Service Sheet for Sunday 17th August 2025 – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Celebrant: Canon Fr Leonard Doolan

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 161 (St. Botolph) For Mary, Mother of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 45

Gradual: 185 (Abbot’s Leigh) Sing we of the blessed Mother

Offertory: 188 (Daily, Daily) Ye who own the faith of Jesus

Communion: 275 (Liebster Jesu) Blessed Jesu, Mary’s Son

Recessional: 186 (Woodlands) Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy.

“For behold, from henceforth:

all generations shall call me blessed”

A reading from the Revelation of St. John the Theologian (11: 19, 12: 1-6, 10)

The sanctuary of God in heaven opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it.

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky, a huge red dragon which had seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail dragged a third of the stars from the sky and dropped them to the earth, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was having the child, so that he could eat it as soon as it was born from its mother. The woman brought a male child into the world, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had made a place of safety ready.

Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, ‘Victory and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 45: On your right stands the queen, in garments of gold

 

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (15: 20-26)

Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who

have fallen asleep. Death came through one man and in the same way the resurrection of the dead has come through one man. Just as all men die in Adam, so all men will be brought to life in Christ; but all of them in their proper order: Christ as the first-fruits and then, after the coming of Christ, those who belong to him. After

that will come the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God

the Father, having done away with every sovereignty, authority and power. For he must be king until he has put all his enemies under his feet and the last of the enemies to be destroyed is death, for everything is to be put under his feet.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Mary has been taken up to heaven;

all the choirs of angels are rejoicing. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (1: 39-56)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth.

Now as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, ‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord? For the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy. Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.’ And Mary said:

‘My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour;

because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid.

Yes, from this day forward all generations will call me blessed, for the Almighty has done great things for me.

Holy is his name, and his mercy reaches from age to age for those who fear him.

He has shown the power of his arm, he has routed the proud of heart.

He has pulled down princes from their thrones and exalted the lowly.

The hungry he has filled with good things, the rich sent empty away.

He has come to the help of Israel his servant, mindful of his mercy – according to the promise he made to our ancestors –

of his mercy to Abraham and to his descendants for ever.’

Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then went back home.

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.

 

Grant to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any

thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live

according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect: Ninth Sunday after Trinity)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 20th August: No Service

Sun. 24th August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (21st Sunday in Ordinary Time) Weds. 27th August: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Fri. 29th August: 7 p.m.; Low Mass (Beheading of St. John the Baptist)

 

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

Note: no liturgy this Wednesday (20th August); Low Mass on Friday 29th August (St. John the Baptist) at 7 p.m.

Harvest Festival: Saturday, 18th October (Kokotos Estate, Stamata); Christmas Bazaar, Sunday 23rd November (Caravel Hotel)

 

 

 

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