Sevice Sheet for Sunday 28th September 2025 – 26th Sunday in Ordinary time

Celebrant Fr Benjamin Drury

Welcome to our liturgy of Holy Communion (Sung Mass)

Processional: 190 (Coelites Plaudant) , Christ the fair glory of the holy angels

Responsorial Psalm:  Ps 146

Gradual: 481 (Vienna), Jesus Lord we look to thee

Offertory: 406 (Melita): O Christ the Lord, O Christ the King

Communion: 276 (Bread of Heaven, on thee we feed)

Recessional: 377 (St Denio),  Immortal Invisible, God only Wise

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 Amos (6: 1, 4-7)

The almighty Lord says this:

Woe to those ensconced so snugly in Zion and to those who feel so safe on the mountain of Samaria, those famous men of this first of nations to whom the House of Israel goes as client. Lying on ivory beds and sprawling on their divans, they dine on lambs from the flock, and stall-fattened veal; they bawl to the sound of the harp, they invent new instruments of music like David, they drink wine by the bowlful, and use the finest oil for anointing themselves, but about the ruin of Joseph they do not care at all. That is why they will be the first to be exiled; the sprawlers’ revelry is over.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

 

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 146: My soul, give praise to the Lord.

It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever,

who is just to those who are oppressed.

It is he who gives bread to the hungry,

the Lord, who sets prisoners free. (Response)

It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind, who raises up those who are bowed down.

It is the Lord who loves the just,

the Lord, who protects the stranger. (Response)

The Lord upholds the widow and orphan

but thwarts the path of the wicked.

The Lord will reign for ever,

Zion’s God, from age to age. (Response)

 

A reading from the first Letter of St. Paul to Timothy (6: 11-16)

As a man dedicated to God, you must aim to be saintly and religious, filled with faith and love, patient and gentle. Fight the good fight of the faith and win for yourself the eternal life to which you were called when you made your profession and spoke up for the truth in front of many witnesses. Now, before God the source of all life and before Christ, who spoke up as a witness for the truth in front of Pontius Pilate, I put to you the duty of doing all that you have been told, with no faults or failures, until the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who at the due time will be revealed by God, the blessed and only Ruler of all, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, who alone is immortal, whose home is in inaccessible light, whom no man has seen and no man is able to see: to him be honour and everlasting power. Amen.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Jesus Christ was rich,

but he became poor for your sake,

to make you rich out of his poverty. Alleluia!

 

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (16: 19-31)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus said to the Pharisees: ‘There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day. And at

his gate there lay a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill himself with the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even came and licked his sores. Now the poor

man died and was carried away by the angels to the bosom of Abra- ham. The rich man also died and was buried.

‘In his torment in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out, “Father Abra- ham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.” “My son,”

Abraham replied “remember that during your life good things came your way, just as bad things came the way of Lazarus. Now he is

being comforted here while you are in agony. But that is not all: be- tween us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to stop anyone, if he wanted to, crossing from our side to yours, and to stop any crossing from your side to ours.”

‘The rich man replied, “Father, I beg you then to send Lazarus to my father’s house, since I have five brothers, to give them warning so that they do not come to this place of torment too.” “They have Moses and the prophets,” said Abraham “let them listen to them.” “Ah no, father Abraham,” said the rich man “but if someone comes to them from the dead, they will repent.” Then Abraham said to

him, “If they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead.”’

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

 

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

 

Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but

fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect: Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 1st October: 10 a.m.; Low Mass, Sunday 5th October: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass

The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, The Rt. Rev’d Dr. Robert Innes, shall be with us at next Sunday’s Mass, accompanied by the Arch- deacon of Eastern Europe, and the Bishop’s Chaplain.

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 thereon 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.

Christmas Bazaar: Sunday, 23rd November (Caravel Hotel)

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 frbenjamindrury@gmail.com;

Home tel.: 210 72 14 906

Deacon Christine Saccali : (Day Off: Friday)          697 737 7655

Church e-mail address:  anglican@otenet.gr

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