A ROCOR WRITE Ordination

I have received word that Metropolitan HILARION received Hiermonk Cuthbert (Pierce) of Holy Cross Hermitage in Jacksonville, Florida, into the into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia by the rite of cheirothesia. The reception took place at the parish in Palm Coast, Florida, on September 29.

Fr. David (as he will now be known) is also charged with caring for Hieromonk Augustine Whitfield, who is in retirement in the area.

Rare Sarum Missal for Display

A rare edition of the Sarum Missal will soon be on display in England. Here's the story from the London Telegraph:

The earliest-known printed book bearing the stamp of William Caxton, the father of British printing, has been saved for the nation by the National Trust at a cost of almost £500,000.

The book, dated 1487 and printed in Latin, is the only surviving example of the earliest edition of the Sarum Missal, the most commonly used rite for celebrating Mass in pre-Reformation Britain...

"This isn't just rare, it's unique," said Mark Purcell, the libraries curator of the National Trust...

It is a mystery how many copies were printed but the National Trust's volume, bought from the Legh family of Lyme Park, Cheshire - who have owned it since at least 1508 - still has 243 of the original 266 pages.Mr Purcell said: "What is remarkable is that it is the only one that has survived. It is hard to think of another book that has stayed in the same family for 500 years."

Check out the link for a picture of the missal.

"Orthodox Prayers of Old England" Buyer's Remorse

(I got this in the e-mail recently. I'm not a subscriber to the group in question; if this is an inaccurate quotation, I'd like to know.)
E-mail:

Ben, I thought you might find this interesting. It appeared on Occidentalis [Yahoo group] several weeks ago:

Further, I can cite at least one reference which is two hundred to two hundred-fifty years older than "the late 1400's." In "Orthodox Prayers of Old England," we see that in the morning prayers (given from the Ancren Wisse) and the "Salutations of the Cross," the cross is greeted in each instance with a five-fold acclamation.
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I might confirm that if i ever receive the book which i ordered and payed for a few months ago but have not yet received and inquiries go unanswered.
Now where the "Orthodox Prayers of Old England," ever even reprinted or was i sold hot air?

Brendan+

Very interesting.....