1-4 may 2008

Between 1 - 4 may 2008 the Orthodox youth of the Orthodox Romanian Archdiocese of Western and Southern Europe, organize a sharing weekend  in Brussels.

The subject of this weekend is « Love always trusts, Love never fails» (I, Corinthians,  13: 7,8). the guest speakers are H.E. Metropolitan Joseph and Fr Constantin Necula (Sibiu). Fr. Patriciu Vlaicu and Fr. Constantin Pogor will be our hosts.

PROGRAMME :

Wednesday, 30 April

 

20h00 -  Welcome: St. Nicholas Church (Brussels), accomodation, dinner

 

 

Thursday, 1 May

 

9h00 - Welcome: St. Nicholas Church (Brussels), breakfast

11h00 - Te Deum, introducing the participants

11h30 - 13h00 - Talk – "On love" –  Fr. Prof. Constantin Necula, followed by questions 

13h00 - Lunch

14h30 - 15h00 - Workshops (by age groups)

15h00 - 16h30 - Debate on the questions issued from the

16h45 - Tea break

18h00 - 19h00 - Vespers (confessions for those who wish)

19h30 - Visit to Royal greenhouses

 

 

Friday, 2 may

 

 

10h30 - Divine Liturgy

13h00 - Lunch

14h30 - 16h30 - Talk «Love always trusts» (1 Corinthians, 13: 7) - H.E. Metropolitan Joseph, followed by questions

16h45 - Tea break

17h00 – 18h00 – Round table – "Love through renouncement" – H.E. Joseph, Fr. Necula

18h30 - Brussels visit, picnic

                   

Saturday, 3 may

 

9h00 - Breakfast

10h00 -  Morning prayers

10h30 – 11h30 - Talk - «Love never fails» (1 Corinthians, 13: 8) – Fr. Patriciu Vlaicu.

11h30-11h45 - Tea break

11h45 – 13h00 – Round table - "Questions and teachings" – Fr. Vlaicu, Fr. Necula.

13h00 – Lunch

14h30 – 21h00 – visit to the European Parliament, leaving for Brügges, dinner

 

Sunday, 4 may

 

10h30 – Divine Liturgy (Sts. Andrew and Materns Church)

13h00 – Lunch

14h00 - 15h00 - Final thoughts

15h00 – 17h30 - Nepsis AGM

17h30 - Doxology and departure 

 

Deadline for registration: 15 april 2008. (Registration fee, covering all expenses -including accomodation in parishioners' houses - 35 euro, for the four days).

 

Those who wish to take part, please fill in the registration form (see attachment) and send it by email (nepsis_belgique@yahoo.fr). For any questions, please contact the Nepsis-Belgium secretary by email or by phone: 0032 497 06 10 94 (Marinela Dirtu).

 

The accomodation will be in families (on a first come first served basis) and, in the case of huge demand, a cheap hotel will also be available (so please register early!).

 

 

For more information mail Bogdan: bogdangrecu@yahoo.co.uk
Organised by the Antiochian Orthodox Parish of St. Ignatius in Belfast

Pilgrimage to IRELAND, 12-16 June 2008

Cost (based on at least 7 people registering):
120 GBP (100 GBP for students)

This includes transport in Ireland (by rented cars, maybe a minibus
if there are enough people registered), accomodation, breakfast and
dinner every day, lunch on Sunday, 15 June.
Please note that you are responsible of your own travel arrangements
to and from Dublin.

Once you register you will be required to pay a nonrefundable deposit
of 20GBP either by sending us a cheque or by lodging the ammount into
our bank account (details to follow).

Programme (subject to minor changes):

We will gather in Dublin the evening of 12 June then drive to
Glendalough where we spend the night.

On 13 June we shall visit one of the three great monastic cities of
Ireland: first Glendalough set in the Wicklow mountains, including
the site of St Kevin's hermitage overlooking the stunning upper lake
of Glendalough.

14 June is reserved for Clonmacnoise with its numerous churches,
crosses and the greatest public collection of early grave slabs in
Ireland, plus St Ciaran's `house', the resting-place of his relics.
Then we drive to Belfast, stopping on the way to see some other
sites.

15 June (Pentecost) will begin with the Divine Liturgy at the
Antiochian Orthodox Church in Belfast, followed by some Northern
Irish sites.

16 June: Belfast-Dublin. On the way: Downpatrick has many
connections with the arrival of St Patrick in Ireland not least the
site where his relics were hid. Monasterboice, the monastery of St
Buite, has probably the best high crosses in Ireland while Kells has
not only more high crosses but the most amazing intact 9C `house` of
St Columba which was the `resting place' of his relics.

16 June, in the evening, leave from Dublin.

Fr Dn John Musther, our guide, has published The Living Tradition of
the Saints : And the significance of their teaching for us. This work
is the result of 40 years of research and implementation thereof in
the life of the author. We will therefore not only physically walk in
the footsteps of the Saints in Ireland, but trust that every pilgrim
will have a lasting spiritual experience in our journey towards
holiness.