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

24/10/2018 In Announcements

“A day in the vineyards” charity bazaar at Kokotos Estate

On Sunday 4th November, the feast of St. George “the Intoxicator”, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.,the Ktima Kokotou, in Stamata (TK 14575), welcomes you all to a day in the country with something for everyone and all day food. Tour the estate’s vineyards, winery and olive groves and enjoy wine-tasting whilst children join creative games and activities in our handicraft workshop – pony rides, trampoline and face painting too. This year our raffle features 2 star prizes of a flight abroad with Aegean Air! And over 30 exhibitors will take part in our charity bazaar to support “Paediatric Trauma Care”, whose aim is to raise awareness of children’s accidents in Greece, reduce their number and severity and improve after-care.

Free valet parking and shuttle transport.

ENTRANCE: 2 Euros per adult.

For more information: Click here

or phone: 6946068010 & 6948509580

24/10/2018 In Announcements, Blog News

ST Paul’s Annual Christmas Bazaar 25th November 2018

Our 65th Christmas Bazaar will take place at Aegli Zappiou on Sunday 25th November 2018 between 11.00 and 15.30 hrs.

There will be something for everyone from Christmas Decorations to Cakes, Toys to Tea, Refreshments to Fancy Goods. Take the weight off your feet in our ‘Cafe’ and enjoy some delicious home-made food or some exotic African delicacies. Have an Irish Coffee or a drink from the Bar.

For Children, Fr Christmas will be present, and there will be a Children’s corner where they can colour their own Christmas Cards, pick a ‘Lucky Dip’, or choose from the Pick ‘n ‘mix.

For those of you who like a bit of excitement, there’s our Raffle with some fantastic prizes or our Tombola with fun, funky and fabulous items to be won.

If you would like to help us out by advertising our Bazaar where you live, please download and print a poster in English here or in Greek here.

Don’t forget the Church will be open for collection of goods from Monday 19th November to Saturday 24th November between 10.00 – 12.00 hrs (10.30 on Wednesday 21st November).

If you would like to help on the day or have a query regarding the bazaar please contact the Bazaar Coordinator here.

Mark the date in your diaries, bring along the whole family, tell your friends and neighbours and get down to the Aegli on Sunday 25th November.

We’ll be waiting for you!

22/10/2018 In Sermons & Services

Harvest Festival Deuteronomy 8: 7-18; Luke 12: 16-30

Fr James Harris

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land… a land of vines… of olive trees and honey… [where] you shall eat your fill.’

Sound familiar?!

Just take a moment to look around you – at the sheer beauty, goodness, abundance of this place, this land which the Lord our God has given us, in which, for whatever reason, and for however long now, he has seen fit to have us live.

Ever since we arrived here as a family at the end of August, I have been reminded just how close to the terrain of the Holy Land we are here in Greece, how similar the landscape is in this land where east meets west. Those verses from Deuteronomy could’ve been written about this place as much as about the Promised Land. And, in one sense, of course, they are written about this land and about every piece of land – because as much as they are describing a specific geographical location to which the people of God were being led at that point in history, they are also describing in universal terms the type of relationship, the covenant God has made with his Creation as a whole.

22/10/2018 In Sermons & Services

Healing Eucharist – 18 October 2018 (St Luke) Isaiah 35: 3-6; Luke 10: 1-9

Fr James Harris

We gather today with a particular intention to ask for God’s healing.

The healing power of God is all at once complex to understand, multi-dimensional, wonderful, transformative and mysterious.

Healing is primarily a work of God the Holy Spirit – the Spirit that brooded over the waters at the moment of Creation; the Spirit that alighted on Jesus at his baptism, that empowered his ministry and teaching and that raised him from the dead; the Spirit that emboldened the disciples and apostles of the early Church; and the same Spirit that enlivens the Church today, that makes Christ real and enables us to call God Father.

The healing work of the Spirit is about straightening out and making right; it is about unfolding and loosening; about unlocking, unblocking and setting free; regenerating, reviving; soothing and embalming.

20/10/2018 In Announcements, Blog News

St PAUL’s Harvest Festival Celebration

Sunday 21^st October at the Ktima Kokotou Winery.
Please note there will be NO service at St Paul’s on that day.

(Everyone – and not just members of the Chaplaincy – most welcome and gifts of dried or tinned goods for the Sisters of Mercy will be gratefully received)

Harvest Eucharist 11:00
Followed by Wine Tasting at approx 12:30
Harvest Lunch from 1:30,

Tickets: 15 euros per person (10 euros children 3—10 years, toddlers free). (Family Ticket – 2 Adults + 2 Children 3 – 10 years – 40 Euros.) All proceeds to the Greater Athens Anglican Chaplaincy. Athens area tickets available from Lynn Stavrou.

In memory of Janet Halvantzi, her family have paid for a bus (which will be free of charge) to pick people up OPPOSITE St. Paul’s, Filellinon Street, departing PROMPTLY at 09.45hrs on the Sunday morning. Please ensure you are there in good time to avoid missing the coach. We will be unable to wait due to time constraints. We will depart from Ktima Kokotou Winery at 3.45 p.m. to return to St. Paul’s.

If you /your family / friends would like to travel by bus, please could you add your name to the sign-up sheet at the back of Church. RESERVED SEATING WILL CLOSE ON SUNDAY, 14TH OCTOBER.

Les Voix de Nice

17/10/2018 In Announcements, Blog News

French Choir – “Les Voix de Nice”

“Les Voix de Nice” – Sunday the 28^th October 2018 at 21.00

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

The 75-member choir from France will perform songs from France and Nice as well as popular and classical songs. A concert not to be missed!

Organized by: It’s Greece Single Member P.C.

FREE ENTRANCE

Information: Samer Boustanzi, e-mail:samer@itsgreece.gr

http://www.voixdenice.org/

15/10/2018 In Blog News

New Encouragements in Greece

Archdeacon Colin Williams was in Greece for the weekend of 11^th-14^th October for the Licensings of two new priests. On Friday 12^th he was in Crete for the Licensing of the Revd. Canon Bruce Bryant-Scott as the Assistant Chaplain with responsibility for Crete (St. Thomas’s, Kefalas). On Sunday 14^th The Revd. James Harris was Licensed as Asst. Chaplain at St. Paul’s Athens.

Fr. James will work in Athens and Greece for one year. In Crete, Fr. Leonard the Senior Chaplain preached and Archdeacon Colin preached in Athens (see website for the text).

14/10/2018 In Sermons & Services

Licensing of Canon Bruce Bryant-Scott – Crete Oct 12th 2018 (Acts 27, 13-26; John 20, 19-23)

Revd. Canon Leonard Doolan

I chose the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles for purely pragmatic reasons. It mentions Crete which connects the island to the journey of the great apostle St. Paul on his way to Rome which would his place of martyrdom.

The second reading tells of St. John’s version of what we would otherwise call Pentecost – it his powerful statement of the risen Jesus Christ outpouring the Holy Spirit on his disciples.

By the end of this sermon I hope to have joined up these two rather disparate readings.

If you were here for the liturgy on the Feast of Pentecost this last May, you would have heard a sermon from me about authentic witness. ‘If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, then it is a duck’. An authentic description. I further added, just to complicate things, what sounded to be an octopus (χταποδι), but I was actually describing bag-pipes (γκαιδα). Try playing a Scottish reel on an octopus, or eating a little dish of marinated bagpipe!

13/10/2018 In Announcements, Blog News

“Mouse on Mars” at St Paul’s on Monday 22nd October 2018

Mouse on Mars are an electronic music duo formed in Germany in 1993, consisting of Jan St. Werner from Köln, and Andi Toma from Düsseldorf. Their music is a blend of electronic genres including but not limited to IDM, dub, krautrock, breakbeat, and ambient, featuring heavy use of organic analog synth and cross-frequency modulation. Their music also features live instrumentation including strings, horns, drums, bass and guitar.

Mouse on Mars is recognised as one of Germany’s most defining and versatile electronic music projects.

On Monday the 22^nd October 2018, the duo will present an audio-visual show where part of their recordings will be presented

Organized by Arte Atene and Groove Productions

11/10/2018 In Announcements, Blog News

XIX Choral Evensong at St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

The 19th Choral Evensong with Scola Cantorum will take place on Sunday 28th October 2018 at 6.30pm.

Collegium & Cappella Sancti Pauli conducted by Iason Marmaras

Minister: The Reverend Canon Leonard Doolan

free admission, discretionary donation

The Renaissance Choral Evensong services at St Paul’s are organised by the Schola Cantorum Sancti Pauli, the Athens Centre for Early Music, and St Paul’s Anglican Church.

The choir Cappella Sancti Pauli, under the direction of Iason Marmaras, sing a series of Choral Evensong services that aim to revive the musical and liturgical practice at Cathedrals and Chapels during the Renaissance, but also the experience that musicians had of this music at those times, looking at the music as a functional part of the liturgy, rather than as a building-block for concerts.

More information at: schola.gr/19, www.scholacantorum.gr

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