12 Weekly News Sheet
The Third Sunday of The Kingdom - Sunday 16th November
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 16th November
The Third Sunday of The Kingdom
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
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
Friday
10.00am
Teddy Church at St Faith’s
Services for next Sunday 23rd November
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by Refreshments
Wednesday Eucharist Returns! After a 6 year absence, there will be a said Eucharist at St Isan’s on Wednesdays at 10am from 03rd December. It will be led by Reverend Steve Jenkyns, from within the Lady Chapel.
Monday Friendship Group will meet again tomorrow, Monday 17th November, at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.
Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.
Experience Christmas Is Back! Once again this year we are inviting children (aged 5-7) from Coed Glas School to “Experience Christmas”. This will take the form of four hour-long sessions starting at 9:30 and 11:00 on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th December. The children will visit four “stations” around the Church where they will hear the Christmas story and then join together in a celebration focused on the crib. We need volunteers to make this special event possible. There is a sign-up sheet at the back of Church. Do consider volunteering, even if it is only for an hour.
Christmas is not too far away!
First Sunday of Advent is 2 weeks today and we start with lighting our Advent Wreath on Sunday 30th November with the travelling cribs starting their journeys around our homes and schools following the 10.30am service.
If you’d like to host the crib for a couple of days (anyone can, it not just for the young families!) there is a sign up form at the back of church.
St Isan’s will be open for Llanishen Lights on the evening of Friday 05th December, with the switch-on of lights expected at 5.15pm.
Our all-age Nativity is expected to be on Sunday 21stDecember and Christingle at 5pm on Christmas Eve.
Full list of services and events at will be advertised shortly at
Services for today, Sunday 16th November
The Third Sunday of The Kingdom
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
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 |
| Friday | 10.00am | Teddy Church at St Faith’s |
Services for next Sunday 23rd November
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by Refreshments |
Wednesday Eucharist Returns! After a 6 year absence, there will be a said Eucharist at St Isan’s on Wednesdays at 10am from 03rd December. It will be led by Reverend Steve Jenkyns, from within the Lady Chapel.
Monday Friendship Group will meet again tomorrow, Monday 17th November, at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.
Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.
Experience Christmas Is Back! Once again this year we are inviting children (aged 5-7) from Coed Glas School to “Experience Christmas”. This will take the form of four hour-long sessions starting at 9:30 and 11:00 on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th December. The children will visit four “stations” around the Church where they will hear the Christmas story and then join together in a celebration focused on the crib. We need volunteers to make this special event possible. There is a sign-up sheet at the back of Church. Do consider volunteering, even if it is only for an hour.
Christmas is not too far away!
First Sunday of Advent is 2 weeks today and we start with lighting our Advent Wreath on Sunday 30th November with the travelling cribs starting their journeys around our homes and schools following the 10.30am service.
If you’d like to host the crib for a couple of days (anyone can, it not just for the young families!) there is a sign up form at the back of church.
St Isan’s will be open for Llanishen Lights on the evening of Friday 05th December, with the switch-on of lights expected at 5.15pm.
Our all-age Nativity is expected to be on Sunday 21stDecember and Christingle at 5pm on Christmas Eve.
Full list of services and events at will be advertised shortly at
The Third Sunday of the Kingdom readings
Collect 137
Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son was revealed to destroy the works of the devil and to make us the children of God and heirs of eternal life: grant that we, having this hope, may purify ourselves even as he is pure; that when he shall appear in power and great glory we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; grant this for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit, be the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Malachi 4. 1-2a
See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.
Responsorial Psalm 98
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sing to the / Lord a new song, for he has done mar/vellous things. His own right hand and his / holy arm have won for / him the victory.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
The Lord has made known / his salvation; his deliverance has he openly shown in the sight / of the nations. He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness towards the / house of Israel, and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation / of our God.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sound praises to the Lord, / all the earth; break into singing / and make music. Make music to the Lord / with the lyre, with the lyre and the / voice of melody.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
With trumpets and the sound / of the horn sound praises before the / Lord, the King. Let the sea thunder and / all that fills it, the world and all that/dwell upon it.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Let the rivers / clap their hands and let the hills ring out together be/fore the Lord, for he comes to / judge the earth. In righteousness shall he judge the world and the peo/ples with equity.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
2 Thessalonians 3. 6-13
Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you, and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it; but with toil and labour we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you. This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat. For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right.
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 21. 5-19 The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, ‘As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down.’
They asked him, ‘Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?’ And he said, ‘Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, “I am he!” and, “The time is near!” Do not go after them.
‘When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately.’ Then he said to them, ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven.
‘But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. This will give you an opportunity to testify. So make up your minds not to prepare your defence in advance; for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your souls.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 138
Gracious Lord, in this holy sacrament you give substance to our hope: bring us at the last to that fullness of life for which we long; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Collect 137
Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son was revealed to destroy the works of the devil and to make us the children of God and heirs of eternal life: grant that we, having this hope, may purify ourselves even as he is pure; that when he shall appear in power and great glory we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; grant this for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit, be the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.
Malachi 4. 1-2a
See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.
Responsorial Psalm 98
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sing to the / Lord a new song, for he has done mar/vellous things. His own right hand and his / holy arm have won for / him the victory.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
The Lord has made known / his salvation; his deliverance has he openly shown in the sight / of the nations. He has remembered his mercy and faithfulness towards the / house of Israel, and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation / of our God.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sound praises to the Lord, / all the earth; break into singing / and make music. Make music to the Lord / with the lyre, with the lyre and the / voice of melody.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
With trumpets and the sound / of the horn sound praises before the / Lord, the King. Let the sea thunder and / all that fills it, the world and all that/dwell upon it.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Let the rivers / clap their hands and let the hills ring out together be/fore the Lord, for he comes to / judge the earth. In righteousness shall he judge the world and the peo/ples with equity.
R: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
2 Thessalonians 3. 6-13
Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you, and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it; but with toil and labour we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you. This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat. For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right.
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 21. 5-19 The Destruction of the Temple Foretold
When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, ‘As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down.’
They asked him, ‘Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?’ And he said, ‘Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, “I am he!” and, “The time is near!” Do not go after them.
‘When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately.’ Then he said to them, ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven.
‘But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. This will give you an opportunity to testify. So make up your minds not to prepare your defence in advance; for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your souls.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 138
Gracious Lord, in this holy sacrament you give substance to our hope: bring us at the last to that fullness of life for which we long; through Jesus Christ our Saviour.