Service Sheet for Sunday 6th April – Fifth Sunday of Lent

Beginning of Passiontide

Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Entrance: 60 ( Jesu Corona) O kind Creator, bow thine ear

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 126

Gradual: 91 (Batty) Sweet the moments, rich in blessing

Offertory: 62 (Herzliebster Jesu) Ah, holy Jesu, how hast thou offended

Communion: 76 (Breslau) Take up thy cross, the Saviour said

Recessional: 79 (Vexilla Regis) The royal banners forward go

 

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)

Thus says the Lord,

who made a way through the sea, a path in the great waters;

who put chariots and horse in the field

and a powerful army

which lay there never to rise again,

snuffed out, put out like a wick:

No need to recall the past,

no need to think about what was done before. See, I am doing a new deed,

even now it comes to light; can you not see it? Yes, I am making a road in the wilderness, paths in the wilds.

The wild beasts will honour me, jackals and ostriches,

because I am putting water in the wilderness (rivers in the wild)

to give my chosen people drink.

The people I have formed for myself will sing my praises.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 126: What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we were glad.

When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage, it seemed like a dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter,

on our lips there were songs. (Response)

 

The heathens themselves said: ‘What marvels the Lord worked for them!’

What marvels the Lord worked for us!

Indeed we were glad. (Response)

 

Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage as streams in dry land.

Those who are sowing in tears

will sing when they reap. (Response)

 

They go out, they go out, full of tears, carrying seed for the sowing:

they come back, they come back, full of song,

carrying their sheaves. (Response)

 

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Philippians (3: 8-14)

I believe nothing can happen that will outweigh the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For him I have accepted the loss of everything, and I look on everything as so much rubbish if only I can have Christ and be given a place in him. I am no longer trying for per- fection by my own efforts, the perfection that comes from the Law, but I want only the perfection that comes through faith in Christ, and is from God and based on faith. All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by reproducing the pattern of his death. That is the way I can hope to take my place in the resurrec- tion of the dead. Not that I have become perfect yet: I have not yet won, but I am still running, trying to capture the prize for which Christ Jesus captured me. I can assure you my brothers, I am far from thinking that I have already won. All I can say is that I forget the past and I strain ahead for what is still to come; I am racing for the finish, for the prize to which God calls us upwards to receive in Christ Jesus.

 

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Gospel acclamation: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks –

come back to me with all your heart, for I am all tenderness and compassion.

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 (8: 1-11)

Glory to you, O Lord.

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

 

We beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy

people; that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect: Lent V)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments Weds. 9th April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass, followed by Stations of the Cross Sun.

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

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

Sat. 19th April: 8: 30 p.m.; Easter Vigil

Sun. 20th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter Sunday); Easter Breakfast

 

Walking Group and Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin

Coffee Morning: April 10th (10:30 a.m., in the church garden) Church of Sweden’s Spring Bazaar continues at Apollonos 6.

Bishop’s Lent Appeal: Diocese in Europe and USPG (Anglican Mission Agency) collaborative work with refugees in Europe. Particulars, and donation details, are to be found 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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