St Andrew's Anglican Church Moscow - официальный канал Англиканского прихода св. Андрея в Москве

The hymn "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven", sung in our church last Sunday, was written in 1834 by Anglican priest Henry Francis Lyte, and it is a poetic paraphrase of Psalm 103. Lyte, who was physically frail but strong in faith, intended it as a personal reflection on God's unending grace, mercy, and faithfulness. The magnificent tune most commonly sung today, titled "Praise, My Soul," was composed by John Goss in 1868. The hymn famously gained major public attention when it was sung at the 1947 wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and later at her funeral in 2022.

We look forward to having you join us today for our service of Common Worship Evening Prayer in contemporary language. The service will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. on our YouTube channel, St Andrew’s Anglican Church Moscow Congregation.

Как многие из вас знают, община Святого Эгидия уже более 20 лет работает в Москве, оказывая помощь бездомным людям. Каждое лето члены общины приглашают своих друзей, живущих на улице, провести выходные с ними в загородном доме отдыха. Эти выходные — выходные солидарности — дают бездомным и пожилым людям возможность снова почувствовать себя по-настоящему людьми, перевести дух и найти силы продолжать свою нелегкую жизнь. В наши непростые времена средств всегда не хватает, но если вы хотели бы помочь общине в этом благом деле, сделать это можно по ссылке: https://planeta.ru/campaigns/247884

As many of you will know, the Community of Sant’Egidio has been working in Moscow for over 20 years, bringing relief to the homeless. Every Summer, the community invites some of their homeless friends to spend a weekend at a retreat house. These weekends — weekends of solidarity — give them a chance to feel truly human again, to breathe out, and to find the strength to continue their very difficult lives. Funds are always short in these difficult times, but if you would like to consider donating to Sant’Egidio towards this excellent cause, you can do so, by using this link.

Rev'd Mary Kilikidi 🙏🏻

ST ANDREW’S UPDATE FOR WEEK COMMENCING 5th JULY THIS SUNDAY – THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 11:00 Service of the Word with distribution of Reserved Sacrament. Our 11 a.m. service will be held at the Izmailovo Kremlin. Everyone is welcome. The full address is Izmailovskoye shosse 73zh. Please see the posts above for directions on how to reach the venue from Partizanskaya metro. For those of you not able to be with us in person the service will also be on ZOOM. Please join us, using this link so that you can be part of our fellowship. The service will be posted to our YouTube channel afterwards for those not able to be with us live. You can find the order of service on the Services and Events page of our Church of England website and on our local website. CONGRATULATIONS …to Mary Killikidi who was ordained priest in Kingston-upon-Thames today! Eagle-eyed watchers on YouTube may have caught some familiar faces from St. Andrew’s there to support Mary as she starts this next phase of her Christian journey. Mary will be taking her first service at St. John the Divine, South Wimbledon tomorrow. WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ A LESSON… …but are not sure how, or if you will be heard? Giles will be leading a short session for both experienced and new readers to give them the confidence to read clearly at services, after Morning Worship on 12th July. Please let Giles know if you are interested in joining. PUB QUIZ – SAVE THE DATE! Our next pub quiz in aid of Mary’s Meal’s will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, 27th July. Please keep the date free and join us for a fun-filled evening, raising funds for a wonderful cause. As ever, the event will be held at Paddy’s Irish Pub (metro: Belorusskaya). PRAYER REQUESTS Is there someone or something that you would like our congregation to pray for? If so, please fill in the prayer request form on the home page of our website. Prayer requests will be included as part of our intercessions at our services of Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as being prayed for by some of the members of our congregation, who set aside time to pray for those who have specifically asked for intercession. If you are interested in becoming a part of that group, please let Nicolette know. REGULAR SERVICES: MORNING PRAYER is livestreamed daily, Monday to Friday at 8:30am on our YouTube channel, St Andrews Anglican Church Moscow Congregation. You can find the text and audio version of Morning Prayer on the 'Daily Prayer' app by Aimer Media, or the Church of England's website. UPCOMING SERVICES: WEDNESDAY 8th JULY 7 p.m. Evening Prayer SUNDAY 12th JULY – SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 09:00 Morning Prayer (traditional language) 11:00 Service of the Word

Just a quick reminder that our Mary Kilikidi is going to be ordained as priest tomorrow. On her Ember card you can see the prayers that she chose for this occasion, and here's the link where you can watch the service online (it will be 1PM Moscow time): https://youtube.com/@allsaintskingston8231?si=B6-cX9W0dO5m4TF3

The famous hymn "Amazing Grace," sung by the congregation last Sunday, was written in 1772 by John Newton, a former slave ship captain who survived a violent sea storm. Struck by a spiritual conversion, he left the slave trade, became an Anglican parish priest, and spent the rest of his life fighting to abolish the slavery. He wrote the lyrics of the song to illustrate a sermon on God's mercy, and to this day it remains a universal anthem of redemption. The melody we associate with "Amazing Grace" did not appear until 1835, decades after Newton's death. It was called "New Britain," a traditional folk tune from the Appalachian Mountains in America. The hymn was heavily popularized during the Second Great Awakening in the U.S. in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, the song evolved into a powerful anthem for the civil rights movement and anti-war protests, and was immortalized by artists like Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, and countless others. The words of this hymn are so powerful because we have all been lost. We have all been blind. We have all needed a grace we did not deserve. And they give us hope that the same grace that once saved a slave trader can save anyone.

Remembering our Sunday service — full of beautiful singing, children's laughter, meeting old friends, and finding ourselves on the pages of the Bible and rejoicing in one another. You can find Fr Arun's uplifting sermon on our website, and the recording of the service is already on our YouTube channel

The speaker on the Church of England’s “Everyday Faith” app this week is our very own Olga Fabrikantova! Everyday Faith is an app with daily Bible readings, reflections and prayers and you can find more about it here. For those of you who don’t remember Olga, she was the first of a distinguished group of members of our congregation who have gone forward for ordination. She now teaches theology at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, which she somehow manages to juggle with bringing up her two young sons with her husband Simeon.

Everyone is welcome to the concert today in which two of our fellow parishioners, Nick Matvienko and Nina Mazhitova, are taking part.

ST ANDREW’S UPDATE FOR WEEK COMMENCING 28th JUNE THIS SUNDAY – THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 11:00 Service of the Word with hymns. Our 11 a.m. service will be held at the Izmailovo Kremlin. Everyone is welcome. The full address is Izmailovskoye shosse 73zh. Please see the posts above for directions on how to reach the venue from Partizanskaya metro. For those of you not able to be with us in person the service will also be on ZOOM. Please join us, using this link so that you can be part of our fellowship. The service will be posted to our YouTube channel afterwards for those not able to be with us live. You can find the order of service on the Services and Events page of our Church of England website and on our local website. WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ A LESSON… …but are not sure how, or if you will be heard? Giles will be leading a short session for both experienced and new readers to give them the confidence to read clearly at services, after Morning Worship on 12th July. Please let Giles know if you are interested in joining. CONFIRMATION If you have not yet been confirmed, but would like to be, please let Nicolette know. Fr. Arun is in the process of finding out when we can get a bishop to visit us for a confirmation service. Fr. Arun will be conducting a preparation course for all candidates. PUB QUIZ – SAVE THE DATE! Our next pub quiz in aid of Mary’s Meal’s will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, 27th July. Please keep the date free and join us for a fun-filled evening, raising funds for a wonderful cause. As ever, the event will be held at Paddy’s Irish Pub (metro: Belorusskaya). PRAYER REQUESTS Is there someone or something that you would like our congregation to pray for? If so, please fill in the prayer request form on the home page of our website. Prayer requests will be included as part of our intercessions at our services of Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as being prayed for by some of the members of our congregation, who set aside time to pray for those who have specifically asked for intercession. If you are interested in becoming a part of that group, please let Nicolette know. REGULAR SERVICES: MORNING PRAYER is livestreamed daily, Monday to Friday at 8:30am on our YouTube channel, St Andrews Anglican Church Moscow Congregation. You can find the text and audio version of Morning Prayer on the 'Daily Prayer' app by Aimer Media, or the Church of England's website. UPCOMING SERVICES: WEDNESDAY 1st JULY 7 p.m. Evening Prayer SUNDAY 5th JULY – FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 09:00 Morning Prayer (traditional language) 11:00 Service of the Word

During last Sunday's service, our choir sang "Kum ba yah" — an African American spiritual rooted in the Gullah culture of the descendants of West and Central Africans and Native Americans who were enslaved on plantations on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia in the US. Originally a soulful plea for divine intervention during the Jim Crow era, its title translates to "Come by here." First recorded in 1926, the song re-emerged during the folk music boom of the 1950s and 1960s, popularized by artists like Joan Baez. It became very popular to sing around summer campfires. Later, it was transformed into an anthem of strength and peaceful resistance, often sung by activists and congregations during the 1960s civil rights movement.

Please keep our sister Mary Kilikidi in your prayers as she prepares for her ordination in the UK on 4th July 🙏🏻

We look forward to having you join us this evening at 7 p.m. on our YouTube channel, St Andrew’s Anglican Church Moscow Congregation for our service of Evening Prayer in contemporary language. You can follow the order of service on the Church of England website.

A big thank you to our Youth Group members who led the service yesterday, and to all fellow parishioners who prayed, sang, took Communion, made crafts for Sunday school, and studied the Bible after the service. A special thank you to our chaplain, Fr Arun, and to Archdeacon Leslie Nathaniel and his wife, who participated in our service. It was a truly joyful and beautiful day – as always. You can find a heartfelt Ephraim's homily on our website, and the recording of the service on our YouTube channel

ST ANDREW’S UPDATE FOR WEEK COMMENCING 21st JUNE THIS SUNDAY – THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 11:00 Service of the Word with distribution of Reserved Sacrament, led by the Youth Fellowship. Our 11 a.m. service will be held at the Izmailovo Kremlin. Everyone is welcome. The full address is Izmailovskoye shosse 73zh. Please see the posts above for directions on how to reach the venue from Partizanskaya metro. For those of you not able to be with us in person the service will also be on ZOOM. Please join us, using this link so that you can be part of our fellowship. The service will be posted to our YouTube channel afterwards for those not able to be with us live. You can find the order of service on the Services and Events page of our Church of England website and on our local website. QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER – LAST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS We are in the process of preparing our quarterly newsletter to let our friends and supporters in Russia and around the world know what is happening at St. Andrew’s. If you have any good photographs of our services or events, please share them with Nicolette. WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ A LESSON… …but are not sure how, or if you will be heard? We will be running a short session for both experienced and new readers to give them the confidence to read clearly at services. Please let Giles know if you are interested in joining. CONFIRMATION If you have not yet been confirmed, but would like to be, please let Nicolette know. Fr. Arun is in the process of finding out when we can get a bishop to visit us for a confirmation service. Fr. Arun will be conducting a preparation course for all candidates. PASTORAL CARE As part of our ongoing aim to build up and support our congregation, Fr. Arun will be running a course on pastoral care, so that we can learn how to support one another better. If you are interested in participating, please let Nicolette know. PRAYER REQUESTS Is there someone or something that you would like our congregation to pray for? If so, please fill in the prayer request form on the home page of our website. Prayer requests will be included as part of our intercessions at our services of Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as being prayed for by some of the members of our congregation, who set aside time to pray for those who have specifically asked for intercession. If you are interested in becoming a part of that group, please let Nicolette know. REGULAR SERVICES: MORNING PRAYER is livestreamed daily, Monday to Friday at 8:30am on our YouTube channel, St Andrews Anglican Church Moscow Congregation. You can find the text and audio version of Morning Prayer on the 'Daily Prayer' app by Aimer Media, or the Church of England's website. UPCOMING SERVICES: WEDNESDAY 24th JUNE 7 p.m. Evening Prayer SUNDAY 28th JUNE – FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 09:00 Morning Prayer (traditional language) 11:00 Service of the Word

Today's Wednesday evening service will be using the lovely format of the Iona Community. Because the team are all out and about this evening, it has been pre-recorded and will go live on our YouTube channel at 7 p.m. We do hope you will be able to join us,

ST ANDREW’S UPDATE FOR WEEK COMMENCING 14th JUNE THIS SUNDAY – THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 11:00 Service of the Word with hymns. Our 11 a.m. service will be held at the Izmailovo Kremlin. Everyone is welcome. The full address is Izmailovskoye shosse 73zh. Please see the posts above for directions on how to reach the venue from Partizanskaya metro. For those of you not able to be with us in person the service will also be on ZOOM. Please join us, using this link so that you can be part of our fellowship. The service will be posted to our YouTube channel afterwards for those not able to be with us live. You can find the order of service on the Services and Events page of our Church of England website and on our local website. QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER We are in the process of preparing our quarterly newsletter to let our friends and supporters in Russia and around the world know what is happening at St. Andrew’s. If you have any good photographs of our services or events, please share them with Nicolette. WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ A LESSON… …but are not sure how, or if you will be heard? We will be running a short session for both experienced and new readers to give them the confidence to read clearly at services. Please let Giles know if you are interested in joining. CONFIRMATION If you have not yet been confirmed, but would like to be, please let Nicolette know. Fr. Arun is in the process of finding out when we can get a bishop to visit us for a confirmation service. Fr. Arun will be conducting a preparation course for all candidates. PASTORAL CARE As part of our ongoing aim to build up and support our congregation, Fr. Arun will be running a course on pastoral care, so that we can learn how to support one another better. If you are interested in participating, please let Nicolette know. PRAYER REQUESTS Is there someone or something that you would like our congregation to pray for? If so, please fill in the prayer request form on the home page of our website. Prayer requests will be included as part of our intercessions at our services of Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as being prayed for by some of the members of our congregation, who set aside time to pray for those who have specifically asked for intercession. If you are interested in becoming a part of that group, please let Nicolette know. REGULAR SERVICES: MORNING PRAYER is livestreamed daily, Monday to Friday at 8:30am on our YouTube channel, St Andrews Anglican Church Moscow Congregation. You can find the text and audio version of Morning Prayer on the 'Daily Prayer' app by Aimer Media, or the Church of England's website. UPCOMING SERVICES: WEDNESDAY 17th JUNE 7 p.m. Evening Prayer SUNDAY 21st JUNE – THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 09:00 Morning Prayer (traditional language) 11:00 Service of the Word

Congratulations to Glen and Angela Ruffle on the safe arrival of Lucy Marguerite! One week old today 🎉