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Week beginning Sunday 9 February 2025 For the first time in some years Greek Orthodox Easter will be observed and celebrated at the same time as the rest of the Christian world on 20 April 2025. Most Christians follow the Easter dates according to the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced in 1582.  However the Eastern Orthodox…

Gathering of the diplomats  The day before  SONA Cape Town is always in a tizz of cocktail parties and dinners hosted by the different diplomatic corps before the big day of the Opening of Parliament for another year.  Each year  we are happy and honoured to welcome His Excellency The High  Commissioner of the Republic…

Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple on Sunday 2 February 2025.  One of the most precious, beautiful and intimate moments a mother can experience once she has given birth is to offer her baby to God.  Not only is it truly a blessing but, even more, it is an occasion when she…

Every year on 30 January we commemorate the Feast Day of the Three Hierarchs, Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory the Theologian and Saint John Chrysostomos.  These three special saints are among the greatest teachers and theologians in Christian history and their influence and teachings have echoed down the centuries and are as fresh today…

What a wonderful way to spend a scorching summer afternoon! On Saturday 25 January the Hellenic Community Choir had a great get-together to celebrate the New Year and to plan our singing schedule for the year ahead.  We all gathered under the cool shady trees in the beautiful garden of Stella Ghioules, one of our…

For Greeks, a New Year’s celebration isn’t complete without a Vasilopita.  Vasilopita means “sweet bread of Basil” and  is prepared with a dash of brandy and a citrusy sweet and aromatic flavoring to symbolise the joy of life everlasting and also the hope that the year ahead will be filled with the sweetness of life…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ….. The Ladies of the Church have done it again! There is no stopping them and we all hope they carry on. On Sunday 15 December we were treated to a typical “nistisimo” or fasting lunch to raise funds in our church hall after the Divine Liturgy…

We celebrated our annual traditional Greek Orthodox Christmas Karavaki on Saturday 7 December 2024- so please join us through  these words and pictures!  It was a night of fun, feasting, festivities, friends and family and of course, Faith.  Every year we gather at the residence of our Archbishop Sergios, who hosts the Karavaki, at The…

The Feast Day of Saint Nicholas Bishop of Myra takes place on 6 December but the joyousness began on  the evening of 5 December as we celebrated this much-loved great and famous saint with a beautiful and uplifting Vespers service with the traditional offering of the Five Artos Loaves.  It was followed by a happy…

What a night! What a party!   If you had wandered into our church hall on Saturday 23 November 2024 you would have thought you had stepped into Dr Who’s Tardis!   We broke out the feathers and sparklers, braces and fedoras and partied in the grand old manner of the sassy Speakeasy’s of the roaring 20‘s…