12 Weekly Leaflet
Fifth Sunday of Easter 28th April 2024
This week's services, events & notices
Services for Sunday, 28th April
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments
St Isan
12.30pm
Holy Baptism
Services for Sunday, 05th May
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments
St Isan
12.30pm
Holy Baptism of Zachary James Tanner & Lilly Jayne Tanner
St Faith
4.00pm
FAITH@ FOUR
Services for Thursday, 09th May
St Isan
6.00pm
Ascension Day Eucharist
Services for Sunday, 12th May
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments
St Isan
12.30pm
Holy Baptism
In the Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s
Tuesday
11.30am
Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Electoral Roll We are able to amend the Electoral Roll ahead of the Ministry Area Vestry Meeting. If you would like to be added, please contact admin@parishofllanishen.org.uk
or see one of your wardens by Sunday 02nd June.
If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.
Copies of the current Electoral Roll (2022) are at the back church, along with some forms.
If you are already on it, there is nothing you need to do. You need to be on the electoral roll to be a member of any of the councils or to be able to vote at the Ministry Area Vestry meeting, which will be held in June. Date, time, venue to be decided.
The Brownies are here! St Faith Church are pleased to announce that the 42nd Cardiff Brownie pack have taken up residence at our hall.
They meet at 6.30pm to 8pm on a Wednesday, term-time only and would love to invite any 7 to 10 year old girls to join their fun.
Please contact: 42ndcardiffbrownies@gmail.com for more information or ring 07805 493396.
Welcome! Our new curate, Ruth Greenaway-Robbins, will be joining us on Sunday 05th May and will be at the 10.30am Eucharist at St Isan’s and FAITH@ FOUR at St Faith’s.
Please come along to either service (refreshments will be served) and meet Ruth!
Ascension Day A Holy Eucharist service for Ascension Day will be held on Thursday 09th May at 6pm at St Isan’s.
Services for Sunday, 28th April
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist | |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist | |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments | |
| St Isan | 12.30pm | Holy Baptism | |
Services for Sunday, 05th May
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments |
| St Isan | 12.30pm | Holy Baptism of Zachary James Tanner & Lilly Jayne Tanner |
| St Faith | 4.00pm | FAITH@ FOUR |
Services for Thursday, 09th May
| St Isan | 6.00pm | Ascension Day Eucharist |
Services for Sunday, 12th May
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments |
| St Isan | 12.30pm | Holy Baptism |
In the Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 11.30am | Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
Electoral Roll We are able to amend the Electoral Roll ahead of the Ministry Area Vestry Meeting. If you would like to be added, please contact admin@parishofllanishen.org.uk
or see one of your wardens by Sunday 02nd June.
If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.
Copies of the current Electoral Roll (2022) are at the back church, along with some forms.
If you are already on it, there is nothing you need to do. You need to be on the electoral roll to be a member of any of the councils or to be able to vote at the Ministry Area Vestry meeting, which will be held in June. Date, time, venue to be decided.
The Brownies are here! St Faith Church are pleased to announce that the 42nd Cardiff Brownie pack have taken up residence at our hall.
They meet at 6.30pm to 8pm on a Wednesday, term-time only and would love to invite any 7 to 10 year old girls to join their fun.
Please contact: 42ndcardiffbrownies@gmail.com for more information or ring 07805 493396.
Welcome! Our new curate, Ruth Greenaway-Robbins, will be joining us on Sunday 05th May and will be at the 10.30am Eucharist at St Isan’s and FAITH@ FOUR at St Faith’s.
Please come along to either service (refreshments will be served) and meet Ruth!
Ascension Day A Holy Eucharist service for Ascension Day will be held on Thursday 09th May at 6pm at St Isan’s.
This weeks readings
Collect 69
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Acts 8. 26-40
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over to this chariot and join it.’
So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ He replied, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’ And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: ‘Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.’
The eunuch asked Philip, ‘About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?’
Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus. As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?’ He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
Responsorial Psalm 22. 25-31
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
From you comes my praise in the great / congregation; I will perform my bows in the presence of / those that fear you. The poor shall eat / and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord shall praise him; their hearts shall / live for ever.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn / to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall / bow before him. For the kingdom / is the Lord’s and he rules o/ver the nations.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
How can those who sleep in the earth bow down in worship, or those who go down to the dust / kneel before him? He has saved my life for himself; my descen/dants shall serve him; this shall be told of the Lord for genera/tions to come. They shall come and make known his salvation, to a people yet unborn, declaring that he, the / Lord, has done it.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
1 John 4. 7-21
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because he first loved us.
Those who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.
V: Hear what the spirit is saying to the Church
R: Thanks be to God
Please stand for the Gospel
V: Listen to the Gospel of Christ according to St John
R: Glory to you, O Lord
John 15. 1-8 Jesus the True Vine
Jesus said, ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Collect 69
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ our risen Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Acts 8. 26-40
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over to this chariot and join it.’
So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ He replied, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’ And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: ‘Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.’
The eunuch asked Philip, ‘About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?’
Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus. As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?’ He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
Responsorial Psalm 22. 25-31
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
From you comes my praise in the great / congregation; I will perform my bows in the presence of / those that fear you. The poor shall eat / and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord shall praise him; their hearts shall / live for ever.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn / to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall / bow before him. For the kingdom / is the Lord’s and he rules o/ver the nations.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
How can those who sleep in the earth bow down in worship, or those who go down to the dust / kneel before him? He has saved my life for himself; my descen/dants shall serve him; this shall be told of the Lord for genera/tions to come. They shall come and make known his salvation, to a people yet unborn, declaring that he, the / Lord, has done it.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
1 John 4. 7-21
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because he first loved us.
Those who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.
V: Hear what the spirit is saying to the Church
R: Thanks be to God
Please stand for the Gospel
V: Listen to the Gospel of Christ according to St John
R: Glory to you, O Lord
John 15. 1-8 Jesus the True Vine
Jesus said, ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.
Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ