Service Sheet for Sunday 5th October 2025 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Celebrant The Rt. Rev’d Dr Robert Innes

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 495 (Benson) God is working his purpose out

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 95

Gradual: 431 (Hereford) O thou who camest from above

Offertory: 440 (Lobe den Herren) Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Communion: 280 (Schmucke Dich) Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness

Recessional: 392 (Sandon) Lead, kindly Light

 

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 Habakkuk (1: 2-3, 2: 2-4)

How long, O Lord, am I to cry for help while you will not listen; to cry ‘Oppression!’ in your ear and you will not save?

Why do you set injustice before me, why do you look on where there is tyranny? Outrage and violence, this is all I see, all is contention, and discord flourishes.

Then the Lord answered and said, ‘Write the vision down, inscribe it on tablets to be easily read, since this vision is for its own time only: eager for its own fulfilment, it does not deceive; if it comes slowly, wait, for come it will, without fail. See how he flags, he whose soul is not at rights, but the upright man will live by his faithfulness.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 95: O, that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’

Come, ring out our joy to the Lord; hail the rock who saves us.

Let us come before him, giving thanks,

with songs let us hail the Lord. (Response)

Come in; let us bow and bend low;

let us kneel before the God who made us: for he is our God and we

the people who belong to his pasture,

the flock that is led by his hand. (Response)

O that today you would listen to his voice!

‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the desert

when your fathers put me to the test;

when they tried me, though they saw my work.’ (Response)

 

A reading from the second Letter of St. Paul to Timothy (1: 6-8, 13-14) I am reminding you to fan into a flame the gift that God gave you when I laid my hands on you. God’s gift was not a spirit of timidity, but the Spirit of power, and love, and self-control. So you are never

to be ashamed of witnessing to the Lord, or ashamed of me for being his prisoner; but with me, bear the hardships for the sake of the

Good News, relying on the power of God.

Keep as your pattern the sound teaching you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. You have been trusted to look after something precious; guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:

you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (17: 5-10)

Glory to you, O Lord.

The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’ The Lord replied, ‘Were your faith the size of a mustard seed you could say to this

mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you.

‘Which of you, with a servant ploughing or minding sheep, would say to him when he returned from the fields, “Come and

have your meal immediately”? Would he not be more likely to say, “Get my supper laid; make yourself tidy and wait on me while I

eat and drink. You can eat and drink yourself afterwards”? Must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told? So with

you: when you have done all you have been told to do, say, “We are merely servants: we have done no more than our duty.”’

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

 

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

 

O Lord, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect: Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity)

 

• Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
• Wednesday 8th October: 10am Low Mass; Sunday 12th October: 10am Sung Mass
• Coffee Morning: Thurs. 9th October; 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (churchyard gardens)
• Harvest Festival: Saturday, 18th October (Kokotos Estate, Stamata) There is a sign-up sheet in church for those who wish to attend: please also indicate if you wish to travel with the coach.  The coach will depart from church at 10:00 a.m. and, after the festivities, leave Stamata at 4:30 p.m. If you are able to contribute towards the food for the luncheon, please speak to Lynn Stavrou.   Donations of Dried goods and other imperishables for the Harvest Festival will be gratefully received.
• Christmas Bazaar: Sunday, 23rd November (Caravel Hotel)
• Mission to Seafarers: collection for Christmas boxes for seafarers: details to be announced.
• 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

 

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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 SSC frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;

Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

Assistant Chaplain: Deacon Christine Saccali: 697 737 7655

Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling: 694 6072428

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