12 Weekly News Sheet
6th Sunday after Trinity Readings
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 10th August
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 14C)
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist with refreshments
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Thursday
2.00pm
The Bible Course in Parish Hall
Friday
10.00am
Church Open
Services for next Sunday 17th August
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
Monday Friendship Group will meet again a week tomorrow, Monday 18th August, at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.
Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.
Envelopes New weekly giving envelopes will be issued for October. Please confirm whether you need envelopes for 2025-2026 by completing the form at the back of the churches.
If you would like to sign up for weekly giving, whether it be envelopes or standing orders, using the card machine (which you use Gift Aid with), or our preferred method of Direct Debit, again please speak to one of your wardens.
For information on giving by direct debit visit
https://www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/clergy-and-members/gift-direct/
Volunteers Needed for Experience Harvest!
Could you spare a little time to help bring Experience Harvest to life for our local schools?
You won’t be expected to run a session on your own – you’ll be working alongside someone who has already been part of the planning team. We’d also love to hear from anyone who could help with setting up the sessions or making refreshments for our volunteers.
When? We need volunteers on 8th and 9th October, mornings and possibly afternoons too.
If you’re interested, please chat with Jane Marshall in church or get in touch by email: janemarshall708@btinternet.com
Services for today, Sunday 10th August
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 14C)
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist with refreshments |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
| Thursday | 2.00pm | The Bible Course in Parish Hall |
| Friday | 10.00am | Church Open |
Services for next Sunday 17th August
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
Monday Friendship Group will meet again a week tomorrow, Monday 18th August, at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.
Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.
Envelopes New weekly giving envelopes will be issued for October. Please confirm whether you need envelopes for 2025-2026 by completing the form at the back of the churches.
If you would like to sign up for weekly giving, whether it be envelopes or standing orders, using the card machine (which you use Gift Aid with), or our preferred method of Direct Debit, again please speak to one of your wardens.
For information on giving by direct debit visit
https://www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/clergy-and-members/gift-direct/
Volunteers Needed for Experience Harvest!
Could you spare a little time to help bring Experience Harvest to life for our local schools?
You won’t be expected to run a session on your own – you’ll be working alongside someone who has already been part of the planning team. We’d also love to hear from anyone who could help with setting up the sessions or making refreshments for our volunteers.
When? We need volunteers on 8th and 9th October, mornings and possibly afternoons too.
If you’re interested, please chat with Jane Marshall in church or get in touch by email: janemarshall708@btinternet.com
The eighth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 14C)
Collect 97
Almighty Lord and everlasting God, we beseech you to direct, sanctify and govern us in the ways of your laws and the works of your commandments; that through your most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Isaiah 1. 1, 10-20
The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation,
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Responsorial Psalm 50. 1-8
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
The Lord, the most mighty / God, has spoken; and called the world from the rising of the sun / to its setting.
Out of Zion, perfect in beauty, / God shines forth; our God comes and will / not keep silence.
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Consuming fire goes / out before him; and a mighty tempest / stirs about him. He calls the hea/ven above;
and the earth, that he may / judge his people:
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
‘Gather to / me my faithful; who have sealed my / covenant with sacrifice.’ Let the heavens de/clare his righteousness; for God him/self is judge.
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Hear, O my people, and I / will speak: ‘I will testify against you, O Israel; for I am / God, your / God. I will not reprove you / for your sacrifices: for your burnt offerings are al/ways before me.
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Hebrews 11. 1-3, 8-16
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob,
who were heirs with him of the same promise.
For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith he received power of procreation, even though he was too old and Sarah herself was barren – because he considered him faithful who had promised.
Therefore, from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.’
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
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 12. 32-40 Watchful Slaves
Jesus said, ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
‘But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 98
Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that have taken holy things; may the ears which have heard your word be deaf to clamour and dispute; may the tongues which have sung your praise be free from deceit; may the eyes which have seen the tokens of your love shine with the light of hope; and may the bodies which have been fed with your body be refreshed with the fullness of your life; glory to you for ever.
Collect 97
Almighty Lord and everlasting God, we beseech you to direct, sanctify and govern us in the ways of your laws and the works of your commandments; that through your most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Isaiah 1. 1, 10-20
The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation,
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Responsorial Psalm 50. 1-8
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
The Lord, the most mighty / God, has spoken; and called the world from the rising of the sun / to its setting.
Out of Zion, perfect in beauty, / God shines forth; our God comes and will / not keep silence.
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Consuming fire goes / out before him; and a mighty tempest / stirs about him. He calls the hea/ven above;
and the earth, that he may / judge his people:
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
‘Gather to / me my faithful; who have sealed my / covenant with sacrifice.’ Let the heavens de/clare his righteousness; for God him/self is judge.
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Hear, O my people, and I / will speak: ‘I will testify against you, O Israel; for I am / God, your / God. I will not reprove you / for your sacrifices: for your burnt offerings are al/ways before me.
R: Let the heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.
Hebrews 11. 1-3, 8-16
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob,
who were heirs with him of the same promise.
For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith he received power of procreation, even though he was too old and Sarah herself was barren – because he considered him faithful who had promised.
Therefore, from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.’
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
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 12. 32-40 Watchful Slaves
Jesus said, ‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
‘But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 98
Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands that have taken holy things; may the ears which have heard your word be deaf to clamour and dispute; may the tongues which have sung your praise be free from deceit; may the eyes which have seen the tokens of your love shine with the light of hope; and may the bodies which have been fed with your body be refreshed with the fullness of your life; glory to you for ever.