12 Weekly News Sheet

Services for today, Sunday 15^th March
Mothering Sunday (as the Fourth Sunday of Lent)

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

Services for next Sunday 22^nd March

A Huge Thank you to Hilary and her family for a wonderful St David’s Day lunch last Sunday.

An enjoyable afternoon was had by all. A total of £625 was raised for Marie Curie Cancer Care and church funds. Thank you.

Easter Services The following will be held in Holy Week (week commencing 30^th March)

God So Loved The World’, will be sung by the choir, along with a meditation in hymns, anthems and readings, focussing on Christ’s sacrifice for humanity and the world.

St Faith’s Lenten Lunches will be held on Tuesdays at midday throughout Lent, starting on 24^th February.

Lenten Reflections will held after the 10am Wednesday Eucharist during Lent, starting on 25^th February.

Our Order of Service: Today we will using our new ‘An Order for the Holy Eucharist 2004’ books.

The structure of the service is shown on page 13 with the relevant appendices (surmised below).

Mothering Sunday

Collect 50

God of compassion, whose Son Jesus Christ, the child of Mary, shared the life of a home in Nazareth, and on the cross drew the whole human family to himself: strengthen us in our daily living that in joy and in sorrow we may know the power of your presence to bind together and to heal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Exodus 2. 1-10

Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him for three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. ‘This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,’ she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?’ Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Yes.’ So the girl went and called the child’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.’ So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because’, she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’

Responsorial Psalm 34. 11-20

R: O taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

Come, my child/ren, and listen to me; I will teach you the fear / of the Lord. Who is there who de/lights in life and longs for days to en/joy good things?
R: O taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

Keep your / tongue from evil and your lips from / lying words. Turn from evil / and do good; seek peace / and pursue it.
R: O taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

The eyes of the Lord are u/pon the righteous and his ears are open / to their cry. The face of the Lord is against those / who do evil, to root out the remembrance of them / from the earth.
R: O taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

The righteous cry and the / Lord hears them and delivers them out of / all their troubles. The Lord is near to the / broken-hearted and will save those who are / crushed in spirit.
R: O taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

Many are the troubles / of the righteous: from them all will the / Lord de/liver them.  He keeps / all their bones: so that not / one of / them is broken.
R: O taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

Colossians 3. 12-17

As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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

John 19. 25-27

And that is what the soldiers did.

Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’

Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’

And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

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

Post Communion Prayer 49

Loving God, as a mother feeds her children at the breast you feed us in this sacrament with the food and drink of eternal life: help us who have tasted your goodness to grow in grace within the household of faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Please use the below link to pay for your copy of the Eucharistic book.

The options are £15 for one pew book, £30 for two pew books and £40 for an Altar copy. Use other amount for any other combination.

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