Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: August 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.

4 August 2018

August 2018

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 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 21st August 2018

5th August: PENTECOST X: 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.

12th August: PENTECOST XI: 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.

19th August: PENTECOST XII: 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.

Chatting after the Mass on Sunday 19th August

The new icon of Christ Pantocrator by Eadmund Dunstall which was blessed by Father Thomas on the Feast of the Transfiguration

26th August: PENTECOST XIII: 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.

2nd September: PENTECOST XIV: No Western Rite Terce today but the usual Liturgy of the Antiochian Orthodox Church at Saint Dunstan's Parish Church, Saint Osmond's Road, Poole, BH14 9JG at 10:30 a.m.

9th September: PENTECOST XV: 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.

16th September: PENTECOST XVI: 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.

21st September: Consecration of the ROCOR Cathedral at Chiswick, London. The ROCOR Synod will take place at London exceptionally to coincide with this celebration. Further information at https://www.rocor.org.uk/

23rd September: PENTECOST XVII: 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.

A particularly well attended Mass today 23rd September 2018!

30th September: PENTECOST XVIII: 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 October: PENTECOST XIX: 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.

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: 7th October 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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