But hilarious anyway. You are warmly invited to join the British Orthodox Fellowship, an organisation whose aim is to allow British people to discover how Orthodox Christian spirituality and tradition can inform and transform their own Christian pilgrimage. http://www.britishorthodox.org/fellowship.php The British Orthodox Fellowship has an ecumenical membership drawn from a wide range of backgrounds including Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and of course Orthodox. It is often very difficult to explore the treasures of Orthodox spirituality because the languages used by Orthodox Christians in the UK can be a barrier, services might be in Greek, Russian, or Arabic among many others. The culture can also be that of the various immigrant groups, and this can be a difficulty for British people. The British Orthodox Church is a mainstream Orthodox Church, part of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, one of the oldest Churches in the world. But it is almost unique in existing entirely to help British people experience Orthodox Christianity for themselves without ceasing to be British. The British Orthodox Church has developed the British Orthodox Fellowship as a dispersed ecumenical community of Christians who are investigating the Orthodox faith and are open to introducing elements of Orthodox spirituality into their own life with Christ. You do not need to be Orthodox to join the Fellowship. You do not need to become Orthodox to have a valuable part to play in our life together. You can be a member on your own, or encourage friends to join with you. Every member receives i. a Fellowship Handbook containing prayers, readings, articles and other useful materials; ii. two copies of our magazine each year; iii. access to our private internet forum to meet with other members iv. advanced invitations to our annual residential weekends and pilgrimages Do please visit the Fellowship pages on our website and consider if this ecumenical community is one that you could support and benefit from being a member of. http://www.britishorthodox.org/fellowship.php ------------------------------------------- Keep those cards and letters rolling in friends! brit short odox indeed. Charles+