Saint Birinus Orthodox Community: November 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.

1 November 2021

November 2021

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 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.
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.

Marian Hymn for Advent: Alma Redemptoris Mater.

Last Updated 19th December 2021

6th November: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

7th November PENTECOST XX / TRINITY XIX :9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel, followed at 10:30 a.m by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

13th November: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

14th November PENTECOST XXI / TRINITY XX :11:00 a.m. Sarum Terce and Mass at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth, TW7 6ER. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

20th November: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

21st November PENTECOST XXII / TRINITY XXI : Pastoral visit of Metropolitan Silouan of the Antiochian Church of Great Britain and Ireland at Saint Dunstan's Church, Poole. No Western rite service today. Western rite Mass sung Propers

27th November: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

28th November PENTECOST XXIII / TRINITY XXII : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel, followed at 10:30 a.m by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

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

5th December CHRIST THE KING / Pentecost XXIV : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel, followed at 10:30 a.m by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

11th December: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

12th December ADVENT I : 11:00 a.m. Sarum Terce and Mass at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Worton Road, Isleworth, TW7 6ER. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

18th December: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

19th December ADVENT II : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel, followed at 10:30 a.m by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

25th December: 4:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Sunday in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

26th December ADVENT III (Gaudete) : 10:15 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel, followed at 11:00 a.m by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's Church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

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

2nd January ADVENT IV : 9:45 a.m. Sarum Terce at St Aldhelm's Chapel, followed at 10:30 a.m by the Liturgy of the Antiochian Church at Saint Dunstan's Church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

6th January: 7:00 p.m. Sarum 1st Vespers of Christmas in video conferencing with Father Thomas leading the service.

7th January: Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord: 10:00 a.m. Sarum Terce and Missa Sicca at Saint Dunstan's Church, Poole. Western Rite Mass Sung Propers.

Dates for Liturgies at Isleworth during 2022 (All are subject to change)

January 9th	Sunday in Octave of Christmas
February 13th
March 13th
April	TBD
May 8th
June 12th	Pentecost
July 10th
August 14th
September 11th
October 9th
November	TBD
December 11th	Advent 1

Click here for a copy of the Decree from the Archdiocese of Orthodox Churches of Russian Tradition in Western Europe welcoming our Orthodox Western Rite Community in the British Isles.

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.