Service sheet for Sunday 20th April 2025 – Easter Sunday

Diocese in Europe

St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

 

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 124 (St. Fulbert) Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 118 (539 in the New English Hymnal)

Gradual: 123 (Dun Aluinn) Walking in a garden

Offertory: 110 (Easter Hymn) Jesus Christ is risen today, alleluya!

Communion: 121 (This Joyful Eastertide) This joyful Eastertide

After Communion: 113 (Savannah) Love’s redeeming work is done

Final: 120 (Maccabeus) Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son

 

All are welcome to stay for the Easter breakfast 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 Acts of the Apostles (10: 34; 37-43)

Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: ‘You must have heard about the recent happenings in Judaea; about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness to everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and also to the fact that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those wit- nesses – we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead – and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people and to

tell them that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or dead. It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 118: This is the day of the Lord; we re- joice and are glad. (text at 539 in the New English Hymnal)

 

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (3: 1-4)

Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, you must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at

God’s right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now

the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is revealed – and he is your life – you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed:

let us celebrate the feast then, in the Lord. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (20: 1-9)

Glory to you, O Lord.

It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had

been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’

So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter,

reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following

now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was

not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand

the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

(after the gospel reading) The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you,

Lord Jesus Christ

 

The anthem sung by the choir after Holy Communion is a setting of Isaiah 48: 20, “with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth” by Martin Shaw (1875-1958).

 

Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus

Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of ev- erlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy

Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect for Easter Sunday)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 23rd April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass in Easter Week

Sat. 26th April: 6 p.m.; Choral Evensong in Easter Week (Evening Prayer)

Sun. 27th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Low Sunday)

Weds. 30th April: 10 a.m.; Morning Prayer

Study Group & Pilgrimage Walking Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Spring Bazaar: 31st May (in the church garden)

 

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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