Our worship schedule for June is found to the right of the HOME page. A June-July-August 2025 worship schedule is available for download from the RESOURCES page.

Commemorations and feast days are part of the Book of Common Prayer calendar throughout the year. This year, the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle is transferred from June 11th to Tuesday, June 17th.

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 the following 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.”

On Sunday, June 22nd, the calendar commemorates Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain, c. 304. Although the exact date of Alban’s death is disputed, the general tradition about his death is rooted in history. He was a pagan soldier, part of a Roman legion stationed in the area north of what is now the city of London. He sheltered a fugitive priest from persecution and as he came to know him and was inspired by his beliefs, he accepted Christ as his Lord. When the priest was betrayed, Alban posed as his guest and gave himself up to the soldiers who came to arrest the fugitive. When the ruse was exposed before the military governor and Alban refused to offer pagan sacrifices, he was put to death by beheading. The great Abbey of St. Alban was later built on the site. In our parish, Vogler’s Cove is the site of the Anglican Church of St. Alban the Martyr.