Service Sheet for Sunday 23rd February, 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant Fr Terry Hemming

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 427 (Laudate Dominum) O praise ye the Lord!

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 103 (536 in the New English Hymnal)

Gradual: 499 (St.Cecilia) Thy kindgom come, O God

Offertory: 461 (Cross of Jesus) There’s a wideness in God’s mercy

Communion: 294 (Saffron Walden) Just as I am, without one plea

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

 

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 first book of Samuel (26: 2, 7-9, 11-13, 22-23)

 

Saul set off and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand men chosen from Israel to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.

In the dark David and Abishai made their way towards the force, where they found Saul lying asleep inside the camp, his spear stuck in the ground beside his head, with Abner and the troops lying round him.

Then Abishai said to David, ‘Today God has put your enemy in your power; so now let me pin him to the ground with his own spear. Just one stroke! I will not need to strike him twice.’ David answered Abishai, ‘Do not kill him, for who can lift his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be without guilt? The Lord forbid that I should raise my hand against the Lord’s anointed! But now take the spear beside his head and the pitcher of water and let us go away.’ David took the spear and the pitcher of water from beside Saul’s head, and they made off. No one saw, no one knew, no one woke up; they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.

David crossed to the other side and halted on the top of the mountain a long way off; there was a wide space between them. He called out, ‘Here is the king’s spear. Let one of the soldiers come across and take it. The Lord repays everyone for his uprightness and loyalty. Today the Lord put you in my power, but I would not raise my hand against the Lord’s anointed.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 103: The Lord is compassion and love

(text at 536 in the New English Hymnal)

 

A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (15: 45-49)

The first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; but the last Adam has become a life-giving spirit. That is, first the one with the soul, not the spirit, and after that, the one with the spirit. The first man, being from the earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven. As this earthly man was, so are we on earth; and as the heavenly man is, so are we in heaven. And we, who have been modelled on the earthly man, will be modelled on the heavenly man.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. I give you a new commandment:

love one another just as I have loved you,

says the Lord. Alleluia!

 

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (6: 27-38)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

 

O Lord God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do: Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended

against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect for Sexagesima, or the Second Sunday before Lent)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 26th February: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 2nd March: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Weds. 5th March: 10 a.m.; Ash Wednesday (Sung Mass)

Weds. 5th March: 6:30 p.m.; Ash Wednesday (Low Mass)

 

Walking Group and Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin Coffee Morning: March 13th (Thursday) 10:30 a.m.

Choral Evensong (Evening Prayer): 16th March (6 p.m.)

 

Please bring palm crosses from last year (or previous years) to be burned for ashes for Ash Wednesday.

 

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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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