Service Sheet for Sunday 9th November – Remembrance Sunday
Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury
Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)
Processional: 494 (Nun Danket) Christ is the world’s true light
Congregational Psalm: 417 (St. Anne)
O God, our help in ages past (Ps. 90)
Offertory: 208 (St. Catherine’s Court) In our day of thanksgiving
Communion: 492 (King’s Lynn) O God of earth and altar
Communion: 493 (Wareham) Rejoice, O land, in God thy might
Recessional: 354 (Melita) Eternal Father, strong to save
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
The setting of the Kyrie eleison (page 558), and the Gloria in excelsis (page 559) are to be found in the New English Hymnal.
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (47: 1-2, 8-9, 12)
The angel brought me to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream came out from under the Temple threshold and flowed eastwards, since the Temple faced east. The water flowed from under the right side of the Temple, south of the altar. He took me out by the north gate and led me right round outside as far as the outer east gate where the water flowed out on the right-hand side. He said, ‘This water flows east down to the Arabah and to the sea; and flowing into the sea it makes its waters wholesome. Wherever the river flows, all living crea- tures teeming in it will live. Fish will be very plentiful, for wherever the water goes it brings health, and life teems wherever the river flows. Along the river, on either bank, will grow every kind of fruit tree with leaves that never wither and fruit that never fails; they will bear new fruit every month, because this water comes from the sanctuary. And their fruit will be good to eat and the leaves medicinal.’
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
The psalm is the congregational setting of Ps. 90 (O God, our help in ages past); the text is at 417 in the New English Hymnal.
A reading from the first letter of St. Paul the Corinthians (3: 9-11, 16-17) You are God’s building. By the grace God gave me, I succeeded as an architect and laid the foundations, on which someone else is doing
the building. Everyone doing the building must work carefully. For the foundation, nobody can lay any other than the one which has already been laid, that is Jesus Christ.
Didn’t you realise that you were God’s temple and that the Spirit of God was living among you? If anybody should destroy the temple of God, God will destroy him, because the temple of God is sacred; and you are that temple.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
I have chosen and consecrated this house, says the Lord, for my name to be there forever. Alleluia!
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (2: 13-22)
Glory to you, O Lord.
Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his
disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy
this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary
that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.
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.
Grant, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace; that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer Collect; Twenty-First Sun- day after Trinity)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 12th November: 10 a.m.; Low Mass
Sunday 16th November: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass & Baptism
Armistice Day: 11th November: Service at Alimos (10:45 a.m.), Phaleron Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Christmas Bazaar: Sunday, 23rd November (Caravel Hotel). The church shall be open to receive donations from Monday, 17th No- vember until Saturday, 22nd November (from 10 a.m. until 2
p.m.).
Bishop’s Advent Appeal: Al-Ahli Anglican Hospital, Gaza; details on how to donate are to be found on the notice board, or may be had from treasurer Nelly Paraskevopoulou.
Mission to Seafarers: collection for Christmas boxes for seafarers: leaflets are available.
Please refer to the notice board for the dates and times of Advent and Christmas services.
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
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 SSC
frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906
Assistant Chaplain: Deacon Christine Saccali: 697 737 7655
Church of Sweden: Fr. Bjorn Kling: 694 6072428
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