Eat & Drink
15/07/2021 In Blog News

Service for the 7th Sunday after Trinity – 18th July 2021, St Paul’s Athens

Fr. Leonard will lead the worship and preach.  Before our worship begins the organ will play.

 

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

There follows a short period of silence and stillness

 

Priest:                Your raise the dead to life in the spirit.

Kyrie eleison

     All:                      Kyrie eleison

     Priest:               You bring pardon and peace to the broken in spirit.

                                Christe eleison

     All:                     Christe eleison

Priest:                You make one by your Spirit the torn and divided.

                                Kyrie eleison

    All:                      Kyrie eleison

 

Priest:   Almighty God, who forgives all those 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.

 

Glory to God in the heaven above, peace to his friends on earth.

Lord God of hosts, and our heavenly King, Father and mighty God.

We worship you, we give you thanks, praise to your holy name.

‘Glory to God’ heaven declares ‘Glory’ creation sings.

Refrain:  Glory to God in the heaven above, peace to his friends on earth.

                God, ever three, yet eternally one, glorious Trinity.

 

Son of the Father, and Lord of us all, holy eternal Lamb,

Christ, who has carried the sin of the world, mercy on us, we pray.

Jesus our God, Saviour and Judge, answer us when we cry;

Seated on high, reigning with God, hear and receive our prayer.  Refrain.

 

You, Jesus Christ, are the Lord, the Most High, you are the Holy One.

You, only you, with the Spirit divine, reign in the Father’s love.

Blessed are you, Father and Son, Spirit of grace and truth;

Myst’ry profound, veiled yet revealed, hidden in depths of light.  Refrain

 

Collect:  Let us pray     (Collect of the Day) 

Generous God, you give us gifts and make them grow; though our faith is small as a mustard seed, make it grow to your glory and the flourishing of your kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  All:  Amen.

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10/07/2021 In Sermons & Services

Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity – 11 July 2021: Ephesians 1, 3-14; Mark 6, 14-29

Fr Leonard Doolan, St Paul’s Athens

 

Last Sunday we read from St. Paul’s letter to the Christians in nearby Corinth. This morning we have travelled North East, to the capitol of the Roman Province of Asia, Ephesus. The two cities are connected, as it is known that Paul wrote to the Corinthians from Ephesus.

Ephesus was not only the centre of Roman Administration of the province, it was also home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world the Temple of the Goddess Artemis who was worshipped by a cult of wealthy noble women who were her priestesses and acolytes.

While in Ephesus St. Paul caused a great stir among the silversmith workers, headed up by one Demetrios. He gathered his fellow craftsmen together, and the artisans and sellers of the little silver replicas of the temple, and, no doubt, silver images of the goddess, maybe earrings, brooches, bracelets and fascinators.

The accusation is that St. Paul has been preaching against the main source of their trade and livelihood, maintaining that gods made with hands are not gods at all. (Acts 19 26). Demetrios was concerned that their temple and its cult would be discredited across Asia – but I guess his main concern was loss of income.

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Trinity
08/07/2021 In Blog News

Service for the 6th Sunday after Trinity – 11th July 2021 – St Paul’s Athens

Fr. Leonard will lead the worship and preach. The Deacon is

Deacon Christine.  Before our worship begins the organ will play.

 

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

There follows a short period of silence and stillness

 

Deacon:            Your raise the dead to life in the spirit.

Kyrie eleison

     All:                     Kyrie eleison

     Deacon:            You bring pardon and peace to the broken in spirit.

                                Christe eleison

     All:                     Christe eleison

Deacon:            You make one by your Spirit the torn and divided.

                                Kyrie eleison

    All:                      Kyrie eleison

 

Priest:   Almighty God, who forgives all those 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.

 

Glory to God in the heaven above, peace to his friends on earth.

Lord God of hosts, and our heavenly King, Father and mighty God.

We worship you, we give you thanks, praise to your holy name.

‘Glory to God’ heaven declares ‘Glory’ creation sings.

Refrain:  Glory to God in the heaven above, peace to his friends on earth.

                God, ever three, yet eternally one, glorious Trinity.

 

Son of the Father, and Lord of us all, holy eternal Lamb,

Christ, who has carried the sin of the world, mercy on us, we pray.

Jesus our God, Saviour and Judge, answer us when we cry;

Seated on high, reigning with God, hear and receive our prayer.  Refrain.

 

You, Jesus Christ, are the Lord, the Most High, you are the Holy One.

You, only you, with the Spirit divine, reign in the Father’s love.

Blessed are you, Father and Son, Spirit of grace and truth;

Myst’ry profound, veiled yet revealed, hidden in depths of light.  Refrain

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01/07/2021 In Sermons & Services

Sermon preached at St Paul’s Athens on the 5th Sunday after Trinity – 4th July 2021: : Ezek 2, 1-5; 2 Cor 12, 2-10; Mark 6, 1-13.

Fr Leonard Doolan

 

What happened to the persecutor of the new sect that would soon be known as Christians? I am referring of course to Saul, or Paul, who would later be known as ‘the Apostle’ and who along with St. Peter had his annual feast day earlier this week.

Breathing fire against these wacky new ‘Way’ followers of a crucified man called Jesus, Paul was travelling to Damascus. We all know that something happened to him as he travelled. We are not so clear about ‘what it was’ in any detail, though we know Paul experiences in some way an extraordinary ‘repentance’ or conversion.

When he writes to the church in Corinth, there are moments in the correspondence when the Apostle is surprisingly personal, humble, and quite intimate, in the way he shares details about himself.  This is not always the Paul we have in our minds.

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Trinity
30/06/2021 In Blog News

Service for the 5th Sunday after Trinity – 4th July 2021 at St Paul’s Athens

Fr. Leonard will lead the worship and preach. The Deacon is

Deacon Christine.

 

Before our worship begins the organ will play.

 

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

 

There follows a short period of silence and stillness

 Deacon:           Your raise the dead to life in the spirit.

Kyrie eleison

     All:                     Kyrie eleison

     Deacon:            You bring pardon and peace to the broken in spirit.

                                Christe eleison

     All:                     Christe eleison

Deacon:            You make one by your Spirit the torn and divided .

                                Kyrie eleison

    All:                      Kyrie eleison

 

Priest:   Almighty God, who forgives all those 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.

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26/06/2021 In Sermons & Services

Sermon preached at St Paul’s Athens for the 4th Sunday after Trinity – 27th June 2021: 2 Cor 8, 7-15

Fr Leonard Doolan

 

Today we are resuming our alignment with the rest of the Anglican Church calendar, having been out of step with it since the beginning of Lent. The decision, with episcopal support, to follow the Orthodox date for Easter, in this year alone, was a bit of a gamble, but one that paid off. The relaxation of COVID regulations in Greece favoured only the Orthodox Easter date. Had we celebrated Easter according to the Latin (western) date, we would have had almost no liturgy in our church. That four-week difference in dates was significant, and in fact there was a freshness to our Sundays this year because we were in Lent, Holy Week, Easter through to Pentecost with the majority of Greek people.

But from today we ‘catch up’ and already it is the 4th Sunday after Trinity.

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Eat & Drink
23/06/2021 In Blog News

Service for the 4th Sunday after Trinity (Western Calendar) at St Paul’s Athens – 27th June 2021

Fr. Leonard will lead the worship and preach.

 

Before our worship begins the organ will play.

 

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

 

There follows a short period of silence and stillness

 

Assistant:         Your raise the dead to life in the spirit.

Kyrie eleison

     All:                     Kyrie eleison

     Assistant:          You bring pardon and peace to the broken in spirit.

                                Christe eleison

     All:                     Christe eleison

Assistant:          You make one by your Spirit the torn and divided .

                                Kyrie eleison

    All:                      Kyrie eleison

 

Priest:   Almighty God, who forgives all those 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.

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