Service for Sunday 16th February, 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 343 (Redhead No. 46) Bright the vision that delighted

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 1

Gradual: 369 (Binchester) Happy are they, they that love God

Offertory: 333 (Michael) All my hope on God is founded

Communion: 341 (Franconia) Blest are the pure in heart

Recessional: 391 (Gwalchmai) King of glory, King of peace

 

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 the Prophet Jeremiah (17: 5-8)

 

The Lord says this:

‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,

who relies on things of flesh, whose heart turns from the Lord.

He is like dry scrub in the wastelands: if good comes, he has no eyes for it, he settles in the parched places of the wilderness,

a salt land, uninhabited.

 

‘A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope.

He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green;

it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 1: Happy the man who has put his trust in the Lord

 

Happy indeed is the man

who follows not the counsel of the wicked; nor lingers in the way of sinners

nor sits in the company of scorners, but whose delight is the law of the Lord

and who ponders his law day and night. (Response)

 

He is like a tree that is planted beside the flowing waters,

that yields its fruit in due season

and whose leaves shall never fade;

and all that he does shall prosper. (Response)

 

Not so are the wicked, not so! For they like winnowed chaff shall be driven away by the wind:

for the Lord guards the way of the just

but the way of the wicked leads to doom. (Response)

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (15: 12, 16-20)

 

If Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, you are still in your sins. And what is more

serious, all who have died in Christ have perished. If our hope in

Christ has been for this life only, we are the most unfortunate of all people.

But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Blessed are you, Father,

Lord of heaven and earth,

for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (6: 17, 20-26)

Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading): The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you,

Lord Jesus Christ

 

Prayer after Communion

O Lord, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (BCP Collect for Septuagesima, or the Third Sunday before Lent)

 

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Sun. 16th February: 6 p.m. (Choral Evensong); no refreshments

Weds. 19th February: 10 a.m.; Low Mass Sun. 23rd February: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

 

Walking Group and Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Coffee Morning: March 13th (Thursday) 10:30 a.m.

 

Donate electronically by scanning the QR code;

the Church does not receive any

funding from the Church of England

or the British Government and is reliant

on the goodwill of congregants and visitors. We thank you for your support.

 

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;   Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali :  (Day Off: Friday)      697 737 7655

anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

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