Service for the 20th Sunday after Trinity – 17th October 2021
St Paul’s Athens
Fr. Bjorn will lead the worship and Nelly Paraskevopoulou will preach. Virginia Stevens is the Assistant. Fr. Leonard and Deacon Chris are at the Archdeaconry Synod, being held this year in Corfu.
Opening Hymn: 343 Bright the vision
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
The presiding priest welcomes the congregation and invites the assistant to lead us into a short time 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.
Gloria: (Sung) Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth. Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world: have mercy on us; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God, the glory of God the Father. Amen, Amen.
Collect: Let us pray (Collect of the Day)
God our light and our salvation: illuminate our lives, that we may see your goodness in the land of the living, and looking on your beauty may be changed into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
