Caroline Daniels, Author at St. Paul’s Anglican Church

21/11/2018 In Announcements

Νissos Publications and Konstantinos Kostouros

Νissos Publications and Konstantinos Kostouros

Friday the 30^th November 2018, 20.00

at St Paul’s Anglican Church, 27 Filellinon street, Syntagma, Athens

Nissos Publications and the artist Konstantinos Kostouros will collaborate together for the presentation of the book “Violence and Religion: Cause or Effect?” by Rene Zirar, Nissos publications and the presentation of the theatrical-artistic performance entitled “Walking Through the Ancient Route of the Impertinent” by the artist Constantine Kostouros, which will be performed on December 2018 at St Paul’s Anglican Church.

In this joint presentation there will be a panel of speakers who will discuss about violence and religion and interact with the audience.

Entrance to the presentation is free by donation to the charity work of St Paul’s Anglican Church

Information: Nissos Publications, Tel. 210 3250058, e-mail: info@nissos.gr

http://www.nissos.gr/

21/11/2018 In Announcements

Radio Pepper Church Sessions: Katerine Duska and Albin Lee Meldau

Radio Pepper- Church Sessions

Katerine Duska and Albin Lee Meldau

Monday the 26^th November 2018, 20.30

at St Paul’s Anglican Church, 27 Filellinon street, Syntagma, Athens

Katerine Duska and her band will perform a 45 minutes programme of neo-soul and neo- blues songs. The Swedish musician Albin Lee Meldau will present a 45 minutes programme playing his guitar and singing vintage soul and blues songs.

ENTRANCE BY INVITATION ONLY

Information and invitations: Radio Pepper 96.6 FM

Tel: 213 018 9066 | E-mail: pepper9660@gmail.com

https://www.pepper966.gr/

http://www.albinleemeldau.com/

19/11/2018 In Sermons & Services, Uncategorized

Trinity 25, 18th November 2018: Daniel 12: 1-3; Hebrews 10: 11-14, 19-25; Mark 13: 1-8

Fr James Harris

I want to take you on a journey of the imagination this morning. So, if you’re sitting comfortably, we will begin…

Our imagined scene takes place somewhere on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in the province of Judea in what today would be called the year 30 AD or what the Jews of the time might have calculated as something like the 3,791st year of the Era of the World – i.e. since Creation.

It’s a fertile place, not like the deserts down south; sheep and goats are bleating, the whiff of fresh fish coming on the breeze from the shoreline where the fishermen sort their catch. The small town of white, low rise buildings nestles on the hillside and this is where you, a faithful Jew, have grown up.

In the centre of the town is a small synagogue where, week by week, for as long as you can remember, you have seen the great scrolls unrolled and the scriptures read – wonderful, ancient, inspiring histories recounting God’s faithfulness to his people, and prophecies of the time when he will send his chosen one, his Messiah to save and to set free. Prophecies like that of Daniel who talks so powerfully of this moment when a new age will dawn for God’s people here on earth. It won’t be without drama – when is it otherwise with God? – but it will mean blessing for the faithful who endure. Daniel even talks about people rising from the dead on that day. Now that’s really weird; no other scriptures talk about that possibility. Earthly life – work, family, harvest – is where you hope for God’s blessing, not once you’re dead.

15/11/2018 In Blog News

St Paul’s marks Remembrance Sunday 100 years after the end of the First World War

Remembrance Sunday in Athens was marked by a service in St Paul’s, with HE The British Ambassador, Kate Smith, and many other Ambassadors and representatives of the Commonwealth present. H.E. read the gospel whilst her Defence Attache, Tim Ferns, read a lesson and the “ode of remembrance”. A wreath of poppies was placed on the alter by Church Warden Nigel Daniels and at 11.00 hrs the entire congregation processed outside to witness Tim ringing the bell just as the bells were rung across the UK at the appointed hour.

Afterwards many people travelled down to the beautiful CWGC cemetery at Alimos, where an international gathering attended by Ambassadors and representatives of many nations, faith leaders, schools and other organisations, sang hymns, and listened to readings. It was also wonderful to have the choir of Byron College contributing to the ceremony at Alimos, singing two pieces specially composed for the occasion by their music teacher, Dimitri Orlov: a captivating and moving performance.

11/11/2018 In Sermons & Services

Remembrance Sunday 2018 St Paul’s Athens

Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan

In a railway carriage that belonged to Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Supreme commander of the Allied forces, in the Forest of Compiegne in France the Armistice agreement was signed. The senior British representative was Sir Rosslyn Wemyss.

After millions of deaths, on all sides of this so called ‘war to end all wars’, it was signed at 11.00hrs, on the 11^th day of the 11^th month. It is a poignant moment, and it is right that this occasion should be so solemnly marked in so many parts of the world, not least in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and right here where we are.

Hostilities may have ceased at that historic moment, but we know that it was not the war to end all wars. There may have been a naivete among those who claimed it, however the aspiration that there should be no more human carnage on this scale is entirely understandable. How can we make any sense out of the mass slaughter of European, African, antipodean lives on European soil, fighting European battles?

01/11/2018 In Announcements

St Paul’s Sessions presents: Rival Consoles

On 8th and 9th November 2018, the talented British electronic music producer will present a rare audiovisual show

Organized by: Groove Productions

info@grooveproductions.gr

For more information: St Paul’s Sessions 3
www.stpaulssessions.gr
www.rivalconsoles.net

ENTRANCE BY TICKETS: 18 euros

For more information: Ticketservices, 39 Panepistimiou Avenue, Tel. 210 7234567

https://www.ticketservices.gr/event/rival-consoles-st-pauls-sessions/?lang=el

01/11/2018 In Announcements

National Bank Cultural Foundation presents Olia Lazaridou and Nikos Xidakis

On 3rd and 10th November 2018, the Greek actress Olia Lazaridou together with Nikos Xidakis will recite poems by Dionysios Solomos with the accompaniment of lute and kanonaki performed by Michalis Nikopoulos and Efy Zaitidou

Organized by: NATIONAL BANK CULTURAL FOUNDATION
13 THUCYDIDOU ST – 105 58 ATHENS
info@miet.gr

Time: 20.30 hrs

ENTRANCE BY TICKETS: 14 euros, 12 euros and 10 euros (students/ AMEA)

Tickets pre-sale: Ticketservices, 39 Panepistimiou Avenue, Tel. 210 7234567 and Public stores

https://www.ticketservices.gr/el/events/?eventid=4012

31/10/2018 In Sermons & Services

SS Simon & Jude 2018

Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan

‘I believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic church.’ We say this every week in the Creed, and the observant among you would have heard this very phrase being used in the Licensing ceremony of Fr. James just a couple of weeks ago, when the Archdeacon said, ‘The Church of England is part of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, worshipping the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It professes the faith uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds, which faith the Church is called upon to proclaim afresh in each generation.’

Being an apostolic church has at least two implications for us. Firstly, the word means ‘sent’. The NT verb is apostello, but it will be better known to modern Greek speakers as the verb stelno, ‘I send’. God ‘sent’ his Son into the world as his Word made flesh. St. John’s gospel uses the verb frequently. So as God sent his Son, Jesus, so Jesus at the time when they received the anointing of God’s Holy Spirit, sent his ‘apostles’ to be Christ’s presence, Christ’s message, Christ as gospel, into the world.

29/10/2018 In Blog News

A New Harvest Perspective

Fr James

Being a September birthday, and hailing from a particularly damp corner of that northern European outpost called England, I have always had a particular affinity for Autumn; the season Keats described as one of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’. You can almost smell the leaf mould in that verse!

For me, in that context, Harvest has always been an autumnal festival and closely linked to falling leaves and burnished colours.

How would it be then, I wondered, to celebrate Harvest in a country where mist is apparently not a common weather event and where, even in mid-October, the sun and the mercury are still high (relatively speaking!)

25/10/2018 In Announcements, Blog News

A poem for the Harvest Festival – by Luke Bryant

Our father of two and erstwhile stand-up comedian Luke Bryant wrote this special poem which he recited during our lunch at the Kokotos Winery on Sunday 21st October. We are very grateful for his contribution which was much appreciated especially since he was suffering from a painful back that day. We look forward to reading many more contributions from Luke and to his entertaining us again with his special brand of humour:

AN ANGLICAN IN ATHENS

We’ll start our rhyme at Christmas, a magical time of year,

The whole church gets together, to spread the joyful cheer.

The climate in Athens is not so British, not quite so icy cold.

The Christmas tree goes up and the choir begins to sing.

Christmas wishes and thoughts of family, thoughts of memories of old.

And then the Christmas market, so many treats bought and sold.

And then we get through New Year’s, our year in the church begins afresh,

Time to detox ourselves from Christmas and kick-start our minds all fresh.

Time to start thinking about our Easter and preparing ourselves for Lent.

Time to count to forty and restart, our Anglican Christian faith.

Each year brings brand new challenges, created from our past.

Lent is time to focus and think about our past.

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