Service Sheet for Sunday 1st December 2024 – Advent Sunday

St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 1 (St. Gregory) Creator of the stars of night

Congregational Psalm: Ps. 25 (Southwell)

Offertory: 11 (Veni Emmanuel) O come, O come Emmanuel!

Communion: 5 (Merton) Hark! a herald voice is calling

Recessional: 10 (Personent Hodie) Long ago, prophets knew

 

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy. The church’s Christmas Bazaar continues until 4:30 p.m. at the War Museum (2-4 Rizari)

 

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 the Prophet Jeremiah (33: 14-16)

 

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Congregational Psalm: Psalm 25 (tune: Southwell) To thee I lift my soul:

O Lord, I trust in thee:

My God, let me not be ashamed,

nor triumph foes o’er me.

 

Show me thy ways, O Lord; thy paths, O teach thou me:

And do thou lead me in thy truth,

therein my teacher be:

 

For thou art God that dost

to me salvation send,

And I upon thee all the day

expecting do attend.

 

My sins and faults of youth

do thou, O Lord, forget:

After thy mercy think on me,

and for thy goodness great.

 

God good and upright is:

the way he’ll sinners show

The meek in judgement he will guide

and make his path to know.

 

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians (3: 12-4:2)

 

Brothers and sisters: May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Finally, then, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to

please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Show us, O Lord, your mercy,

and grant us your salvation. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (21: 25-28: 34-36)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

(after the Gospel reading):

The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

 

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time

of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us

in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.(BCP Collect)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 4th December: 10 a.m. Low Mass

Sun. 8th December.: 10 a.m. Sung Mass (Advent II)

 

Choral Evensong: Sunday 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Coffee Morning: 12th December (10:30 a.m.)

Christmas Bazaar: 1st December (War Museum): until 4:30 p.m.

Carol ‘sing along’: Sunday 15th Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Service of Nine Lessons & Carols: Sunday 24th Dec. (6:00 p.m.)

Midnight Mass: Sunday 24th Dec. (11:30 p.m.)

Christmas Morning: Sung Mass: 10:00 a.m.

Study Group & 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 anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

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