1st June SUNDAY after ASCENSION: 9:30 a.m. Western Rite Terce sung at the Saint Aldhelm Chapel in Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH12 9JG followed at 10:30 by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
8th June WHITSUNDAY or PENTECOST: 11:00 a.m Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory Liturgy at Saint Martin of Tours church, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, CT1 1PW. St. Martin's Church is the oldest Church in the English speaking world still used for worship. It was here that St. Augustine set up his mission when he arrived from Rome in 597 AD to convert the English. After the Liturgy, we plan to go to the ruins of Saint Augustine's Abbey, Longport, Canterbury (CT1 1PF) to pray to Saint Augustine at the Crypt.
Saint Martin's church ready for our Pentecost celebration |
Icons of Saint Augustine and of Pentecost |
Father Thomas censing the altar |
Picnic in the grounds of Saint Martin's |
Singing the Litany at the site of Saint Augustine's original grave at the Abbey ruins |
15th June TRINITY SUNDAY (PENTECOST I): No Western Rite Terce today but at 10:30 a.m. the usual Antiochian Liturgy at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH12 9JG
22nd June PENTECOST II: No Western Rite Terce today but at 10:30 a.m. the usual Antiochian Liturgy at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH12 9JG
29th June PENTECOST III: 10:30 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory the Great Liturgy at Headington Cemetery Chapel, Dunstan Road, OXFORD, OX3 9BY.