Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: April 2020

+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.

29 April 2020

May-June 2020

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

MAY - JUNE 2020

Sunday Terce Service can be downloaded here as a Word document or here as a pdf.

The Terce Propers for each Sunday can be downloaded by clicking on the link at the relevant Sunday in previous postings (they can be reached from the blog archive links at the bottom of this page).

The Hymn Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus from the Sarum Breviary can be downloaded here

Last Updated 28th May 2019

3rd May EASTER II: 8:30 a.m.: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service.

10th May EASTER III: 8:30 a.m.: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service.

17th May EASTER IV: 8:30 a.m.: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service.

24th May EASTER V: 8:30 a.m.: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service.

28th May ASCENSION of OUR LORD: Missa Sicca to be said at home

31st May Sunday after ASCENSION: 8:30 a.m.: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service. Missa Sicca to be said at home

7th June PENTECOST: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service. Missa Sicca to be said at home

14th June TRINITY SUNDAY / PENTECOST I: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service. Missa Sicca to be said at home

21st June PENTECOST II / TRINITY I: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service. Missa Sicca to be said at home

28th June PENTECOST III / TRINITY II: Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service. Missa Sicca to be said at home

5th July PENTECOST IV / TRINITY III: St Alban, protomartyr of Britain Matins to be sung via internet video conferencing with Father Thomas providing the Order of Service. Missa Sicca to be said at home. There will be a Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m.

7th July: Nativity of John the Baptist

Planned Services at Isleworth, all to be confirmed:

July 19th Pentecost 6
August 16th Pentecost 10
September 13th Pentecost 14 Saint Aidan
October 11th Pentecost 18 Vigil of Saint Michael
November 15th Pentecost 23 All Souls
December 13th Advent 1

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.