Service for 10th November2024 – Remembrance Sunday

ST PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH ATHENS

Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

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

Congregational Psalm: (Ps. 90) 417 (St Anne) O God, our help in ages past Offertory: Sheet (Thaxted) I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above Communion: 302 (Song I) O Thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray Recessional: 489 (National Anthem) God save our gracious King

  

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 First Book of the Kings (17: 10-16)

 

Elijah the Prophet went off to Sidon. And when he reached the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks; addressing her he said, ‘Please bring me a little water in a vessel for me to drink.’ She was set- ting off to bring it when he called after her. ‘Please’ he said ‘bring me a scrap of bread in your hand.’ ‘As the Lord your God lives,’ she replied ‘I have no baked bread, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am just gathering a stick or two to go and prepare this for myself and my son to eat, and then we shall die.’ But Elijah said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, go and do as you have said; but first make a little scone of it for me and bring it to me, and then make some for yourself and for your son. For thus the Lord speaks, the God of Israel:

“Jar of meal shall not be spent, jug of oil shall not be emptied,

before the day when the Lord sends rain on the face of the earth.”’

The woman went and did as Elijah told her and they ate the food, she, himself and her son. The jar of meal was not spent nor the jug of oil emptied, just as the Lord had foretold through Elijah.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (9: 24-28)

 

It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was only modelled on the real one; but it was heaven itself, so that he could appear in the actual presence of God on our behalf. And

he does not have to offer himself again and again, like the high

priest going into the sanctuary year after year with the blood that is not his own, or else he would have had to suffer over and over again since the world began. Instead of that, he has made his appearance once and for all, now at the end of the last age, to do away with

sin by sacrificing himself. Since men only die once, and after that comes judgement, so Christ, too, offers himself only once to take

the faults of many on himself, and when he appears a second time,

 

it will not be to deal with sin but to reward with salvation those who are waiting for him.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Even if you have to die, says the Lord,

keep faithful, and I will give you the crown of life.

Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (12: 38-44)

Glory to you O Lord

 

(after the Gospel reading):

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

 

Offertory hymn:

I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above, entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:

the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test, that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;

the love that never falters, the love that pays the price, the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

 

And there’s another country I’ve heard of long ago,

most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know; we may not count her armies, we may not see her King;

her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;

and soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,

and her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.

 

Almighty God, kindle, we beseech thee, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with thy wisdom those who

take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in tranquillity thy dominion may increase till the earth is filled with the

knowledge of thy love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who

liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

 

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

Weds. 13th November: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

Sun. 17th November: 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments

 

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

Armistice Day: 11th November (Phaleron War Cemetery, Alimos) (10:30 a.m.)

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

Christmas Bazaar: 1st December (Advent Sunday) (War Museum)

 

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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