Service for Sunday 13th Ocrtober - 20th after Trinity - St. Paul’s Anglican Church

10/10/2024

Service for Sunday 13th Ocrtober – 20th after Trinity

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Preacher: Deacon Christine Saccali

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 495 (Benson) God is working his purpose out

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 90 (vs. 13-17)

Gradual: (Sheet) Seek ye first the Kingdom of God

Offertory: Anthem (sung by Los Angeles Episcopalian Chorale) Communion: Anthem (sung by Los Angeles Episcopalian Chorale) Communion: 296 (St. Helen) Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour Recessional: 476 (Paderborn) Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.

Please remember that the chaplaincy in Athens neither receives funding from the British Government nor from the Church of

England. All donations are, therefore, very gratefully received.

A Reading from the Book of Amos (5: 6-7, 10-15)

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of

Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins—you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate;

it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 90 (13-17): (Response): May the favour of the Lord, our God, be upon us.

Turn again, O Lord; how long will you delay? Have compassion on your servants.

Satisfy us with your loving-kindness in the morning, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Give us gladness for the days you have afflicted us,

and for the years in which w have seen adversity. (Response)

Show your servants your works,

and let your glory be over their children.

May the gracious favour of the Lord our God be upon us;

Prosper our handiwork; O prosper the work of our hands. (Resp.)

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (4: 12-13)

The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any

double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the mar- row; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created

thing can hide from him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. How happy are the poor in spirit:

theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (10: 17-30)

Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading):

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

Even though we had nothing in the world that we could call our own, in having Christ, the wisdom of God, we possess all things; we are rich in him. He is the word of God that is alive and active in our hearts.

O Almighty and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us;

that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accom- plish those things that thou wouldest have done; through Jesus

Christ our Lord. Amen.

Weds. 16th October: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 20th October: 11 a.m. Harvest Eucharist, Kokotos Estate

Tues. 23rd October: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Choral Evensong: Sundays: 27th Oct.; 24th Nov.; 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October; Kokotos Estate, Stamata Armistice Day: Monday 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery) Coffee Mornings: 14th November; 12th December (10:30 a.m.)

With thanks to Los Angeles Chorale for their contribution to today’s liturgy. They shall give a performance at noon today in the church.

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

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