Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: June 2021

+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 June 2021

July-August 2021

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

JULY - AUGUST 2021

The First Vespers of Sunday are sung at 4:00pm over GoogleMeet using code:
https://meet.google.com/poq-ksrd-mhq
The First Vespers of Sunday service can be downloaded here.

Sunday Sarum Lauds are sung at 8:30 a.m. over GoogleMeet, using this code
https://meet google.com/zvu-smbf-kdi
The Sunday Lauds service can be downloaded here.

When we meet for Mass at Isleworth, we usually sing Terce before Mass.
The Sunday Terce service can be downloaded here as a pdf.
The Hymn Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritus from the Sarum Breviary can be downloaded here

Please click on the links below for a pdf of the Propers of the day.

Marian Hymn for Sundays after Pentecost: Salve Regina.

COVID 19: All the events below are subject to change at short notice.

Last Updated 23rd July 2021

3rd July: 4:00 p.m. 2nd Vespers of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco, the Wonderworker, in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

4th July PENTECOST II / TRINITY I : 8:30 a.m. Sarum Lauds in video conferencing with Father Patrick leading the Service. 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m. WR sung Mass Propers.

10th July: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

11th July PENTECOST III / TRINITY II : 8:30 a.m. Sarum Lauds in video conferencing with Father Patrick leading the Service. 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m. WR sung Mass Propers.

17th July: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

18th July PENTECOST IV / TRINITY III : Sarum Lauds: No service this morning.

11:00 a.m. Terce and Mass at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth, TW7 6ER. WR sung Mass Propers.

24th July: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

25th July PENTECOST V / TRINITY IV : Sarum Lauds: no Service this morning. 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m. WR sung Mass Propers

31st July: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

1st August PENTECOST VI / TRINITY V : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m.

7th August: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

8th August PENTECOST VII / TRINITY VI : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m.

14th August: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

15th August PENTECOST VIII / TRINITY VII : 11:00 a.m. Terce and Mass at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth, TW7 6ER.

21st August: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

22nd August PENTECOST IX / TRINITY VIII : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m.

Western Rite Mass sung Propers.

28th August: 4:00 p.m. No Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday today.

29th August PENTECOST X / TRINITY IX : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m.

Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

4th September: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

5th September PENTECOST XI / TRINITY X :9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce (Terce Propers ) at St Aldhelm's Chapel followed by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole at 10:30 a.m.

These 2021 dates are planned for the celebration of the Mass at St Mary's, Isleworth (subject to alterations):

They tend to be on the third Sunday of the month.

Sep 19: Pentecost 13

Oct 24: Pentecost 18

Nov 28: Pentecost 23

Dec 12: 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.

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