12 Weekly News Sheet
Christ the King (as Fourth Sunday of the Kingdom) - Sunday 24th November
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 24th November
Christ the King (as the Fourth Sunday of Kingdom)
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s
Tuesday
1.30pm
Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice in Parish Hall
Thursday
7.00pm
Players’ Rehearsal in Parish Hall
Services for next Sunday, 01st December
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
St Faith
4.00pm
Faith @ Four
St Isan
4.00pm
Advent Service (Church or Hall TBC)
Tickets now on sale for the Afternoon Tea and Entertainment with the Llanishen Players on 07th December. Tickets are £7. Please see Marilyn or Angela to secure yours, (Bishop Mary already has!) before they all go.
Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church at 4pm today. There will be refreshments, worship songs both ‘old and new’, bible readings and interviews, prayers and reflections. Something for everyone so come along, all ages are welcome to join us in a live music, informal act of worship that is
‘Faith @ Four’!
Youth Group continues at St Faith’s on Tuesday 03rd December for Years 6-9, and then on every first Tuesday of the month from 6.30pm to 8pm. There will be plenty of games, activities and a tuck shop to keep them entertained
Services for today, Sunday 24th November
Christ the King (as the Fourth Sunday of Kingdom)
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 1.30pm | Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice in Parish Hall |
| Thursday | 7.00pm | Players’ Rehearsal in Parish Hall |
Services for next Sunday, 01st December
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
| St Faith | 4.00pm | Faith @ Four |
| St Isan | 4.00pm | Advent Service (Church or Hall TBC) |
Tickets now on sale for the Afternoon Tea and Entertainment with the Llanishen Players on 07th December. Tickets are £7. Please see Marilyn or Angela to secure yours, (Bishop Mary already has!) before they all go.
Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church at 4pm today. There will be refreshments, worship songs both ‘old and new’, bible readings and interviews, prayers and reflections. Something for everyone so come along, all ages are welcome to join us in a live music, informal act of worship that is
‘Faith @ Four’!
Youth Group continues at St Faith’s on Tuesday 03rd December for Years 6-9, and then on every first Tuesday of the month from 6.30pm to 8pm. There will be plenty of games, activities and a tuck shop to keep them entertained
Christmas at St Isan's and St Faith's
The First Sunday of Advent is next week, and we start with lighting our advent wreath at the 10:30 service.
Our Travelling Nativity Cribs will also be blessed at both churches, before they go around our homes. Please complete the signup sheets if you wish to host it.
St Isan’s Advent Service is on Sunday 01st December at 4pm.
A Nativity Trail of knitted characters from the Christmas Story, are placed in shop and business windows in Llanishen Village. We invite children to explore, noting down where they find each character. One lucky entrant will be drawn to switch on Llanishen Village’s Christmas lights. Forms available in church.
St Isan’s and D. Caesar Jones Funeral Service will be holding a Christmas Memorial Service, instead of our usual Service of Commemoration for the Departed (All Souls’ Day), at 7pm on Wednesday 04th December. The service is held for all those bereaved as an opportunity to give thanks for the life of your loved one, light a candle in their memory, carols and readings. Refreshments will be provided after the service.
Llanishen Lights is on Friday 06th December. St Isan’s will be open that evening, where we also welcome Llanishen High who will performing a Christmas concert in church.
St Faith’s will have a Christmas Tree Festival between Thursday 05th and Saturday 07th December. For more information about this and other St Faith’s events, please contact Marilynshillard@googlemail.com
St Isan’s Gift Service will be on Sunday 08th December, where we will be once again supporting the Church Army’s work with young people aged 16 to 21 at Ty Bronna in Fairwater.
They would be happy to receive donations of men’s toiletry packages, hats, gloves, scarves, slippers, umbrellas, torches, stationery, hairbrushes and combs, picture frames, socks, chocolates, and biscuits.
There is no need to wrap them, and they can also be brought to any service prior to 08th December or left at 82 Station Road.
St Isan’s will be hosting Experience Christmas between Monday 16th December and Thursday 19th December, which is an interactive journey through six stations of the Christmas story, designed for people of all ages.
Monday to Wednesday is when schools and groups will visit, and it is open to all of us on the Thursday from 4pm. We are looking for stewards whilst the church is open on those days. If you can help, please see Elaine, Ruth or Marilyn.
St Faiths will have their ever-popular Carols, Poems and Punchon Tuesday 17th December.
St Isan’s All Age Nativity is on Sunday 22nd December at 10:30am.
On Christmas Eve, we have Chocolate Nativity at St Faith’s at3pm, Christingle is at 5pm and a Midnight Eucharist at 11:15pm, both at St Isan’s.
Christmas Day Eucharists are at 8am and 10:30am in St Isan’s and at 9am in St Faith’s.
Carols by Candlelight will be at 4pm on Sunday 29th December.
You can also join Good Neighbours in North Cardiff: on Thursday December 5th at Llanishen Rugby Club, as they celebrate the festive season with an across the board musical selection of Christmas favourites!
The night begins at 7pm and includes a light buffet with music from the Ukelele Wolves, Oriana and the Choir with No Name.
Their services are essential especially during the winter months, when their team of volunteers’ support people in North Cardiff enabling them to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. For further information and to purchase tickets, email support@gninc.org.uk or call our office Tues – Fri 10-12 on 029 2075 0751. Let’s start the Christmas Season with Good Neighbours!
The First Sunday of Advent is next week, and we start with lighting our advent wreath at the 10:30 service.
Our Travelling Nativity Cribs will also be blessed at both churches, before they go around our homes. Please complete the signup sheets if you wish to host it.
St Isan’s Advent Service is on Sunday 01st December at 4pm.
A Nativity Trail of knitted characters from the Christmas Story, are placed in shop and business windows in Llanishen Village. We invite children to explore, noting down where they find each character. One lucky entrant will be drawn to switch on Llanishen Village’s Christmas lights. Forms available in church.
St Isan’s and D. Caesar Jones Funeral Service will be holding a Christmas Memorial Service, instead of our usual Service of Commemoration for the Departed (All Souls’ Day), at 7pm on Wednesday 04th December. The service is held for all those bereaved as an opportunity to give thanks for the life of your loved one, light a candle in their memory, carols and readings. Refreshments will be provided after the service.
Llanishen Lights is on Friday 06th December. St Isan’s will be open that evening, where we also welcome Llanishen High who will performing a Christmas concert in church.
St Faith’s will have a Christmas Tree Festival between Thursday 05th and Saturday 07th December. For more information about this and other St Faith’s events, please contact Marilynshillard@googlemail.com
St Isan’s Gift Service will be on Sunday 08th December, where we will be once again supporting the Church Army’s work with young people aged 16 to 21 at Ty Bronna in Fairwater.
They would be happy to receive donations of men’s toiletry packages, hats, gloves, scarves, slippers, umbrellas, torches, stationery, hairbrushes and combs, picture frames, socks, chocolates, and biscuits.
There is no need to wrap them, and they can also be brought to any service prior to 08th December or left at 82 Station Road.
St Isan’s will be hosting Experience Christmas between Monday 16th December and Thursday 19th December, which is an interactive journey through six stations of the Christmas story, designed for people of all ages.
Monday to Wednesday is when schools and groups will visit, and it is open to all of us on the Thursday from 4pm. We are looking for stewards whilst the church is open on those days. If you can help, please see Elaine, Ruth or Marilyn.
St Faiths will have their ever-popular Carols, Poems and Punchon Tuesday 17th December.
St Isan’s All Age Nativity is on Sunday 22nd December at 10:30am.
On Christmas Eve, we have Chocolate Nativity at St Faith’s at3pm, Christingle is at 5pm and a Midnight Eucharist at 11:15pm, both at St Isan’s.
Christmas Day Eucharists are at 8am and 10:30am in St Isan’s and at 9am in St Faith’s.
Carols by Candlelight will be at 4pm on Sunday 29th December.
You can also join Good Neighbours in North Cardiff: on Thursday December 5th at Llanishen Rugby Club, as they celebrate the festive season with an across the board musical selection of Christmas favourites!
The night begins at 7pm and includes a light buffet with music from the Ukelele Wolves, Oriana and the Choir with No Name.
Their services are essential especially during the winter months, when their team of volunteers’ support people in North Cardiff enabling them to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. For further information and to purchase tickets, email support@gninc.org.uk or call our office Tues – Fri 10-12 on 029 2075 0751. Let’s start the Christmas Season with Good Neighbours!
This weeks readings
Collect 140
Eternal Father, whose Son Jesus Christ ascended to the throne of heaven that he might rule over all things as Lord and King: keep the Church in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace, and bring the whole created order to worship at his feet; grant this for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit, be the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Daniel 7. 9-10, 13, 14
As I watched, thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and flowed out from his presence. A thousand thousand served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him.
The court sat in judgement, and the books were opened. As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him.
To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.
Responsorial Psalm 93
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
The Lord is king and has put on glori/ous apparel: the Lord has put / on his glory and girded him/self with strength.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
He has made the whole world so sure: that it can/not be moved. Your throne has been established / from of old: you are from / ever/lasting.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
The floods have lifted / up, O Lord, the floods have lifted / up their voice: the floods lift up their / pounding waves.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
Mightier than the thunder of / many waters, mightier than the breakers / of the sea: the Lord on / high is mightier.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
Your testimonies are / very sure: holiness a/dorns your house, O / Lord, for ever.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
Revelation 1. 4b-8
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and freedus from our sins by his blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen.
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
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 18. 33-37 Jesus before Pilate
Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’
Jesus answered, ‘Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?’ Pilate replied, ‘I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?’
Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is my kingdom is not from here.’
Pilate asked him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 141
Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may by you be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Collect 140
Eternal Father, whose Son Jesus Christ ascended to the throne of heaven that he might rule over all things as Lord and King: keep the Church in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace, and bring the whole created order to worship at his feet; grant this for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit, be the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Daniel 7. 9-10, 13, 14
As I watched, thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and flowed out from his presence. A thousand thousand served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him.
The court sat in judgement, and the books were opened. As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him.
To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.
Responsorial Psalm 93
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
The Lord is king and has put on glori/ous apparel: the Lord has put / on his glory and girded him/self with strength.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
He has made the whole world so sure: that it can/not be moved. Your throne has been established / from of old: you are from / ever/lasting.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
The floods have lifted / up, O Lord, the floods have lifted / up their voice: the floods lift up their / pounding waves.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
Mightier than the thunder of / many waters, mightier than the breakers / of the sea: the Lord on / high is mightier.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
Your testimonies are / very sure: holiness a/dorns your house, O / Lord, for ever.
R: The Lord is King, and his apparel is glorious
Revelation 1. 4b-8
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and freedus from our sins by his blood, and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen.
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
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 18. 33-37 Jesus before Pilate
Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’
Jesus answered, ‘Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?’ Pilate replied, ‘I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?’
Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is my kingdom is not from here.’
Pilate asked him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 141
Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may by you be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord.