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Calendar and services
Our week of prayer, the groups that meet through the month, and the fasts and feasts of the year ahead, all in one place.
Every week
Services and groups, day by day. All are welcome.
- Worship
- Groups and community
- FastFast day
Sunday
8:00am Matins
8:30am Divine Liturgy
8:30am Kids Liturgy (ages 5+)
10:00am Fellowship
11:00am Sunday School
11:15am The Way
12:00pm Christian homeless service
Monday
2nd Monday, 6:30pm Men's Hangout
Tuesday
4:30pm Kids Soccer
Wednesday
Fast5:00am Matins
5:30am Divine Liturgy
Thursday
8:30am Divine Liturgy
6–7:30pm Kids Karate (ages 4+)
6:30pm Psalmody (Tasbeha)
6:30–7:30pm English classes
4th Thursday, 6:30pm Men's Meeting
Every 2nd Thursday Mothers Meeting
Friday
FastA day of fasting and prayer
Saturday
5:00pm Kids activities
Wednesdays and Fridays are fasting days through the year, except in the fifty days after Pascha and on the feasts of Christmas and Theophany. New to fasting? Talk to Father Luke, who will help you start gently.
Groups and ministries
Everything beyond the services, with a little more about each. All are welcome.
Kids and families
Sunday School
Sundays, 11:00am
For every age, straight after fellowship.
Kids Soccer
Tuesdays, 4:30pm
Kids Karate (ages 4+)
Thursdays, 6–7:30pm
Kids activities
Saturdays, 5:00pm
Learning and fellowship
Fellowship
Sundays, 10:00am
After the Divine Liturgy.
Sundays, 11:15am
A journey into the faith, at the back of the church. All are welcome.
Men's Hangout
Second Monday of every month, 6:30pm
Men's Meeting
Fourth Thursday of every month, 6:30pm
Mothers Meeting
Every second Thursday
Outreach
English classes
Thursdays, 6:30–7:30pm
Christian homeless service
Sundays, 12:00pm
A weekly service of care and welcome for people doing it tough or sleeping rough. Everyone is treated with dignity, and anyone who would like to help is welcome to join us.
The year ahead
Dates follow the Coptic calendar and are subject to confirmation by the church. Service times for feasts and Holy Week are announced in Grace Place and the app.
- Parish event
- Major feast
- Feast
- Fast
- Season
The year at a glance
November
2026
8Sun
Fr Luke's first anniversary
After the Divine Liturgy. Celebrate with the parish family.
20Fri
The Menopause Rollercoaster
Friday, 7:30 to 9:30pm. A women's health evening, open to the community.
25Wed
Nativity Fast
Forty-three days of preparation for Christmas. Many people keep a vegan fast and give more time to prayer.
December
2026
10Thu
Month of Kiahk
The Coptic month of joyful hymns honouring the Virgin Mary as we wait for the birth of Christ.
January
2027
6Wed
Coptic Christmas Eve Liturgy
The Feast of the Nativity is celebrated on 7 January. Time to be confirmed.
7Thu
Nativity (Christmas)
The birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. The fast ends with the Christmas Eve Liturgy.
14Thu
Circumcision of our Lord
Christ, eight days old, is named Jesus and keeps the Law.
19Tue
Theophany (Epiphany)
The baptism of Christ in the Jordan, when the Holy Trinity was revealed. Water is blessed at church.
21Thu
Wedding at Cana
Christ turns water into wine, his first miracle.
February
2027
15Mon
Entrance into the Temple
The infant Jesus is presented in the Temple and received by St Simeon.
22Mon
Fast of Nineveh
Three days of repentance, remembering Jonah and the people of Nineveh. It ends with the Feast of Jonah on 25 February.
March
2027
8Mon
Great Lent
The main fast of the year: prayer, fasting and generosity as we follow Christ towards His Cross and Resurrection.
April
2027
7Wed
Annunciation
The angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she will bear the Son of God.
24Sat
Lazarus Saturday
Christ raises His friend Lazarus from the dead.
25Sun
Palm Sunday
Christ enters Jerusalem and is welcomed with palms. Holy Week begins that evening.
26Mon
Holy Week (Pascha Week)
The holiest week of the year, with services each day following the last days of Christ.
29Thu
Covenant Thursday
The Last Supper, when Christ gave us the Eucharist and washed His disciples' feet.
30Fri
Good Friday
The crucifixion and death of our Lord. The longest and most moving service of the year.
May
2027
2Sun
Pascha (Easter)
Christ is risen! The feast of feasts. The fifty days after Pascha are kept with joy and no fasting.
9Sun
Thomas Sunday
The risen Christ appears to St Thomas, who believes and says, "My Lord and my God."
June
2027
1Tue
Entry of the Lord into Egypt
The Holy Family flees to Egypt, a blessing the Coptic Church treasures.
10Thu
Ascension
Forty days after Pascha, Christ ascends into heaven.
20Sun
Pentecost
The Holy Spirit comes upon the Apostles, the birthday of the Church.
21Mon
Apostles' Fast
A fast following the example of the Apostles as they set out to preach.
July
2027
12Mon
Feast of the Apostles
The martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul, and the end of the Apostles' Fast.
August
2027
7Sat
Fast of the Virgin Mary
Fifteen days of prayer and hymns honouring the Mother of God.
19Thu
Transfiguration
Christ shines with divine light on the mountain before Peter, James and John.
22Sun
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
We celebrate the taking up of the body of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
September
2027
12Sun
Nayrouz (Coptic New Year)
The first day of the Coptic year 1744, remembering the martyrs who kept the faith.
28Tue
Feast of the Cross
Remembering the finding of the true Cross by St Helena.
November
2027
26Fri
Nativity Fast
Preparation for Christmas begins again. Christmas is on 8 January 2028, because the Coptic year before a leap year runs a day later.
December
2027
11Sat
Month of Kiahk
Joyful hymns honouring the Virgin Mary in the lead-up to Christmas.