+St. John Maximovitch

"Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must be Eastern. The West was fully Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies." +Saint John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco

You are the inheritors of a precious treasure: the authentic and Orthodox rites that nourished thousands now in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Orthodox Church thanks you for preserving this tradition all these years, so that it could be restored to her through Western Rite Orthodox parishes. +Bishop Basil, Bishop of Wichita and the Midwest of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

26 May 2014

June 2104


SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

JUNE 2014

Sunday Terce Service can be dowloaded here
The Terce Propers for each Sunday can be downloaded by clicking on the links below
The Hymn Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus from the Sarum Breviary can be downloaded here

Last Updated 23rd June 2014

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 ChapelDunstan Road, OXFORD, OX3 9BY.