Mid North Coast Orthodox Mission

"Telling the Truth" - "Говорить Правду" The Synod of ROCOR in New York - Синод Русской Зарубежной Церкви в Нью-ЙоркеFor an English translation please activate subtitles / Русский перевод в субтитра...

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54 Bloomfield Street, South Kempsey, NSW 2440 Set on a 1600 meter square block with dual street access, this is an opportunity to restore this historic church and adjoining Hall back to their former glory into a quirky, unique, character home/s or redevelop the land into a new dwelling or units (STCA)The original church was constructe...

A little late... some information about our service in Bellingen on Sunday 30 June. ☦️

A service at Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast On the weekend of Saturday-Sunday 29-30 June our parish rector visited Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast.  On Saturday 29 June In Brierfield, NSW, he baptised Ksenia, the infant daughter of Mitchaell Eames and Ellen Rubbo. On Sunday 30 June, the&n...

A weekend of work at the site of the Holy Trinity Monastery, Monkerai Between Friday 19 July and Friday 21 July, Orthodox Christians from Newcastle, Gosford, Armidale, and across the Mid North Coast gathered at the site of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Monkerai, NSW, for a weekend of work and prayer.  Under the leadership of the site caretaker, Gregory Alexandrov...

READER TYPIKA SERVICE - COFFS HARBOUR

Lay members of the St Symeon of Verkhoturye Russian Orthodox Mission will hold a reader Typika service from 9.00am on Sunday 04 August 2024, the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, in Coffs Harbour NSW.

The service will run approximately 1.5 hours and will be followed by a common meal.

Every effort will be made to allow all who wish to read to participate in the service.

For further details and to receive the location, please contact James (Brock) Savage at [email protected] or 0402 831 894.

Please RSVP to the above by Friday 02 August 2024.

Our "church" in Bellingen today, beautifully vested in green for the Sunday of All Saints. С праздником всех вас! 🙂❤️☦️

Our parishioner Thaddeus has just finished making another three of these excellent folding wooden stands for icons and for reading, bringing the total to six. They are easy to store and transport and pleasing to look at. Some have our icons on them, and some are used by the choir. ❤️☦️

Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the second finding of the relics of Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye. It was on this day in 1989 that the relics of the saint were returned to the Church, having been wondrously preserved from destruction during the Soviet years. The relics are now again enshrined at the Monastery of Saint Nicholas in Verkhoturye. We greet all our parishioners and friends on this lesser patronal feast-day of our mission, and look forward to the day when we will have a church of our own. Righteous Symeon of Verkhoturye, pray to God for us!

Save the Date!

26 - 31 December, 2024

Registrations will open soon via the Syezd website (still under construction).

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A reader service is held on the NSW Mid North Coast On Sunday 14 April, the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent and the day of commemoration of Saint John of the Ladder, a group of lay members of the Mid North Coast Mission gathered at a private home in Coffs Harbour for the reading of the Hours and Typika.  A copy of the order of service followed is av...

On Sunday 14 April 2024 our Mission will hold "reader" services (no priest) in the Coffs Harbour area. DM us if you're interested.

A service at Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast On Sunday 31 March our parish rector visited Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast and conducted services for the Second Sunday of Great Lent, the day of commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica  (+1359 AD).  The service...

If you are bringing something to share at our common meal after Divine Liturgy this coming Sunday, please remember that as it is Great Lent we are eating vegan food. 🍅🍆🥑🥦🥬🥒🌶🌽🥕🫒🧄🧅🥔🍠🍏🍎🍐🍇🍉🍓 Things that require minimal preparation are best. If bringing things that do need a little preparation or warming up, it is best to start this as soon as Divine Liturgy finishes - or even a little earlier. That way tables can be set and lunch served as soon as our "church" is packed away - something that is a big help to families with children and those who travel some distance to get home. 🙂🚗

Tomorrow, Saturday 30 March, will be a Memorial Saturday - a day of commemoration of the departed. As we are unable to have services tomorrow, we will have a memorial litia after Divine Liturgy in Wauchope on Sunday 31 March. A litia is a short memorial service - no more than ten minutes in length. At the end of the litia we will bless kutiya - a sweet dish of grains and fruits - in memory of our departed relatives, friends, and benefactors.

Our new portable altar table and table of preparation were delivered to the Gosford church today. To save time this coming Sunday, Father James read the prayers of blessing over them this afternoon. Here are some photographs with and without the red covers that we will use this weekend. The covers previously belonged to the Holy Theophany Russian Orthodox Church (MP) in Mayfield, Newcastle, that closed down in 2009 - these tables were made to fit them. We also have sets of covers in white, blue and gold. 🙂☦️❤️

This was formerly Saint Thomas' Anglican Church in Willawarrin. It would make a wonderful base for the growing Mid North Coast community. 30 minutes from Kempsey, 1 hour from Port Macquarie, 1.5 hours from Coffs Harbour. Only $200,000! Surely it is possible to raise that amount...

47 Main Street, Willawarrin, NSW 2440 - Land for Sale - harcourts.net Land for Sale at 47 Main Street, Willawarrin, NSW 2440, $200,000. View 14 property photos, floor plans and Willawarrin suburb information.

Our portable altar table and table of preparation... nearly finished!

Our portable/folding altar table and table of preparation are taking shape! At this stage, all is on track for them to be ready in time for our services in Wauchope on Sunday 31 March.🙂🤞☦️

Dear parishioners!

Next service of Middle North Coast Orthodox Mission will be held on the 31st of March 2024 at 9am., the address is Wauchope Community Arts Hall Oxley Lane Wauchope 2446

After the service we will have lunch all together, please, bring a plate to share. Please, keep in mind that during Great Lent vegan food is preferable.

RSVP 27/03/2024

This coming week, God willing, work will start on an important project for our small mission - a portable altar table and table of preparation. The items have been designed - and will be constructed for us - by Michael Sokolsky, and the cost will be shared by the mission and a generous benefactor who has offered to pay half the cost. ❤️ The new items will be easy to transport and store and will help give our "pop-up" chapels more of a proper church feel. We already have four sets of vestments to fit them - red, gold, white and blue. We hope to have them ready for our next services - in Wauchope on Sunday 31 March! 🤞🙂☦️

Радуйтеся, все святые земли Екатеринбуржския! Rejoice, all ye saints of Ekaterinburg! Today we commemorated these saints, amongst whom are the Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia and Righteous Symeon of Verkhoturye.

A lovely little portable church, made from a shipping container, being placed on rented premises in Korea. A nice idea! 🙂❤️☦️

This might be of interest to our friends on the Mid North Coast who wish to experience more of Orthodox Christianity. Father George Liangas is a highly respected priest and rector of the Greek Orthodox parish of Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis in Burwood, Sydney.

Services on 31 March, the Second Sunday in Great Lent On the weekend of Saturday-Sunday 30-31 March – the Australian Easter weekend – our parish rector will be visiting Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast.  On Sunday 31 March, the Second Sunday of Great Lent and the day of commemoratio...

Plans for 2024 for our Mid North Coast Mission...

2024 - The year ahead In 2024 we hope to have services in the Port Macquarie area on 31 March (the Second Sunday in Great Lent) and 29 September (the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost) and in the Coffs Harbour area on 30 June (the First Sunday after Pentecost) and 29 December (the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers...

The patronal feast of Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast On Saturday 30 December and Sunday 31 December, the Thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost and the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ, our parish rector Archpriest James Carles led services at  Saint Symeon of Verkhoturye Orthodox Mission on the NSW Mid North Coast in....