12 Weekly News Sheet

Our Thanksgiving Day is next Sunday 18th October 2026.

Please see Elaine’s letter and donation links below

Thanksgiving Day Letter

Donation Link

Services for today, Sunday 11^th October
The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 23A)

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

Services for next Sunday 18^th October

A Pet Blessing Service will be held at St Isan’s on Sunday 11th October at 4.00pm. All pets and their owners will be very welcome. If you are unable to bring your pet along, please feel free to bring a photograph instead. There will be a retiring collection in aid of the RSPCA Llys Nini Animal Centre.

Diamond Wedding Anniversary _💎 💒 Congratulations to Mary and Tony Fundell, who will celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on Thursday 15^th October, marking 60 wonderful years of marriage. Mary and Tony were married at St Isan’s Church in 1966, and we send them our warmest congratulations.

Everyone is warmly invited to stay after the service to join Mary and Tony in their celebrations and enjoy a glass of Bucks Fizz and a slice of cake. 🍾 🍰

Church Open St Isan’s will be open during half term, beginning Monday 26^th October, with the church open daily from 10.00am to 4.00pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to welcome visitors, offer hospitality, and share the story of our church with the wider community.

To make this possible, we are looking for volunteers to act as stewards. If you can spare just two hours during the week, please consider signing up on the rota at the back of church. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanksgiving Day will be celebrated next Sunday. Elaine’s letter has (hopefully) been emailed to parishioners, and printed copies are available at the back of the church, together with donation envelopes.

Donations can also be made using our card machine or online at
https://parishofllanishen.org.uk/leaflet/ or by scanning the QR Code. Taxpayers are encouraged to enter their details on the tablet and online so that Gift Aid can be claimed.

Thank you for your continued generosity and support, which helps sustain the ministry and mission in Llanishen.

Explore Christianity Father Orion from Christ Church is
offering relaxed, welcoming sessions for anyone who wants to learn more about faith, ask questions, and meet others.

Come along for a taster session on Sunday 27th September,
4.00 – 5.30pm, and then continue the journey on Sundays throughout October and November. If interested please see Elaine or take a leaflet from the back of church.

Worcester Christmas Market St Faiths are organising a trip to Worcester Victorian Market on Saturday 5th December 2026. There are a few places left please let Marilyn Hillard know if you are interested.

Christmas Carol Singers Appeal We are looking for people who enjoy singing from across the ministry area who would like to bring the true joy of the Christmas season to our local communities and to those who are unable to attend church. You don’t need to be a great singer just someone who loves to sing. You might be able to help your Church choir out over the festive services.  Please contact our curate Richard for more information.

More details can be found on our Facebook page or https://parishofllanishen.org.uk/news/faithcups/

The Nineteenth  Sunday after Trinity (Proper 23A)

Collect 119

O God, forasmuch as without you we are not able to please you:
mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; 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.

Exodus 32. 1-14

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

Aaron said to them, ‘Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.’ So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mould, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, ‘Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.’ They rose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”’

The Lord said to Moses, ‘I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.’

But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, ‘O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, “It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth”? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, “I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.”’

And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

Psalm 138

Great is the glory, the glory of the Lord

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my / whole heart: before the gods will / I sing praise to you. I will bow down towards your holy temple and praise your name, because of your / love and faithfulness: for you have glorified your name and your word / above all things. In the day that I called to /you, you answered me: you put new strength / in my soul.
Great is the glory, the glory of the Lord

All the kings of the earth shall / praise you, O Lord: for they have heard the words / of your mouth. They shall sing of the ways / of the Lord:  that great is the glory / of the Lord. Though the Lord be high, he watches / over the lowly:  as for the proud, he regards them / from afar.
Great is the glory, the glory of the Lord

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you / will preserve me: you will stretch forth your hand against the fury / of my enemies; your right / hand will save me.

The Lord shall make good his / purpose for me: your loving kindness, O Lord, en/dures for ever; forsake not the work / of your hands.
Great is the glory, the glory of the Lord

Philippians 4. 1-9

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

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 Matthew
R: Glory to you, O Lord

Matthew 22. 1-14

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come.

Again he sent other slaves, saying, “Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.”

But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his slaves, maltreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Then he said to his slaves, “The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.”

Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

‘But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, “Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?” And he was speechless.

Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” For many are called, but few are chosen.’

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