Service Sheet for Sunday 3rd August 2025 – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant Rev Canon Leonard Doolan

 

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
Processional: 415 (Lyngham) O for a thousand tongues to sing
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 90
Gradual: 480 (Manchester) In Christ there is no East or West
Offertory: 401 (Westminster Abbey) Light’s abode, celestial Salem
Communion: 311 (Meirionydd) We pray thee, heavenly Father
Recessional: 392 (Sandon) Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling
gloom
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 Ecclesiastes (1: 2, 2: 21-23)
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity!
For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely, skilfully and suc-
cessfully must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for
it at all. This, too, is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain
for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun?
What of all his laborious days, his cares of office, his restless
nights? This, too, is vanity.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 90:

O Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to the next.

You turn men back to dust
and say: ‘Go back, sons of men.’
To your eyes a thousand years
are like yesterday, come and gone,
no more than a watch in the night. (Response)

You sweep men away like a dream,
like the grass which springs up in the morning.
In the morning it springs up and flowers:
by evening it withers and fades. (Response)

Make us know the shortness of our life
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever?
Show pity to your servants. (Response)

In the morning, fill us with your love; we
shall exult and rejoice all our days.
Let the favour of the Lord be upon us:
give success to the work of our hands. (Response)

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (3: 1-5, 9-
11) 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.
That is why you must kill everything in you that belongs only to
earthly life: fornication, impurity, guilty passion, evil desires and
especially greed, which is the same thing as worshipping a false
god; and never tell each other lies. You have stripped off your old
behaviour with your old self, and you have put on a new self
which will progress towards true knowledge the more it is renewed in the image of its creator;

and in that image there is no room for distinction
between Greek and Jew, between the circumcised or the
uncircumcised, or between barbarian and Scythian, slave and free man.
There is only Christ: he is everything and he is in everything.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
Your word is truth, O Lord:
consecrate us in the truth. Alleluia!
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (12: 13-21)
Glory to you, O Lord.
After the Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, O Christ

The setting of the Nicene Creed is to be found on page 562 in

the New English Hymnal

Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase
in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Book of Common Prayer Collect: Seventh Sunday after Trinity)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 6th August: 9:30 a.m.; Low Mass; Transfiguration of the Lord

Sunday 10th August: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

Please note that on Wednesday (6th August) the Mass for the
Transfiguration shall commence at the earlier time of 9:30 a.m.
Study group & pilgrimage walking group: details from Fr. Benjamin

 

 

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