Liturgy of the Word for the last Sunday after Trinity, 27th October 2024

Anglican Church in Greece

St Paul’s Athens

Welcome to St Paul’s Athens,   especially if you are here for the first time or visiting Athens.

Please join us after the service for refreshments in the garden.

The worship is led by Licensed Reader Nelly Paraskevopoulou

Entrance  Hymn:  427 (Laudate Dominum) O praise ye the Lord!

Minister:  O Lord, open our lips

All:            and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Minister: Give us the joy of your saving help

All:            and sustain us with your life-giving Spirit.

Prayers of Penitence

Minister:   Jesus says, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. So let us turn away from our sin and turn to Christ, confessing our sins in penitence and faith.

All: Lord God, we have sinned against you;

       we have done evil in your sight.

       We are sorry and repent.

       Have mercy on us according to your love.

       Wash away our wrongdoing and cleanse us from our sin.

       Renew a right spirit within us  and restore us to the joy of your salvation;

       through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Minister:  May the Father of all mercies cleanse us from our sins, and restore us

in his image to the praise and glory of his name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

All:            Amen

Psalm   126

Response: What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we were glad.

When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage,

it seemed like a dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter,

on our lips there were songs. (Response)

The heathens themselves said: ‘what marvels

the Lord worked for them!’

What marvels the Lord worked for us!

Indeed we were glad. (Response)

Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage

as streams in dry land.

Those who are sowing in tears

will sing when they reap. (Response)

They go out, they go out, full of tears,

carrying seed for the sowing;

they come back, they come back, full of song,

carrying their sheaves. (Response)

First Reading :              Jeremiah 31. 7-9

For thus says the Lord:
“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for the chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘The Lord has saved his people,
the remnant of Israel.’
 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,
among them the blind and the lame,
the woman with child and her who is in travail, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
 With weeping they shall come,
and with consolations I will lead them back,
I will make them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path in which they shall not stumble;
for I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my first-born.

Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

All:         Thanks be to God.

Minister:  Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead.

All:            And Christ shall give you light.

Minister:  You have died and your life is hid with Christ in God.

All:            Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead.

Minister:  Set your minds on things that are above,  not on things that are on the earth.

All:            And Christ shall give you light.

Minister:  When Christ our life appears you will appear with him in glory.

All:            Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead,  and Christ shall give you light.

The Benedictus   Luke 1, 68-79     (Please stand to say the canticle together)

1. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who has come to his people and set them free.
2. He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour, born of the house of his servant David.
3. Through his holy prophets God promised of old to save us from our enemies, from the hands of all that hate us,
4. To show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant.
5. This was the oath God swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
6. Free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
7. And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
8. To give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of all their sins.
9. In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
10. To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be; world without end.  Amen.

 Hymn: 324 (St Matthew) Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old

Second Reading          Mark 10. 46-end    

 And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.  And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”  And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; rise, he is calling you.”  And throwing off his mantle he sprang up and came to Jesus.  And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Master, let me receive my sight.”  And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.

Reader:  This is the word of the Lord.
All:          Praise to you, O Christ.         

Sermon   (Please be seated)   Nelly Paraskevopoulou

The Apostles’ Creed  (please stand)

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ,  his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.  On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of God the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.    Amen.

Intercessions:   Lord in your mercy,  Hear our prayer

Collect: Merciful God,

teach us to be faithful in change and uncertainty,

that trusting in your word

and obeying your will

we may enter the unfailing joy of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever and ever.   Amen.

Hymn:   Collection Hymn: 472 (Contemplation) When all thy mercies, O my God   (During this hymn the collection will be taken)

Notices

Final hymn 377 (St. Denio) Immortal, invisible, God only wise

Minister:     Let us say the Grace together:   

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore.   Amen.

Chaplain Fr  Benjamin Drury Home tel :  210 72 14 906;  email anglican@otenet.gr frbenjamindrury@gmail.com

Deacon Chris:  Day Off – Friday   697 737 7655

Swedish Church: Fr. Bjorn  694 6072428

The Anglican Church in Greece (including St. Paul’s) is self financing, and receives no income other than from the generosity of those who worship here. We are a legal body and we pay tax. Our tax number is 997073090. If you wish to donate direct to our bank (IBAN) the account with Piraeus Bank is:  The Anglican Church in Greece, St. Paul’s Athens  GR 820172 0500 0050 5008 6327 479 Swift code is  PIRB GRAA

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Notices:

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Bishop’s Advent Appeal: details on the Church’s internet pages.

The cause this year is Ras Morbat Eye Clinic, Yemen.

Choral Evensong: Sundays: 27th Oct.; 24th Nov.; 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Armistice Day: Monday 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery)

Coffee Mornings: 14th November; 12th December (10:30 a.m.)

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Service for Sunday 20th October – Harvest Festival

Welcome to St Paul’s Anglican Church Harvest Festival at the Kokotos winery

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion at Harvest:

Harvest Hymnal numbers (tunes):

Entrance: i (St George’s Windsor) Come, ye thankful people, come

Congregational Psalm: ix (Winchester New) Ps. 104

Gradual: vii (Monkland) Praise, o praise our God and King

Offertory: iii (Wir Pflugen) We plough the fields and scatter Communion: viii (England’s Lane) For the beauty of the earth Recessional: vi (Lux Eoi) Alleluya! Alleluya!

“Thou crownest the year with thy bounty; the tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness”

(Ps. 65: 11)

A Reading from the Book of Isaiah (53: 10-11)

The Lord has been pleased to crush his servant with suffering. If he offers his life in atonement,

he shall see his heirs, he shall have a long life

and through him what the Lord wishes will be done.

His soul’s anguish over,

he shall see the light and be content.

By his sufferings shall my servant justify many,

taking their faults on himself.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Congregational Psalm: Psalm 104 (tune: Winchester New)

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 4: 14-15)

Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must never let go of the faith that we have professed. For it is not as if we had a high priest who was incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us; but we have one who has been tempted in every way that we are, though he is without sin. Let us be confident, then, in approaching the throne of grace, that we shall have mercy from him and find grace when we are in need of help.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, says the Lord; No one can come to the Father except through me. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (10: 30-45)

Glory to you, O Lord.

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus. ‘Master,’ they said to him ‘we want you to do us a favour.’ He said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ They said to him, ‘Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.’ ‘You do not know what you are asking’ Jesus said to them. ‘Can you drink the cup that I must drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?’ They replied, ‘We can.’ Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I must drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I must be baptised you shall be baptised, but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted.’

When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said to them, ‘You know that among the pagans their so-called rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

O most merciful Father, who of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth and

scarcity into cheapness and plenty: We give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy lov- ing-kindness unto us, that our land may yield us her fruits of in-

crease, to thy glory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen. (Book of Common Prayer)

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Wed. 23rd Oct.: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 27th Oct.: 10 a.m. Liturgy of the Word; followed by refreshments

Choral Evensong: Sundays: 27th Oct.; 24th Nov.; 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.) Remembrance Sunday: 10th November (10:00 a.m. at Church); Armistice Day: 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery, Alimos) Coffee Mornings: 14th November; 12th December (10:30 a.m.)

Study Group & Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Donate electronically by scanning the QR code;

the Church does not receive any

funding from the Church of England

or the British Government and is reliant

on the goodwill of congregants and visitors. We thank you for your support.

Bishop’s Advent Appeal: Ras Morbat Eye Clinic, Yemen. Details on the church’s

Website: www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;   Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)           697 737 7655 anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens   www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service for Sunday 13th Ocrtober – 20th after Trinity

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Preacher: Deacon Christine Saccali

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 495 (Benson) God is working his purpose out

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 90 (vs. 13-17)

Gradual: (Sheet) Seek ye first the Kingdom of God

Offertory: Anthem (sung by Los Angeles Episcopalian Chorale) Communion: Anthem (sung by Los Angeles Episcopalian Chorale) Communion: 296 (St. Helen) Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour Recessional: 476 (Paderborn) Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.

Please remember that the chaplaincy in Athens neither receives funding from the British Government nor from the Church of

England. All donations are, therefore, very gratefully received.

A Reading from the Book of Amos (5: 6-7, 10-15)

• Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of

Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

• O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
• They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
• Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
• For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins—you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
• Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.
• Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
• Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate;

it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 90 (13-17): (Response): May the favour of the Lord, our God, be upon us.

Turn again, O Lord; how long will you delay? Have compassion on your servants.

Satisfy us with your loving-kindness in the morning, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Give us gladness for the days you have afflicted us,

and for the years in which w have seen adversity. (Response)

Show your servants your works,

and let your glory be over their children.

May the gracious favour of the Lord our God be upon us;

Prosper our handiwork; O prosper the work of our hands. (Resp.)

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (4: 12-13)

The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any

double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the mar- row; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created

thing can hide from him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. How happy are the poor in spirit:

theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (10: 17-30)

Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading):

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

Even though we had nothing in the world that we could call our own, in having Christ, the wisdom of God, we possess all things; we are rich in him. He is the word of God that is alive and active in our hearts.

O Almighty and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us;

that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accom- plish those things that thou wouldest have done; through Jesus

Christ our Lord. Amen.

Weds. 16th October: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 20th October: 11 a.m. Harvest Eucharist, Kokotos Estate

Tues. 23rd October: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Choral Evensong: Sundays: 27th Oct.; 24th Nov.; 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October; Kokotos Estate, Stamata Armistice Day: Monday 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery) Coffee Mornings: 14th November; 12th December (10:30 a.m.)

With thanks to Los Angeles Chorale for their contribution to today’s liturgy. They shall give a performance at noon today in the church.

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Donate electronically by scanning the QR code; the Church does not receive any

funding from the Church of England.   or the British Government and is reliant on the goodwill of congregants and visitors. We thank you for your support.

Bishop’s Advent Appeal: details on the Church’s internet pages. The cause this year is Ras Morbat Eye Clinic, Yemen.

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury

frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)           697 737 7655 Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling 694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service for Sunday 6th October – 19th after Trinity

St Paul’s Athens

Celebrant and Preacher: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

New English Hymnal numbers (tunes):

Entrance: 388 (Truro) Jesus shall reign, where’er the sun

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 128

Gradual: 387 (Quem Pastores) Jesus, good above all other

Offertory: 471 (Quam Dilecta) We love the place, O God

Post Communion: 307 (Divine Mysteries) Sweet Sacrament Divine

Recessional: 413 (Nun Danket) Now thank we all our God

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.

Please remember that the chaplaincy in Athens neither receives funding from the British Government nor from the Church of

England. All donations are, therefore, very gratefully received.

A Reading from the Book of Genesis (2: 18-24)

The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:

‘This at last is bone from my bones,

and flesh from my flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man.’

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 128: (Response): May the Lord bless you all the days of your life.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord, and walk in his ways.

You shall eat the fruit of the toil of your hands;

it shall go well with you, and happy shall you be. (Response)

Your wife within your house shall be like a fruitful vine;

your children round your table, like fresh olive branches.

Thus shall the one be blest who fears the Lord. (Response)

The Lord from out of Zion bless you,

that you may see Jerusalem in prosperity all the days of your life.

May you see your children’s children,

and may there be peace upon Israel. (Response)

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (2: 9-11)

We see in Jesus one who was for a short while made lower than the angels and is now crowned with glory and splendour because he

submitted to death; by God’s grace he had to experience death for all mankind.

As it was his purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering,

the leader who would take them to their salvation. For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are sanctified, are of the same stock;

that is why he openly calls them brothers.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Your word is truth, O Lord:

consecrate us in the truth.

Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (10: 2-16)

Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading):

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee;

Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct

and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer)

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Weds. 9th October.: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 13th October.: 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Choral Evensong: Sundays: 27th Oct.; 24th Nov.; 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October (contributions of food are sought: please speak to Lynn Stavrou).

Quiz Night: Friday 11th October (Swedish Community Building, Apollonos 6, Athens, 105 57, 7:30 p.m.) (details from Jean Mertzanakis)

Visiting Choir: Los Angeles Episcopal Choral (Sunday 13th October); performance at 12:00 p.m. after the liturgy.

Remembrance Sunday: 10th November (10:00 a.m. at Church);

Armistice Day: 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery, Alimos)

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Donate electronically by scanning the QR code; the Church does not receive any

funding from the Church of England or the British Government and is reliant

on the goodwill of congregants and visitors. We thank you for your support.

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;

Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)   697 737 7655  anglican@otenet.gr (Church email address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service for the 29th september 2024 – Feast of St Michael and All Angels

Celebrant and Preacher: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

New English Hymnal numbers (tunes):

Entrance: 190 (Coelites Plaudant) Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 138

Gradual: 9 (Helmsley) Lo! he comes with clouds descending

Offertory: 336 (Angel Voices) Angel-voices ever singing

Post Communion: 295 (Picardy) Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Recessional: 478 (Laast Uns Erfreuen) Ye watchers and ye holy ones All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.

Please remember that the chaplaincy in Athens neither receives funding from the British Government nor from the Church of

England. All donations are, therefore, very gratefully received

A Reading from the prophet Daniel (7: 9-10, 13-14)

As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ancient of days took his seat; his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him;

a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.  And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 138: (Response): Before the angels I will bless you, O Lord

1 I thank you, Lord, with all my heart, you have heard the words of my mouth.

2 In the presence of the angels I will bless you.

I will adore before your holy temple. (Response)

I thank you for your faithfulness and love which excel all we ever knew of you.

3 On the day I called, you answered:

you increased the strength of my soul. (Response)

4 All the earth’s kings shall thank you

when they hear the words of your mouth. 5 They shall sing of the Lord’s ways:

‘How great is the glory of the Lord!’ (Response)

7 You stretch out your hand and save me, your hand will do all things for me.

8 Your love, O Lord, is eternal,

discard not the work of your hands. (Response)

A Reading from the Revelation to St. John the Divine (12:7-12)

Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.  And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.  And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, all his hosts,

his servants who do his will. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (1: 47-51)

Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading):

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

O everlasting God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order: Mercifully grant that, as thy holy Angels alway do thee service in heaven, so by thy appointment they may succour and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer)

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Weds. 2nd October.: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refresments

Sun. 6th October.: 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Choral Evensong: Sunday 27th Oct.; Sunday 24th Nov.; Sunday 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October (contributions of food are sought: please speak to Lynn Stavrou).

Quiz Night: Friday 11th October (Swedish Community Building, Apollonos 6, Athens, 105 57, 7:30 p.m.) (details from Jean Mertz- anakis)

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Donate electronically by scanning the QR code; The Church does not receive any funding from the Church of England or the British Government and is reliant on the goodwill of congregants and visitors We thank you for your support.

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;

Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)           697 737 7655 anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service Sheet for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity – 22nd September 2024

Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant and Preacher: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass) New English Hymnal numbers (tunes):

Entrance: 439 (Billing) Praise to the Holiest in the height;

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 54

Gradual: 383 (Aberystwyth) Jesu, Lover of my soul

Offertory: 420 (Wolvercote) O Jesus, I have promised

Post Communion: 406 (St Hugh) Lord, teach us how to pray aright

Recessional: 368 (Cwm Rhondda) Guide me, O thou great redeemer

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy. Please remember that the chaplaincy in Athens neither receives funding from the British Government nor from the Church of England. All donations are, therefore, very gratefully received

A Reading from the Book of Wisdom (2:12, 17-20)

The godless say to themselves: ‘Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys us and opposes our way of life, reproaches us for our breaches of the law and accuses us of playing false to our upbringing. ‘Let us see if what he says is true, let us observe what kind of end he himself will have. If the virtuous man is God’s son, God will take his part and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies. Let us test him with cruelty and with torture, and thus explore this gentleness of his and put his endurance to the proof. Let us condemn him to a shameful death since he will be looked after – we have his word for it.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 54: (Response): I will praise your name, for it is gracious.

1 Save me, O God, by your name And vindicate me by your power. 2 Hear my prayer, O God; give heed to the words of my mouth. (Response)

3 For strangers have risen up against me, and the ruthless seek after my life; they have not set God before them. (Response)

4 Behold, God is my helper; It is the Lord who holds up my life. 5 May evil rebound on those who lie in wait for me; destroy them in your faithfulness. (Response)

6 An offering of a free heart will I give you and praise your name, O Lord, for it is gracious. 7 For he has delivered me out of all my trouble, and my eye has seen the downfall of my enemies. (Response)

A Reading from the Letter of James (James 3:16-4:3)

Wherever you find jealousy and ambition, you find disharmony, and wicked things of every kind being done; whereas the wisdom that comes down from above is essentially something pure; it also makes for peace, and is kindly and considerate; it is full of compassion and shows itself by doing good; nor is there any trace of partiality or hypocrisy in it. Peacemakers, when they work for peace, sow the seeds which will bear fruit in holiness. Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and you haven’t got it; so you are prepared to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you don’t have what you want is because you don’t pray for it; when you do pray and don’t get it, it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. I am the light of the world, says the Lord; anyone who follows me will have the light of life. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. +

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (9: 30-37) Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading): The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

Post Communion Prayer

Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

NOTICES

• Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Weds. 25th Sept.: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refresments
• Sun. 29nd Sept.: 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments
• Choral Evensong: Sunday 27th Oct.; Sunday 24th Nov.; Sunday 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)
• Autumn Bazaar: Saturday 28th September (10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m)
• Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October (contributions of food are sought: please speak to Lynn Stavrou).
• Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Donate electronically by scanning the QR code;

The Church does not receive any funding from the Church of England or the British Government and is reliant on the goodwill of congregants and visitors. We thank you for your support.

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906 Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday) 697 737 7655 anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling 694 6072428

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Service Sheet for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity – 1st September 2024

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Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass) New English Hymnal numbers (tunes): Entrance: 285 (England’s Lane) For the beauty of the earth Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 15 Gradual: 500 (Irish) Thy kingdom come! on bended knee Offertory: 436 (Praise, My Soul) Praise, my soul, the King of heaven Post Communion: 456 (Sandys) Teach me, my God and King Recessional: 381 (Ewing) Jerusalem the golden All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy

A Reading from Deuteronomy (Deutoronomy 4: 1-2, 6-8) Moses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. You must add nothing to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God just as I lay them down for you. Keep them, observe them, and they will demonstrate to the peoples your wisdom and understanding. When they come to know of all these laws they will exclaim, “No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation.” And indeed, what great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him? And what great nation is there that has laws and customs to match this whole Law that I put before you today?’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 15: Response: O Lord, who may dwell in your tabernacle? 1 Lord, who may dwell in your tabernacle? Who may rest upon your holy hill? 2 Whoever leads an uncorrupt life And does the thing that is right; (Response) 3 Who speaks the truth from the heart and bears no deceit on the tongue; 4 Who does no evil to a friend and pours no scorn on a neighbour; (Response) 5 In whose sight the wicked are not esteemed, but who honours those who fear the Lord. 6 Whoever has sworn to a neighbour and never goes back on that word; (Response) 7 Who does not lend money in hope of gain, nor take a bribe against the innocent; 8 Whoever does these things Shall never fall. (Response)

A Reading from the Letter of James (James 1: 17-18, 21-22, 27)   It is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of first-fruits of all that he had created. Accept and submit to the word which has been planted in you and can save your souls. But you must do what the word tells you, and not just listen to it and deceive yourselves. Pure, unspoilt religion, in the eyes of God our Father is this: coming to the help of orphans and widows when they need it, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world. The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life: you have the message of eternal life.

The Lord be with you. And also with you. + A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23) Glory to you, O Lord.

(after the Gospel reading): The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

Prayer after communion: Lord, you renew us at your table with the bread of life. May this food strengthen us in love and help us to serve you in each other.

For our Prayers: All affected by the recent fires, for Peace with Justice in the Sudan, Ukraine and Russia, and Gaza. For the sick: Julia, Sherry, Helena, Jennifer, Jane, George Halkidis, Eva, Austin, Linda, Theodore, Sue, Guy, Margarita, Marcus, Christina, Theresa, Lodo, Dimitri, Fran, Nicholas, Eleftheria, and Christina and Daphne and for their carers

Almighty and everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer)

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Weds. 4th September: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 8th September 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Coffee Morning: 12th September (Thursday) (10:00 a.m.)

Choral Evensong: Saturday 14th September; Sunday 27th October; Sunday 24th November; Sunday 22nd December (6:00 p.m.)

Autumn Bazaar: Saturday 28th September

Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October

Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin;  Walking Group: 7th September (details from Fr. Benjamin)

Donate via card by scanning the QR code, thank you for supporting St Paul’s Church

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906 Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday) 697 737 7655 Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling 694 6072428 Facebook @AnglicanAthens www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Readings for Sunday 18th August 2024, The Blessed Virgin Mary, (Feast of the Assumption)

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
New English Hymnal numbers (tunes):
Entrance: 478 (Laast uns Erfreuen) Ye watchers and ye holy ones
Canticle: 186 (Woodlands) Tell out, my soul (Magnificat)
Gradual: 185 (Abbot’s Leigh) Sing we of the blessed Mother
Offertory: 188 (Daily Daily) Ye who own the faith of Jesus
Post Communion: 180 (Ave Maris Stella) Hail, O Star that pointest
Recessional: 181 (Puer Nobis Nascitur) The Lord whom earth and sea and sky
All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.

A Reading from the Revelation of St. John the Divine (Rev. 11:19-12:6,10)

19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his cove- nant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

12 And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth,

in anguish for delivery. 3 And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; 5 she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, 6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

A Reading from the Letter of St Paul to the Galatians (Gal. 4:4-7)

4 But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because

you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, cry- ing, “Abba! Father!” 7 So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Mary has been taken up into heaven; all the choirs of angels are rejoicing.

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 1: 46- 55) Glory to you, O Lord.

46 And Mary said “My soul magnifies the Lord,

47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour,

48 for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; 49 for he who is mighty has done great things for me,

and holy is his name.

50 And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation.

51 He has shown strength with his arm,

he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, 52 he has put down the mighty from their thrones,

and exalted those of low degree;

53 he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.

54 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,

55 as he spoke to our fathers,

to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.”

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

For our Prayers: The world-wide Church & the homeless, those struggling with addiction and in recovery. For Peace with Justice in: Palestine-Israel, Armenia, Ukraine, Sudan, all Refugees and Aid Agencies. The Church in Gaza, all victims of war. All those affected by fires and natural disasters.

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Weds. 21st August: 10 a.m. Low Mass

Sun. 25th August 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Dates for the diary

Coffee Morning: 12th September

Choral Evensong (in September (date to be confirmed))

Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury

frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali : Day Off – Friday          697 737 7655 Swedish Church: Fr. Bjorn 694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens,  www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Donate via card by scanning the QR code, thank you for supporting St Paul’s Church