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    The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine
    The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine
    The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine
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    The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine

    By Michael Wood

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    The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine (Stowe Missal) reflects the later developments of English worship originating in the worship of the Church in the British Isles prior to the Great Schism.   That first millennium worship was the worship of a Johannine Church which was in full communion with the whole worldwide Orthodox Catholic Church.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Wood
    Release dateJul 8, 2017
    ISBN9781386493839
    The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine
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    Michael Wood

    Michael Wood is a freelance journalist and proofreader living in Newcastle. As a journalist he covered many crime stories throughout Sheffield, gaining first-hand knowledge of police procedure. He also reviews books for CrimeSquad, a website dedicated to crime fiction.

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      The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine - Michael Wood

      The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine

      The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine

      Editor: Fr Michael (Wood)

      Kellbride Press

      Contents

      Introduction

      Dedication

      About this edition

      THE LITURGY OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE

      Acknowledgments

      Also published by Kellbride Press

      Introduction

      THE EARLY BRITISH CHURCH

      Jesus commanded His disciples to go to every nation and to preach the good news to all people (Matthew 28:19 and Mark 16:15). They scattered and took the news of Jesus’ death and resurrection throughout the Roman Empire and beyond as reported in the Book of Acts. The Orthodox Church says Christianity reached the British Isles by AD 42. The early British Church was close to the Church in Ephesus and kept Easter at Passover as taught by Saint John the Divine who lived at Ephesus.

      Saint Gildas the Wise wrote in his De Exidio Brittanniae that Christianity came to Britain in the the year 37 A.D. The Orthodox Church credits Saint Aristobulus, with introducing the faith there in AD 42 and Eusebius and Hippolytus both name him as being one of the Seventy. Hippolytus in AD 160 writing in the Martyrologies of the Greek Church stated that Saint Aristobulus preached the Gospel in Britain. Saint Dorotheus of Tyre wrote in 303 AD that Aristobulus was sent to Britain in AD 37 as Bishop from Tyre. The Orthodox Church regards him as the first Bishop of Britain and honours him as the Saint of the British Isles. His feast day is on March the 16th and

      October

      31st

      .

      There is evidence in the Vatican archives which supports the existence of the very early British Church. Cardinal Baronius, Curator of the Vatican Library in 1597, wrote that In that year, [i.e. A.D. 36] the party of Joseph of Arimathea and those who went with him into exile, ....... reached Marseilles where they stayed. From Massilia Joseph and his company passed into Britain and after preaching the Gospel there, died. Many other ancient historians and Church Fathers wrote of the existence of the British Church. Tertullian, Origen, Eusebius and Jerome all agreed that the Church was in Britain from that

      early

      date

      ".

      It is unsurprising then given the strength of monasticism in the newly evangelised land that the British Church, so often thought of as a backwater, played a visible role in the early Councils of the Church beginning in AD300 at Elvira in Spain and fourteen years later at Arles in France. More significantly she sent bishops to the Great Council of Nicea in AD325 meaning that when the Creed, the great foundational document of Orthodoxy was formulated, British bishops gave their assent. Their successors travelled to Rimini in Italy for the Council of 359 and this level of activity and involvement within and outside the monasteries explains why, against the odds of a hugely pagan land, when Saint Augustine came to Britain to establish a mission he was greeted by Christians from Saint Martin's Church in Canterbury.

      John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, wrote in AD 402, "The British Isles, which are beyond the sea, and which lie in the ocean, have received the virtue of

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