Service for Sunday 9th February 2025, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 146 (Nicaea) Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God almighty

Responsorial  Psalm:

Gradual: 377 (St. Denio) Immortal, invisible, God only wise

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

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

Recessional: 486 (Fulda) We have a gospel to 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 the Prophet Isaiah (6: 1-8)

 

In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord of Hosts seated on a high throne; his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings.

And they cried out to one another in this way,

 

‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts. His glory fills the whole earth.’

 

The foundations of the threshold shook with the voice of the one who cried out, and the Temple was filled with smoke. I said:

 

‘What a wretched state I am in! I am lost,

for I am a man of unclean lips

and I live among a people of unclean lips,

and my eyes have looked at the King, the Lord of Hosts.’

 

Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding in his hand a live coal which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. With this he touched my mouth and said:

‘See now, this has touched your lips, your sin is taken away,

your iniquity is purged.’

 

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:

 

‘Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?’ I answered, ‘Here I am, send me.’

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 138: Before the angels I will bless you, O Lord.

 

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (15: 1-11)

 

Brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, the gospel that you received and in which you are firmly established; because the gospel will save you only if you keep believing exactly what I preached to you – believing anything else will not lead to

anything.

Well then, in the first place, I taught you what I had been taught myself, namely that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; and that he was raised to life on the third day, in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared first to Cephas and secondly to the Twelve. Next he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died; then he appeared to James,

and then to all the apostles; and last of all he appeared to me too; it

was as though I was born when no one expected it.

I am the least of the apostles; in fact, since I persecuted the Church of God, I hardly deserve the name apostle; but by God’s grace that is what I am, and the grace that he gave me has not been fruitless. On the contrary, I, or rather the grace of God that is with me, have worked harder than any of the others; but what matters is that I preach what they preach, and this is what you all believed.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Follow me, says the Lord,

and I will make you into fishers of men. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (5: 1-11)

Glory to you, O Lord.

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

 

 

O God, whose blessed Son was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil, and make us the sons of God, and heirs

of eternal life: Grant us, we beseech thee, that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves, even as he is pure; that, when he shall appear again with power and great glory, we may be made like unto him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where with thee, O Fa- ther, and thee, O Holy Ghost, he liveth and reigneth, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (BCP)

 

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments Weds. 12th February: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 16th February: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Sun. 16th February: 6 p.m.; Choral Evensong; no refreshments Coffee Morning: 13th February (Thursday), Apollonos 6 (10:30 – 12:30) Walking Group and Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

 

 

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on the goodwill of congregants and visitors.

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

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