On Saturday 12 September and Sunday 13 September we will have services for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of the Translation of the Relics of Right-believing Prince Peter and Princess Febronia, the Wonderworkers of Murom (+1228 AD, relics translated 1992).  Matins will be served at 6.00pm on Saturday and the Hours and Divine Liturgy will be served at 9.00am on Sunday.  At the end of Divine Liturgy there will be a brief moleben to Saints Peter and Febronia, the heavenly patrons of family life, love and faithfulness.

Our Spring 2026 Schedule of Services - covering September, October and November - is now available in digital format.  Services of note during Spring 2026 will be for the Great Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on Saturday-Sunday 26-27 September and for the Saturday before the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God, a day of commemoration of the departed, on Saturday 10 October.  It should be noted that we will have services on the first and fourth weekends in November rather than on the second and fourth Sundays as is usual.  A copy of the English-language Spring 2026 Schedule of Services is available here, and a copy of the Russian-language Spring 2026 Schedule of Services is available here.

On Saturday 22 August and Sunday 23 August we had services for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, for the Afterfeast of the Transfiguration, and in honour of the Martyr Lawrence, archdeacon of Rome (+258 AD).  Matins was served on Saturday evening and the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served on Sunday morning.  At Divine Liturgy we were joined by a number of enquirers.  The customary prayers were offered for the unity of the Orthodox Church, peace in Ukraine, and peace in the Holy Land.  As it was the Dormition Fast, many people confessed and received Holy Communion.

On Saturday 1 August and Sunday 2 August we had services for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost and in honour of the Holy Glorious Prophet of God Elijah the Tishbite (+9th C. BC).  Matins was served on Saturday evening and the Hours and Divine Liturgy were served on Sunday morning.  In addition to our customary prayers for the unity of the Orthodox Church, peace in Ukraine, and peace in the Holy Land, prayers were offered at Divine Liturgy for two of our parishioners currently in hospital, Eugenia and Thaddeus.  Following Divine Liturgy a prayer of blessing was read over the car of one young parishioner, and plans for their baptism in November were discussed with two young men who have become regular worshippers in our parish this year.

The August 2026 issue of “Word of the Church” (“Церковное Слово”), the official journal of the Australian-New Zealand Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), is now available in our parishes. This is the third issue for 2026.  Content includes articles in English and Russian on the ninetieth anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky); a working bee at Rookwood Cemetery (NSW) organised by the National Organisation of Russian Scouts; Elder Paisius; “Valaam – Russia’s Northern Athos’”; the repose of Protodeacon Boris Evstigneev; episcopal directives; and more.  Copies are $5.00.