12 Weekly News Sheet

Services for today, Sunday 17^th May
The Seventh Sunday of Easter

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

Services for next Sunday 24^th May

Monday Friendship Group will meet again tomorrow at 2.15pm in the Parish Hall.

Please come and joins us for a cuppa, friendship, and a chat.

Congregational Meetings will be held at St Isan’s after the 10:30 Eucharist on next Sunday 24^th May and at St Faith’s after the Coffee Morning on Tuesday 26^th May.

There you will be able to approve both church’s reports (copies circulated by email and at back of church), and vote in the Congregational Warden, Church Committee Members and Ministry Area Council representatives. Nomination forms for these positions are at the back of church.

Closing date for nominations is just prior to the meetings.

Electoral Roll We are able to amend the Electoral Roll ahead of the Ministry Area Vestry Meeting. If you would like to be added, please contact admin@parishofllanishen.org.uk or see one of your wardens or Elaine by Sunday 01^st June. If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.

Copies of Electoral Roll forms are at the back church for you to check your details.

If you are already on it, there is nothing you need to do. You need to be on the electoral roll to be a member of any of the councils or to be able to vote at the Ministry Area Vestry meeting, which will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 9^th June at Christ Church.

Our Order of Service: The structure of the service is on page 13 and the table surmising the page numbers and appendices can be found standalone leaflets at the back of church.

The Seventh Sunday of Easter (A)

Collect 75

O God the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: we beseech you, leave us not comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Ezekiel 36. 24-28

I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.’

Responsorial Psalm 68

Our God is a God of salvation

Let God arise and let his enemies / be scattered: let those that hate him / flee before him. As the smoke vanishes, so may they vanish / away: as wax melts at the fire, so let the wicked perish • at the / presence of God.
Our God is a God of salvation

But let the righteous be glad and rejoice before / God: let them make merry / with gladness. Sing to God, sing praises to his name; exalt him who / rides on the clouds: the Lord is his name; re/joice be/fore him.
Our God is a God of salvation

Father of the fatherless, de/fender of widows: God in his holy / habitation! God gives the solitary a home and brings forth prisoners to / songs of welcome: but the rebellious in/habit a / burning desert.
Our God is a God of salvation

O God, when you went forth be/fore your people: when you marched / through the / wilderness, The earth shook and the heavens dropped down rain, at the presence of God, the / Lord of Sinai: at the presence of God, the / God of Israel.
Our God is a God of salvation

You sent down a gracious / rain, O God: you refreshed your in/heritance when / it was weary. Your people / came to dwell there: in your goodness, O God, you provide / for the poor.
Our God is a God of salvation

Acts 1. 6-14

So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’

When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up towards heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them.

They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’ Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away.

When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.

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 17. 1-11      Jesus Prays for His Disciples

After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

‘I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours.

All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.’

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

Post Communion Prayer 76

Eternal Giver of love and power, your Son Jesus Christ has sent us into all the world to preach the gospel of his kingdom: confirm us in this mission and help us to live the good news we proclaim; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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