St. Columba Orthodox Church

St. Columba Orthodox Church A welcoming congregation with traditional values, a western rite parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. St.

Sunday Mass at 9:30 am
Wednesday Mass 6:30 pm
Saturday Vespers at 5:30 pm

Who is Saint Columba? In the days before the great schism, when the Church in Britain was fully Orthodox, the Irish monk Columba became one of the first missionaries to Scotland. Columba came from a noble Irish family and was the founder of several churches and monasteries in Ireland. About 563, with several companions, he

established himself on the island of Iona where he founded a monastic center for the evangelization of Scotland. He succeeded in converting Brude, king of the Picts, and in 574 the new king of the Scots of Dal Riada came to Iona to be chrismated by Columba. Iona continued to be a center for Scottish Christianity until it was destroyed during the reformation. So it was that Columba became one of the founders of ancient British Orthodoxy. Columba's Parish celebrates the reinstitution in the twentieth century of British Orthodox tradition.

Today we keep the Octave of the Lord’s Ascension, His enthronement as the King of all things, reigning at the Father’s r...
05/28/2026

Today we keep the Octave of the Lord’s Ascension, His enthronement as the King of all things, reigning at the Father’s right hand as He must reign also in our hearts.

After they had witnessed the Ascension the disciples were not, as we sometimes suppose, sad and downcast, but returned, the scripture says, to Jerusalem with great joy, because they knew that though Christ had left them to reign in heaven, they were able to draw close to Him still, by their prayers ascending up to Him, as we may also do; that we may in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell, making our hearts and minds so to say outposts of heaven, becoming ourselves heavens in whom the heavenly God lives and dwells.

Today we recall the memory of St Bede, one of the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon saints, best known for His ecclesiastical ...
05/28/2026

Today we recall the memory of St Bede, one of the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon saints, best known for His ecclesiastical history of the English people, although he authored many other works besides.

He was born in the north-east of England, in Northumbria, in 672 or 673, and when he was seven years old his parents entrusted him to the local monastery of Jarrow, where he embarked on his life of scholarship. As he wrote ‘I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture; and amidst the observance of the monastic Rule and the daily charge of singing in church, I always took delight in learning, or teaching, or writing, ‘which he continued to do right up until his death on May 26 737, the feast, that year, of Our Lord’s Ascension.

I applied myself wholly to the study of scripture: that was the secret of his sanctity, as it is the secret of sanctity for all monastics, and for all of us, who are called to love the scriptures, ‘to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,’ as a Tikhonian collect says, making them a part of who we are, so that we and they become one, us becoming living Bibles, incarnating God’s Word in our daily lives.

Today we commemorate St Augustine, not the great St Augustine of Hippo, but a saint nonetheless dear to us, Augustine of...
05/27/2026

Today we commemorate St Augustine, not the great St Augustine of Hippo, but a saint nonetheless dear to us, Augustine of Canterbury, who brought to us from Rome the very mass we celebrate today.

Augustine arrived in England in 597, winning many to the faith of Christ, establishing churches in Canterbury, London, and Rochester, as well as a monastery, also in Canterbury, dedicated to the holy apostles Peter and Paul, and a school.

He died May 26 604, and was quickly regarded as a saint, a saint to whom we today can ask for help with our mission here in twenty-first century America. For like Augustine we too are sent, we too are on a mission, so that we may able to say with St Paul in the reading, I have preached to you the Gospel of God.

And how are we to do this?

Bede says of Augustine and his companions: they lived in accordance with what they taught. They lived in accordance with what they taught. And If we did this, then how many we could win for Christ!

As we look this week towards Pentecost next Sunday, let us ask that the Holy Spirit may fall afresh on us, and burn up w...
05/26/2026

As we look this week towards Pentecost next Sunday, let us ask that the Holy Spirit may fall afresh on us, and burn up with the flame of His love all criticism and judgement of our neighbour, making us rather blaze with His Own Love, a love that knows no bounds, a love that extends even to the chief of sinners, to each and every one of us.

The Holy Spirit Who binds us all into one, enabling us to love one another, even when it is hard and difficult, to love ...
05/26/2026

The Holy Spirit Who binds us all into one, enabling us to love one another, even when it is hard and difficult, to love in the way God loves us, God Who is ever ready to overlook our sins, forgiving them in His boundless compassion.

And we whom He forgives, we must imitate His forgiveness, learning that, as the reading says, love covers a multitude of sins. It is like the cloak with which the sons of Noah clothed their father’s nakedness, for those who love do not stare pruriently at the sins of others, do not mock and disparage them, do not gossip and tattle about their failings, knowing that we are all in the same condemnation, but knowing even more that love demands that we do unto others as we would they should do unto us, the golden rule of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Peter speaks to us in the epistle, of fervent love, using the word ἐκτενής , which means stretched out – the Greeks used...
05/26/2026

Peter speaks to us in the epistle, of fervent love, using the word ἐκτενής , which means stretched out – the Greeks used it to describe an athlete flexing, muscles straining, just as we, Peter is saying, just as we must strive and strain to love – to love all, all without exception.

For what does Peter say next: practice hospitality, practice φιλοξενία, that is the love of the alien, the love of the stranger – although, as St John Chrysostom says, there are no strangers in the church. We are all brothers and sisters, members of the same family, called upon to mourn with those who mourn and rejoice with those who rejoice, the whole body suffering when one member is in pain.

On the Ascension, after the Gospel had been proclaimed, the Paschal Candle was extinguished, to symbolize – everything i...
05/25/2026

On the Ascension, after the Gospel had been proclaimed, the Paschal Candle was extinguished, to symbolize – everything is symbolic in the liturgy – to symbolize Christ’s departure from His disciples.

And we keep the Candle standing there unlit, a practice found in some earlier liturgical traditions, as a symbol of the fact that Christ is absent, He has gone away, and the disciples are bereft.

But their bereavement is only temporary, for Christ has promised them, I will not leave you orphans. He is going to send to them the Spirit of adoption, who will make them the children of God and partakers of the Divine nature, the Spirit Who descended on them at Pentecost, and Who never has, nor ever will, forsake the Church, but abides in her for ever, dwelling in her as in a temple, guarding her in the truth and uniting her in the bond of peace.

Today I want to begin by saying a few words about the Paschal Candle, this candle which was lit with great solemnity at ...
05/25/2026

Today I want to begin by saying a few words about the Paschal Candle, this candle which was lit with great solemnity at the Easter Vigil, to symbolize the Light which shines out in the darkness, the Light which is Christ, the star that knows not setting.

And from the Vigil on it has stood in the sanctuary, lit at all the services, to remind us of how the Risen Christ stood in the midst of His disciples and was seen of them, showing Himself alive, as the scripture says, by many infallible proofs, teaching to them for forty days the things which pertain to the kingdom of heaven, before at last being taken up from them to sit at God’s right hand, the event we celebrated on Thursday, the feast of the Ascension.

That in All Things God May Be Glorified Through Jesus Christ – 1 Peter 4, 11 This is the rule by which we all must striv...
05/24/2026

That in All Things God May Be Glorified Through Jesus Christ – 1 Peter 4, 11

This is the rule by which we all must strive to live, to give glory to God in everything we say and think and do!

Even in so simple a thing as sweeping the floor.

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