12 Weekly News Sheet

Services for today, Sunday 01^st March
The First Sunday of Lent

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

Services for next Sunday 01^st March

St David’s Day Today is St Isan’s St David’s Day luncheon, consisting of cawl, roll & cheese, Welsh cakes and Bara Brith We will be raising funds for Marie Curie. Cost per person is £8. Sign-up sheet at the back of church.

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.

We have been left a gift from Charles Burgess, and in his memory, we have bought the books for both churches.  Some parishioners have indicated they would like to purchase their own copy to keep, take home and bring to services. Payment is now due.

You can pay by cash (please place in envelope), using the card machine or online at https://parishofllanishen.org.uk/leaflet/

Please also tick the paid column on the sign-up sheet to indicate you’ve paid.

The structure of the service is shown on page 13 with the relevant appendices (surmised below), but Elaine will take you through it all during today’s services.

      Section                       Page          Appendix

• The Gathering 23-25                 i     87
• The Proclamation 27-29           ii     99
• The Intercession 31-33.            iii    101
• The Peace 35                                v    111
• The Thanksgiving 35
• Eucharistic Prayer 2 43-47       vi    117
  3    49-53
  4    55-59
• Lord’s Prayer 77
• Communion 79-81                       vii   133
• The Sending Out 83-85              viii  133

The Second Sunday of Lent (A)

Collect 44

Almighty God, you show to those who are in error the light of your truth, that they may return to the way of righteousness: grant that all who are admitted into the fellowship of Christ’s religion, may reject those things that are contrary to their baptism, and follow in the way of Jesus Christ our Lord; who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Genesis 12. 1-4a

Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him

Responsorial Psalm 121

R: My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heav’n and earth

I lift up my eyes / to the hills: from where is my / help to come? My help comes / from the Lord: the maker of / heaven and earth.
R: My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heav’n and earth

He will not suffer your / foot to stumble: he who watches over you / will not sleep. Behold, he who keeps watch / over Israel: shall neither / slumber nor sleep.
R: My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heav’n and earth

The Lord himself / watches over you: the Lord is your shade / at your right hand, So that the sun shall not strike / you by day: neither the / moon by night.
R: My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heav’n and earth

The Lord shall keep you / from all evil: it is he who shall / keep your soul. The Lord shall keep watch over your going out and your / coming in: from this time forth for / evermore.
R: My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heav’n and earth

Romans 4. 1-5, 13-17

What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.’

Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations’) – in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

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 3. 1-17        Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.’

Jesus answered him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.’

Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?’

Jesus answered, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, “You must be born from above.”

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can these things be?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

‘Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony.If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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

Post Communion Prayer 45

Creator of heaven and earth, we thank you for these holy mysteries given us by our Lord Jesus Christ, by which we receive your grace and are assured of your love, now and for ever.

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.

Eucharistic Book Payment