Service for the 3rd November 2024 – Solemnity of All Saints

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury St Paul’s Athens

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 197 (Sine Nomine) For all the Saints who from their labours rest

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 24

Gradual: 141 (Rustington) Holy spirit, ever dwelling

Offertory: 231 (All Saints) Who are these like stars appearing

Communion: 381 (Ewing) Jerusalem the golden

Recessional: 478 (Laast uns Erfreuen) Ye watchers and ye holy ones

 

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 Revelation of St. John the Divine (7: 2-4, 9-14)

I, John, saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea, ‘Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea or to the trees, until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.’ Then I heard how many were sealed: a hundred and forty-four thousand, out of all the tribes of Israel.

After that I saw a huge number, impossible to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and language; they were standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and hold- ing palms in their hands. They shouted aloud, ‘Victory to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels who were standing in a circle round the throne, surrounding the elders and the four animals, prostrated themselves before the throne, and touched the ground with their foreheads, worshipping God with these words, ‘Amen. Praise and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and strength to our God for ever and ever. Amen.’

One of the elders then spoke, and asked me, ‘Do you know who these people are, dressed in white robes, and where they have come from?’ I answered him, ‘You can tell me, my lord.’ Then he said, ‘These are the people who have been through the great persecution, and they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the Lamb.’

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Psalm 24: Response: Blessed are those who seek your face, O Lord.

 

The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness, the world and all its peoples.

It is he who set it on the seas;

on the waters he made it firm. (Response)

 

Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place?

The man with clean hands and pure heart,

who desires not worthless things. (Response)

 

He shall receive blessings from the Lord and reqrd from the God who saves him. Such are the men who seek him,

seek the face of the God of Jacob. (Response)

 

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (7: 23-28)

 

There used to be a great number of priests under the former cov- enant, because death put an end to each one of them; but this

one, because he remains for ever, can never lose his priesthood. It follows, then, that his power to save is utterly certain, since he is living for ever to intercede for all who come to God through him.

To suit us, the ideal high priest would have to be holy, innocent and uncontaminated, beyond the influence of sinners, and raised up above the heavens; one who would not need to offer sacrifices every day, as the other high priests do for their own sins and then for those of the people, because he has done this once and for all by offering himself. The Law appoints high priests who are men

subject to weakness; but the promise on oath, which came after the Law, appointed the Son who is made perfect for ever.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest, says the Lord.

Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (12: 28-34)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

(after the Gospel reading):

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

 

O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one com- munion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ

our Lord: Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed Saints in all vir- tuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable

joys, which thou hast prepared for them that unfeignedly love thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

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

Mon. 4th November: 10 a.m. Low Mass; Faithful Departed (All Souls’) Mon. 4th November: 7:30 p.m. Low Mass; Faithful Departed (All Souls’) Weds. 6th November: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments Sun. 10th November.: 10 a.m. Remembrance Sunday (note: this is the Sunday of the Marathon)

 

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

Armistice Day: 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery, Alimos) Coffee Mornings: 14th November; 12th December (10:30 a.m.)

 

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

 

 

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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

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