Service Sheet for Sunday 18th May 2025 – Fifth Sunday of Easter

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

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

Responsorial Psalm: 540 in the New English Hymnal (Ps. 145)

Gradual: 124 (St Fulbert) Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

Offertory: 100 (Herongate) The day draws on with golden light

Communion: 345 (Vulpius) Christ is the King, O friends rejoice!

Final: 439 (Billing) Praise to the holiest in the height

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 Acts of the Apostles (14: 21-27)

Paul and Barnabas went back through Lystra and Iconium to Antioch. They put fresh heart into the disciples, encouraging them to perse- vere in the faith. ‘We all have to experience many hardships’ they said ‘before we enter the kingdom of God.’ In each of these churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting they commended them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.

They passed through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia. Then after proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia and from there sailed for Antioch, where they had originally been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

On their arrival they assembled the church and gave an account of all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the pagans.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: I will bless your name for ever, my God and King (540 in the New English Hymnal)

 

A reading from the Apocalypse of John the Theologian (21: 1-5)

I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, and the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, as beautiful as a bride all dressed for her husband.

Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, ‘You see this city? Here God lives among men. He will make his home among them;

they shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God- with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will

be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone.’

Then the One sitting on the throne spoke: ‘Now I am making the whole of creation new.’

The word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! I give you a new commandment:

love one another just as I have loved you, says the Lord. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (13: 31-33, 34-35)

Glory to you, O Lord.

When Judas had gone Jesus said:

‘Now has the Son of Man been glorified, and in him God has been glorified.

If God has been glorified in him,

God will in turn glorify him in himself, and will glorify him very soon.

‘My little children,

I shall not be with you much longer. I give you a new commandment:

love one another;

just as I have loved you,

you also must love one another.

By this love you have for one another,

everyone will know that you are my disciples.’

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

 

Communion Antiphon: I am the true vine and you are the branches, says the Lord. Whoever remains in me, and I in him, bears fruit in plenty, alleluia.

 

O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and

affections of sinful men; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of

the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Com-mon Prayer Collect: Fourth Sunday after Easter)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 21st May: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 25th May: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter VI)

Spring Bazaar: 31st May, church garden, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., donations of books, plants, clothes, household articles &c. can be brought to church from Monday 26th until Friday 30th; details from Lynn Stavrou.

Study group & pilgrimage 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

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

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

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

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