12 Weekly News Sheet

Services for today, Sunday 27^th July
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 12C)

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

Services for next Sunday 03rd August

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

We also need a few items for the delivery of Experience Harvest:

–          Raw wool and sack
–          A picture of sheep/stuffed toy sheep
–          2 garment rails

If you can help with any of these items, please speak with Marilyn Rooks.

Faith @ Four Worship continues at St Faith’s Church next Sunday at 4pm. There will be refreshments, worship songs both ‘old and new’, bible readings and interviews, prayers and reflections. Something for everyone so come along, all ages are welcome to join us in a live music, informal act of worship that is ‘Faith @ Four’!

Collect 93

Merciful God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as pass our understanding: pour into our hearts such love toward you that we, loving you in and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; 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.

Hosea 1. 2-10

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, ‘Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.’ So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

And the Lord said to him, ‘Name him Jezreel; for in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.’

She conceived again and bore a daughter. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them. But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God; I will not save them by bow, or by sword, or by war, or by horses, or by horsemen.’

When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said, ‘Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God.’

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them,

‘You are not my people’, it shall be said to them, ‘Children of the living God.’

Responsorial Psalm 85. 1-7

R: Show us, O Lord, your mercy

Lord, you were gracious / to your land; you restored the fortunes / of Jacob. You forgave the offence / of your people and covered / all their sins. You laid aside / all your fury and turned from your wrathful / indignation.
R: Show us, O Lord, your mercy

Restore us again, O God our Saviour, and let your / anger cease from us. Will you be displeased with / us for ever? Will you stretch out your wrath from one generation / to another? Will you not give us life again, that your people / may rejoice in you? Show us your mer/cy, O Lord, and grant us / your salvation.
R: Show us, O Lord, your mercy

Colossians 2. 6-15

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.

In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands.

He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.

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 11. 1-13           The Lord’s Prayer

Jesus was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’

He said to them, ‘When you pray, say:

Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.
And do not bring us to the time of trial.’

And he said to them, ‘Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, “Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.”

And he answers from within, “Do not bother me; the door has already been locked, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.”

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

‘So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.

Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!’

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

Post Communion Prayer 94

God of our pilgrimage, you have led us to the living water: refresh and sustain us as we go forward on our journey, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.