12 Weekly News Sheet
The First Sunday of The Kingdom - Sunday 02nd November
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 02nd November
The First Sunday of The Kingdom
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
12.00pm
Holy Baptism
St Isan
4.00pm
Service of Commemoration for the Departed
St Faith
4.00pm
Faith @ Four
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning
Tuesday
6.30pm
Youth Group at St Faith’s
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Friday
9.30am
Teddy Church at St Faith’s
Services for next Sunday 02nd November
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan’s will be holding a Service of Commemoration for the Departed (formerly All Souls’ Day) today at 4pm.
If you’d like a name of a loved one read out, please see Elaine or one of your wardens after the service today or you can add the name when you arrive at the service.
A Short of Act of Remembrance will be held around the Preaching Cross at 10:50am on Tuesday 11th November to commemorate Armistice Day. Refreshments will be served in afterwards. St Isan’s will then remain open until 4pm as there will be a Remembrance display on.
If you can help being a Steward that day for an hour or two, there is a sign up form at the back of church.
Our Remembrance Service will be held at 10:30 on Sunday 09th November.
Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church next Sunday at 4pm. 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 this Tuesday, 04thNovember 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 is not too far away! First Sunday of Advent is 4 weeks today and we start with our Advent Service on Sunday 30th November, the travelling cribs will start their journeys around our homes and schools, and St Isan’s will be open for Llanishen Lights on the evening of Friday 05th December.
Full list of services and events at will be advertised shortly.
Services for today, Sunday 02nd November
The First Sunday of The Kingdom
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 12.00pm | Holy Baptism |
| St Isan | 4.00pm | Service of Commemoration for the Departed |
| St Faith | 4.00pm | Faith @ Four |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning |
| Tuesday | 6.30pm | Youth Group at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
| Friday | 9.30am | Teddy Church at St Faith’s |
Services for next Sunday 02nd November
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
St Isan’s will be holding a Service of Commemoration for the Departed (formerly All Souls’ Day) today at 4pm.
If you’d like a name of a loved one read out, please see Elaine or one of your wardens after the service today or you can add the name when you arrive at the service.
A Short of Act of Remembrance will be held around the Preaching Cross at 10:50am on Tuesday 11th November to commemorate Armistice Day. Refreshments will be served in afterwards. St Isan’s will then remain open until 4pm as there will be a Remembrance display on.
If you can help being a Steward that day for an hour or two, there is a sign up form at the back of church.
Our Remembrance Service will be held at 10:30 on Sunday 09th November.
Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church next Sunday at 4pm. 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 this Tuesday, 04thNovember 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 is not too far away! First Sunday of Advent is 4 weeks today and we start with our Advent Service on Sunday 30th November, the travelling cribs will start their journeys around our homes and schools, and St Isan’s will be open for Llanishen Lights on the evening of Friday 05th December.
Full list of services and events at will be advertised shortly.
The First Sunday of the Kingdom readings
The First Sunday of the Kingdom (Year C)
Collect 131
Almighty and eternal God, you have kindled the flame of love in the hearts of the saints: grant to us the same faith and power of love, that, as we rejoice in their triumphs, we may be sustained by their example and fellowship; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, 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.
Isaiah 1. 10-18
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation, I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Responsorial Psalm 32. 1-7
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
Happy the one whose transgression / is forgiven, and whose / sin is covered. Happy the one to whom the Lord im/putes no guilt, and in whose spirit there / is no guile.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
For I / held my tongue; my bones wasted away through my groaning all / the day long. Your hand was heavy upon me / day and night; my moisture was dried up like the / drought in summer.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
Then I acknowledged my / sin to you and my iniquity I / did not hide. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions / to the Lord,’ and you forgave the guilt / of my sin.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
Therefore let all the faithful make their prayers to you in / time of trouble; in the great water flood, it / shall not reach them. You are the place for me to hide in; you preserve / me from trouble; you surround me with songs / of deliverance.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
2 Thessalonians 1. 1-12
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.
This is evidence of the righteous judgement of God, and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marvelled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfil by his power every good resolve and work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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 Luke
R: Glory to you, O Lord
Luke 19. 1-10 Jesus and Zacchaeus
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’
So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.’ Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’
Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 132
Lord of heaven, in this Eucharist you have brought us near to an innumerable company of angels and to the spirits of the just made perfect: as in this food of our earthly pilgrimage we have shared their fellowship, so may we come to share their joy in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The First Sunday of the Kingdom (Year C)
Collect 131
Almighty and eternal God, you have kindled the flame of love in the hearts of the saints: grant to us the same faith and power of love, that, as we rejoice in their triumphs, we may be sustained by their example and fellowship; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, 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.
Isaiah 1. 10-18
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation, I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Responsorial Psalm 32. 1-7
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
Happy the one whose transgression / is forgiven, and whose / sin is covered. Happy the one to whom the Lord im/putes no guilt, and in whose spirit there / is no guile.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
For I / held my tongue; my bones wasted away through my groaning all / the day long. Your hand was heavy upon me / day and night; my moisture was dried up like the / drought in summer.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
Then I acknowledged my / sin to you and my iniquity I / did not hide. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions / to the Lord,’ and you forgave the guilt / of my sin.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
Therefore let all the faithful make their prayers to you in / time of trouble; in the great water flood, it / shall not reach them. You are the place for me to hide in; you preserve / me from trouble; you surround me with songs / of deliverance.
R: Forgive me, Lord, the guilt of my sin.
2 Thessalonians 1. 1-12
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.
This is evidence of the righteous judgement of God, and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marvelled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfil by his power every good resolve and work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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 Luke
R: Glory to you, O Lord
Luke 19. 1-10 Jesus and Zacchaeus
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’
So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.’ Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’
Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 132
Lord of heaven, in this Eucharist you have brought us near to an innumerable company of angels and to the spirits of the just made perfect: as in this food of our earthly pilgrimage we have shared their fellowship, so may we come to share their joy in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord.