Organ Recital with Nicolas Kilhoffer

Organ Recital – Program

Saint Paul’s Anglican Church – Athens (Greece)

Nicolas KILHOFFER

Saturday, February 1st, 2025

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Pièce d’orgue – BWV 572

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ – BWV 662

Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748)

Concerto in B minor after Antonio Vivaldi

Allegro

Adagio

Allegro

` Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869)

Communion in F major

From L’Organiste Moderne

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Herzlich tut mich verlangen, op. 122/10

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

The Swan (Carnaval of the Animals)

Jehan Alain (1911-1940)

Litanies

Nicolas Kilhoffer (2002)

Improvisation

Community Connect Christmas Coffee Morning

St Paul’s Services over the Christmas Period

The Annual Christmas Singalong

What? Join in singing Christmas carols and songs!

When? Sunday 15th December 2024!

Where? St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Filellinon 27, Athens!

Extras? Enjoy mulled wine and panettone!

Cost: €5 entry; arrive early due to limited space. A retiring collection will be held.

We look forward to welcoming you then!

St Paul’s Annual Christmas Bazaar

It’s nearly time for our Annual Christmas Bazaar which will be held on Sunday 1st December 2024 at the Athens War Museum,  Rizari 2 – 4,
Athens, 106 75 Greece

Come and browse our wonderful stalls full of surprises and delights and do all your Christmas Shopping in one place!  Checkout the Jewellery Stall, or maybe the beautiful Gifts.  Bag a bargain at the Bric-a-Brac and there’s always the famous Jams and Preserves stall for delicious home-made Jams, Marmalades, Chutneys and Pickles.  Don’t forget the book stall where you can find that one book. you’ve been meaning to read but never got round to purchasing.

Feeling tired after all that shopping?  Take the weight off your feet and try our delicious refreshments, both Savoury and Sweet plus a drink from our Bar Stall.  You can also buy a cake or biscuits to take home for Tea.

Bishop’s Advent Appeal -Ras Morbat Eye Clinic, Yemen

I wonder how many people you know that wear glasses or contact lenses. Perhaps, like me, you need them yourself. Eye care – from the basics of having our sight tested to increasingly complex surgeries – is something we are fortunate to be able to take for granted in Europe.

We have also been able to enjoy decades of the absence of war. My 2024 Advent Appeal is to raise funds for the Ras Morbat Eye Clinic in Yemen, a country experiencing, in the words of UNICEF, ‘one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises that is robbing children of their future’. The war in Ukraine and the escalating conflict in the Middle East dominate the news and we continue to pray for peace in both regions. Meanwhile, the crisis in Yemen is overlooked although its effects are no less pernicious on those caught up in it. While active conflict has decreased somewhat since April 2022, the situation remains fragile, with food shortages and malnutrition being significant issues.

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. The public health sector is stretched beyond capacity and in most places has to focus on urgent survival needs, which means general eye care is marginalised. Yet eye care is much needed: Yemen’s harsh sunlight contributes to vision problems in children and especially older people, with the onset of glaucoma and cataract often happening at younger ages than in Europe. For many years the Ras Morbat Eye Clinic has been welcoming and offering heavily subsidised eye care to the poor, refugees, and displaced people. Because the clinic serves all, it has been a good example of compassion and care for people in need regardless of religious or tribal identities. This matters in a country where tribal identity has been a major source of conflict.

The work of the clinic is supported and enabled by our neighbour, the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Aden. I recently participated in the consecration of their new bishop, +Sean Semple, and while I was there my attention was drawn to the work of the clinic. Supporting Ras Morbat not only helps many marginalised people in Yemen, it also strengthens the ties between our dioceses.

My hope and prayer is that we can raise enough money to support all the running costs of the clinic for a three month period. This requires about 15.000€.

To donate to the Advent Appeal please see the notes below.

Yours sincerely in Christ,

+Robert Gibraltar in Europe

How you can donate to the Bishop in Europe’s Advent Appeal 2024:

Via your Chaplaincy Treasurer to Nick Wraight in the Diocesan Office

By cheque:

“Advent Appeal 2024”

Diocese in Europe Board of Finance

14, Tufton St

London SW1P 3QZ

By bank transfer:

Account number: 40317039

Sort code: 20-06-13

IBAN: GB16 BUKB 2006 1340 3170 39

Swift / BIC: BUKBGB2

On the Diocese in Europe Just Giving page:

https://www.justgiving.com/diocese-ineurope

St Paul’s Electoral Roll

Sale of Books & Preserves

St Paul’s Grand spring Bazaar