Letter from the Director, introducing Trinity Term 2025
Dear Friends of St Theosevia’s,
Welcome to Trinity Term. The events this term differ from the usual pattern. At the end of Noughth Week, on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 April, St Theosevia’s is joining with the House of SS Gregory and Macrina, next door at No 1 Canterbury Rd, and with Regent’s Park College, in a two-day event exploring devotion to Our Lady, St Mary, in the tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. For details and registration see opposite.
Following the enjoyable Garden Party last Trinity Term, with plenty of Pimms, strawberries, and learned input on ‘salt’, we will celebrate a second Garden Party on Saturday 14 June (Seventh Week), with more Pimms and a dramatized early Syriac Dialogue Sermon with Dr Sebastian Brock. Financial contributions, and cake, welcome! If you can bring cake, please liaise with David Rytz.
Last Term we had two very different Study Days, each leading to intense discussion: an exploration of the theological and ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence, and a presentation on the life, work, and artistic gifts of Saint Maria of Paris, member of the French Resistance, martyred on 31 March 1945 in Ravensbrück.
Let us continue to pray and work for just and lasting peace.
LIZ CARMICHAEL
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Kiddist Maryam: Encountering Mary in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition
Friday 25 April 09.15 – 19.30 at Regent’s Park College
and Saturday 26 April 10.30 – 20.00 at St Gregory House 1 Canterbury Rd
Registration required, search Eventbrite links below:
This event on two days, jointly with the House of SS Gregory and Macrina at No 1 Canterbury Rd, and Regent’s Park College, features input from Ethiopian and Western scholars on the Friday: Fr Abate Gobena, John Binns, Christine Chaillot, Prof. Yirga Woldeyes, Prof Wendy Belcher (remotely), Ronde Triscot (Fairfield House, Bath) and many others; and a more ‘cultural’ Saturday programme of talks, music, liturgical dance, a display of manuscripts and printed books, evening prayer and an Ethiopian supper.
*The Friday academic talks starting 09.15 at Regent’s Park College are free, in person and online, but please register at the Eventbrite link for Day 1, at: Kiddist Maryam: Encountering Mary in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition Day 1eventbrite.co.uk
*Tickets for the Saturday programme, in person at St Gregory’s, cost £15 including talks, art, poetry, Ethio-jazz, food the Ethiopian supper, register and pay at this separate Eventbrite link for Day 2. Book immediately as the number of tickets is limited. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kiddist-maryam-encountering-mary-in-the-ethiopian-orthodox-tradition-day-2-tickets-1301089516769?aff=oddtdtcreator
Coffee will be freely available as usual from 10.00 am on the Saturday morning in St Theosevia’s, and you are welcome to eat your sandwiches there at lunchtime.
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St Theosevia’s Garden Party: Sat 14 June
3.15 to 5.15 with Dr Sebastian Brock and an early Syriac dialogue sermon on Satan and the Sinful Woman’ (Luke 7)!
All welcome, no registration required. If you can kindly contribute, particularly by bringing cake, please liaise with David: David.Rytz@exeter.ox.ac.uk
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Zernov Lecture 2025
This will be given on Tuesday 27 May (Fifth Week) at the Maison Francaise, Norham Road, by Rt Revd Rowan Williams, on Vladimir Lossky’s recently-translated diary of his few days spent as a refugee on the roads of France.
For further information: information@stgregoryandstmacrinahouse.co.uk
