12 Weekly News Sheet
3nd Sunday after Trinity Readings
This week's services, events & notices
The Third Sunday after Trinity (Proper 9C)
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
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
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Thursday
7.30pm
Insole Court Community Choir with Ruth & Entertainment at St Faith’s
Services for next Sunday 13th July
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith Concert proudly presents an evening of entertainment featuring Insole Court Community Choir with special guest Ruth Greenaway Robbins, on Thursday 10thJuly at 7.30pm Tickets £10 to include glass of wine. Proceeds to charity. Contact 07974 940938 for more details.
‘The Bible Course’ will start on Thursday 17th July at 2pm in the Parish Hall July and will run for 8 weeks.
Church Open St Isan’s are hoping to be open on Fridays during August, but we can only do this with your help!
We are looking for stewards to cover three two-hour slots for each of the 5 Fridays in August – sign up form at the back of the church.
Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church today 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’!
The Third Sunday after Trinity (Proper 9C)
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
| 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 | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
| Thursday | 7.30pm | Insole Court Community Choir with Ruth & Entertainment at St Faith’s |
Services for next Sunday 13th July
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
St Faith Concert proudly presents an evening of entertainment featuring Insole Court Community Choir with special guest Ruth Greenaway Robbins, on Thursday 10thJuly at 7.30pm Tickets £10 to include glass of wine. Proceeds to charity. Contact 07974 940938 for more details.
‘The Bible Course’ will start on Thursday 17th July at 2pm in the Parish Hall July and will run for 8 weeks.
Church Open St Isan’s are hoping to be open on Fridays during August, but we can only do this with your help!
We are looking for stewards to cover three two-hour slots for each of the 5 Fridays in August – sign up form at the back of the church.
Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church today 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’!
The Third Sunday after Trinity (Proper 9C)
Collect 87
Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father: give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought to the glorious liberty of the children of God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
2 Kings 5. 1-14
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.
She said to her mistress, ‘If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.’ So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. And the king of Aram said, ‘Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.’
He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, ‘When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy.’
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, ‘Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.’
But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, ‘Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.’
So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, ‘Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.’
But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, ‘I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on
the name of the Lord his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy!
Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?’ He turned and went away in a rage.
But his servants approached and said to him, ‘Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, “Wash, and be clean”?’
So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.
Responsorial Psalm 30
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
I will exalt / you, O Lord, because you have / raised me up
and have not let my foes / triumph over me.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
O Lord my God, / I cried out to you and / you have healed me. You brought me up, O Lord, / from the dead; you restored me to life from among those that go down / to the Pit.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
Sing to the Lord, you servants of his; give thanks to his / holy name. For his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye, his favour / for his lifetime. Heaviness may endure / for a night,
but joy comes / in the morning.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
In my prosperity I said, ‘I shall ne/ver be moved. You, Lord, of your goodness, have made my / hill so strong.’ Then you / hid your face from me and I was utter/ly dismayed.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
To you, O Lord, I cried; to the Lord I made my / supplication: ‘What profit is there in my blood, if I go down / to the Pit? Will the dust praise you or de/clare your faithfulness? ‘Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; O Lord, / be my helper.’
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
You have turned my mourning / into dancing; you have put off my sackcloth and girded / me with gladness; Therefore my heart sings to you / without ceasing; O Lord my God, I will give you / thanks for ever.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
Galatians 6. 7-16
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.
See what large letters I make when I am writing in my own hand!It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that try to compel you to be circumcised – only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh. May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything;
but a new creation is everything! As for those who will follow this rule – peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel 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 10. 1-11, 16-20 The Mission of the Seventy
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest. Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road.
Whatever house you enter, first say, “Peace to this house!”
And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the labourer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, “The kingdom of God has come near to you.”
But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, “Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.”
‘Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.’
The seventy returned with joy, saying, ‘Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.’
Post Communion Prayer 88
O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining and whose power we cannot comprehend: show us your glory as far as we can grasp it, and shield us from knowing more than we can bear until we may look upon you without fear; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Collect 87
Almighty God, you have broken the tyranny of sin and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts whereby we call you Father: give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your service, that we and all creation may be brought to the glorious liberty of the children of God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
2 Kings 5. 1-14
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.
She said to her mistress, ‘If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.’ So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. And the king of Aram said, ‘Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.’
He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, ‘When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy.’
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, ‘Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.’
But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, ‘Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.’
So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, ‘Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.’
But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, ‘I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on
the name of the Lord his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy!
Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?’ He turned and went away in a rage.
But his servants approached and said to him, ‘Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, “Wash, and be clean”?’
So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.
Responsorial Psalm 30
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
I will exalt / you, O Lord, because you have / raised me up
and have not let my foes / triumph over me.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
O Lord my God, / I cried out to you and / you have healed me. You brought me up, O Lord, / from the dead; you restored me to life from among those that go down / to the Pit.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
Sing to the Lord, you servants of his; give thanks to his / holy name. For his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye, his favour / for his lifetime. Heaviness may endure / for a night,
but joy comes / in the morning.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
In my prosperity I said, ‘I shall ne/ver be moved. You, Lord, of your goodness, have made my / hill so strong.’ Then you / hid your face from me and I was utter/ly dismayed.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
To you, O Lord, I cried; to the Lord I made my / supplication: ‘What profit is there in my blood, if I go down / to the Pit? Will the dust praise you or de/clare your faithfulness? ‘Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; O Lord, / be my helper.’
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
You have turned my mourning / into dancing; you have put off my sackcloth and girded / me with gladness; Therefore my heart sings to you / without ceasing; O Lord my God, I will give you / thanks for ever.
R: O Lord my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
Galatians 6. 7-16
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.
See what large letters I make when I am writing in my own hand!It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that try to compel you to be circumcised – only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh. May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything;
but a new creation is everything! As for those who will follow this rule – peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel 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 10. 1-11, 16-20 The Mission of the Seventy
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest. Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road.
Whatever house you enter, first say, “Peace to this house!”
And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the labourer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, “The kingdom of God has come near to you.”
But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, “Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.”
‘Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.’
The seventy returned with joy, saying, ‘Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.’
Post Communion Prayer 88
O God, whose beauty is beyond our imagining and whose power we cannot comprehend: show us your glory as far as we can grasp it, and shield us from knowing more than we can bear until we may look upon you without fear; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.