Welcome to our Maundy Thursday Service, with foot washing at 6pm on Thursday 2nd April.

‘If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet ‘ John 13:14

Wonderful to have so many people worshiping together at St Andrew’s on a sunny Palm Sunday.

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Holy Week Services are:

• Maundy Thursday (with foot washing) – 2nd April 6pm
• Good Friday – 3rd April 12 – 3pm (Service begins at 2pm)
• Easter Sunrise Service – 5th April 6am (at The Hermitage – followed by breakfast – please let us know if are planning to come)
• Easter Sunday Service – 5th April 10.30am

Oscar Romero (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980)

“Let us not tire of preaching love;
it is the force that will overcome the world.
Let us not tire of preaching love.
Though we see that waves of violence
succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love,
love must win out; it is the only thing that can.”

“The church is calling to sanity,
to understanding,
to love.
It does not believe in violent solutions.
The church believes in only one violence,
that of Christ,
who was nailed to the cross.
That is how today’s gospel reading shows him,
taking upon himself all the violence
of hatred and misunderstanding,
so that we humans might forgive one another,
love one another,
feel ourselves brothers and sisters.”

“We have never preached violence,
except the violence of love,
which left Christ nailed to a cross,
the violence that we must each do to ourselves
to overcome our selfishness
and such cruel inequalities among us.
The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword,
the violence of hatred.
It is the violence of love,
of brotherhood,
the violence that wills to beat weapons
into sickles for work.”

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all
to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
In it each one has a place in this beautiful family,
which the Epiphany brightens for us with God’s light.”

“Even when they call us mad,
when they call us subversives and communists
and all the epithets they put on us,
we know that we only preach
the subversive witness of the Beatitudes,
which have turned everything upside down
to proclaim blessed the poor,
blessed the thirsting for justice,
blessed the suffering.”

~ image from the book Everything Could Be a Prayer: Oscar Romero; painted block print, watercolor & ink on Rives; 6”x4”; Kreg Yingst

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A Happy and Blessed Eid / Bayram to our Muslim neighbours and friends everywhere.

Everyone is most welcome (not only mothers) – open to women and men.

Topic: Mothers Union Prayers For Peace
Time: Mar 21, 2026 05:00 PM Kuwait (4pm Cyprus)
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Please join us for one or both of our Music Week Charity Concerts, with the very talented Dr Emma Gibbins, Director of Music at Chelmsford Cathedral.
Everyone is most welcome – no need to book.

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Bishop Sean and the Council of St Barnabas Limassol are pleased to announce the
appointment of the Reverend George Vidiakin as Parish Priest.

Revd George is currently serving as a House-for-Duty Priest of Christ Church Ayia Napa, where he has ministered since July 2024. In addition to his parish responsibilities he also serves as Chair of the House of Clergy, offering leadership and support to his fellow clergy across the Diocese, and is a member of the Bishop’s Task Force and the Constitutional Review Committee.

Revd George was ordained deacon in June 2013 and priest in November 2014, both
ordinations taking place in the Russian Orthodox Church. In March 2020 he was received
into the Anglican Communion by Archbishop Michael Lewis of Cyprus and the Gulf, and in
October 2021 he was licensed as an Associate Priest of St Helena’s Church, Larnaca.

The Revd George holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Theology from St
Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia). He is currently
completing his dissertation as part of the diocesan ‘Exploring Faith’ programme.

Revd George will be Licensed at St Barnabas Limassol on Saturday 13 June 2026.
Please join us in prayer for Revd George and his family as he prepares to take up this new ministry, and for the congregations of Ayia Napa and Limassol during this time of
transition.