre of illusions.’
So says the website for the new Athens Museum of Illusion which opened last September in Monastiraki and tempts you with the possibility of walking through a vortex tunnel which seems to spin you 360 degrees and an upside-down room which convinces you you’re standing on your head – whilst in both cases you actually keep your feet firmly on the ground.
It is a world of illusions – and all great fun, I’m sure.
It puts me in mind of the way the earliest Christians – in places such as Rome – prepared their candidates for baptism, for entry into the Church
Typically, having been stripped of their clothing, candidates were shoved into a pitch dark room, spun around to create a sense of complete disorientation, before being plunged into a pool of water and then hauled out into the bright sunlight, presumably spluttering and blinking, to be dressed in white robes and presented to the church with great rejoicing.
This dramatic ceremony would have been the culmination of months, possibly longer, of preparation including in-depth study and fasting – all of it designed to rid the candidates of any notion that they were in any way capable of engineering their own salvation; to rid them of the illusion that their own strength, wealth, understanding, ability was what was important.
Argyro Chioti/VASISTAS theatre group
Apologies 4&5
by Efthimis Filippou
Once again, Argyro Chioti will be bringing her theatre group VASISTAS, Apologies 4&5 by Efthimis Filippou, for a few performances, at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, from 28th January until 18th February.
One judge. An undefined metaphysical leading figure who borrows elements from a school examiner a police investigator and a psychoanalyst. Two examinees: A woman and a man of the same age. In the middle stage of their lives. They voluntarily become subjects examined either for social inclusion or exclusion. In an empty space and an undefined time, they review all the turning points that determined their lives until now. It is a moment of redefining and reviewing their past. A moment of reckoning with their memory.
The basic demand: who will achieve admission to the women’s choir – ultimate witness and judge of the trial – who sings the same polyphonic song, again and again, throughout the entire performance.
The theatre play of Efthimis Filippou is a lyrical and poetic text which attempts to wander about the internal geography of two people. A precipitation in the details that compose their lives.
The women’s choir was created based on inspirations by the work of the artist Christina Calbari, Aleksandra Waliszewska and the polyphonic group A Filetta.
«If swimming gives you pleasure, may you never dive again into clear blue waters.
If you sleep soundly at night may your pillow turn to stone and your sheet to steel.
If you do not tell the truth here tonight, then you are not worthy of dancing, not even for a minute and you’ll stand over there alone till you die»
THE TEAM
Text: Efthimis Filippou
Stage direction: Argyro Chioti
Assistant director : Antonis Antonopoulos
Scenography : Babis Chiotis
Musique and chorus : Henri Kergomar
Costumes : Christina Calbari
Lighting : Elisavet Alexandropoulou
Artistique collaboration : Ariane Labed
With: Evi Saoulidou, Efthimis Theou, Fidel Talamboukas and Betta (a dog)
Chorus: Argyro Chioti, Eleni Vergeti, Georgina Christkioti, Matina Pergioudaki, Evdoxia Androulidaki
Place: St.Paul’s Anglican Church (Filellinon 27, Syntagma)
Dates: 28 & 29 January, 5, 11, 12 & 18 February 2019
At 21:00
Duration: 70 minutes
Tickets: 12€ and 8€
Reservations: 0030 6944 965 863
Tickets can be purchased at St.Paul’s Anglican Church on the days of the performance from 19:30hrs until the beginning of the performance.
Following an order of priority
*with English and French subtitles
With the kind support of:
THE J. F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION
Organisation of production and diffusion of Argyro’s Chioti and VASISTAS theatre group’s performances in France: Sophie Clot | sophieclot@hotmail.fr
Info: Apologies 4&5 was first presented only for three days in Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2016 in Piraeus 260, in co production with Athens & Epidaurus Festival, NEON supporting creativity, Carolos Koun theatre Technis. Was then presented in Parallèle -7 Festival, Bernardines th. Marseille (January 2017), Comédie de Reims, Reims, (February 2017), Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, (May 2017), SKG Bridges Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki (May 2018)
www.vas.eu.com | info@vas.eu.com