Service Sheet for Sunday 3rd August 2025 – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant Rev Canon Leonard Doolan

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
Processional: 415 (Lyngham) O for a thousand tongues to sing
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 90
Gradual: 480 (Manchester) In Christ there is no East or West
Offertory: 401 (Westminster Abbey) Light’s abode, celestial Salem
Communion: 311 (Meirionydd) We pray thee, heavenly Father
Recessional: 392 (Sandon) Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling
gloom
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 Ecclesiastes (1: 2, 2: 21-23)
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity!
For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely, skilfully and suc-
cessfully must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for
it at all. This, too, is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain
for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun?
What of all his laborious days, his cares of office, his restless
nights? This, too, is vanity.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 90:

O Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to the next.

You turn men back to dust
and say: ‘Go back, sons of men.’
To your eyes a thousand years
are like yesterday, come and gone,
no more than a watch in the night. (Response)

You sweep men away like a dream,
like the grass which springs up in the morning.
In the morning it springs up and flowers:
by evening it withers and fades. (Response)

Make us know the shortness of our life
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever?
Show pity to your servants. (Response)

In the morning, fill us with your love; we
shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favour of the Lord be upon us:
give success to the work of our hands. (Response)

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (3: 1-5, 9-
11) Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, you
must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at
God’s right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on
the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now
the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is
revealed – and he is your life – you too will be revealed in all your glory
with him.
That is why you must kill everything in you that belongs only to
earthly life: fornication, impurity, guilty passion, evil desires and
especially greed, which is the same thing as worshipping a false
god; and never tell each other lies. You have stripped off your old
behaviour with your old self, and you have put on a new self
which will progress towards true knowledge the more it is renewed in the image of its creator;

and in that image there is no room for distinction
between Greek and Jew, between the circumcised or the
uncircumcised, or between barbarian and Scythian, slave and free man.
There is only Christ: he is everything and he is in everything.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation: 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 Luke (12: 13-21)
Glory to you, O Lord.
After the Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ

The setting of the Nicene Creed is to be found on page 562 in

the New English Hymnal

Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase
in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Book of Common Prayer Collect: Seventh Sunday after Trinity)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 6th August: 9:30 a.m.; Low Mass; Transfiguration of the Lord

Sunday 10th August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Please note that on Wednesday (6th August) the Mass for the
Transfiguration shall commence at the earlier time of 9:30 a.m.
Study group & pilgrimage 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 Sunday 27th July 2025 – 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 500 (Irish) Thy kingdom come! on bended knee

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 138

Gradual: 416 (Stracathro) O God of Bethel, by whose hand

Offertory: 302 (Song I) O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray

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

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

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 (18: 20-32)

The Lord said, ‘How great an outcry there is against Sodom and Gomorrah! How grievous is their sin! I propose to go down and see whether or not they have done all that is alleged in the outcry against them that has come up to me. I am determined to know.’

The men left there and went to Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Approaching him he said, ‘Are you really going to destroy the just man with the sinner? Perhaps there are fifty just men in the town. Will you really overwhelm them, will you not spare the place for the fifty just men in it? Do not think of doing such a thing: to kill the just man with the sinner, treating just and sinner alike! Do not think of it! Will the judge of the whole earth not admin- ister justice?’ the Lord replied, ‘If at Sodom I find fifty just men in the town, I will spare the whole place because of them.’

Abraham replied, ‘I am bold indeed to speak like this to my Lord, I who am dust and ashes. But perhaps the fifty just men lack five: will you destroy the whole city for five?’ ‘No,’ he replied ‘I will not destroy it if I find forty-five just men there.’ Again Abraham said to him, ‘Per- haps there will only be forty there.’ ‘I will not do it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the forty.’

Abraham said, ‘I trust my Lord will not be angry, but give me leave to speak: perhaps there will only be thirty there.’ ‘I will not do it’ he replied ‘if I find thirty there.’ He said, ‘I am bold indeed to speak like this, but perhaps there will only be twenty there.’ ‘I will not destroy it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the twenty.’ He said, ‘I trust my Lord will not be angry if I speak once more: perhaps there will only be ten.’ ‘I will not destroy it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the ten.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 138: On the day I called, you answered me, O Lord.

A reading from the Letter of Paul to the Colossians (2: 12-14)

You have been buried with Christ, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead. You were dead,  Because you were sinners and had not been circumcised: he has brought you to life with him, he has forgiven us all our sins.

He has overridden the Law, and cancelled every record of the debt that we had to pay; he has done away with it by nailing it to the cross.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

The Word was made flesh and lived among us:

to all who did accept him he gave power to become children of God. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (11: 1-13)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Once Jesus was in a certain place praying, and when he had finished one of his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disci- ples.’ He said to them, ‘Say this when you pray:

‘“Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come; give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us.

And do not put us to the test.”’

He also said to them: ‘Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him in the middle of the night to say, “My friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine on his travels has just arrived at my house and I have nothing to offer him”; and the man answers from inside the house, “Do not bother me. The door is bolted now, and my children and I are in bed;

I cannot get up to give it you.” I tell you, if the man does not get up and give it him for friendship’s sake, persistence will be enough to make him get up and give his friend all he wants.

‘So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks al- ways receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened to him. What father among you would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? Or hand him a snake instead of a fish? Or hand him a scorpion if he asked for an egg? If you then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’

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

O God, who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass man’s understanding: Pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we, loving thee above all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Sixth Sunday after Trinity)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 30th July: 10 a.m.; Low Mass Sunday 3rd August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Weds. 6th August: 9:30 a.m.; Low Mass: Transfiguration of the Lord

Sunday 10th August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Please note that the Mass on the sixth of August (Transfiguration) will begin at 9:30 a.m. (rather than the usual hour of 10 a.m.)

Study group & pilgrimage walking group: to resume in September,

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

(Church e-mail address)  anglican@otenet.gr

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service Sheet for Sunday 20th July – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Cdelebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 410 (Westminster) My God, how wonderful thou art

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 15

Gradual: 424 (Cornwall) O love divine, how sweet thou art!

Offertory: 473 (Laudes Domini) When morning gilds the skies

Communion: 294 (Saffron Walden) Just as I am, without one plea

Recessional: 393 (Mannheim) Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us

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 (18: 1-10)

The Lord appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, and bowed to the ground. ‘My lord,’ he said, ‘I beg you, if I find favour with you, kindly do not pass your servant by. A little water shall be brought; you shall wash your feet and lie down under the tree. Let me fetch a little bread and you shall refresh yourselves before going further. That is why you have come in your servant’s direction.’ They replied, ‘Do as you say.’

Abraham hastened to the tent to find Sarah.’ ‘Hurry,’ he said ‘knead three bushels of flour and make loaves.’ Then running to the cattle Abraham took a fine and tender calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to prepare it. Then taking cream, milk and the calf he had prepared, he laid all before them, and they ate while he remained standing near them under the tree.

‘Where is your wife Sarah?’ they asked him. ‘She is in the tent’ he replied. Then his guest said, ‘I shall visit you again next year without fail, and your wife will then have a son.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 15: The just will live in the presence of the Lord.

Lord, who shall dwell on your holy mountain?

He who walks without fault;

he who acts with justice

and speaks the truth from his heart;

he who does not slander with his tongue. (Response)

He who does no wrong to his brother, who casts no slur on his neighbour, who holds the godless in disdain,

but honours those who fear the Lord. (Response)

He who keeps his pledge, come what may;

who takes no interest on a loan

and accepts no bribes against the innocent.

Such a man will stand firm for ever. (Response)

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (1: 24-28)

It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my own body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be

undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. I became the servant of the Church when God made me responsible for deliv- ering God’s message to you, the message which was a mystery hid- den for generations and centuries and has now been revealed to his saints. It was God’s purpose to reveal it to them and to show all the rich glory of this mystery to pagans. The mystery is Christ among you, your hope of glory: this is the Christ we proclaim, this is the wisdom in which we thoroughly train everyone and instruct every- one, to make them all perfect in Christ.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Open our heart, O Lord,

to accept the words of your Son. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (10: 38-42)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed

him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord’s feet and listened to him speaking. Now Martha who was distracted with all the serving said, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself? Please tell her to help me.’ But the Lord answered: ‘Martha, Martha,’ he said ‘you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one.  It is Mary who has chosen the better part; it is not to be taken from her.’

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

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance, that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Fifth Sun- day after Trinity)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 23rd July: 10 a.m.; Mattins (Morning Prayer)

Sunday 27th July: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Wednesday 30th July: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Study group & pilgrimage 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

anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)          697 737 7655

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service Sheet for Sunday 13th July 2025 – Sea Sunday – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary time

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 354 (Melita) Eternal Father, strong to save

Psalm: Ps. 107

Gradual: 200 (St. Andrew) Jesus calls us, o’er the tumult

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

Communion: 353 (Repton) Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Recessional: 352 (Diademata) Crown him with many crowns

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 Deuteronomy (30: 10-14)

Moses said to the people: ‘Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keep- ing those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

‘For this Law that I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, “Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?” Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, “Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?” No, the Word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 107: verses: 23-30 (Chant: W. Turner)

They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters;

These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth : which lifteth up the waves thereof.

They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep : their soul melteth away because of the trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man : and are at their wits’ end.

So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble : he delivereth them out of their distress.

For he maketh the storm to cease : so that the waves thereof are still.

Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (1: 15-20)

Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity. Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way; because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life; you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (8: 22-25)

Glory to you, O Lord.

It happened that one day he got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, ‘Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.’ So

they set out, and as they sailed he fell asleep. When a squall of

wind came down on the lake the boat started shipping water and

they found themselves in danger. So they went to rouse him saying, ‘Master! Master! We are lost!’ Then he woke up and rebuked the

wind and the rough water; and they subsided and it was calm again.

He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ They were awestruck and astounded and said to one another, ‘Who can this be, that gives orders even to winds and waves and they obey him?’

after the Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

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Service Sheet for Sunday 6th July 2025, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Preacher: Deacon Christine Saccali

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass) Processional: 362 (Austria) Glorious things of thee are spoken Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 66

Gradual: 481 (Vienna) Jesus, Lord, we look to thee

Offertory: 461 (Corvedale) There’s a wideness in God’s mercy

Communion: 95 (Rockingham) When I survey the wondrous Cross

Recessional: 379 (Cross of Jesus) In the Cross of Christ I glory

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 Isaiah (66: 10-14)

Rejoice, Jerusalem,

be glad for her, all you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice for her,

all you who mourned her!

That you may be suckled, filled,

from her consoling breast,

that you may savour with delight her glorious breasts.

For thus says the Lord:

Now towards her I send flowing

peace, like a river,

and like a stream in spate the glory of the nations.

At her breast will her nurslings be carried and fondled in her lap.

Like a son comforted by his mother will I comfort you.

And by Jerusalem you will be comforted. At the sight your heart will rejoice,

and your bones flourish like the grass.

To his servants the Lord will reveal his hand.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 66: Cry out with joy to God, all the earth

Cry out with joy to God all the earth, O sing to the glory of his name.

O render him glorious praise.

Say to God: ‘How tremendous your deeds! (Response)

‘Before you all the earth shall bow;

shall sing to you, sing to your name!’ Come and see the works of God,

tremendous his deeds among men. (Response)

He turned the sea into dry land,

they passed through the river dry-shod.

Let our joy then be in him;

he rules for ever by his might. (Response)

Come and hear, all who fear God.

I will tell what he did for my soul:

Blessed be God who did not reject my prayer nor withhold his love from me. (Response)

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians (6: 14-18)

The only thing I can boast about is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. It does not matter if a person is circumcised or not; what matters is for him to become an altogether new creature. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, who form the Israel of God.

I want no more trouble from anybody after this; the marks on my body are those of Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brothers. Amen.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! I call you friends, says the Lord, because I have made known to you

everything I have learnt from my Father. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (10: 1-12, 17-20)

Glory to you, O Lord.

after the Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may by thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in all dangers and ad- versities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Third Sunday after Trinity)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 9th July: 10 a.m. Low Mass;  Sunday 13 July: 10 a.m.  Sung Mass

Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Coffee Morning: Thursday 10th July (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.); in the churchyard – last Coffee Morning before the Summer. Look our for information regarding recommencement in september.

Sale of Books and Preserves: Saturday 19th July (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.);

in the churchyard. Donations of cake or biscuits on the day will be gratefully received.

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

anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

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

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service Sheet for Sunday 29th June, Feast of Saint Peter & Saint Paul, our Patronal Festivalst

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 215 (Harts) Captains of the saintly band

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 34

Gradual: 213 (Gonfalon Royal) The eternal gifts of Christ the King

Offertory: 214 (Deus Tuorum Militum) Let the round world with songs rejoice

Communion: 282 (Pastor Pastorum) Faithful Shepherd, feed me

Recessional: 205 (Westminster Abbey) Christ is made the sure foundation

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 Acts of the Apostles (12: 1-11)

King Herod started persecuting certain members of the Church. He beheaded James the brother of John, and when he saw that this pleased the Jews he decided to arrest Peter as well. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread, and he put Peter in prison, assigning

four squads of four soldiers each to guard him in turns. Herod meant to try Peter in public after the end of Passover week. All the time Peter was under guard the Church prayed to God for him unremittingly.

On the night before Herod was to try him, Peter was sleeping be- tween two soldiers, fastened with double chains, while guards kept watch at the main entrance to the prison. Then suddenly the angel of the Lord stood there, and the cell was filled with light. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him. ‘Get up!’ he said ‘Hurry!’ – and the chains fell from his hands. The angel then said, ‘Put on your belt and

sandals.’ After he had done this, the angel next said, ‘Wrap your cloak round you and follow me.’ Peter followed him, but had no idea that what the angel did was all happening in reality; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed through two guard posts one after the other, and reached the iron gate leading to the city. This opened of its own accord; they went through it and had walked the whole length of one street when suddenly the angel left him. It was only then that Pe- ter came to himself. ‘Now I know it is all true’ he said. ‘The Lord really did send his angel and has saved me from Herod and from all that the Jewish people were so certain would happen to me.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 34: From all my terrors the Lord set me free

I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise always on my lips;

in the Lord my soul shall make its boast.

The humble shall hear and be glad. (Response)

Glorify the Lord with me.

Together let us praise his name.

I sought the Lord and he answered me;

from all my terrors he set me free. (Response)

Look towards him and be radiant; let your faces not be abashed.

This poor man called, the Lord heard him

and rescued him from all his distress. (Response)

The angel of the Lord is encamped

around those who revere him, to rescue them.

Taste and see that the Lord is good.

He is happy who seeks refuge in him. (Response)

A reading from the second letter of St. Paul to Timothy (4: 6-8, 17-18)

My life is already being poured away as a libation, and the time has come for me to be gone. I have fought the good fight to the end; I

have run the race to the finish; I have kept the faith; all there is to come now is the crown of righteousness reserved for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that Day; and not only to me but to all those who have longed for his Appearing.

The Lord stood by me and gave me power, so that through me

the whole message might be proclaimed for all the pagans to hear; and so I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue

me from all evil attempts on me, and bring me safely to his heaven- ly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.

And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew (16: 13-19)

Glory to you, O Lord.

after the Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

O Almighty God, who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to thy Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts, and commandedst

him earnestly to feed thy flock: Make, we beseech thee, all Bish- ops and Pastors diligently to preach thy holy Word, and the people obediently to follow the same, that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.(Book of Common Prayer Collect: St. Peter)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 2nd July: 10 a.m.; Low Mass Sunday 6th July: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Coffee Morning: Thursday 10th July (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.); in the churchyard

Sale of Books and Preserves: Saturday 19th July (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.); in the churchyard. Donations of cake or biscuits on the day will be gratefully received.

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

anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)          697 737 7655

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Corpus Christi Processional and Benediction

1. Laud, O Sion, thy salvation, Laud with hymns of exultation

Christ, thy King and Shepherd true:

Spend thyself, his honour raising,

Who surpasseth all thy praising;

Never canst thou reach his due.

Blessed and praised be Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament!

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in Excelsis

2.Sing today, the mystery showing Of the living, life bestowing

Bread from heaven before thee set;

E’en the same of old provided,

Where the Twelve, divinely guided,

At the holy Table met

3.  Full and clear ring out thy chanting,

Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting

To thy heart and soul today:

When we gather up the measure Of that Supper and its treasure,

Keeping feast in glad array.

4. Lo, the new King’s Table gracing,

This new Passover of blessing Hath fulfilled the elder rite:

Now the new the old effaceth,

Truth revealed the shadow chaseth,

Day is breaking on the night.

5. What he did at Supper seated, Christ ordained to be repeated,

His memorial ne’er to cease:

And, his word for guidance taking,

Bread and wine we hallow,

making Thus our Sacrifice of peace.

6. This the truth to Christians given

Bread becomes his Flesh from heaven, Wine becomes his holy Blood.

Doth it pass thy comprehending?

Yet by faith, thy sight transcending,

Wondrous things are understood.

7. Yea, beneath these signs are hidden

Glorious things to sight forbidden:

Look not on the outward sign.

Wine is poured and Bread is broken,

But in either sacred token

Christ is here by power divine

8. Who so of this Food partaketh,

Christ divideth not nor breaketh:

He is whole to all that taste.

Whether one this bread receiveth,

Or a thousand, still he giveth

One same Food that cannot waste.

9. Good and evil men are sharing

One repast, an end preparing

Varied as the heart of man:

Life or death shall be awarded,

As their days shall be recorded

Which from one beginning ran

10. When the Sacrament is broken,

Doubt not in each severed token,

Resteth all the true content:

Nought the precious Gift divideth,

Breaking but the sign betideth,

Nothing of his fullness spent.

Tantum ergo (tune: Pange Lingua)

Therefore we, before him bending, This great sacrament revere:

Types and shadows have their ending, For the newer rite is here;

Faith, our outward sense befriending, Makes the inward vision clear.

Glory let us give and blessing To the Father and the Son,

Honour, might and praise addressing, While eternal ages run;

Ever too his love confessing,

Who, from both, with both is one. Amen.

V: Thou gavest them bread from heaven, Alleluia:

Response: Containing within itself all sweetness, Alleluia.

The priest then chants the Collect of the Feast to which all respond: Amen.

The priest then approaches the Altar to take up the mon-

strance. He then proceeds to solemnly bless the congregation. The Divine Praises are then repeated after the priest:

Blessed be God.

Blessed be His Holy Name.

Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man: Blessed be the Name of Jesus.

Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.

Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.

Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.

Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy. Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.

Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse. Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints

Service Sheet for Sunday 22nd June – Corpus Christi

Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 52 (Was Lebet) O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 110

Gradual: 280 (Schmucke Dich) Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness

Offertory: 352 (Diademata) Crown him with many crowns

Communion: 307 (Divine Mysteries) Sweet sacrament divine

Communion II: 295 (Picardy) Let all mortal flesh keep silent

For the Processional hymns, refer to this sheet, and the additional sheet.

Recessional: 296 (St. Helen) Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the

liturgy

A reading from the Book of Genesis (14: 18-20)

Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High. He pronounced this blessing:

‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be God Most High for handing over your enemies to you.’ And Abram gave him a tithe of everything.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 110: You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.

The Lord’s revelation to my Master: ‘Sit on my right:

your foes I will put beneath your feet.’ (Response)

The Lord will wield from Zion your sceptre of power:

rule in the midst of all your foes. (Response)

A prince from the day of your birth on the holy mountains;

from the womb before the dawn I begot you. (Response) The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change.

‘You are a priest for ever,

a priest like Melchizedek of old.’ (Response)

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (11: 23-26)

This is what I received from the Lord, and in turn passed on to you: that on the same night that he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took

some bread, and thanked God for it and broke it, and he said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this as a memorial of me.’ In the

same way he took the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a memorial of me.’  Until the Lord comes, therefore, every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming his death.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven, says the Lord. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (9: 11-17)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus made the crowds welcome and talked to them about the king- dom of God; and he cured those who were in need of healing.

It was late afternoon when the Twelve came to him and said,

‘Send the people away, and they can go to the villages and farms round about to find lodging and food; for we are in a lonely place here.’ He replied, ‘Give them something to eat yourselves.’ But they said, ‘We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we are to go ourselves and buy food for all these people.’ For there were

about five thousand men. But he said to his disciples, ‘Get them to sit down in parties of about fifty.’ They did so and made them all sit down. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to heaven, and said the blessing over them; then he broke them and handed them to his disciples to distribute among the crowd. They

all ate as much as they wanted, and when the scraps remaining were collected they filled twelve baskets.

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

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

O salutaris hostia (for the Procession) (tune: Wareham): O saving Victim, opening wide

The gate of heaven to man below; Our foes press hard on every side,

Thine aid supply, thy strength bestow.

All praise and thanks to thee ascend For evermore, blest One in Three;

O grant us life that shall not end,

In our true native land with thee. Amen.

O GOD, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee,

mercifully accept our prayers; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping of thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect: First Sunday after Trinity)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 25th June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 29th June: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (SS. Peter & Paul)

Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. Benjamin

The church choir are always seeking to increase their membership.

Those who are interested, and are able to read music to even a small degree of competence, should speak to Oliver Knight.

Any interested in joining the serving team (as acolyte, thurifer, or crucifer) should speak to Father 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

anglican@otenet.gr (Church email address)

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)          697 737 7655

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr

Service Sheet for Sunday 15th June 2025 – Trinity Sunday

Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 466 (Moscow) Thou whose almighty word

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 8

Gradual: 149 (Coelites Plaudant) Father, we praise thee, now the night is over

Offertory: 148 (Leoni) The God of Abraham Praise

Post-Communion: 146 (Nicaea) Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God almighty

Recessional: 159 (St. Patrick’s Breastplate) I bind unto myself this day [between verses 5 and 6, the choir shall sing 278 (Gartan) Christ be with me]

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 Proverbs (8: 22-31)

The Wisdom of God cries aloud:

The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded,

before the oldest of his works.

From everlasting I was firmly set,

from the beginning, before earth came into being.

The deep was not, when I was born,

there were no springs to gush with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth;

before he made the earth, the countryside,

or the first grains of the world’s dust.

When he fixed the heavens firm, I was there,

when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep, when he thickened the clouds above,

when he fixed fast the springs of the deep,

when he assigned the sea its boundaries

– and the waters will not invade the shore – when he laid down the foundations of the earth,

I was by his side, a master craftsman,

delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence, at play everywhere in his world,

delighting to be with the sons of men.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; the God who is, who was, and who is to come. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (16: 12-15)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you will be taken from what is mine.’

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

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

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Service Sheet for Sunday 8th June – Pentecost Sunday

Celebrant Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 139 (Veni Sancte Spiritus) Come, thou Holy Spirit, come

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 104

Gradual: 138 (Veni Creator) Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire

Offertory: 355 (Song I) Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round

Post-Communion: 342 (Dominica) Breathe on me, Breath of God

Recessional: 137 (Down Ampney) Come down, O Love divine

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 Acts of the Apostles (2: 1-11)

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign lan- guages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.

Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely’ they said ‘all these men speaking are Galileans? How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya round Cyrene; as well as visitors from Rome – Jews and proselytes alike – Cretans and Arabs; we hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 104: Send forth your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth (text at 537 in the New English Hymnal)

A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans (8: 8-17)

People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not in the unspiritu- al, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.

So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our un-

spiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live.

Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’ The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of God. And if we are children we are heirs as well: heirs of

God and coheirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to share his glory.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (14: 15-16, 23-26)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘If you love me you will keep my commandments.

I shall ask the Father,

and he will give you another Advocate to be with you for ever.

‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,

and my Father will love him,

and we shall come to him and make our home with him. Those who do not love me do not keep my words.

And my word is not my own:

it is the word of the one who sent me.

I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send in my name,

will teach you everything

and remind you of all I have said to you.

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

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

God, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Whitsunday)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 11th June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 15th June: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Trinity Sunday)

Coffee Morning: 12th June, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; church garden.

Study group & pilgrimage 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

anglican@otenet.gr (Church email address)

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)          697 737 7655

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr