Service Sheet for Sunday 31st August 2025 – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 373 (Coe Fen) How shall I sing that majesty

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 68

Offertory: 310 (Offertorium) We hail thy presence glorious

Communion: 383 (Aberystwyth) Jesu, Lover of my soul

Recessional: 381 (Ewing) Jerusalem the golden

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 Ecclesiasticus (3: 19-21, 30-31)

My son, be gentle in carrying out your business, and you will be better loved than a lavish giver.

The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, and then you will find favour with the Lord; for great though the power of the Lord is, he accepts the homage of the humble.

There is no cure for the proud man’s malady, since an evil growth has taken root in him.

The heart of a sensible man will reflect on parables, an attentive ear is the sage’s dream.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 68: In your goodness, O God, you pre- pared a home for the poor

 

A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (12: 18-19, 22-24a)

What you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or a gloom turning to total darkness, or a storm; or trumpeting thunder or the great voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should be said to them. But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in which everyone is a ‘first-born son’ and a citizen of heaven. You have come to God himself, the Supreme Judge, and been placed with spirits of the saints who have been made perfect; and to Jesus, the mediator who brings a new covenant.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, says the Lord, for I am gentle and humble in heart. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (14: 1, 7-14)

Glory to you, O Lord.

On a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they picked the places of honour. He said this, ‘When someone invites you to a

wedding feast, do not take your seat in the place of honour. A more distinguished person than you may have been invited, and the person who invited you both may come and say, “Give up your place to this man.” And then, to your embarrassment, you would have to go and take the lowest place. No; when you are a guest, make your way to the lowest place and sit there, so that, when your host comes, he may say, “My friend, move up higher.” In that way, everyone with you at the table will see you honoured. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.’

Then he said to his host, ‘When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not ask your friends, brothers, relations or rich neighbours, for fear they repay your courtesy by inviting you in return. No; when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; that they cannot pay you back means that you are fortunate, because repayment will be made to you when the virtuous rise again.’

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

 

O God, who declarest thy almighty power most chiefly in shewing mercy and pity: Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Eleventh Sunday after Trinity)

 

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

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

Sunday 7th September: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Wednesday 10th September: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sun. 14th September: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass: Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Coffee Morning: Thursday, 11th September (10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)

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

Harvest Festival: Saturday, 18th October (Kokotos Estate, Stamata)

Christmas Bazaar: Sunday, 23rd November (Caravel Hotel)

 

 

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Priest Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;   Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

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