12 Weekly News Sheet
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity - Sunday 19th October
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 19th October
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
4.00pm
Pet Blessing Service
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Monday
2.15pm
Monday Friendship Group
Tuesday
10.00am
St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Friday
9.30am
Teddy Church at St Faith’s
Services for next Sunday 26th October
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by Refreshments
Collect 117
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; 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 forever.
Thank you to Hilary and her family for a quite wonderful Harvest lunch last Sunday.
An enjoyable afternoon was had by all. A total of £530 was raised for church/Cardiff Foodbank.
Pet Blessing Service will be held at St Isan’s this afternoon at 4pm. All pets (and owners) will be made most welcome, but if it’s not possible for you to bring your pet to be blessed, please just bring a picture of them instead. There will be a retiring collection for the RSPCA Llys Nini Animal Centre.
Cyncoed Floral Club This is a big celebration year for them as they will be celebrating their Diamond Anniversary on 28th October.
The following day, they will be decorating our beautiful church with their Anniversary flowers. There will also be a demonstration during the morning on how to do pedestal arrangements, followed by a short dedication service.
Between Wednesday 29th October and Friday 31st October, the St Isan’s will be open to visitors between 10 am and 4 pm. All donations will be in aid of Cardiff Food Bank.
Information leaflets about the Club Programme will be available for anyone interested in joining them. They are a friendly community club catering for every level of expertise in flower arranging. They meet on the second and fourth Tuesday in the month at Heath Community Halls in Heath Park at 2 pm.
Their demonstration and practice sessions offer a chance not only to mingle with like-minded people who love flowers, but also to develop better knowledge and skills in flower arranging. Visitors are always welcome so do come along and try us out.
We are looking for stewards to cover three two-hour slots for the three days that the display is on. Sign up form at the back of church.
Services for today, Sunday 19th October
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 4.00pm | Pet Blessing Service |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Monday | 2.15pm | Monday Friendship Group |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
| Friday | 9.30am | Teddy Church at St Faith’s |
Services for next Sunday 26th October
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by Refreshments |
Collect 117
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; 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 forever.
Thank you to Hilary and her family for a quite wonderful Harvest lunch last Sunday.
An enjoyable afternoon was had by all. A total of £530 was raised for church/Cardiff Foodbank.
Pet Blessing Service will be held at St Isan’s this afternoon at 4pm. All pets (and owners) will be made most welcome, but if it’s not possible for you to bring your pet to be blessed, please just bring a picture of them instead. There will be a retiring collection for the RSPCA Llys Nini Animal Centre.
Cyncoed Floral Club This is a big celebration year for them as they will be celebrating their Diamond Anniversary on 28th October.
The following day, they will be decorating our beautiful church with their Anniversary flowers. There will also be a demonstration during the morning on how to do pedestal arrangements, followed by a short dedication service.
Between Wednesday 29th October and Friday 31st October, the St Isan’s will be open to visitors between 10 am and 4 pm. All donations will be in aid of Cardiff Food Bank.
Information leaflets about the Club Programme will be available for anyone interested in joining them. They are a friendly community club catering for every level of expertise in flower arranging. They meet on the second and fourth Tuesday in the month at Heath Community Halls in Heath Park at 2 pm.
Their demonstration and practice sessions offer a chance not only to mingle with like-minded people who love flowers, but also to develop better knowledge and skills in flower arranging. Visitors are always welcome so do come along and try us out.
We are looking for stewards to cover three two-hour slots for the three days that the display is on. Sign up form at the back of church.
The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Readings (Proper 24C)
Collect 117
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; 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 forever.
Jeremiah 31. 27-34
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.
In those days they shall no longer say: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
Responsorial Psalm 119. 97-104
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
Lord, how I / love your law! All the day long it / is my study. Your commandments have made me wiser / than my enemies for they are / ever with me.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
I have more understanding than / all my teachers, for your testimonies are my / meditation. I am wiser / than the aged: because I keep / your commandments.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
I restrain my feet from every / evil way, that I may / keep your word. I have not turned aside / from your judgements for you have / been my teacher.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
How sweet are your words / on my tongue! They are sweeter than honey / to my mouth. Through your commandments I get / under/standing therefore I hate all / lying ways.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
2 Timothy 3.14 – 4.5
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it,and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you:proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favourable or unfavourable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching.
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.
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 18. 1-8
The Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, “Grant me justice against my opponent.”
For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, “Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me,
I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.”’
And the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer
See weekly leaflet.
Collect 117
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; 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 forever.
Jeremiah 31. 27-34
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.
In those days they shall no longer say: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
Responsorial Psalm 119. 97-104
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
Lord, how I / love your law! All the day long it / is my study. Your commandments have made me wiser / than my enemies for they are / ever with me.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
I have more understanding than / all my teachers, for your testimonies are my / meditation. I am wiser / than the aged: because I keep / your commandments.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
I restrain my feet from every / evil way, that I may / keep your word. I have not turned aside / from your judgements for you have / been my teacher.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
How sweet are your words / on my tongue! They are sweeter than honey / to my mouth. Through your commandments I get / under/standing therefore I hate all / lying ways.
R: Lead me, O Lord in the path of your commandments
2 Timothy 3.14 – 4.5
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it,and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you:proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favourable or unfavourable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching.
For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.
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 18. 1-8
The Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, “Grant me justice against my opponent.”
For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, “Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me,
I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.”’
And the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer
See weekly leaflet.