14/04/2022
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St Paul’s Annual Parochial Church Meeting, 3rd April 2022
Reports for the preceding year submitted to the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) held at St Paul’s on Sunday 3rd April 2022.
Click this link to access the reports
14/04/2022
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Service for Easter Sunday – 17th April 2022
The Anglican Church in Greece
Happy Easter! Welcome to our Easter Sunday worship. After the Liturgy there is an Easter breakfast in the church garden. Please remember about social distancing and be sensitive to people’s concerns about proximity/mask wearing.
Hymn 112 Jesus Lives!
Priest: Alleluia! Christ is risen
All: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!
The priest then welcomes the people of God and the deacon leads us into Confession.
Silence
Deacon: Lord Jesus, you raise us to new life.
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Deacon: Lord Jesus, you forgive us our sins.
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Deacon: Lord Jesus, you feed us with the living bread.
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Absolution: May the God of love and power forgive you and free you from your sins, heal and strengthen you by his Spirit, and raise you to new life in Christ our Lord. Amen.
Gloria: Glory in the highest to the God of heavens:
Peace to all your people through the earth be given.
Mighty God and Father, thanks and praise we bring,
Singing Alleluia! To the heavenly King.
Jesus Christ is risen, God the Father’s Son;
With the Holy Spirit, you are Lord alone.
Lamb once killed for sinners, all our guilt to bear,
Show us now your mercy, now receive our prayer.
Christ the world’s true Saviour, high and holy one,
Seated now and reigning from your Father’s throne:
Lord and God, we praise you! Highest heaven adores:
In the Father’s glory, all the praise be yours!
06/04/2022
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Sermon for Palm Sunday – 10th April 2022: Principal Reading Luke 19, 28-40
Rvd. Canon Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
This is a week of cries. Hosanna, Crucify, Alleluia!
There is a telling little phrase in St. Luke’s gospel (9,53) where the author says ‘Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem.’
It has a ring of determination to it – a planned or strategic decision. One wonders if there had been any conversations around this decision – had the disciples been given access to the details of the new direction? The little phrase has the resonance of what we would nowadays call ‘intentionality’.
Whether Our Lord had shared this intention with his closest comrades or not, Jerusalem based followers of Jesus seem to get wind of it, and are waiting. As he journeys from the area of Bethany down through the Kidron Valley, past Gethsemane, if he looks up Jesus will see the walled city and to his left the pinnacle of the temple.
06/04/2022
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Audio Sermon for Palm Sunday – 10th April 2022
Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
05/04/2022
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Service for Palm Sunday – 10th April 2022
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. Great (Holy) Week begins today in the ‘Latin Calendar’. We will begin outside with the blessing of palm crosses and process into church. Do stay for coffee in the church garden after the Liturgy.
The presiding priest and preacher is Fr. Leonard, Senior Chaplain. The deacon is The Revd. Deacon Christine Saccali.
Liturgy of Palms (in the Garden)
All: Hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
Priest: Behold your king comes to you, O Zion, meek and lowly, sitting upon an ass. Ride on in the cause of truth and for the sake of justice. Your throne is the throne of God, it endures for ever; and the sceptre of your kingdom is a righteous sceptre. You have loved righteousness and hated evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
All: Hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Priest: Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, during Lent we have been preparing by works of love and self-sacrifice for the celebration of our Lord’s death and resurrection. Today we come together to begin this solemn celebration in union with the Church throughout the world. Christ enters his own city to complete his work as our Saviour, to suffer, to die, and to rise again. Let us go with him in faith and love, so that, united with him in his sufferings, we may share his risen life.
The people hold up palms or branches while this prayer is said by the priest
God our Saviour, whose Son Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem as Messiah to suffer and to die; let these palms + be for us signs of his victory and grant that we who bear them in his name may ever hail him as our King, and follow him in the way that leads to eternal life; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
We now process around the church, and as we do so we sing:
We have a King who rides a donkey, we have a King who rides a donkey
We have a King who rides a donkey, and his name is Jesus.
Jesus the King is with us, Jesus us the King is with us, Jesus the King is with us
Riding on a donkey.
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
The Lord be with you.
All: and also with you
01/04/2022
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Audio Sermon for Passion Sunday – 3rd April 2022
Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
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Sermon for Passion Sunday – 3rd April 2022: Isaiah 43, 16-21; Philippians 3, 4-14; John 12, 1-8.
Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
In one of the many chapels in Cirencester Parish Church where I used to be the Vicar, there are four windows. The chapel is called the Catherine Chapel, though if my memory serves me correctly the chapel is dedicated to St. Catherine and St. Nicholas, but it was always referred to as the Catherine Chapel. Some of the altar hangings reflect this dedication, with embroidered so called ‘Catherine Wheels’ indicating one of the tools used in the martyrdom of St. Catherine. Although she was ultimately beheaded, she was initially placed on a wheel which broke. There is now a firework named after her – the Catherine Wheel.
The Catherine I am referring to is not of Genoa, or maybe the better known Catherine of Siena, but the much more historic Catherine of Alexandria. She is patron of, among other trades, wheelwrights, spinners, and millers.
Why is this chapel in Cirencester of relevance this morning? Well, because the four windows, which are also edged in the glass with wheels, show four scenes in the life of Lazarus, and his encounters with Christ. The gospels refer to Lazarus on several occasions and is a significant person in the gospel narratives. Perhaps we read these gospel encounters with too much familiarity, so it is valuable that our Sunday gospel today reminds us of Lazarus who was raised from the dead shortly before this gospel narrative is told by St. John.
29/03/2022
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Service for the 5th Sunday in Lent – Passion Sunday – 3rd April 2022
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. There is coffee in the garden after the liturgy. This will be followed by the Annual Meeting. Printed reports are available to read during coffee.
The presiding priest and preacher is Fr. Leonard. The deacon is Deacon Christine.
At the door (please turn)
[Priest: Give us true repentance; forgive us our sins of negligence and ignorance and our
deliberate sins: and grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit to amend our lives
according to your holy word.
All: Holy God, holy and strong, holy and immortal, have mercy upon us.]
Entrance Hymn 86 (omit *verses) My Song is love unknown
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
The Lord be with you.
All: and also with you
The priest then welcomes the people of God and then the deacon leads us into Confession.
Silence and stillness follows
Deacon: We confess to you our selfishness and lack of love: fill us with your Spirit.
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Deacon: We confess to you our fear and failure in sharing our faith: fill us with your Spirit.
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Deacon: We confess to you our stubbornness and lack of trust: fill us with your Spirit.
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Absolution: Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you your sins, and bring to everlasting life. Amen.
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Flowers for Mothering Sunday
These colourful posies for Mothering Sunday, following our Anglican tradition, were made up by Shirley Poulakis, and were greatly appreciated by the ladies in the congregation after two years of lockdown.
