Service for the 13th Sunday after Trinity – 11th September 2022
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. Please note that the church has a POS facility. Drinking water is always available at the back of the church, and bottles for sale. Fr. Leonard will preside and preach. The Assistant is Nelly Paraskevopoulou. There is coffee available in the garden after the Liturgy.
Entrance Hymn 437 Praise the Lord
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And also with you
The priest then informally welcomes the people of God and leads us into Confession.
Nelly: We run the race set before us, surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which clings so closely, bringing them to Jesus in penitence and faith. (A short period of stillness and silence)
Nelly: Your raise the dead to life in the spirit.
Kyrie eleison All: Kyrie eleison
Nelly: You bring pardon and peace to the broken in spirit.
Christe eleison All: Christe eleison
Nelly: You make one by your Spirit the torn and divided.
Kyrie eleison All: Kyrie eleison
Absolution: Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.