04/03/2022
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Service for the First Sunday in Lent – 6th March 2022
St Paul’s Athens
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 (Chaplain). The deacon is The Revd. 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 333 All my hope on God is founded
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 deacon 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)
Heavenly Father, your Son battled with the powers of darkness, and grew closer to you in the desert: help us to use these forty days of Lent to grow in wisdom and prayer that we may witness to your saving love in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
24/02/2022
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Service for the Sunday Next Before Lent – 27th February 2022
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.
The presiding priest and preacher is The Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan; the deacon is Chris Saccali.
Entrance Hymn 420 O Jesus I have promised
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
Deacon: God be gracious to us and bless us, and make his face to shine upon us:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Deacon: May your ways be known on earth, your saving power among the nations:
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Deacon: Lord, you have made known your salvation, and reveal your justice in the sight of the
nations:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Absolution we hear the words of God’s forgiveness to those who are truly penitent
20/02/2022
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Sermon for the 2nd Sunday before Lent – Genesis 24b-9, 15-25; Revelation 4
Deacon Chris Saccali – St Paul’s Athens
SMALL BOAT , BIG SEA
May God be on my lips and in all our hearts Amen
It has often been said over the last two years that we are all in the same storm. Today is Social Justice day and last Sunday marked Racial Justice. This saying which is questionable given vaccine inequity, racial justice and poverty but are we all in the same boat? There were even poems written about this you can find them online. I don’t know how you feel about both or either these sayings. The implications are huge for each of us as we traverse this sea of pandemic both individually and collectively. It is not plain sailing, we often feel we are a small boat adrift in a big sea.
Now I have to confess that I am not good in boats as my husband and son will attest. Particularly in flimsy ones and when there is any rocking movement. I feel scared and unsafe. Here I cannot help but pause and stop to think of those risking their lives to cross waters to reach a better life here in Europe or across the English Channel. I love the sea in all conditions but on my own terms, preferably from the safety of the beach or within my depth. We have really been feeling out of our depth, haven’t we and so the uncertainty continues? This week we heard of storms Dudley and Eunice wreaking havoc in UK and Northern Europe. There was a storm and earthquake in Lefkada and the ferry fire near Corfu with a rescue operation ongoing as we speak.
17/02/2022
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Service for the 2nd Sunday before Lent – 20th February 2022
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.
The presiding priest and preacher is The Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan; the deacon and preacher is Chris Saccali.
Entrance Hymn 205 Christ is made the sure foundation
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
Deacon: God be gracious to us and bless us, and make his face to shine upon us:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Deacon: May your ways be known on earth, your saving power among the nations:
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Deacon: Lord, you have made known your salvation, and reveal your justice in the sight of the nations:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Absolution we hear the words of God’s forgiveness to those who are truly penitent
11/02/2022
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Sermon for the 3rd Sunday before Lent – 13th February 2022: Jer 17, 5-10; 1 Cor 15, 12-20; Luke 6, 17-26)
Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
Salt is a precious and essential commodity. In 1882 the British Government in London passed a Salt Tax in colonial India which prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, giving the British a monopoly on the manufacture and sale of salt, which it taxed heavily when selling on to the Indian population. In March to April 1930 Ghandi (who now has a lovely public memorial here in Athens outside the Indian Embassy) led thousands of Indians across 240 miles from where he lived to the Arabian Sea coastline, where there were great salt marshes.
There was brutal retaliation by the British forces in response to the protest and 60,000 people, including Ghandi, were arrested. It was a clever and simple way for the Indians to protest British rule in a non-violent way, though violence was used against them. Salt is a precious and essential commodity.
There is some disputed evidence that to the Romans salt was so precious that sometime Roman soldiers were paid not in cash, but with allocations of salt. The Latin word for salt is ‘sal’ and whether it is true that legionaries received salt in place of money, it is certainly true that the word ‘salarium’ has translated into English as the word ‘salary’, payment for work done. Salt is a precious and essential commodity.
11/02/2022
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Audio Sermon for the 3rd Sunday before Lent – 13th February 2022
Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
10/02/2022
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Service for the 3rd Sunday before Lent – 13th February 2022
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.
The presiding priest and preacher is The Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan; Nelly Paraskevopoulou is the assistant.
Entrance Hymn 473 When morning gilds the skies (2nd tune and omit*verses)
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
Nelly: God be gracious to us and bless us, and make his face to shine upon us:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Nelly: May your ways be known on earth, your saving power among the nations:
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Nelly: Lord, you have made known your salvation, and reveal your justice in the sight of the nations:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
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04/02/2022
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Service for the 4th Sunday before Lent – 6th February 2022
St Paul’s Athens
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.
The presiding priest and preacher is The Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan; the deacon is the Revd. Christine Saccali.
Entrance Hymn 343 Bright the vision (this hymn is based on Isaiah 6, the OT reading)
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
Deacon: God be gracious to us and bless us, and make his face to shine upon us:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Deacon: May your ways be known on earth, your saving power among the nations:
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Deacon: Lord, you have made known your salvation, and reveal your justice in the sight of the nations:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
26/01/2022
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Service for the 4th Sunday of Epiphany – 30th January 2022
St Paul’s Athens
Welcome to St. Paul’s Athens especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens. We have a POS facility now, so payments can be made to the church by bank cards.
The presiding priest and preacher is The Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan; the deacon is the Revd. Christine Saccali. The preacher this morning is Angelos Palioudakis.
Entrance Hymn 388 (1st tune) Jesus shall reign
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
Deacon: God be gracious to us and bless us, and make his face to shine upon us:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Deacon: May your ways be known on earth, your saving power among the nations:
Christe eleison
All: Christe eleison
Deacon: Lord, you have made known your salvation, and reveal your justice in the sight of the nations:
Kyrie eleison
All: Kyrie eleison
Absolution we hear the words of God’s forgiveness to those who are truly penitent