08/07/2021
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Audio sermon for the 6th Sunday after Trinity – 11th July 2021: Ephesians 1, 3-14
Fr Leonard Doolan – St Paul’s Athens
08/07/2021
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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
03/07/2021
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Audio Sermon for the 5th Sunday after Trinity – 4 July 2021
Fr Leonard Doolan -St Paul’s Athens
01/07/2021
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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.
30/06/2021
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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.
26/06/2021
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Audio Sermon preached at St Paul’s Athens on the 4th Sunday after Trinity: 27th June 2021
Fr Leonard Doolan
26/06/2021
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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.
23/06/2021
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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.
18/06/2021
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Audio Sermon for Pentecost Sunday – 20th June 2021
Fr Leonard Doolan
18/06/2021
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Sermon preached at St Paul’s Athens and on Zoom for Pentecost Sunday – 20th June 2021: Acts 2, 1-21; John 15, 26-27; 16, 4-15.:
Fr Leonard Doolan
The Jewish feast of Shavuot is the day when the first fruits of the land were offered in the Temple. On this day the Book of Ruth is read in synagogues, telling how the Moabite widow called Ruth, and her mother-in law, Naomi, meet the owner of the land, Boaz while they were out gleaning in the fields. Ruth later married Boaz.
Shavuot is also the day when, just seven weeks after the Hebrew people departed from Egypt on their 40 year long journey in the wilderness, recorded in the Book of Exodus, Moses receives the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai. Sinai was observed to be covered in smoke, because God had descended upon it like fire. Thunder and lightning filled the air
It was on this day, according to St. Luke’s account in the Acts of the Apostles, that the followers of Jesus, all Jewish, gathered in one place. The experience that follows is replete with graphic details. Sound, like a violent storm wind, tongues of fire leaping about. The wind-like sound fills the room, and the flames perch on each of them. This describes the Holy Spirit – this is the first experience for followers of Jesus of the Holy Spirit. This is the Christian Shavuot – not the law being given, but grace; this is the Christian Shavuot – not the first fruits from the harvest being presented, but the first fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Rooted in tradition, rich with bright images, resonant with the scriptures of the old dispensation, this is Christian Pentecost.