Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: April 2016

+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.

27 March 2016

April 2016

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

APRIL 2016

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 28th April 2016

3rd April: LENT III: 10:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce sung at the Saint Aldhelm Chapel in Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG followed at 10:30 by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

10th April: LENT IV (Lætare): Episcopal visit by Metropolitan Silouan of the Antiochian Diocese of the British Isles. 10:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce sung at the Saint Aldhelm Chapel in Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG followed at 10:30 by the Episcopal Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitan Silouan with Fr Chrysostom, Frs Dcn Filip and Alexander

17th April: PASSION SUNDAY : 11:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory the Great Liturgy in Saint Joseph's Chapel Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth TW7 6ER in West London (Please note NEW time).

All busy chatting after Mass on Passion Sunday 17th April 2016.

24th April: PALM SUNDAY: 10:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce sung at the Saint Aldhelm Chapel in Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG followed at 10:30 by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

30th April: EASTER VIGIL: 10:15 p.m. Short Western Rite Service: Lighting of the Paschal candle and Præconium Paschale (Exultet), the Litany page 1, page 2, page 3 and page 4, and the Paschal Vigil Vespers page 1 and page 2 (opt. Mattins) followed at 11:00 p.m. by the Midnight Office, Rush Procession, Orthros & Divine Liturgy of Pascha of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 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.

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