Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: May 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.

28 May 2018

June 2018

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

JUNE - JULY 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 28th May 2018

The congregation after Mass on Sunday 20th May 2018.

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.

10th June: PENTECOST II: no Western Rite Terce today but the usual Antiochian Orthodox Liturgy will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG

17th June: PENTECOST III: no Western Rite Terce today but the usual Antiochian Orthodox Liturgy will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG

24th June: PENTECOST IV: 11:00 a.m. Western Rite Terce followed by the Saint Gregory the Great Liturgy in Saint Joseph Chapel at St Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth TW7 6ER in West London.

After the Mass on Sunday 24th June 2018

1st July: PENTECOST V: 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.

8th July: Pentecost VI: no Western Rite Terce today

15th July: Pentecost VII: no Western Rite Terce today

222222nd July: Pentecost VII: Isleworth as above 2222

29th July: 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, 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: 19th August and 16th September 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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