Service for Sunday 6th October – 19th after Trinity

St Paul’s Athens

Celebrant and Preacher: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

New English Hymnal numbers (tunes):

Entrance: 388 (Truro) Jesus shall reign, where’er the sun

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 128

Gradual: 387 (Quem Pastores) Jesus, good above all other

Offertory: 471 (Quam Dilecta) We love the place, O God

Post Communion: 307 (Divine Mysteries) Sweet Sacrament Divine

Recessional: 413 (Nun Danket) Now thank we all our God

 

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 Genesis (2: 18-24)

 

The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:

‘This at last is bone from my bones,

and flesh from my flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man.’

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Psalm 128: (Response): May the Lord bless you all the days of your life.

 

Blessed are those who fear the Lord, and walk in his ways.

You shall eat the fruit of the toil of your hands;

it shall go well with you, and happy shall you be. (Response)

 

Your wife within your house shall be like a fruitful vine;

your children round your table, like fresh olive branches.

Thus shall the one be blest who fears the Lord. (Response)

 

The Lord from out of Zion bless you,

that you may see Jerusalem in prosperity all the days of your life.

May you see your children’s children,

and may there be peace upon Israel. (Response)

 

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (2: 9-11)

We see in Jesus one who was for a short while made lower than the angels and is now crowned with glory and splendour because he

submitted to death; by God’s grace he had to experience death for all mankind.

As it was his purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering,

the leader who would take them to their salvation. For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are sanctified, are of the same stock;

that is why he openly calls them brothers.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Your word is truth, O Lord:

consecrate us in the truth.

Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (10: 2-16)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

(after the Gospel reading):

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

 

O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee;

Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct

and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer)

 

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Weds. 9th October.: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 13th October.: 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

 

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

Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October (contributions of food are sought: please speak to Lynn Stavrou).

Quiz Night: Friday 11th October (Swedish Community Building, Apollonos 6, Athens, 105 57, 7:30 p.m.) (details from Jean Mertzanakis)

Visiting Choir: Los Angeles Episcopal Choral (Sunday 13th October); performance at 12:00 p.m. after the liturgy.

Remembrance Sunday: 10th November (10:00 a.m. at Church);

Armistice Day: 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery, Alimos)

 

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

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 email address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

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