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1.  Promotional Video for St. Paul's Antiochian Orthodox Church    Houston, Texas

2.   Palm Sunday 2005, St. Andrew's, AWRV, Eustis, Florida

3.  Sarum Mass Photos  (Roman Catholic, not Orthodox), Merton College, Oxford, 1990s

4.  Sarum Mass Video  (Roman Catholic, not Orthodox), Merton, Oxford, complete Purification Mass

5.  Sarum Wedding Video  (Sarum wedding, in an Old Calendarist church)

6.  Sarum Sunday Mass in Photos   Fr. Aidan (Keller), Sept. 2004, St. Mary's, Austin, Texas

The priest shown, Fr. Aidan, is now a Hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.  Celebrating Priest, Fr. Aidan (Keller); assisting Priest, Fr. Seraphim Gockley (now of the Orthodox Church in America or OCA); Precentor, Fr. Anthony (Pearson); Subdeacon & Thurifer, Michael Widener (now of the OCA); Acolyte, Henry Widener; tower bells, Edward Vandivort (now of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia).  Footage was shot in a (now-closed) Milan Synod church. 

  Before the service, during Third Hour

  Monk chanting Third Hour; a Priest stands in chancel

  Priest blessing the waters (this is done every Sun. in old Roman rite)

  Priest enters chancel with newly blessed holy water

  Priest sprinkles the altar, representing Jesus Christ's Baptism

  The altar is sprinkled on 4 sides, making a cross

  Sprinkling on east side of altar

  Priest sprinkles the altar on the north side

  Priest leaves chancel to sprinkle the people; choir: "Asperges me"

  Priest sprinkles the people, symbolising their Baptism

  The procession begins (done every Sun. in old Roman rite)

  Procession behind altar, down south aisle (chant to Trinity sung)

  Procession from west door down centre of the church to the rood

  Antiphon to the Cross "Salva nos" is sung at the rood

  Bidding Prayers, sung towards the people

  Last Bidding Prayer eastwards, glorifying Christ's Two Natures

  Priest re-enters the chancel; choir sings an antiphon

  Priest ends procession with the day's collect, behind roodscreen

Part II: The Mass begins.