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Services for today, Sunday 22^nd  June
The First Sunday after Trinity (Proper 7C)

This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)

Services for next Sunday 29^th June

A Ministry Area Vestry Meeting will be held on 23rd day of June 2025 at 7.30 pm at St Denys Church, Lisvane

Persons whose names are on the Electoral Roll of the Ministry Area will be entitled to be present and to vote.  Others are welcome to attend and take part but not to vote. A copy of the Electoral Roll is available for inspection upon request (please contact Denise Searle office@stdenyschurch.org.uk).

The meeting is convened:

For the consideration of:

• an Annual Report on the proceedings of the MAC and the Ministry Area generally including the accounts for the MA for the year ending 31st December preceding the meeting.
• reports on the proceedings of the Deanery and Diocesan Conferences
• other matters of parochial or general Church interest (for which 5 days prior notice must be given).

For the election of:

• People’s MA Warden
• Congregational Representatives of the Ministry Area Council
• Representatives to the Deanery Conference
• Representatives to the Diocesan Conference
• For the appointment of an Independent Examiner.

A copy of the Annual Report is in both churches and online until the meeting at https://parishofllanishen.org.uk/leaflet/

The First Sunday after Trinity

Collect 83

God, the strength of all those who put their trust in you, mercifully accept our prayers and, because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without you, grant us the help of your grace, that in the keeping of your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

1 Kings 19. 1-4, 8-15a

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.’ Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’

He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there.

Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ He answered, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.’

He said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a

sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.

Then there came a voice to him that said, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ He answered, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.’

Then the Lord said to him, ‘Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus.

Responsorial Psalm 43

R: Put your trust in God, for he is our help and indeed our God

Give judgement for me, O God, and defend my cause against an un/godly people: deliver me from the deceitful and the wicked. For you are the God of my refuge; why have you cast / me from you: and why go I so heavily, while the / ene/my oppresses me?
R: Put your trust in God, for he is our help and indeed our God

O send out your light and your truth, that / they may lead me: and bring me to your holy hill and / to your dwelling, That I may go to the altar of God, to the God of my / joy and gladness: and on the lyre I will give thanks to you, O / God my God.
R: Put your trust in God, for he is our help and indeed our God

Why are you so full of heaviness, / O my soul: and why are you so disquiet/ted within me? O put your trust in God: for I will yet / give him thanks, who is the help of my countenance, / and my God.

R: Put your trust in God, for he is our help and indeed our God

Galatians 3. 23-29

Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.

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 8. 26-39 Jesus Heals the Gerasene Demoniac

Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs.

When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at the top of his voice, ‘What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

I beg you, do not torment me’ – for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man.

(For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.)

Jesus then asked him, ‘What is your name?’

He said, ‘Legion’; for many demons had entered him. They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.

Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding; and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

When the swineherds saw what had happened, they ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been possessed by demons had been healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized with great fear.

So he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but Jesus sent him away, saying, ‘Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.’

So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him.

V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ

Post Communion Prayer 84

Eternal Father, we thank you for nourishing us with these

heavenly gifts: may our communion strengthen us in faith, build us up in hope, and help us grow in love; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.

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