Service for Sunday 9th March – First Sunday of Lent

St Ppaul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrants Fr. Benjamin Drury

Preacher:  Deacon Christine Saccali

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 67 (Aus der Tiefe) Forty days and forty nights

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 91

Gradual: 228 (Martyrdom) Jerusalem, thou City blest (verses 1-5)

Offertory: 73 (St. Fulbert) My God, I love thee; not because

Communion: 69 (St. Philip) Lord, in this thy mercy’s day

Recessional: 65 (St. Andrew of Crete) Christian, dost thou see them 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 Deuteronomy (26: 4-10)

Moses said to the people: ‘The priest shall take the pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord your God, you must make this pronouncement:

‘“My father was a wandering Aramaean. He went down into Egypt to find refuge there, few in numbers; but there he became a nation, great, mighty, and strong. The Egyptians ill-treated us, they gave us no peace and inflicted harsh slavery on us. But we called on the Lord, the God of our fathers. The Lord heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders.

He brought us here and gave us this land, a land where milk and hon- ey flow. Here then I bring the first-fruits of the produce of the soil that you, the Lord, have given me.”

‘You must then lay them before the Lord your God, and bow down in the sight of the Lord your God.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 91: Be with me, O Lord, in my distress

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High and abides in the shade of the Almighty

says to the Lord: ‘My refuge,

my stronghold, my God in whom I trust! (Response)

Upon you no evil shall fall,

no plague approach where you dwell. For you has he commanded his angels,

to keep you in all your ways. (Response)

They shall bear you upon their hands

lest you strike your foot against a stone.

On the lion and the viper you will tread

and trample the young lion and the dragon. (Response)

His love he set on me, so I will rescue him;

protect him for he knows my name.

When he calls I shall answer: ‘I am with you,’

I will save him in distress and give him glory. (Response)

 

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans (10: 8-13)

Scripture says: The word (that is the faith we proclaim) is very near to you, it is on your lips and in your heart. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made right- eous; by confessing with your lips you are saved. When scripture says: those who believe in him will have no cause for shame, it makes no dis- tinction between Jew and Greek: all belong to the same Lord who is rich enough, however many ask his help, for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Praise to you, O king of eternal glory!

Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!

 

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (4: 1-13)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

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

Lord Jesus Christ

 

 

O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights:

Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in right- eousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect for the First Sunday in Lent)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

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

Sun. 16th March: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Lent II)

Sun. 16th March: 6 p.m.; Choral Evensong (Evening Prayer)

 

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 Mis-

sion Agency) collabarative work with refugees in Europe. Particu-

lars, and donation details, are to be found Here  and 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

Facebook @AnglicanAthens                    www.anglicanchurchathens.gr