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The memories are written in Romanian.
On Wednesday, 23 September 2026, Nepsis Switzerland held the traditional vigil in honour of Saint Silouan the Athonite at the Romanian Orthodox Parish in Baden. The service, which included Vespers with the Litiya, Matins
God help us! Today we really enjoyed a gorgeous autumn day and a proper hike near the Pilatus summit, close to Lucerne! We started the day with the traveller’s prayer and plenty of energy. After a short walk at the foot
On Saturday, 18 July 2026, Nepsis Switzerland organised a one-day hike to Oeschinensee, one of the most beautiful alpine lakes in Switzerland. 🏔️ The participants met in the morning at the cable car station in Kanderste
In April 2026 we were in Dublin, Ireland, at the Colloquium of the Nepsis Coordinators of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of Western and Southern Europe.
On 28 February 2026 we celebrated the patron saint feast of Nepsis Switzerland, Saint John Cassian, at the “Protection of the Mother of God” Monastery in Les Sciernes d’Albeuve, with His Grace Teofil of Iberia as our gue
On 18 January 2026 we went to the patron saint feast of the Romanian parish in Baden.
In the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif, the parish celebrated ten years of activity.
Dear Neptics, God help us! On 2 November, the church in Geneva had the blessing of receiving His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph on a pastoral visit. His visit brought light, peace and joy into the hearts of the faithful, a
On 12 October 2025 we were at the parish in Winterthur, where His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif officiated.
On Sunday, 5 October, with the help of the Lord and of Saint John Cassian, we managed to bring together in one place young people from different Swiss cantons, as part of the project “Nepsis Switzerland: A Time of Renewa
God help us 🙏! On 1 August we managed to meet up with Father Dionysius and to organise the hike with catechesis in the Lauterbrunnen area. 📖 The catechesis was about the essence of Holy Communion, with the emphasis on
On Saturday 31 May we went, once again, on pilgrimage to Soultzmatt, a place of Romanian sacrifice, to commemorate with piety and gratitude the heroes of our people!
With the blessing of His Eminence Father Iosif, Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe, the Nepsis Coordinators' Colloquium took place from 29 May to 1 June 2025 in Banneux (Belgium): an event that brought together
On 28 February 2025 we celebrated the patron saint feast of Nepsis Switzerland, Saint John Cassian, in St. Gallen.
25 young Nepsis members eager to learn about the research at CERN that has led to scientific discoveries used in all sorts of fields, such as HTML and the WWW! Some of the participants then went on to visit the Coptic ch
The weekend of 5–6 October 2024, organised by Nepsis Switzerland, was a blessing and a great spiritual joy. On Saturday we met at 2:30 p.m. to climb up together to the Holy Cross Skete, where we received an edifying word
Saturday, 22 June, began with the service of Matins, followed by the Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Grace Sofian Brașoveanul and His Grace Nectarie of Brittany, together with a group of priests and deacons. At the hero
In Basel, on Saturday 16 March, the Nepsis members met up to go to two interactive exhibitions, with a short lunch break at the Romanian church in Basel.
We took advantage of the fact that 2024 is a leap year and organised a vigil service on Wednesday evening, 28 February, in honour of Saint John Cassian. Since it fell in the middle of the week, two vigils were held, in B
In 2024 we celebrated the feast of our patron saint, Saint John Cassian, on Saturday 24 February at the Romanian Orthodox Church in Baden. On this occasion, Father Adrian Anca, who has been organising the online Byzantin
At the beginning of December 2023, we co-organised three screenings of the documentary film "Where Are You, Adam?", about the life of the monks of Mount Athos. On Saturday, 2 December, the film was screened in collaborat
On Saturday, 28 October 2023, the Lord gave us the gift of a sunny day and a guide passionate about the details of the abbey in St. Gallen: we visited the library and the permanent and temporary exhibitions in the cellar
With the Lord's help, on Saturday, 23 September 2023, Nepsis Switzerland organised an outing to Neuchâtel, after which we went to meet Father Marius at the Romanian parish in Neuchâtel in order to serve the vigil of Sain
In the parish of Lausanne we organised, with the blessing of Father Adrian, a book fair that began in June and carried on through July and August. The money raised at this fair will be used to pay for the translation of
This is what the Nepsis Switzerland calendar of activities looked like in 2022.
A group of 20 young people from Nepsis Switzerland, together with Father Bogdan Dincă from the Lugano parish, went to visit Father Bunge on the weekend of 15–16 October 2022. In preparation for the meeting with Father Ga
On the night between 23 and 24 September, the young people of Nepsis Switzerland gathered at the parish in Bern (the most central point in Switzerland) to celebrate Saint Silouan the Athonite as befits him, with an all-n
On a Saturday, 17 September, a hike with catechesis took place in the mountains towards the summit of Le Moléson (2,002 m), together with Hieromonk Father Dionysius, the spiritual father of the Romanian women’s monastery
11 September — a group of neptic cyclists gathered in the Neuchâtel area where, led by Father Marius Manea (the parish priest of the church in Neuchâtel), we rode a 50-kilometre route on our bikes along the lakeshore, pa
🇬🇧 This event was held in English (Father Dionysius does not speak Romanian) With the Lord’s help, on Monday, 6 June 2022 (a public holiday in Switzerland), Nepsis Switzerland organised a hiking-catechesis in the Alps,
On Saturday, 26 February 2022, we gathered in Lausanne to celebrate the patron of Nepsis Switzerland, Saint John Cassian. His Eminence Iosif, Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe, was among us and answered our que
During the winter sales in Switzerland (15 January – 15 February 2022) we organised a collection of new clothes for the Filantropia Ortodoxă Association in Huși. More details about how this campaign unfolded on the dedic
On 23 September 2021 we gathered in Bern, one year after the NEPSIS MOREOM 2020 Congress held in this parish. Fathers Laurențiu and Cătălin served the vigil dedicated to Saint Silouan the Athonite. We had the joy of havi
We gathered virtually on Zoom to listen to the accounts of the 4 Nepsis Switzerland members who took part in the Putna Celebration 2021 — The Continuity of an Ideal, which was held at Putna Monastery (Suceava County) fro
At the invitation of Father Marius, we arrived on Saturday, 12 June 2021 . We prayed the Akathist of St. Nectarios together, after which the warm-hearted members of the Neuchâtel parish sat us down to a meal. Then came a
At the invitation of Father Mihail, we took part in an all-night vigil in St. Gallen on Friday, 12 March 2021 .
The patron saint of Nepsis Switzerland is Saint John Cassian, whose feast day is 29 February. On 27 February 2021 we all gathered in Bern, where we had the joy of having among us His Grace Marc, who gave a talk on the th
Three beautiful days (25–27 September 2020) with participants from 7 countries: now that's an adventure, especially in pandemic times. The trip to the Alps, the guided tour of Bern, interesting talks and workshops, delic
Between 13 April and 26 May , about ten of us Swiss Nepsis members rehearsed together, six times a week, the hymns of the Canon of the Resurrection. Since we lived in different cities, we rehearsed using the Zoom app. Th
The patron saint of Nepsis Switzerland is Saint John Cassian, whose feast day is 29 February. On 29 February 2020 we all gathered in Zürich, where we had the joy of having among us His Eminence Joseph, our Metropolitan.
This is the story of Nepsis Switzerland's activities in 2019, which had the Parish Tour at its heart. That is, each of us set out from the city where we lived in order to visit one parish — we took part in the Sunday ser
