12 Weekly News Sheet
The Fourth Sunday of Easter - 11th May 2025
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 11th May
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by birthday cake
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Saturday
10.00am
Christian Aid Sale at Llanishen Baptist
Services for next Sunday 18th May
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
10.00am
Congregational Meeting
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
12.00pm
Congregational Meeting
Congregational Meetings will be held on next Sunday 18thMay, after the 09:00 service at St Faiths and after the 10:30 service at St Isan’s.
There you will be able to approve both church’s reports (copies circulated by email and at back of church), and vote in the Congregational Warden, Church Committee Members and Ministry Area Council representatives. Nomination forms for these positions are at the back of church.
Nominees are also sought for Diocesan conference members and Deanery conference members
Closing date for nominations is just prior to the meetings.
Electoral Roll We are able to amend the Electoral Roll ahead of the Ministry Area Vestry Meeting. If you would like to be added, please contact admin@parishofllanishen.org.uk or see one of your wardens or Elaine by Sunday 01st June. If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.
Copies of Electoral Roll forms are at the back church,
If you are already on it, there is nothing you need to do. You need to be on the electoral roll to be a member of any of the councils or to be able to vote at the Ministry Area Vestry meeting, which will be held in June. Date, time, venue to be decided.
Experience Harvest We’ll be holding a meeting on Wednesday, 4th June at 10am in St. Isan’s Church to review Experience Easter and begin planning for Experience Harvest. If you were involved this time – or would like to be part of it in the future – we’d love for you to join us.
Monday Friendship Group will meet again a week tomorrow, Monday 19th May, at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.
Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.
Services for today, Sunday 11th May
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by birthday cake |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
| Saturday | 10.00am | Christian Aid Sale at Llanishen Baptist |
Services for next Sunday 18th May
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 10.00am | Congregational Meeting |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 12.00pm | Congregational Meeting |
Congregational Meetings will be held on next Sunday 18thMay, after the 09:00 service at St Faiths and after the 10:30 service at St Isan’s.
There you will be able to approve both church’s reports (copies circulated by email and at back of church), and vote in the Congregational Warden, Church Committee Members and Ministry Area Council representatives. Nomination forms for these positions are at the back of church.
Nominees are also sought for Diocesan conference members and Deanery conference members
Closing date for nominations is just prior to the meetings.
Electoral Roll We are able to amend the Electoral Roll ahead of the Ministry Area Vestry Meeting. If you would like to be added, please contact admin@parishofllanishen.org.uk or see one of your wardens or Elaine by Sunday 01st June. If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.
Copies of Electoral Roll forms are at the back church,
If you are already on it, there is nothing you need to do. You need to be on the electoral roll to be a member of any of the councils or to be able to vote at the Ministry Area Vestry meeting, which will be held in June. Date, time, venue to be decided.
Experience Harvest We’ll be holding a meeting on Wednesday, 4th June at 10am in St. Isan’s Church to review Experience Easter and begin planning for Experience Harvest. If you were involved this time – or would like to be part of it in the future – we’d love for you to join us.
Monday Friendship Group will meet again a week tomorrow, Monday 19th May, at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.
Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.
Easter 4 Readings
The Fourth Sunday of Easter (C)
Collect 67
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life: raise us, who trust in him, from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that we may seek those things which are above, where he reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Acts 9. 36-43
Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity.
At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, ‘Please come to us without delay.’
So, Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them. Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’
Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner.
Responsorial Psalm 23
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can / I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me be/side still waters. He shall re/fresh my soul and guide me in the paths of righteousness / for his name’s sake.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Though I walk through the valley of the sha/dow of death, I will / fear no evil; for / you are with me; your rod and your / staff, they comfort me.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
You spread a ta/ble before me in the presence of / those who trouble me; you have anointed my / head with oil and my cup / shall be full.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Surely goodness and loving mer/cy shall follow me all the days / of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the / Lord for ever.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Revelation 7. 9-17
After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.
They cried out in a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, singing, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.’
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you are the one that knows.’ Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.
They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’
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 John
R: Glory to you, O Lord
John 10. 22-30 Jesus Is Rejected by the Jews
At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’
Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 68
Merciful Father, you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd, and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again: keep us always under his protection, and give us grace to follow in his steps; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Fourth Sunday of Easter (C)
Collect 67
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life: raise us, who trust in him, from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that we may seek those things which are above, where he reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Acts 9. 36-43
Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity.
At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, ‘Please come to us without delay.’
So, Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them. Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, ‘Tabitha, get up.’
Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner.
Responsorial Psalm 23
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can / I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me be/side still waters. He shall re/fresh my soul and guide me in the paths of righteousness / for his name’s sake.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Though I walk through the valley of the sha/dow of death, I will / fear no evil; for / you are with me; your rod and your / staff, they comfort me.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
You spread a ta/ble before me in the presence of / those who trouble me; you have anointed my / head with oil and my cup / shall be full.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Surely goodness and loving mer/cy shall follow me all the days / of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the / Lord for ever.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Revelation 7. 9-17
After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.
They cried out in a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, singing, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.’
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you are the one that knows.’ Then he said to me, ‘These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.
They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’
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 John
R: Glory to you, O Lord
John 10. 22-30 Jesus Is Rejected by the Jews
At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’
Jesus answered, ‘I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 68
Merciful Father, you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd, and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again: keep us always under his protection, and give us grace to follow in his steps; through Jesus Christ our Lord.