Service Sheet for Sunday 15th June 2025 – Trinity Sunday

Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 466 (Moscow) Thou whose almighty word

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 8

Gradual: 149 (Coelites Plaudant) Father, we praise thee, now the night is over

Offertory: 148 (Leoni) The God of Abraham Praise

Post-Communion: 146 (Nicaea) Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God almighty

Recessional: 159 (St. Patrick’s Breastplate) I bind unto myself this day [between verses 5 and 6, the choir shall sing 278 (Gartan) Christ be with me]

 

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 Proverbs (8: 22-31)

The Wisdom of God cries aloud:

The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded,

before the oldest of his works.

From everlasting I was firmly set,

from the beginning, before earth came into being.

The deep was not, when I was born,

there were no springs to gush with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth;

before he made the earth, the countryside,

or the first grains of the world’s dust.

When he fixed the heavens firm, I was there,

when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep, when he thickened the clouds above,

when he fixed fast the springs of the deep,

when he assigned the sea its boundaries

– and the waters will not invade the shore – when he laid down the foundations of the earth,

I was by his side, a master craftsman,

delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence, at play everywhere in his world,

delighting to be with the sons of men.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; the God who is, who was, and who is to come. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (16: 12-15)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you will be taken from what is mine.’

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.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy serv- ants grace, by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity: We beseech thee, that thou wouldst keep us steadfast in this faith, and evermore defend us from all adversities, who livest and reignest, one God, world without end. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Trinity Sunday)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 18th June: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 22nd June: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass and Benediction (Corpus Christi)

 

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

The church choir are seeking to increase their membership.

Those who are interested, and are able to read music to even a small degree of competence, should speak to Oliver Knight.

Any interested in joining the serving team (as acolyte, thurifer, or crucifer) should speak to Father Benjamin.

 

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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