Sunday of All Saints of Great Britain and Ireland Third Sunday after Pentecost 28th June 2009
Four files of Servicest which may be useful for parishes with a blessing from their hierarch to observe this Feastday on Sunday. 1. All Saints of Britain Vigil (in English), composed in 1976 with the blessing of ROCA Archbishop Anthony of Geneva (and Great Britain) 2. The Canon (in Slavonic) from the Vigil 3. An alternative Canon (in English) composed by Archimandrite David of Walsingham (Moscow Patriarchate) and used in the UK Diocese with the blessing of Metropolitan Anthony Bloom 4. Another Vigil Service (in English) by, I think, Fr Andrew Philips of Felixstowe which appears to be based on the 1976 version. -oOo- http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=3507 Aug 21 2007 4:50PM Russian church to annually honor early British Isles saints MOSCOW. Aug 21 (Interfax) - The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church instituted a holiday to honor Christians who lived on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and were canonized before the 1054 schism that divided Christendom into the Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. The holiday will be an annual event observed on the third Sunday after Pentecost in the Julian Calendar. The Synod, which met on Tuesday, also ordered that these saints' names be included in the Menology after their Christian exploits have been studied. The Synod's decision follows an appeal of March 3, 2007, in which the diocese of Sourozh, a Russian Orthodox Church diocese having the islands of Great Britain and Ireland for its territory, asked the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, and its Holy Synod to institute a holiday for pre-1054 British and Irish saints. _________________________________ Fr Ambrose - -
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