Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: July 2015

+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 July 2015

August 2015

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

AUGUST 2015

Last Updated 29th August 2015

2nd August: PENTECOST IX: 10:00 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.

9th August: PENTECOST X: No Western Rite Terce today but at 10:30 a.m. the Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH12 9JG will be celebrated.

16th August: PENTECOST XI: No Western Rite Terce today but at 10:30 a.m. the Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH12 9JG will be celebrated.

23rd August: PENTECOST XII: 10:30 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory the Great Liturgy at Headington Cemetery Chapel, Dunstan Road, OXFORD OX3 9BY

28th August: Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Western Rite Terce

30th August: PENTECOST XIII: 10:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by Sixth Hour and Typica of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, a Reader-led service at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH12 9JG

A Prayer to Saint Aldhelm

Thou didst set the lamp of Orthodoxy alight amid the gloom of the dark night of thy times, O blessed Aldhelm, favourite of Christ; wherefore thou dwellest now in everlasting light, where thou prayest that our souls be saved.

Thy radiant and God-pleasing countenance sheddeth light on all the English lands, O blessed Aldhelm our father; for spurning thy royal rank and all worldly pursuits, thou didst eagerly seek the true knowledge of God, and having devoted thy life to prayer and the ascetic struggle, thou has been vouchsafed to behold the Unapproachable One. Him do thou ever beseech, O hierarch of Christ, that in His mercy He save our souls. Amen.