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Services for today, Sunday 13^th April
Palm Sunday

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

Services for Easter Sunday 20^th April

Cardiff Foodbank Lenten Appeal This year we are asking you again to bring an item of food to church every Sunday during Lent. Items they are currently in most need of are instant mashed potato Multipack crisps/snacks, noodles, pasta packets (microwavable), sponge puddings, tinned meat, tinned vegetables, toilet roll washing powder and washing up liquid.

Join us for a Ministry Area Tenebrae Service on Sunday, 13th April, at 6:30 pm at St. Faith’s Church. ‘Tenebrae’ means ‘shadows,’ and this solemn service invites us into quiet reflection at the start of Holy Week. Through hymns, poetry, and scripture readings, we will journey into the darkness as candles are gradually extinguished, drawing us deeper into the mystery of Holy Week. We warmly encourage you to attend.

Thomas Hobbs a parishioner of St Faiths will be received into the Roman Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil this year. He would love to see anyone who is able to make him there to witness this amazing event. It will take place in Christ the King Llanishen CF23 7BW, starting at 8:30pm lasting approximately 2 hours.

It is also live streamed on the Church’s website just visit www.3churches.org/ and scroll down to the Christ the King livestream.

If you are able to make it, he would love to see you there!

Monday Friendship Group will meet again a week tomorrow (Monday 17^th March) at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.

Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.

The Sixth Sunday of Lent (C)

Palm Sunday

Collect 53

Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards the human race sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross: grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; 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.

Isaiah 50. 4-9a

The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens – wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.

The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backwards. I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.

The Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me?

Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me.

It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty?

Psalm 31. 9-16

R: I trust in you, O Lord, for you are my God. 

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I / am in trouble; my eye is consumed with sorrow, my soul and my / body also. For my life is wasted with grief, and my / years with sighing; my strength fails me because of my affliction, and my bones / are consumed.
R: I trust in you, O Lord, for you are my God. 

I have become a reproach to all my enemies and even / to my neighbours, an object of dread to my acquaintances; when they see me in the / street they flee from me. I am forgotten like one that is dead, / out of mind; I have become like a / broken vessel.
R: I trust in you, O Lord, for you are my God.

For I have heard the whispering / of the crowd; fear is on / ev’ry side; they scheme together against me, and plot to / take my life. But my trust is in you, O Lord. I have said, ‘You / are my God.
R: I trust in you, O Lord, for you are my God. 

My times are in your hand; deliver me from the hand / of my enemies, and from / those who persecute me. Make your face to shine u/pon your servant, and save me for your / mercy’s sake.
R: I trust in you, O Lord, for you are my God. 

Philippians 2. 5-11

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross.

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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 19. 28-40
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying,

‘Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden.

Untie it and bring it here.  If anyone asks you, “Why are you untying it?” just say this: “The Lord needs it.”’

So those who were sent departed and found it as he had told them. As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, ‘Why are you untying the colt?’

They said, ‘The Lord needs it.’ Then they brought it to Jesus; and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.

As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. As he was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying, ‘Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heaven!’ Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, order your disciples to stop.’

He answered, ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.’

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

Post Communion Prayer 54

Lord Jesus Christ, you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant, and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation: give us the mind to follow you and to proclaim you as Lord and King, to the glory of God the Father.

Maundy Thursday

Eucharist of the Last Supper

Collect 55

God our Father, you have invited us to share in the supper which your Son gave to his Church to proclaim his death until he comes: may he nourish us by his presence, and unite us in his love; who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Exodus 12. 1-4, 11-14

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbour in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it.

This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements: I am the Lord.

The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. This day shall be a day of remembrance for you.

You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

Responsorial Psalm 116. 12-19

I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living

How shall I re/pay the Lord: for all the benefits / he has / given to me? I will lift up the cup / of salvation: and call upon the name / of the Lord.
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living

I will fulfil my vows / to the Lord: in the presence of / all his people. Precious in the sight / of the Lord: is the death of his / faithful servants.
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living

O Lord, I am your servant: your servant, the child / of your handmaid; you have freed me / from my bonds. I will offer to you a / sacrifice / of thanksgiving: and call upon the name / of the Lord.
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living

I will fulfil my vows / to the Lord: in the presence of / all his people, In the courts of the house / of the Lord: in the midst of you, / O Jerusalem. Alleluia.
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living

1 Corinthians 11. 23-26

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.’

In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

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 13. 1-17, 31b-35
Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,
got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him.

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’ Jesus answered, ‘You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’

Peter said to him, ‘You will never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered, ‘Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.’

Simon Peter said to him, ‘Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!’

Jesus said to him, ‘One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.’

For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, ‘Not all of you are clean.’ After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done to you?
You call me Teacher and Lord – and you are right, for that is what I am.

‘So, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.

‘Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now, I say to you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.” I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.

‘Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’

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