Saints Elizabeth and Barbara Orthodox Church in Happy Valley, South Australia, Australia | Church

Saints Elizabeth and Barbara Orthodox Church

Locality: Happy Valley, South Australia, Australia

Phone: +61 406 408 908

Address: Corner Hay Street and Jade Crescent 5159 Happy Valley, SA, Australia

Website:

Likes: 98

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Church

24.01.2022 https://www.monasterevmc.org//english-bl/life-experiences

24.01.2022 Blessed Lent, everyone!

24.01.2022 O Lord, let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness; Let them always remember the greatness of their calling; Let them not be entangled in the snares of the world and the devil;... Let them be saved from the cares of the world, the delight in riches, and the desire for other things entering into their hearts. St. John of Kronstadt

23.01.2022 No service tomorrow morning, but closed Pascha service will commence streaming around 11pm tomorrow night.

23.01.2022 All welcome! Not sure what delicious treats will end up on the trestle tables, but theres sure to be some Aussie, Russian, Greek, Serbian, Lebanese, and Arabic.

23.01.2022 Have you ever wondered about the origins of koliva? Here it is! A miracle in times of grave persecution. https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com//synaxarion-for-first-sat

23.01.2022 Hi everyone, in the case of inclement weather tomorrow we will be rescheduling our parish feast day picnic some time in Spring! Glory to God for rain, of course

22.01.2022 There will be no services at Cana Chapel this week and until further notice, due to Covid-19 precautions as advised by our government. We will advise when services can resume.

19.01.2022 God bless them all!

19.01.2022 On Great and Holy Friday, March 30, 1945, the Righteous Maria of Paris (Skobtsova) was selected for the Nazi gas chamber at Ravensbruck, where she met her marty...rdom on Great and Holy Saturday. For her efforts in rescuing Jewish children in Paris, she is among the "righteous gentiles" honoured in Israel. St Maria devised a plan involving Paris garbage collectors, who hid the children in trash cans so they could be whisked away to safety outside the city and spared from the same death she would suffer. See more

19.01.2022 Just like we read in the Lives of the Saints! But it happened in our time. God bless him. "The man said that after stoning him, ISIS members drenched him in 20 gallons of gasoline. But even though he was burned alive a total of three times, he said he somehow survived unharmed. "And they burned me, but I didnt burn," he said, crediting Jesus for his miraculous survival.... https://www.christianpost.com//iraqi-christian-burned-ali/

17.01.2022 In 1905 St. Elizabeths husband, the Moscow governor-general Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was assassinated with a bomb by Social-Revolutionary terrorist Ivan Kaliaev. When Elizabeth Feodorovna heard the explosion, detonated not far from their house, she rushed outside to collect the dismembered remains. Then she spent hours in prayer. Some time later she petitioned the emperor to have mercy on the assassin. She visited Kaliaev in prison. Leaving the Gospel, she said she had forgiven him. [pictured: Ivan Kaliaev]

16.01.2022 Merry Christmas to those celebrating Western Christmas tomorrow! Here is an interesting article about the gifts of the Magi. It is a beautiful surprise when one learns they can still be found on Mt Athos. https://greece.greekreporter.com//the-three-gifts-of-the/

16.01.2022 A blessed Bright Week to you all! Here is an oldie but a goodie :) https://www.youtube.com/watch

14.01.2022 This Sunday 13th September, Father Ben will serving the Liturgy at Sts Elizabeth and Barbara in Happy Valley, while Father Barnabas and Matushka Anna are away to attend a wedding. Please join us!

13.01.2022 Hey everyone! This is a great resource for those of us who cannot get to Church right now. Typika services updated weekly. https://holytrinity-oca.org/resources-for-praying-at-home/

11.01.2022 Panoramic view of Mt Athos! For those of us who cannot travel there... a virtual tour. https://orthochristian.com/130842.html

10.01.2022 About fasting, from Fr Thomas Soroka. A long read, but worth it :)

09.01.2022 This Sunday! Please join us at the Monastery of the Prophet Elias (Monarto) for the Monastery's Feast Day. Liturgy 9am. And Vigil is Saturday 5pm. For brunch, please bring your own family's food to eat outside, as we still cannot have shared meals. Don't forget 1.5 metres :)

09.01.2022 From the Monastery of Prophet Elias, Monarto (closed to the public, in accordance with Covid-19 restrictions)

08.01.2022 The Byzantine chapel in the House of Ananias on the Street called Straight in Damascus, where Saint Paul the Apostle was baptised

05.01.2022 A portion from a letter to St Elizabeths father, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and Rhine (January 1, 1891): "I have come to this decision [to convert to the Orthodoxy] only due to my deep faith. I feel that I should stand before God with a pure and faithful heart. How easy it would for everything to remain as it is now, and how fake and hypocritical at the same time! How can I lie to everyone, pretend being a Protestant, and showing it by my appearance, while my soul has alr...eady embraced the Orthodox faith? After Ive spent six years in this country and already found religion, Ive been thinking, thinking long and hard, about everything. "To my surprise, I almost fully understand texts and services in Slavonic, despite never learning the language. You say that Im enchanted by the splendor of the churches. But I dont think youre right. Im impressed neither by anything visual nor by the service itself, but the foundation of faith. Visual attributes remind me of the inner part of it."

03.01.2022 Pascha at Dachau concentration camp, April 27th, 1945: "There were Orthodox priests, deacons and a group of monks from Mount Athos among the prisoners. But there were no vestments, no books whatsoever, no icons, no candles, no prosphoras, no wine "In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945. Greek and Serbian priests together with a Serbian deacon adorned the make-shift vestments over their blu...e and gray-striped prisoners uniforms. Then they began to chant, changing from Greek to Slavonic, and then back again to Greek. The Easter Canon, the Easter Sticheras everything was recited from memory. The Gospel In the beginning was the Word also from memory. "And finally, the Homily of Saint John Chrysostom also from memory. A young Greek monk from the Holy Mountain stood up in front of us and recited it with such infectious enthusiasm that we shall never forget him as long as we live. Saint John Chrysostomos himself seemed to speak through him to us and to the rest of the world as well! Eighteen Orthodox priests and one deacon most of whom were Serbs, participated in this unforgettable service. Like the sick man who had been lowered through the roof of a house and placed in front of the feet of Christ the Saviour, the Greek Archimandrite Meletios was carried on a stretcher into the chapel, where he remained prostrate for the duration of the service." https://www.aoiusa.org/pascha-in-dachau/

01.01.2022 SYNAXIS OF NEW MARTYRS OF BUTOVO The New Martyrs of Butovo were Orthodox faithful who were martyred at the Butovo Shooting Range during Stalins purges of th...e mid 1930s. This site is often referred to as the "Russian Golgotha". Seventeen miles south of Moscow, there is a place that is known as the Butovo Shooting Range, which was an execution ground and mass burial site near the village of Butovo, used by the Soviets during Stalins purges. Executions took place there on an industrial scale during the Great Terror. On some days they executed 500 people or more. Records show that 20,765 people were executed and buried at Butovo between August 1937 and October 1938, during the peak of Stalins repressions, of that number, about 1,000 people were known to have been executed because of their Orthodox faith. There is now a church dedicated to the New Martyrs on the site. In 2004, Patriarch Alexei II, and Metropolitan Laurus jointly laid the cornerstone of this Church, which was the first joint liturgical action of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad since the 1920s, and on May 19th, 2007, they consecrated the Church together, two days after the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion, which formally reconciled the two parts of the Russian Church. The Synaxis of the Martyrs of Butovo is celebrated on the 4th Saturday after Pascha. SOURCE: orthodoxwiki.org @ Moscow, Russia See more

01.01.2022 "As one of the signs at our march said: Our women are sacred. That, they very much are: every single one of them an icon of the living God and of the Most Holy Theotokos. As Mother Olga might tell us, though they might be forgotten in our justice system, not a single one of them is forgotten in ternity. Again, the relevance of this miracle story as well as Matushka Olgas service in life to the young indigenous women of Kwethluk to the current plight of her stolen sisters in the modern day, all over Turtle Island, is immediately apparent." https://heavyangloorthodox.blogspot.com//matushka-olga-the