{"id":3356,"date":"2025-12-14T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=3356"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:06:38","slug":"patronal-feast-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/patronal-feast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Patronal Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns stk-block-columns stk-block stk-d6f546b\" data-block-id=\"d6f546b\"><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-d6f546b-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-4303817\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"4303817\"><style>.stk-4303817 {margin-top:60px !important;margin-bottom:80px !important;}.stk-4303817-container{max-width:1400px !important;min-width:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important;margin-left:auto !important;}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px){.stk-4303817 {padding-top:16px !important;padding-right:16px !important;padding-bottom:16px !important;padding-left:16px !important;}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-4303817-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-4303817-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-4b77950\" id=\"patronal-feast\" data-block-id=\"4b77950\"><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text has-text-align-left\">Patronal Feast<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">On Friday 5th December we served Vespers with Litia to begin the festivities for our patronal feast of St Alexander Nevsky. The following morning we served Matins, the Hours and Divine Liturgy in celebration of our heavenly patron. After the service Father Spasimir delivered a sermon about the life of this great Saint, comparing his impact with that of Saint Constantine the Great. He also reminded the faithful of the presence of a particle of his miracle working relics in our church\u2014a rare blessing, especially for a parish in Great Britain.<br><br>After the Liturgy our parishioners made their way to a local hall where we celebrated with festive food that was lovingly prepared for the feast. After the meal our growing community continued conversing until the late afternoon.There was an atmosphere of joy that carried through to the Liturgy on the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_17-02-30-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_17-02-30-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_17-02-30-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_17-02-30-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-06_17-02-30-16x12.jpg 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The following morning we served Matins, the Hours and Divine Liturgy in celebration of our heavenly patron. After the service Father Spasimir delivered a sermon about the life of this great Saint, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3356\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.norwichorthodoxchurch.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}