12 Weekly News Sheet
The Second Sunday of Christmas - Sunday 04th January
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 04th January
The Second Sunday of Christmas
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Tuesday
10.00am
St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning
Wednesday
10.00am
Said Eucharist
Services for next Sunday 11th January
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
Unfortunately the heating in St Isan’s failed over the Christmas period and with no one being available to come and have a look at it, we have taken the decision to move the 8am and 10.30am services into the warmth of the Parish Hall for this Sunday at least.
A decision on Wednesday’s 10am Eucharist will be made nearer the time.
Also due to ill health, there will be no Faith @ Four today, Youth Group on Tuesday or Teddy Church on Friday.
Services for today, Sunday 04th January
The Second Sunday of Christmas
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Tuesday | 10.00am | St Faith’s Community Coffee Morning |
| Wednesday | 10.00am | Said Eucharist |
Services for next Sunday 11th January
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist |
Unfortunately the heating in St Isan’s failed over the Christmas period and with no one being available to come and have a look at it, we have taken the decision to move the 8am and 10.30am services into the warmth of the Parish Hall for this Sunday at least.
A decision on Wednesday’s 10am Eucharist will be made nearer the time.
Also due to ill health, there will be no Faith @ Four today, Youth Group on Tuesday or Teddy Church on Friday.
collect and readings
Collect 15
Almighty God, in the birth of your Son you have poured on us the new light of your incarnate Word, and shown us the fullness of your love: help us to walk in his light and dwell in his love that we may know the fullness of his joy; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Jeremiah 31. 7-14
For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.’
See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together; a great company, they shall return here.
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd a flock.’
For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him. They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd;
their life shall become like a watered garden, and they shall never languish again.
Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. I will give the priests their fill of fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my bounty, says the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm 147. 12-20
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
Sing praise to the Lord, / O Jerusalem: praise your / God, O Zion; For he has strengthened the bars / of your gates: and has blest your chil/dren within you.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
He has established peace / in your borders: and satisfies you with / the finest wheat. He sends forth his command / to the earth: and his word runs / very swiftly.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
He gives snow like wool: and scatters the hoar/frost like ashes. He casts down his hailstones like morsels of bread: who can en/dure his frost? He sends forth his / word and melts them: he blows with his wind and the / waters flow.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
He declares his / word to Jacob: his statutes and judge/ments to Israel. He has not dealt so with any other / nation: they do not / know his laws. Alleluia.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
Ephesians 1. 3-14
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insighthe has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory.
In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance towards redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.
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 1. 10-18 The Word Became Flesh
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.
John testified to him and cried out, ‘This was he of whom I said, “He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.”’
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God.
It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 16
All praise to you, almighty God and heavenly King, who sent your Son into the world to take our nature upon him and to be born of a pure virgin: grant that, as we are born again in him, so he may continually dwell in us and reign on earth as he reigns in heaven, now and for ever.
Collect 15
Almighty God, in the birth of your Son you have poured on us the new light of your incarnate Word, and shown us the fullness of your love: help us to walk in his light and dwell in his love that we may know the fullness of his joy; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Jeremiah 31. 7-14
For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.’
See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together; a great company, they shall return here.
With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd a flock.’
For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him. They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd;
their life shall become like a watered garden, and they shall never languish again.
Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. I will give the priests their fill of fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my bounty, says the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm 147. 12-20
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
Sing praise to the Lord, / O Jerusalem: praise your / God, O Zion; For he has strengthened the bars / of your gates: and has blest your chil/dren within you.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
He has established peace / in your borders: and satisfies you with / the finest wheat. He sends forth his command / to the earth: and his word runs / very swiftly.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
He gives snow like wool: and scatters the hoar/frost like ashes. He casts down his hailstones like morsels of bread: who can en/dure his frost? He sends forth his / word and melts them: he blows with his wind and the / waters flow.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
He declares his / word to Jacob: his statutes and judge/ments to Israel. He has not dealt so with any other / nation: they do not / know his laws. Alleluia.
R: Sing praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem
Ephesians 1. 3-14
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insighthe has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory.
In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance towards redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.
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 1. 10-18 The Word Became Flesh
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.
John testified to him and cried out, ‘This was he of whom I said, “He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.”’
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God.
It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 16
All praise to you, almighty God and heavenly King, who sent your Son into the world to take our nature upon him and to be born of a pure virgin: grant that, as we are born again in him, so he may continually dwell in us and reign on earth as he reigns in heaven, now and for ever.