The Shepherd, November 2005
NEWS SECTION
ŒCUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO VISIT LONDON
THE LONDON HELLENIC SOCIETY’s Annual Lecture is to be held on 3rd November, and the speaker will be His All-Holiness, the Œcumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I of Constantinople. His subject is the Rôle of Religion in a Changing Europe, and the talk will be held in the Old Theatre, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2.
FRIENDS OF MOUNT ATHOS
THE FRIEND’S AUTUMN MEETING will be held on Tuesday 22nd November, beginning with Vespers served by His Grace, Bishop Kallistos at St Dunstan in the West. After the service there will be a glass of wine at St Bride’s Institute in Bride Lane, followed by a talk by Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys, entitled, Mount Athos and its Libraries: tales of the past, hopes for the Future. 
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FROM THE SACRED CANONS
“AS CONCERNS those who are about to be ordained, let the following form be observed: all the Priesthood is to agree and choose (the ordinee), and then the Bishop is to lend his approval. And with the Priesthood consenting to it, let him be ordained in the midst of the church with the laity present and the Bishop delivering his inauguratory address, that the laity may also stand witness thereto. But let no ordination be performed clandestinely. For when the Church is at peace, ordinations must be performed in the presence of holy men [i.e. Christians - see Eph. 1:1] and in church.”
From the Seventh Canon of the Fourteen
of our Holy Father Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria
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A PRAYER FOR THE SICK
O MERCIFUL LORD, visit and heal this sick person ……(N),
now lying on the bed of sickness and sorely afflicted,
as Thou, O Saviour, didst once raise Peter’s wife’s mother
and the man sick of the palsy, who was carried on his bed,
for Thou alone has borne the sickness and afflictions of our race
and with Thee nothing is impossible, for Thou art merciful.
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