An abbreviated worship schedule for June is on the right sidebar of the HOME page. A three-month May-June-July 2026 worship schedule is available for download from the right sidebar of the RESOURCES page.

Commemorations and feast days are part of the Book of Common Prayer calendar throughout the year. On Tuesday, June 9th, we remember Columba, Abbot of Iona: Ireland and Scotland, 597. His monastic name, Columcille, means Dove of the Church. Born in Ireland to a noble family, Columba left his worldly heritage behind to become a monk. He founded many monasteries, including Durrow and the original Kells. After a conflict involving a religious text, which resulted in armed conflict and many deaths, he and twelve companions left Ireland and settled on Iona, a small island on the west coast of Scotland. From there, Columba became “a pilgrim for Christ,” not only living into his own spiritual journey more profoundly, but becoming a missionary to the pagan tribes of Scotland and founding new monasteries. He is regarded as the Apostle of Scotland.

On Thursday, June 11th, we celebrate

The Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle

Mosaic of the Apostles Paul and Barnabas above the front door of the church “Agios Panteleimon” in Nicosia, Cyprus. Wikimedia Commons.

Barnabas, like Saint Paul, wasn’t one of the original twelve companions of Jesus. His real name was actually Joseph, but the other apostles called him Barnabas, meaning “Son of encouragement.” According to the Book of Acts “he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.”Saint Barnabas sold a field he owned and gave the money to the apostles, which encouraged other disciples to provide for the rest of the early Christian community. Anglicans remember Saint Barnabas each year with this prayer:

“O LORD God Almighty, who didst endue thy holy Apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the Holy Spirit: Leave us not, we beseech thee, destitute of thy manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

 This year the commemoration is displaced for Basil the Great, Doctor, Bishop of Cæsarea, from Sunday, June 14th to Friday, June 19th, and will be featured on this page next week.