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- Alexander The Great

Past events & News

PATER NIKOLAOS — 25 years with us!

Some days are simply lucky, blessed, fortunate, special, memorable or auspicious.  That’s why 4 September ...

International Women’s Day High Tea

On the 9th of August we celebrate National Women's Day, and this year we gathered ...

Why the Ancient Greeks Never Adopted the Latin Language

Despite Rome’s extensive expansion and eventual control over territories where Greek was the dominant language, ...

St George’s Panigiri 

Celebrating our Patron Saint George!On Wednesday last week we commemorated the Feast Day of Great ...

St George Feast Day

BRIGHT TUESDAY - St George‘s Feast  Day  On Tuesday 22 April 2025 we commemorated the ...

Holy Week – Meanings

It is holy by any name….We have come full circle from the beginning of our ...

Easter Monday

Bright Week  - Our saintly trioVespers Service for Saints Raphael, Nicholas and Irene held  on ...

Holy Week Intro

HOLY WEEK - It is holy by any name….We have come full circle from the ...

Holy Saturday – Night Resurrection

Christos Anesti! Christ is Risen!Saturday 19 April 2025 at St George‘s Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Woodstock ...

Holy Saturday – Morning

Service of the descent of Jesus into Hades and the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil ...

Holy Friday – Morning

The Royal Hours of Holy  Good Friday On Holy Good Friday morning, 18 April  2025, ...

Holy Friday – Procession Of The Epitaphios

Honouring the EpitaphiosService of the Lamentations and the Procession of the Epitaphios, held on Friday ...

Holy Thursday – Night

The saddest Holy Week nightOn Thursday night 17 April 2025 we had our Holy Thursday and ...

Holy Thursday – Decorating The Epitaphios

A floral tribute to Lay our Lord intoIt’s been two weeks since we were feverishly ...

Holy Thursday – Morning Egg Dyeing

RED EGGS DAY! Thursday 17 April 2025 was a day of feverish activity. The Thursday in ...

Holy Wednesday – The Holy Oil

On Wednesday 16 April 2025 the Holy Unction Service was held at St George’s Orthodox ...

Path To Pascha – Holy Tuesday

Lessons on how to transform ourselves On Holy Tuesday 15 April we found ourselves again, ...

Palm Sunday

Celebrating Palm Sunday on 13 April 2025 at our St George’s Cathedral,with His Eminence Archbishop ...

Holy Week Begins

The Service of the Bridegroom was held on Sunday night 13 April 2025 at St ...

Lazarus Arise!

On the Saturday before Holy Week, this year on 12 April, the Orthodox Church celebrates ...

Making Palm Crosses

On Saturday 12 April 2025  out Church hall was buzzing with scissors snipping as nimble ...

Baking For Easter Workshops

Wizards of baking!You’ve heard of ladies who lunch.Well how about this ? Ladies who bake!Part ...

First Akathist Hymn

Salutations to the Theotokos held at St George’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Woodstock on Friday ...

The Start Of Great Lent

I have to warn you and ask for your indulgence during our Great Lent as ...

Forgiveness Vespers

 “To err is human; to forgive divine.”   This well-known quote is from Alexander Pope's 1711 ...

Month Of March Bracelets

For countries in the Northern Hemisphere the beginning of spring means the glorious rebirth of ...

Meatfare Sunday Lunch

On Tsiknopempti (Smokey Thursday) I asked you to watch this space and here we are…….!  ...

Food For Souls – Remembering The Ones Who Have Gone Ahead

On Saturday 22 February 2025 we commemorated the Saturday of Souls at St George’s Cathedral, with ...

Path To Pascha 2025

Celebrating with smoke!   So we are looking toward our Pascha preparations and last Thursday 20 ...

International Greek Language Day

It’s all Greek to us!  On Monday 10 February not only did we celebrate and ...

Welcome To The Journey To Pascha

Week beginning Sunday 9 February 2025 For the first time in some years Greek Orthodox ...

Varosha – Europe’s Enclosed Town

Gathering of the diplomats  The day before  SONA Cape Town is always in a tizz ...

The Beauty Of Churching A Child

Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple on Sunday 2 February 2025.  One ...

Saints Of School

Every year on 30 January we commemorate the Feast Day of the Three Hierarchs, Saint ...

Songbirds In the Shade!

What a wonderful way to spend a scorching summer afternoon! On Saturday 25 January the ...

Sweet Bread Of St. Basil

For Greeks, a New Year's celebration isn't complete without a Vasilopita.  Vasilopita means “sweet bread ...

Special Sunday Lunch

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ….. The Ladies of the Church have ...

The Christmas Karavaki

We celebrated our annual traditional Greek Orthodox Christmas Karavaki on Saturday 7 December 2024- so ...

Celebrating The Feast Of Saint Nicholas – The Saint Who Keeps On Giving

The Feast Day of Saint Nicholas Bishop of Myra takes place on 6 December but ...

Speakeasy

What a night! What a party!   If you had wandered into our church hall on ...

Saluting Saint George!

On Sunday 3 November 2024  we celebrated 120 years of St George‘s Greek Orthodox Cathedral ...

Let There Be Music And Song!

This year the Hellenic Community of Cape Town celebrates the 120 year anniversary of our ...

Music In The Garden

This was the start of something  big …. You could feel the excitement in the ...

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«Ντρέπομαι ως Έλληνας»July 2024

Celebrating 120 Years

Our community celebrate 120 years of being in existence this year, there are many celebrations ...