Service Sheet for Sunday 11th January – Baptism of the Lord
Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury
Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
Processional: 55 (Cruger) Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 29
Gradual: 58 (Solemnis Haec Festivitas) The sinless one to Jordan came
Offertory: 56 (St. Edmund) Songs of thankfulness and praise
Communion: 202 (Grafton) Word supreme, before creation
Recessional: 51 (Redhead No. 46) Hail, thou Source of every blessing
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.
The setting of the Gloria is at page 559 in the New English Hymnal.
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah (42: 1-4, 6-7)
Thus says the Lord: Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights. I have endowed him with my spirit that he may bring true justice to the nations. He does not cry out or shout aloud, or make his voice heard in the streets. He does not break the crushed reed, nor quench the wavering flame. Faithfully he brings true justice; he will neither waver, nor be crushed until true justice is established on earth, for the islands are awaiting his law.
I, the Lord, have called you to serve the cause of right; I have taken you by the hand and formed you; I have appointed you as covenant of the people and light of the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to free captives from prison, and those who live in darkness from the dungeon.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Psalm 29: The Lord will bless his people with peace.
O give the Lord, you sons of God, give the Lord glory and power;
give the Lord the glory of his name.
Adore the Lord in his holy court. (Response) The Lord’s voice resounding on the waters,
the Lord on the immensity of waters; the voice of the Lord, full of power,
the voice of the Lord, full of splendour. (Response) The God of glory thunders.
In his temple they all cry: ‘Glory!’
The Lord sat enthroned over the flood;
the Lord sits as king for ever. (Response)
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (10: 34-38)
Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: ‘The truth I have now come to realise’ he said ‘is that God does not have favourites, but
that anybody of any nationality who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him.
‘It is true, God sent his word to the people of Israel, and it was to them that the good news of peace was brought by Jesus Christ – but
Jesus Christ is Lord of all men. You must have heard about the recent happenings in Judaea; about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil.’
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
The heavens opened and the Father’s voice resounded: ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’ Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew (3: 13-17)
Glory to you, O Lord.
Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him. ‘It is I who need baptism from you’ he said ‘and yet you come to me!’ But Jesus replied, ‘Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that righteousness demands.’ At this, John gave in to him.
As soon as Jesus was baptised he came up from the water, and sud- denly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And a voice spoke from heaven, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.’
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ
The setting of the Nicene Creed is on page 562 in the New English Hymnal. The setting of the Sanctus-Benedictus is on page 567. The setting of the Agnus Dei on page 569. This entire Communion Ser- vice was set by John Merbecke in 1549.
Prayer after Communion:
Nourished with these sacred gifts,
we humbly entreat your mercy, O Lord,
that, faithfully listening to your Only Begotten Son, we may be your children in name and in truth.
Through Christ our Lord.
O Lord, we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people which call upon thee; and grant that they may both
perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect; The First Sunday after the Epiphany)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 14th January: 10 a.m.; Low Mass
Sunday 18th January: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time) Sunday 18th January: 6 p.m.; Choral Evensong (Schola Cantorum) Wednesday 21st January: 10 a.m.; (St. Agnes)
Sunday 25th January: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (The Conversion of St. Paul)
Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. Benjamin
Saints’ Days in January (other than those commemorated in church): 20th January (St. Sebastian); 24th January (St. Francis de Sales); 26th January (St. Timothy & St. Titus); 28th January (St.
Thomas Aquinas); 30th January (King Charles the Martyr); 31st January (St. John Bosco)
The illustration on this pew sheet is a detail from a fresco in the Scrovegni chapel, Padua, painted ca. 1305 by Giotto di Bondone.
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Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury SSC
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