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

 

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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

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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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