Service Sheet for Sunday 13th July 2025 – Sea Sunday – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary time

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 354 (Melita) Eternal Father, strong to save

Psalm: Ps. 107

Gradual: 200 (St. Andrew) Jesus calls us, o’er the tumult

Offertory: 495 (Benson) God is working his purpose out

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

Recessional: 352 (Diademata) Crown him with many crowns

 

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 Deuteronomy (30: 10-14)

Moses said to the people: ‘Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keep- ing those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

‘For this Law that I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, “Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?” Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, “Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?” No, the Word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Psalm 107: verses: 23-30 (Chant: W. Turner)

They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters;

These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth : which lifteth up the waves thereof.

They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep : their soul melteth away because of the trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man : and are at their wits’ end.

So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble : he delivereth them out of their distress.

For he maketh the storm to cease : so that the waves thereof are still.

Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.

 

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (1: 15-20)

Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity. Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way; because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life; you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (8: 22-25)

Glory to you, O Lord.

It happened that one day he got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, ‘Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.’ So

they set out, and as they sailed he fell asleep. When a squall of

wind came down on the lake the boat started shipping water and

they found themselves in danger. So they went to rouse him saying, ‘Master! Master! We are lost!’ Then he woke up and rebuked the

wind and the rough water; and they subsided and it was calm again.

He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ They were awestruck and astounded and said to one another, ‘Who can this be, that gives orders even to winds and waves and they obey him?’

after the Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ

The text and setting of the Nicene Creed is at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

 

O God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom

nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal: Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Fourth Sunday after Trinity)

 

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 16th July: 10 a.m.; Low Mass Sunday 20th July: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Sale of Books and Preserves: Saturday 19th July (10 a.m. – 1 p.m.); in the churchyard. Donations of cake or biscuits on the day will be gratefully received. Volunteers to help with the selling are also sought, and would any interested person please speak to Oliver Knight.

 

 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

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)          697 737 7655

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