Service Sheet for Sunday 30th March 2025, Fourth Sunday of Lent. Mothering Sunday

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St Paul’s Anglican Church Athens

Diocese in Europe

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 185 (Abbot’s Leigh) Sing we of the blessed Mother

Congregational Psalm: 467 (Ps. 34) Through all the changing scenes of life

Gradual: 339 (Slane) Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart

Offertory: 161 (St Botolph) For Mary, Mother of the Lord

Communion: 77 (University) The God of love my Shepherd is

Recessional: 493 (Wareham) Rejoice, O land, in God 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 Book of Joshua (5: 9-12)

The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.’

The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From that time, from their first eating of the produce of that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer,

the Israelites fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Congregational Psalm: Ps. 34: 467 in the New English Hymnal (tune: Wiltshire)

 

A reading from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (5: 17-21)

For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God’s work. It was God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation. In other words, God in

Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men’s faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were

appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! I will leave this place and go to my father and say:

‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.’ Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (15: 1-3, 11-32)

Glory to you, O Lord.

 

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

 

Lent, Passiontide & Easter Services

Weds., 2nd April: (10 a.m.) Morning Prayer, followed by Stations of the Cross Sun., 6th April: (10 a.m.) Sung Mass for Lent V (Passiontide begins) Weds. 9th April: (10 a.m.) Low Mass, followed by Stations of the Cross

Sunday 13th April: (10 a.m.) Sung Mass for Palm Sunday

Tues. 15th April: (7:30 p.m.) Invitation to Church of the Metamorphosis, Plaka

Weds. 16th April: (10 a.m.) Low Mass for Holy Wednesday

Thurs. 17th April: (7 p.m.) Maundy Thursday

Fri. 18th April: (2 p.m.) Good Friday (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion)

Saturday 19th April: (8:30 p.m.) Easter Vigil

Sunday 20th April: (10 a.m.) Sung Mass for Easter Sunday

Wednesday 23rd April: (10 a.m.) Low Mass in Easter Week

Saturday 26th April: (6 p.m.) Choral Evensong in Easter Week

Sunday 27th April: (10 a.m.) Sung Mass for Low Sunday (Easter I)

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

(1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18)

 

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we, who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. (BCP Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments Weds. 2nd April: 10 a.m.; Morning Prayer, followed by Stations of the Cross Sun. 6th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Lent V)

 

Next Sunday is the Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM), which shall be held after the service. All those who are on the electoral roll are encouraged to attend.

 

Easter Lilies: please give names to Terry Kreid.

After the liturgy today, during refreshments, Mr. Ian Geary shall give a presentation about his recent publication Faith, Politics, and Belonging.

Picnic & Children’s activities (to be confirmed): Palm Sunday (13th) Coffee Morning: April 10th (10:30 a.m.)

Bishop’s Lent Appeal: Diocese in Europe and USPG (Anglican Mission Agency) collabarative work with refugees in Europe. Particulars, and donation details, are to be found  Here or on the Diocesan internet pages or the Diocesan Just Giving page.

 

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 email address)

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

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling  694 6072428

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