Service Sheet for Sunday 23rd November – Feast of Christ the King

Celebrant Fr. Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 443 (Gopsal) Rejoice, the Lord is King

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 122

Gradual: 271 (Hyfrydol) Alleluya, sing to Jesus

Offertory: 345 (Vulpius) Christ is the King, O friends rejoice!

Communion: 296 (St. Helen) Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour

Recessional: 332 (Miles Lane) All hail the power of Jesu’s name

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.

 

Kyrie eleison (page 558), and the Gloria in excelsis (page 559)

A reading from the second Book of Samuel (5: 1-3)

All the tribes of Israel then came to David at Hebron. ‘Look’ they said ‘we are your own flesh and blood. In days past when Saul was our king, it was you who led Israel in all their exploits; and the Lord said to you, “You are the man who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you shall be the leader of Israel.”’ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a pact with them at Hebron in the presence of the Lord, and they anointed David king of Israel.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 122: I rejoiced when I heard them say: “Let us go to God’s house”.

I rejoiced when I heard them say:

‘Let us go to God’s house.’

And now our feet are standing

within your gates, O Jerusalem. (Response)

Jerusalem is built as a city strongly compact.

It is there that the tribes go up,

the tribes of the Lord. (Response)

For Israel’s law it is,

there to praise the Lord’s name.

There were set the thrones of judgement

of the house of David. (Response)

 

A reading from the letter of St. Paul the Colossians (1: 12-20)

We give thanks to the Father who has made it possible for you to join the saints and with them to inherit the light.

Because that is what he has done: he has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our

sins.

He is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were created

all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible,

Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed,

and he holds all things in unity.

Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning,

he was first to be born from the dead,

so that he should be first in every way;

because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth,

when he made peace

by his death on the cross.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David! Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (23: 25-43)

Glory to you, O Lord.

The people stayed there before the cross -watching Jesus. As for the leaders, they jeered at him. ‘He saved others,’ they said ‘let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers mocked him too, and when they approached to offer vinegar they said, ‘If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.’ Above him there was an inscription: ‘This is the King of the Jews.’

One of the criminals hanging there abused him. ‘Are you not the Christ?’ he said. ‘Save yourself and us as well.’ But the other spoke up and rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got the same sentence as he did, but in our case we deserved it: we are paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong. Jesus,’ he said ‘remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ ‘Indeed, I promise you,’ he replied ‘today you will be with me in

paradise.’

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

 

The setting of the Nicene Creed is on page 562 in the New English Hymnal

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O God, our refuge and strength, who art the author of all godli- ness: Be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of

thy Church; and grant that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.(Book of Common Prayer Collect; Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Sunday 23rd November: 7 p.m.; Choral Evensong (Scola Cantorum)

Wednesday 26th November: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sunday 30th November: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Advent I)

Wednesday 3rd December: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Saturday 6th December: 6 p.m.; Choral Evensong & Benediction

 

Christmas Bazaar: Commences this morning at 11:00 a.m. at the Caravel Hotel and continues until 4:30 p.m.

Bishop’s Advent Appeal: Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital, Gaza; details on how to donate are to be found on the notice board, or may be had from treasurer Nelly Paraskevopoulou.

Mission to Seafarers: collection for Christmas boxes for seafarers: leaflets are available.

Please refer to the notice board for the dates and times of Advent and Christmas services.

The Friends of St. Paul’s: please speak to Dimitris Ramantanoglou about becoming a Friend of St. Paul’s Church.

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

Servers’ Group: please speak to Fr. Benjamin or Oliver Knight

 

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 SSC

frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Church email address: anglican@otenet.gr

Assistant Chaplain: Deacon Christine Saccali:  697 737 7655

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling:  694 6072428

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