Lilies
20/03/2022 In Blog News

EASTER LILIES (In Memorium)

This lovely St. Paul’s tradition continues. The names of your loved ones can be included in our Easter Book of Remembrance – just email them to Nelly at nelly.parask@gmail.com and your lily will be added to the beautiful floral displays in church. The final date for submission is April 13th.

If you would like to make a donation in their memory you can do so through e-banking or Paypal when you visit our website: www.anglicanchurchathens.gr – just click on Support St. Paul’s – Donations  for details, giving your name and ‘Easter Lilies’ or you can see Nelly in church.  

God's family
14/03/2022 In Blog News

Service Sheet for the Third Sunday in Lent – 20th March 2022

Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens.  Please stay and have coffee after the liturgy.  We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.

 

The presiding priest is Fr. Bjorn Kling of the Swedish Church. The deacon and preacher is Deacon Christine Saccali.

 

Entry Greeting  

[Minister: 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    465   Thou didst leave thy throne

 

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 the assistant leads us into Confession.

 

Silence and stillness follows for a few moments

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

Priest:       May Almighty God, who sent his Son into the world to save sinners, bring you

his pardon and peace.

All:             Amen.

 

Collect:  Let us pray    (remain standing as the priest prays the Collect of the Day)   

Eternal God, give us insight to discern your will for us, to give up what harms us, and to seek the perfection we are promised in Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

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God's family
11/03/2022 In Blog News

Service for the second Sunday in Lent, 13th March 2022

Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens.  Please stay and have coffee after the liturgy.  We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.

 The presiding priest and preacher is Fr. Leonard. The Assistant is Nelly Paraskevopoulou. Choral Evensong is at 20.00hrs.

 

Entry Greeting  

Minister: 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    381  Jerusalem the golden

 

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 the assistant leads us into Confession.

 

Silence and stillness follows for a few moments

Assistant: We confess to you our selfishness and lack of love: fill us with your Spirit.

Kyrie eleison

All:             Kyrie eleison

Assistant: We confess to you our fear and failure in sharing our faith: fill us with your Spirit.

Christe eleison

All:            Christe eleison

Assistant:  We confess to you our stubbornness and lack of trust: fill us with your Spirit.

Kyrie eleison

All:             Kyrie eleison

Priest:       May Almighty God, who sent his Son into the world to save sinners, bring you

his pardon and peace.

All:             Amen.

 

Collect:  Let us pray    (remain standing as the priest prays the Collect of the Day)   

Almighty God, by the prayer and discipline of Lent may we enter into the mystery of Christ’s sufferings, and by following his Way may we come to share in his glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

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10/03/2022 In Blog News

Electoral Roll Application

If you would like to become an official member of the St Paul’s congregation, do sign up on the electoral roll.  This gives you the right to vote in the Annual General Meeting, and to stand for offices such as Council member or Churchwarden.  Please download and complete the attached application form, which should be emailed to the Electoral Roll officer, Jane Mandalios at janemandalios@gmail.com.  

Electoral Roll Form 2022

 

 

 

10/03/2022 In Uncategorized

Service details and safety requirements

The Liturgy is at 10.00am on Wednesdays and Sundays at St Paul’s.

 We can now accommodate more people inside the Church and outside in the Garden.

PLEASE NOTE

All those who attend for worship anticipating an inside seat must be able to show a vaccination certificate or valid rapid test certificate for inspection either on paper or an electronic device.

Click here for the Sunday service sheet

sermon news
10/03/2022 In Sermons & Services

Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Lent – 13th March 2022 : Gen 15, 1-12, 17-18; Philemon 3, 17-4, 1; Luke 13, 31-end.

Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens

 

It is around the late 50s AD. We might be in the city of Rome, or maybe Caesarea or Ephesus, there is some doubt, but we are definitely in a prison. A slave is one of the prisoners. His name is Onesimus and by upbringing in the ancient world he was most likely a worshipper of the pagan gods. In his prison he has converted to the Christian Way. His prison companion is a man who was born in Tarsus and he is known to us as St. Paul. Onesimus has become a believer in Jesus.

Onesimus was as a slave in Colossae. His slave owner may have been someone called Archippus (Col 4, 12-16) or possibly someone called Philemon. Slave ownership was part of the normal order across the Roman Empire of the ancient world.

From prison Paul sends a letter to Philemon who has some sort of leadership of the church in the city of Laodicea in Asia Minor very near to the city of Colossae, to whom St. Paul also directed one of his letters – the Letter to the Colossians.

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04/03/2022 In Sermons & Services

Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent – 6th March 2022: Deut 26, 1-11; Romans 10, 8-13; Luke 4, 1-13

Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens

For several years I had the privilege of travelling to the country of Cameroon in Central West Africa. I think I have been there to offer some teaching to the Readers and Clergy some five or six times. It is a beautiful country, perhaps best known now for its passion for football. However those of us who are old enough will remember Johnny Weissmuller, who played the role of Tarzan. This was filmed in Cameroon.

Flying either from Paris or from Brussels the flight to Douala took between five and six hours. If you were lucky enough to have a window seat you would see the extraordinary sight of the Sahara desert beneath you for at least a quarter of the journey time. It seemed to go on for ever and ever.

It always struck me as extraordinary that human beings would have the courage, the determination, and the physical stamina to cross this desert on foot, fleeing perhaps from an area of war, or drought, or persecution. Yet so many countless thousands of people have managed this perilous journey – preferring to face the physical dangers of the desert and personal and social uncertainties, than to stay suffering in their own countries. Whether it is over the Sahara desert, over stretches of water, or through unknown lands with unknown languages and cultures, the human spirit drives them on in search of a better life, a better chance for their children, or an improved economic outcome.

Greece is no stranger to people of this sort of courage – though often they arrive in an alien country, damaged, traumatized, and mourning the loss of loved ones, or with those left behind still with a place in their hearts.  There has always been migration. There will always be refugees. We put our heads in the sand if we think otherwise. Our prayers continue today for Ukrainians, for those made homeless, for those who have fled to Poland, Hungary, Moldova and other lands of safety.

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