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Picture Gallery


ETHIOPIAN FESTIVAL: Sat 6th September 2008

Three hundred and fifty Ethiopians from Liverpool and all over England converged on St Agnes’s Church on Saturday 6th September. Morning Prayer and a Baptism took place first, starting at 7-30am. The Mass started at around 9am, and lasted two hours. The Orthodox liturgy is very rich in its ritual, and some of the photographs show the liturgy in progress. The use of drums and dancing is common in Ethiopian church ceremonies and festivals, and both these featured in the Procession of the (replica of the) Ark of the Covenant, which followed Mass. The actual Ark of the Covenant is kept in an ancient church in the Ethiopian city of Axum. The Procession started from the church, went out into Buckingham Avenue, and returned to the church along Ullet Road. One of the photographs shews a monk bearing the Ark of the covenant on his head, accompanied by a ceremonial red umbrella. At the mid-point of the procession there was a ritual dance with prayer sticks and sistra before the Ark. The sistrum is an ancient musical instrument used in ancient Egypt and in Temple worship in Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, and still used in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

 


The Patronal Festival on the Solemnity of St Agnes, 21st January 2008.

"The Right Reverend Robert Ladds, Bishop of Whitby, presided at a Solemn Concelebrated Mass, which was preceded by Devotions at the Shrine of St Agnes and a Procession of the Relic of St Agnes. A Parish Party took place in the Church Hall after Mass."


The Blessing of the Icon of St George in the new Ethiopian Chapel on Sunday 7th October 2007.

Shortly before the Blessing it was viewed by HRH the Prince of Wales in Liverpool Town Hall when the Prince visited the city to open the restored St George's Hall.

Ethiopian Icon and the Prince of Wales

 

The Blessing of the Icon

 

Anointing the icon


Saturday 9th December 2006

St Agnes's hosts the Society of Mary December Festival. Here in the porch of the church, just before the Bishop's Solemn Reception, you see the Superior-General of the Society, the Bishop of Whitby, flanked by deacons the Reverend Peter Anthony and the Reverend Leonard Young, and the Chaplain-General, Fr Graeme Rowlands, who was Assistant Priest and Preacher.

 


The Society of Mary October Devotion 2005


The 2005 October Devotion took place at St Agnes's. These photographs show the Procession of Our Lady from St Agnes's to St Clare's Roman Catholic Church.

 

 

 

 

 


St Agnes Day 2001.

At St Agnes day this year our celebrant and Preacher was the Bishop of Whitby, The Right Reverend Robert Ladds SSC.

This photo was taken after the evening service. Only 9 hours later Fr Webb [left] was on his was to Manchester Airport for a flight to Australia.


The Deacon's Ordination.

Fr Martin's Ordination was a frantic but happy time.

The Three Musketeers! Fr Webb, Fr Daniels and Mr Atherton, our Reader.

Fr Daniels has a healthy appetite.


 

Assumption 2001.

The Bishop of Central Zambia Bishop Derek Kamukwamba preached at our Assumption Day Mass

We are fostering links with the Diocese of Central Zambia, and her Cathedral church of the Holy Nativity in Ndola.