BROOKWOOD NEWS

 

 

BAPTISM AT SAINT EDWARD’S

 

EDWARD, the infant son of Nicolas ad Yordanka Kalnakov of Southall, Middlesex, was baptised at St Edward’s Church on Saturday 9th / 22nd December.  His parents had chosen that day because it was the feast of St Anna’s Conception of the All-holy Theotokos, but it was also the anniversary of the return in 1988 of the Sacred Relics of St Edward the Martyr, his name saint, to our church, and therefore also a local celebration of his heavenly patron.  Fr Alexis and Fr Stephen Fretwell served together at the Mystery, and Borislav and Marina Popov of Rochester stood as Edward’s sponsors.  Both Edward’s parents and his godparents are Bulgarian by extraction and all four regularly attend services at St Edward’s.  They were therefore joined on the occasion by numbers of our parishioners, and after the Baptism they held a reception in the main hall of the old Brotherhood building.  May God grant that His newly-illumined servant will grow in the faith, love and in the fear of God, and be granted an inheritance in the Kingdom for which he has been chosen and anointed.

 

 

GERMAN LIFE OF SAINT EDWARD THE MARTYR

 

A CORRESPONDENT and friend of our community, Helena Hennes-Wanin of Berlin, Germany, has very kindly translated and prepared for us a German version of the life of our heavenly intercessor, Saint Edward the Martyr.  If any of our German friends would like copies, please let us know.  Our sincere thanks to Helena for her good work.

 

 

 GIFT OF AN ICON

PARISHIONERS, Michael and Margaret Woodrow of Sunbury-on-Thames have recently donated a beautiful hand-painted icon of St Dunstan the Archbishop of Canterbury to our church.  Saint Dunstan was, of course, Archbishop during the short reign of our heavenly patron, St Edward the Martyr, and his life is closely associated with our saint.  The icon, which was painted by the sisters of the Convent of St Elizabeth, Etna, California, is based on one of the oldest prototypes that we have, but the iconographers there have wisely executed it in the traditional Byzantine style eschewing any attempt at “faux-Anglo-Saxon.”  The result is truly beautiful.

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