Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: September 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.

23 September 2018

Oct-Nov 2018

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 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 13th October 2018

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

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.

14th October: PENTECOST XX: 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 October: PENTECOST XXI: 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

28th October: PENTECOST XXII: 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

4th November: PENTECOST XXIII: 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.

11th November: PENTECOST XXIV: 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

18th November: PENTECOST XXV: 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

25th November: PENTECOST XXVI: 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 December: PENTECOST XXVII: 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 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: 2nd December 2018 and 6th January 2019 (Nativity Eve, OC).

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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