St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Parish of Cairns in Cairns, Queensland, Australia | Church

St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Parish of Cairns

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4058 1116

Address: Cnr Kamerunga and Fairweather Rds, Redlynch 4870 Cairns, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.greekorthodoxparishcairns.org

Likes: 565

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Christian church
• Church
• Eastern Orthodox church
• Religious centre

22.01.2022 A few photos from the 9th Sunday of Luke

21.01.2022 The Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Of the Myrtle Tree (Myrtidiotissa) is in the monastery church of Myrtides on the Greek island of Kythera. It derives its name from the fact that it was found in a myrtle bush in the fourteenth century. At that time, a shepherd was tending his sheep in a deserted valley which was filled with myrtle bushes. On September 24, forty days after the Dormition, the Mother of God appeared to him and told him to seek her icon which had been brought...Continue reading

21.01.2022 Nektarius the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Pentapolis November 9 Saint Nektarius was born in Selyvria of Thrace on October 1, 1846. After putting himself through school in Constantinople with much hard labour, he became a monk on Chios in 1876, receiving the monastic name of Lazarus; because of his virtue, a year later he was ordained deacon, receiving the new name of Nektarius. Under the patronage of Patriarch Sophronius of Alexandria, Nektarius went to Athens to study in 1...Continue reading

19.01.2022 Celebrating Slava service with my Serbian brothers and sisters for Prophet Elijah God Bless you all.

19.01.2022 August/September Church Services 2020.

18.01.2022 His Eminence Archbishop MAKARIOS of Australia, addressing the faithful of Victoria who has endured strict Coronavirus restrictions.

16.01.2022 Photos from today's Divine Litugy 13th Sunday of Luke.

15.01.2022 Photos from yesterday’s Divine Liturgy

14.01.2022 , 24 , ..., .. . , 24 1996, Sydney Entertainment Centre, , ( ABC)

14.01.2022 Vespers service for the Beheading of St John the Forerunner 6pm tonight Friday 28th August 2020. Matins and Divine Liturgy Saturday 29th August 2020. . Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John...Continue reading

14.01.2022 Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John August 29 The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the God-sent Messenger of the incarnate Messiah, the forerunner of Christ's coming into the world (Esaias 40: 3; Mal. 3: 1); who by many miracles was both conceived and born; who was filled with t...Continue reading

11.01.2022 The Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross September 14 Matins and Divine Liturgy 8 am. Saint Helen, the mother of Saint Constantine the Great, when she was already advanced in years, undertook, in her great piety, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem in search of the cross, about the year 325. A temple to Aphrodite had been raised up by the Emperor Hadrian upon Golgotha, to defile and cover with oblivion the place where the saving Passion had been suffered. The ...venerable Helen had the statue of Aphrodite destroyed, and the earth removed, revealing the Tomb of our Lord, and three crosses. Of these, it was believed that one must be that of our Lord, the other two of the thieves crucified with Him; but Saint Helen was at a loss which one might be the Wood of our salvation. At the inspiration of Saint Macarius, Archbishop of Jerusalem, a lady of Jerusalem, who was already at the point of death from a certain disease, was brought to touch the crosses, and as soon as she came near to the Cross of our Lord, she was made perfectly whole. Consequently, the precious Cross was lifted on high by Archbishop Macarius of Jerusalem; as he stood on the ambo, and when the people beheld it, they cried out, "Lord have mercy." It should be noted that after its discovery, a portion of the venerable Cross was taken to Constantinople as a blessing. The rest was left in Jerusalem in the magnificent church built by Saint Helen, until the year 614. At that time, the Persians plundered Palestine and took the Cross to their own country (see Jan. 22, Saint Anastasius the Persian). Late, in the year 628, Emperor Heraclius set out on a military campaign, retrieved the Cross, and after bringing it to Constantinople, himself escorted it back to Jerusalem, where he restored it to its place. Rest from labour. A Fast is observed today, whatever day of the week it may be

11.01.2022 August/September Parish Newsletter 2020.

10.01.2022 A few photos and a video from tonight’s Vespers Service for the Dormition of the Theotokos at our Redlynch Parish.

09.01.2022 Today’s Divine Liturgy 13th Sunday of Matthew. Happy Father’s Day. And for those Father’s that have fallen asleep in the Lord, God rest their souls and may their names be eternal.

09.01.2022 Today we celebrate the Transfiguration of Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. . Our Lord had spoken to His disciples many times not only concerning His Passion, Cross, and Death, but also concerning the coming persecutions and afflictions that they themselves would endure. Since all these evils were near at hand, but the enjoyment of good things which they hoped to receive in their stead was yet to come, our Savior desired to give them full assurance, ...evidently and openly, concerning that glory which is prepared for those who endure to the end. Therefore, fulfilling that which He had promised shortly before, that "there be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom" (Matt. 16:28), He took His three foremost disciples and ascended Mount Tabor, where He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as the light. Suddenly, together with this dread and marvelous effulgence of light, there appeared those pinnacles of the Prophets, Moses and Elias, who spoke with the Lord Jesus concerning His saving Passion which was about to take place. Standing before Him as reverent servants, they showed that He is the Lord of both the living and the dead, for Moses came forth from Hades, having died many centuries before, and Elias, as it were from heaven, whither he had been taken up while yet alive. After a little while a radiant cloud overshadowed them and out of the cloud they heard that same voice which had been heard at the Jordan at the Baptism of Christ, testifying to the Divinity of Jesus and saying: "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased; hear ye Him" (Matt. 17: 5). Such are the marvels, truly worthy of God, celebrated in this present feast, which is an image and prefiguring of the future state of the righteous, whose splendor the Lord spoke of, saying: "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun" (Matt. 13:43). It is because of this that the Kontakion of this Feast is said daily (when there is not a great feast) in the Service of the Typica in perpetual commemoration of the glory that will be the lot of the Saints. According to tradition, the Lord's Transfiguration came to pass forty days before His Crucifixion; this is why the Transfiguration is celebrated forty days before the Exaltation of the Cross

08.01.2022 This Friday 14th August 2020 There will be a Vespers Service 6pm dedicated to Our Holy Theotokos. Vespers commencing at our Parish in Cairns with a Artoklassia service and the Lamentations to Our Holy Theotokos. Saturday 15th August 2020 Matins, Divine Liturgy and Artoklassia service 8am.... We wish you All a blessed Panayia’s Feast Day. The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary August 15 Concerning the Dormition of the Theotokos, this is what the Church has received from ancient times from the tradition of the Fathers. When the time drew nigh that our Savior was well-pleased to take His Mother to Himself, He declared unto her through an Angel that three days hence, He would translate her from this temporal life to eternity and bliss. On hearing this, she went up with haste to the Mount of Olives, where she prayed continuously. Giving thanks to God, she returned to her house and prepared whatever was necessary for her burial. While these things were taking place, clouds caught up the Apostles from the ends of the earth, where each one happened to be preaching, and brought them at once to the house of the Mother of God, who informed them of the cause of their sudden gathering. As a mother, she consoled them in their affliction as was meet, and then raised her hands to Heaven and prayed for the peace of the world. She blessed the Apostles, and, reclining upon her bed with seemliness, gave up her all-holy spirit into the hands of her Son and God. With reverence and many lights, and chanting burial hymns, the Apostles took up that God-receiving body and brought it to the sepulchre, while the Angels from Heaven chanted with them, and sent forth her who is higher than the Cherubim. But one Jew, moved by malice, audaciously stretched forth his hand upon the bed and immediately received from divine judgment the wages of his audacity. Those daring hands were severed by an invisible blow. But when he repented and asked forgiveness, his hands were restored. When they had reached the place called Gethsemane, they buried there with honor the all-immaculate body of the Theotokos, which was the source of Life. But on the third day after the burial, when they were eating together, and raised up the artos (bread) in Jesus' Name, as was their custom, the Theotokos appeared in the air, saying "Rejoice" to them. From this they learned concerning the bodily translation of the Theotokos into the Heavens. These things has the Church received from the traditions of the Fathers, who have composed many hymns out of reverence, to the glory of the Mother of our God

06.01.2022 , , , ! , !