Service Sheet for Sunday 23rd March, Third Sunday of Lent

St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Athens

Diocese in Europe

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 434 (University College) Oft in danger, oft in woe

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 103

Gradual: 72 (Olivet) My faith looks up to thee

Offertory: 70 (Southwell) Lord Jesus, think on me

Communion: 275 (Liebster Jesu) Blessed Jesu, Mary’s son

Recessional: 59 (Jena) Now is the healing time decreed

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 Exodus (3: 1-8, 13-15)

Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. ‘I must go and look at this strange sight,’ Moses said, ‘and see why the bush is not burnt.’ Now the Lord saw him go forward to look, and God called to him from the middle of the bush. ‘Moses, Moses!’ he said. ‘Here I am,’ Moses answered. ‘Come no nearer,’ he said. ‘Take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God

of your fathers,’ he said, ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ At this Moses covered his face, afraid to look at God.

And the Lord said, ‘I have seen the miserable state of my people in Egypt. I have heard their appeal to be free of their slave-drivers. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings. I mean to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that land to a land

rich and broad, a land where milk and honey flow, the home of the Ca- naanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.’

Then Moses said to God, ‘I am to go, then, to the sons of Israel and say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you.” But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them?’ And God said to Moses, ‘I Am who I Am. This,’ he added, ‘is what you must say to the sons of Israel: “I Am has sent me to you.”’ And God also said to Moses, ‘You are to say to the sons of Israel: “The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.” This is my name for all time; by this name I shall be invoked for all generations to come.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 103: The Lord is compassion and love

(text at 536 in the New English Hymnal)

 

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (10: 1-6, 10-12)

I want to remind you, brothers, how our fathers were all guided by a cloud above them and how they all passed through the sea. They were all baptised into Moses in this cloud and in this sea; all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink, since they all drank from the spiritual rock that followed them as they went, and that rock was Christ. In spite of this, most of them failed to please God and their corpses lit- tered the desert.

These things all happened as warnings for us, not to have the wicked lusts for forbidden things that they had. You must never complain: some of them did, and they were killed by the Destroyer.

All this happened to them as a warning, and it was written down to be a lesson for us who are living at the end of the age. The man who thinks he is safe must be careful that he does not fall.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! Repent, says the Lord,

for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!

 

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (13: 1-9)

Glory to you, O Lord.

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

 

Prayer after Communion

We beseech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of

thy Majesty, to be our defence against all our enemies; through

Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect for the Third Sunday in Lent)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 26th March: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 30th March: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Lent IV; Mothering Sunday)

Walking Group and Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Coffee Morning: April 10th (10:30 a.m.)

 

Annual Parochial Church Meeting: Sunday, April 6th (12 p.m.)

Pilgrimage to Corinth (29th March) (register interest with Fr. Benjamin)

 

Bishop’s Lent Appeal: Diocese in Europe and USPG (Anglican Mis- sion Agency) collabarative work with refugees in Europe. Particulars, and donation details, are to be found on the Diocesan internet pages or the Diocesan Just Giving page.

 

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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