Epiphany is an opportunity for Christians to reflect on the nature of God’s physical manifestation on Earth and pay homage to three important visitors in the biblical account of Jesus’ birth.

A Prayer for Epiphany:

We are drawn to your feet in worship
Your creation facing its creator
Hearts laid bare by your light
Humbly asking for your mercy.
We come to you as a people in need
of assurance and forgiveness.
We come to you as a people in need
of healing and wholeness.
We come dependent upon your love.
Draw us close.
Enfold us in your arms.
Fill us with your Spirit
that we might reflect your light
within this dark world,
speak your Word with boldness
and draw others to your feet.
We ask this through your dear Son Jesus Christ.
Amen

Today marks the fiftieth Anniversary of the Episcopal Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East and its constituent dioceses.
The Right Reverend Leonard Ashton was instituted as the first Bishop of the new Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf.

In his message to the Diocese on this, our 50th Anniversary, Bishop Sean says:

“ It was deeply poignant for me to be in St George’s Cathedral at midnight on the 5 January 2026 to give thanks for our Province and Dioceses, and to commend them anew to God.

Each of these new beginnings fifty years ago occurred under the midnight stars of Jerusalem, on the Feast Day of the Epiphany. At Epiphany we celebrate the manifestation of Christ to the Magi, thus symbolising the revelation of Christ to the nations of the world.
This symbolism and theology of the Epiphany seem particularly significant to the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, composed mainly but not exclusively of Christians drawn to the Middle East from all over the world.

And so today as we celebrate our Golden Anniversary and begin our Jubilee Year, we give thanks to our Heavenly Father for the lives and ministries of Anglican Christians who, over these fifty years, have reflected
the light of Christ into some of the most traumatised, complex and challenging places in the world.

We pray that Christ, the Prince of Peace, may grant us grace and strength to work for the “unarmed peace” of the Gospel in our region. And we continue to open our lives and structures to the refining and transforming presence of the Holy Spirit.

I invite you today to give thanks with me for the witness of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, and to pray that the faith, hope and love of Christ may continue to be manifest through our lives and ministry in the nations we serve”.

The full text of Bishop Sean’s letter can be read here:
50th Anniversary Letter

We have leaned the sad news that Irene Jeynes, wife of Reverend Tony, has died in the UK.

Tony was the priest in Kyrenia from 2004-2007, before he and Irene moved to Paphos.

Irene and Tony have returned to Cyprus more recently. In 2019 Revd Tony provided cover for Fr Andrew in Limassol.

Please remember Irene and her family in your prayers.

A blessed and joyful 2026 to all of the St Andrew’s family and friends – wherever you are in the world, near or far.

Santa and his elves came to St Andrew’s on Christmas Eve – bringing 100 beautiful new blue cushions!
Here are two of his little helpers, Wendy and Malcom, on Christmas morning. Thanks also to Jacqueline, Rae, Bill, Fr Alec and Linda for helping Santa replace the faithful old cushions, which will be donated to a local cat sanctuary.