Service sheet for Sunday 10th August 2025, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 338 (Evelyns) At the name of Jesus

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 33

Gradual: 358 (Rievaulx) Father of heaven, whose love profound

Offertory: 208 (St. Catherine’s Court) In our day of thanksgiving

Communion: 350 (David’s Harp) Come, O thou Traveller unknown

Recessional: 359 (Duke Street) Fight the good fight with all thy might

 

Today we commemorate the life of Dorice Turnnidge (1928-2025) 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 Wisdom (18: 6-9)

That night had been foretold to our ancestors, so that, once they saw what kind of oaths they had put their trust in, they would joyfully take courage.  This was the expectation of your people, the saving of the virtuous and the ruin of their enemies;

for by the same act with which you took vengeance on our foes you made us glorious by calling us to you.

The devout children of worthy men offered sacrifice in secret and this divine pact they struck with one accord:

that the saints would share the same blessings and dangers alike; and forthwith they had begun to chant the hymns of the fathers.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 33: Happy are the people the Lord has chosen as his own

Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just; for praise is fitting for loyal hearts.

They are happy, whose God is the Lord,

the people he has chosen as his own. (Response)

The Lord looks on those who revere him, on those who hope in his love,

to rescue their souls from death,

to keep them alive in famine. (Response)

Our soul is waiting for the Lord.

The Lord is our help and our shield.

May your love be upon us, O Lord,

as we place all our hope in you. (Response)

 

A reading from the letter to the Hebrews (11: 1-2, 8-19)

Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of the realities that at present remain unseen. It was for

faith that our ancestors were commended.

 

It was by faith that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a coun- try that was the inheritance given to him and his descendants, and that he set out without knowing where he was going. By faith he

arrived, as a foreigner, in the Promised Land, and lived there as if

in a strange country, with Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. They lived there in tents while he looked for- ward to a city founded, designed and built by God.

It was equally by faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive, because she believed that he who had made the promise would be faithful to it. Because of this, there

came from one man, and one who was already as good as dead him- self, more descendants than could be counted, as many as the stars of heaven or the grains of sand on the seashore.

All these died in faith, before receiving any of the things that had been promised, but they saw them in the far distance and

welcomed them, recognising that they were only strangers and no- mads on earth. People who use such terms about themselves make it quite plain that they are in search of their real homeland. They can hardly have meant the country they came from, since they had the opportunity to go back to it; but in fact they were longing for a better homeland, their heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, since he has founded the city for

them.

It was by faith that Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice his only son even though the promis-

es had been made to him and he had been told: It is through Isaac that your name will be carried on. He was confident that God had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively speaking, he was given back Isaac from the dead.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Stay awake and stand ready, because you do not know the hour when the Son of Man is coming. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (12: 32-48)

Glory to you, O Lord.

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

…

O God, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth; We humbly beseech thee to put away

from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which be profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Eighth Sunday after Trinity)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 13th August: No Service

Sunday 17th August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Wednesday 20th August: No Service

Sunday 24th August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass Wednesday 28th August: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

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

Sunday 31st August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Please note that there will be no services on Wednesday, 13th August or Wednesday, 20th August, but that there will be a Mass on Friday, 29th August in the evening (7 p.m.)

Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. 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

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

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Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

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