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100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF OUR ARCHDIOCESE  It was in March 1924 that Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory signed the Tome that meant the Foundation of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia. This year we are thus celebrating 100 years since our Archdiocese started.  The high point of the celebrations will come in October this year when His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visits Australia.  Coming up is a special Doxology Service after the Liturgy in all our Churches on Sunday 10 March.  Also, on Friday 22 March, from 6.30pm, there will be a special musical event at Sydney Town Hall.  All are encouraged to attend, entrance will be free. 

LENT  begins on Monday 18 March.  It is a time of Repentance, Confession, frequent Holy Communion, more intense spiritual struggle, fervent prayer, reading, attendance of Divine Services which are frequent in Lent, and fasting. It will be heralded by a special Service, the Vespers of Forgiveness, which will be officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios from 7pm on Sunday 17 March at the Archdiocese, 242 Cleveland St Redfern.  At the end of this Vespers we all ask each other for forgiveness.