Service for Sunday 2nd March – 8th in Ordinary Time

St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 158 (Llangloffan) We praise thy name, all-holy Lord

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 92

Gradual: 245 (Ar Hyd Y Nos) God, that madest earth and heaven

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

Communion: 445 (Petra) Rock of ages, cleft for me

Recessional: 215 (Harts) Captains of the saintly band

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 Ecclesiasticus (27: 5-8)

In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind, so too the defects of a man appear in his talk.  The kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in his conversation.  The orchard where a tree grows is judged on the quality of its fruit, similarly a man’s words betray what he feels.

Do not praise a man before he has spoken, since this is the test of men.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 92: It is good to give you thanks, O Lord

It is good to give thanks to the Lord,

to make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning

and your truth in the watches of the night. (Response)

 

The just will flourish like the palm tree

and grow like a Lebanon cedar. (Response)

 

Planted in the house of the Lord

they will flourish in the courts of our God, still bearing fruit when they are old,

still full of sap, still green,

to proclaim that the Lord is just.

In him, my rock, there is no wrong. (Response)

 

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (15-: 54-58)

When this perishable nature has put on imperishability, and when this mortal nature has put on immortality, then the words of scripture will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at the Lord’s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

You will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life. Alleluia!

 

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (6: 39-45)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

Jesus told a parable to his disciples: ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not supe- rior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and

never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your broth- er, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,” when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to

take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye.  There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles.

A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.’

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

 

 

O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee.

Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. (BCP Collect for Quinquagesima, or the Sunday next before Lent)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments Weds. 5th March: 10 a.m.; Ash Wednesday (Sung Mass) Weds. 5th March: 6:30 p.m.; Ash Wednesday (Low Mass)

Sun. 9th March: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Lent I)

Weds. 12th March: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

 

Walking Group and Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Coffee Morning: March 13th (Thursday) 10:30 a.m.

Bishop’s Lent Appeal: Diocese in Europe and USPG (Anglican Mission Agency) collabarative work with refugees in Europe. Particulars, and donation details, are to be found on the Diocesan internet pages or the Diocesan Just Giving page.

 

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

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