"Where are you, Adam" film screening will take place on Sunday 2nd November 2025 at 12.00pm in the Bishop Nikolaj Hall (89 Lancaster Road, London, W11 1QQ). This is a film about monastic life of Monastery Dochiariu on Mount Athos. Admission is free, donations are welcome.  

They lived and suffered in Rome in the time of the Emperor Hadrian. The wise Sophia (as her name - Sophia - wisdom, indicates) was left a widow and, as a Christian, steeped herself and her daughters in the Christian faith. 

At the time that Hadrian"s persecuting hand stretched out over the virtuous house of Sophia, Vera was twelve, Nada ten and Lubov nine. The four of them were brought before the Emperor, with their arms entwined "like a woven wreath", humbly but firmly confessing their faith in Christ the Lord and refusing to offer sacrifice to the goddess Artemis. At the moment of their passion, the mother urged her valiant daughters to endure to the end: "Your heavenly Lover, Jesus Christ, is eternal health, inexpressible beauty and life eternal. When your bodies are slain by torture, He will clothe you in incorruption and the wounds on your bodies will shine in heaven like the stars." The torturers inflicted harsh torture on Vera, Nada and Lubov one by one. They beat them, stabbed them and threw them into fire and boiling pitch, and finally beheaded them one after the other. Sophia took the dead bodies of her daughters out of the town and buried them, and stayed by their grave in prayer for three days and nights, then gave her soul to God, hastening to the heavenly company where the blessed souls of her daughters awaited her.

Protopresbyter-Stavrophor Radomir Aćimović was born on Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) in 1944 near Čačak. Since September 1995, he had served in our London parish, having come from Derby. Together with Father Milun and the late Dragan Stepković, he led spiritual discussions every Thursday in our community, leaving a deep and lasting impression among the faithful. He was married to the late Presbytera Radmila, with whom he had two daughters. In the peace of faith and gratitude, we remember him with love and pray that the Lord grant rest to his soul in the dwellings of the righteous.

The funeral will be on November 1, 2025. After the Divine Liturgy, which begins at 10:00, the funeral rite (opelo) will be held at 11:30 at the Church of St Sava in London. The burial will take place at Brookwood Cemetery at 14:00.

Memory eternal!

After the Lord's Ascension, the Mother of God remained under the care of the Apostle John the Theologian, and when he was absent, she lived in the house of his parents, near the Mount of Olives. For all the Apostles and all the faithful, she was a consolation and edification. Talking with them, the Mother of God told them of the wondrous events of the Annunciation, the conception without seed, and her birth of Christ without corruption, His childhood and earthly life. Like the Apostles, she instructed and strengthened others in the Christian Faith by her very presence, words, and prayers. The Apostles' reverence for the Most Holy Virgin was extraordinary. Upon receiving the Holy Spirit on the remarkable day of Pentecost, they remained in Jerusalem for about ten years, serving for the salvation of the Jews and wishing to see and hear her divine words as often as possible. Many of the newly-enlightened in the faith even came from distant lands to Jerusalem in order to see and hear the Most Pure Theotokos.