Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: April 2018

+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.

30 March 2018

April 2018

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

APRIL - MAY 2018

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 22nd April 2018

Chatting after Mass on Passion Sunday

1st 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.

7th April: EASTER VIGIL: 9:00 p.m. 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 10:00 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

15th April: LOW SUNDAY: No Western Rite Terce today but at 10:30 a.m. the usual Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG.

17th April: FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION (transferred from the 7th April): No Western Rite Terce today.

22nd April: EASTER II: 11:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory the Great Liturgy in Saint Joseph's Chapel in Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth TW7 6ER in West London.

From left to right: Catherine, Fr Thomas, Steve (background), Seraphim behing Sub Deacon Silouan, George and his wife, Paul in the back, Eadmund, Chrysostom and Olga. 22nd April, Easter II

29th April: EASTER 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.

6th May: EASTER IV: 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.

13th May: EASTER V: No Western Rite Terce today but at 10:30 a.m. the usual Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG.

17th May: The ASCENSION of OUR LORD: No Western Rite Terce today.

20th May: SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION: 11:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory the Great Liturgy in Saint Joseph's Chapel in Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth TW7 6ER in West London.

27th May: PENTECOST: 10:00 a.m. Western Rite TerceWestern 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.

3rd June: TRINITY Sunday (PENTECOST I): 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.

I apologise for some missing links to the Terce propers ; I seem to be unable to copy these links onto the text and am trying to rectify this glitch...

Planned dates for celebration of the Western Rite Liturgy of Saint Gregory the Great at Saint Mary's, Isleworth: 24th June 2018.

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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