Celebrant: Fr Leonard Doolan
Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
Processional: 271 (Hyfrydol) Alleluya, sing to Jesus
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 97
Gradual: 483 (Capel) The Church of God a kingdom is
Offertory: 349 (Nativity) Come, let us join our cheerful songs
Communion: 131 (Ach Gott und Herr) O King most high of earth and sky
Communion II: 286 (Sheen) From glory to glory advancing
Final: 332 (Miles Lane) All hail the power of Jesu’s name
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 (7: 55-60)
Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God’s right hand. ‘I can see heav- en thrown open’ he said ‘and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’ At this all the members of the council shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they all rushed at him, sent him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul. As they were stoning him, Stephen said in invocation, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ Then he knelt down and said aloud, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them’; and with these words he fell asleep.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 97: The Lord is King, most high above all the earth
The Lord is king, let earth rejoice, the many coastlands be glad.
His throne is justice and right. (Response)
The skies proclaim his justice;
all peoples see his glory.
All you spirits, worship him. (Response)
For you indeed are the Lord
most high above all the earth,
exalted far above all spirits. (Response)
A reading from the Apocalypse of John the Theologian (22: 12-14, 16-17, 20)
I, John, heard a voice speaking to me: ‘Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man ac- cording to what he deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Happy are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through the gates into the city.
‘I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations to you for the sake of the churches. I am of David’s line, the root of David and the bright star of the morning.’
The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ Let everyone who listens an- swer, ‘Come.’ Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.
The one who guarantees these revelations repeats his promise: I shall indeed be with you soon. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
I will not leave you orphans, says the Lord; I will come back to you, and your hearts will be full of joy. Alleluia!
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (17: 20-26)
Glory to you, O Lord.
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:
‘Holy Father, I pray not only for these, but for those also who through their words will believe in me.
May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us,as you are in me and I am in you, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise that it was you who sent me and that I have loved them as much as you loved me. Father,
I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see the glory you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Father, Righteous One,
the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known,so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.’
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ
The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.
O God the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven: We
beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Sunday after Ascension Day)
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Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Weds. 4th June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass
Sun. 8th June: 11 a.m.; Sung Mass (Whitsunday-Pentecost)
Please mark that next Sunday’s Sung Mass for Pentecost (Whitsun- day) shall commence at eleven o’ clock (11 a.m.) and not at ten o ‘ clock (10 a.m.)
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