Service Sheet for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity – 22nd September 2024

Anglican Church Athens

Celebrant and Preacher: Fr. Benjamin Drury

 

Welcome to our Liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass) New English Hymnal numbers (tunes):

Entrance: 439 (Billing) Praise to the Holiest in the height;

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 54

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

Offertory: 420 (Wolvercote) O Jesus, I have promised

Post Communion: 406 (St Hugh) Lord, teach us how to pray aright

Recessional: 368 (Cwm Rhondda) Guide me, O thou great redeemer

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 Wisdom (2:12, 17-20)

The godless say to themselves: ‘Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys us and opposes our way of life, reproaches us for our breaches of the law and accuses us of playing false to our upbringing. ‘Let us see if what he says is true, let us observe what kind of end he himself will have. If the virtuous man is God’s son, God will take his part and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies. Let us test him with cruelty and with torture, and thus explore this gentleness of his and put his endurance to the proof. Let us condemn him to a shameful death since he will be looked after – we have his word for it.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Psalm 54: (Response): I will praise your name, for it is gracious.

1 Save me, O God, by your name And vindicate me by your power. 2 Hear my prayer, O God; give heed to the words of my mouth. (Response)

3 For strangers have risen up against me, and the ruthless seek after my life; they have not set God before them. (Response)

4 Behold, God is my helper; It is the Lord who holds up my life. 5 May evil rebound on those who lie in wait for me; destroy them in your faithfulness. (Response)

6 An offering of a free heart will I give you and praise your name, O Lord, for it is gracious. 7 For he has delivered me out of all my trouble, and my eye has seen the downfall of my enemies. (Response)

 

A Reading from the Letter of James (James 3:16-4:3)

Wherever you find jealousy and ambition, you find disharmony, and wicked things of every kind being done; whereas the wisdom that comes down from above is essentially something pure; it also makes for peace, and is kindly and considerate; it is full of compassion and shows itself by doing good; nor is there any trace of partiality or hypocrisy in it. Peacemakers, when they work for peace, sow the seeds which will bear fruit in holiness. Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and you haven’t got it; so you are prepared to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you don’t have what you want is because you don’t pray for it; when you do pray and don’t get it, it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. I am the light of the world, says the Lord; anyone who follows me will have the light of life. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you. +

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (9: 30-37) Glory to you, O Lord.

 

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

 

Post Communion Prayer

Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

 

NOTICES

• Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Weds. 25th Sept.: 10 a.m. Low Mass; liturgy followed by refresments
• Sun. 29nd Sept.: 10 a.m. Sung Mass; liturgy followed by refreshments
• Choral Evensong: Sunday 27th Oct.; Sunday 24th Nov.; Sunday 22nd Dec. (6:00 p.m.)
• Autumn Bazaar: Saturday 28th September (10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m)
• Harvest Festival: Sunday 20th October (contributions of food are sought: please speak to Lynn Stavrou).
• Study Group: details from Fr. Benjamin 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 frbenjamindrury@gmail.com; Home tel.: 210 72 14 906 Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday) 697 737 7655 anglican@otenet.gr (Church e-mail address)

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