12 Weekly News Sheet
The Sunday before Lent, Transfiguration Sunday - 02nd March
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 02nd March
The Sunday Before Lent
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
4.00pm
Faith @ 4
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
Wednesday
10.30am
Ash Wednesday Service at St Faith’s
Wednesday
6.30pm
Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes
Thursday
2.00pm
Lenten Study in Parish Hall
Friday
10.00am
Church Open
Services for next Sunday 09th March
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments
Ash Wednesday Services will be held at St Faith’s at 10.30am and St Isan’s at 6.30pm on 5th March.
St Faith’s Lenten Lunches will be on Tuesdays at 12 noon starting from March 11th – proceeds to be split between St Faith’s and Water Aid.
Lenten Course based around our favourite hymns will be held on Thursdays at 2pm in the Parish Hall.
Church Open St Isan’s will be open on Fridays between 10am and 4pm during Lent, starting from 07th March. We can only do this with your support, so if you are able to help by volunteering as a steward, (2-hour slots), please complete the form at the back of church.
Cardiff Foodbank Lenten Appeal This year we are asking you again to bring an item of food to church every Sunday during Lent. Items they are currently in most need of are tins of custard, meat, potatoes, or tomatoes, cooking sauce in jars, jam, long-life juice, rice, sponge puddings, washing powder.
Experience Easter Following the success of Experience Christmas, we are once again welcoming young people for Experience Easter – an interactive journey through the Easter story designed for school-aged children. Through a series of engaging activities, children will explore the key themes of Easter in a meaningful way.
All resources and materials are provided; we just need volunteers to help deliver the sessions. No prior experience is required – just a willingness to engage with children and be part of this special event in our church.
We need volunteers from 31st March to 3rd April (timings to be confirmed). Each day will have two morning sessions and one in the afternoon. Even if you can only help with one session, your support would be greatly appreciated!
If you’re interested, please speak with Ruth, Elaine, Marilyn or any of the Experience Easter team, who will be available at Sunday services. We would love to have you on board!
Safeguarding Please can we ask for anyone who has volunteered to help at Sunday Club, to give their names to Martin Holden so he can arrange for DBS checks.
It would be helpful if everyone who does come to church, does the Church in Wales Safeguarding Awareness Course, which equips us to help make the church, and keep the church, a safe place.
Safeguarding is at the heart of the church’s life, it is at the heart of mission and pastoral care, and it is as much about theology, scripture and ministry, as it is about the law.
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Services for today, Sunday 02nd March
The Sunday Before Lent
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 4.00pm | Faith @ 4 |
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 |
| Wednesday | 10.30am | Ash Wednesday Service at St Faith’s |
| Wednesday | 6.30pm | Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes |
| Thursday | 2.00pm | Lenten Study in Parish Hall |
| Friday | 10.00am | Church Open |
Services for next Sunday 09th March
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments |
Ash Wednesday Services will be held at St Faith’s at 10.30am and St Isan’s at 6.30pm on 5th March.
St Faith’s Lenten Lunches will be on Tuesdays at 12 noon starting from March 11th – proceeds to be split between St Faith’s and Water Aid.
Lenten Course based around our favourite hymns will be held on Thursdays at 2pm in the Parish Hall.
Church Open St Isan’s will be open on Fridays between 10am and 4pm during Lent, starting from 07th March. We can only do this with your support, so if you are able to help by volunteering as a steward, (2-hour slots), please complete the form at the back of church.
Cardiff Foodbank Lenten Appeal This year we are asking you again to bring an item of food to church every Sunday during Lent. Items they are currently in most need of are tins of custard, meat, potatoes, or tomatoes, cooking sauce in jars, jam, long-life juice, rice, sponge puddings, washing powder.
Experience Easter Following the success of Experience Christmas, we are once again welcoming young people for Experience Easter – an interactive journey through the Easter story designed for school-aged children. Through a series of engaging activities, children will explore the key themes of Easter in a meaningful way.
All resources and materials are provided; we just need volunteers to help deliver the sessions. No prior experience is required – just a willingness to engage with children and be part of this special event in our church.
We need volunteers from 31st March to 3rd April (timings to be confirmed). Each day will have two morning sessions and one in the afternoon. Even if you can only help with one session, your support would be greatly appreciated!
If you’re interested, please speak with Ruth, Elaine, Marilyn or any of the Experience Easter team, who will be available at Sunday services. We would love to have you on board!
Safeguarding Please can we ask for anyone who has volunteered to help at Sunday Club, to give their names to Martin Holden so he can arrange for DBS checks.
It would be helpful if everyone who does come to church, does the Church in Wales Safeguarding Awareness Course, which equips us to help make the church, and keep the church, a safe place.
Safeguarding is at the heart of the church’s life, it is at the heart of mission and pastoral care, and it is as much about theology, scripture and ministry, as it is about the law.
church-in-wales-safeguarding-awareness-module-a/
This weeks readings
The Sunday before Lent (C)
Transfiguration Sunday
Collect 35
Almighty Father, whose Son was revealed in majesty before he suffered death upon the cross: give us grace to perceive his glory, that we may be strengthened to suffer with him and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Exodus 34. 29-35
Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.
Afterwards all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Psalm 99
R: The Lord our God is holy.
The Lord is king: let the / peoples tremble; he is enthroned above the cherubim: let / the earth shake. The Lord is / great in Zion and high a/bove all peoples. Let them praise your name, which is / great and awesome; the Lord our / God is holy.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
Mighty king, / who loves justice, you have e/stablished equity; you have executed justice and righteous/ness in Jacob. Exalt the / Lord our God; bow down before his footstool, for / he is holy.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
Moses and Aaron a/mong his priests and Samuel among those who call u/pon his name: they called upon the Lord / and he answered them. He spoke to them out of the pil/lar of cloud: they kept his testimonies and the law / that he gave them.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
You answered them, O / Lord our God: you were a God / who forgave them and pardoned them for / their offences. Exalt the Lord our God and worship him upon his / holy hill: for the Lord our / God is holy.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
2 Corinthians 3.12 – 4.2
Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside.
But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside. Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practise cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.
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 9. 28-36 The Transfiguration
Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him.
They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.
Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah’ not knowing what he said.
While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud. Then from the cloud came a voice that said, ‘This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!’
When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 38
Holy God, we see your glory in the face of Jesus Christ: may we who are partakers at his table reflect his life in word and deed, that all the world may know his power to change and save. This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Sunday before Lent (C)
Transfiguration Sunday
Collect 35
Almighty Father, whose Son was revealed in majesty before he suffered death upon the cross: give us grace to perceive his glory, that we may be strengthened to suffer with him and be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Exodus 34. 29-35
Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.
Afterwards all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Psalm 99
R: The Lord our God is holy.
The Lord is king: let the / peoples tremble; he is enthroned above the cherubim: let / the earth shake. The Lord is / great in Zion and high a/bove all peoples. Let them praise your name, which is / great and awesome; the Lord our / God is holy.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
Mighty king, / who loves justice, you have e/stablished equity; you have executed justice and righteous/ness in Jacob. Exalt the / Lord our God; bow down before his footstool, for / he is holy.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
Moses and Aaron a/mong his priests and Samuel among those who call u/pon his name: they called upon the Lord / and he answered them. He spoke to them out of the pil/lar of cloud: they kept his testimonies and the law / that he gave them.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
You answered them, O / Lord our God: you were a God / who forgave them and pardoned them for / their offences. Exalt the Lord our God and worship him upon his / holy hill: for the Lord our / God is holy.
R: The Lord our God is holy.
2 Corinthians 3.12 – 4.2
Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside.
But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside. Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practise cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.
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 9. 28-36 The Transfiguration
Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him.
They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.
Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah’ not knowing what he said.
While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud. Then from the cloud came a voice that said, ‘This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!’
When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 38
Holy God, we see your glory in the face of Jesus Christ: may we who are partakers at his table reflect his life in word and deed, that all the world may know his power to change and save. This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.