12 Weekly News Sheet
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity - Sunday 13th October
This week's services, events & notices
Services for today, Sunday 13th October
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 20)
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
Followed by refreshments
St Isan
12.30pm
Holy Baptism
St Isan
4.00pm
Pet Blessing Service
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s
Tuesday
1.30pm
Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Services for next Sunday, 20th October
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall
Harvest Many thanks to Hilary and her family for organising a wonderful harvest luncheon and to Angela for compering the quiz.
All in all, we raised a fantastic £421 for our much needed church funds.
Cardiff Foodbank came on Wednesday to collect 10 crates worth of food that you donated as part of our Harvest Appeal. In addition £237 (plus Gift Aid) was raised. Many thanks to everyone who donated.
Pet Blessing Service will be held at St Isan’s today, at 4pm. All pets (and their owners) are welcome.
Church Open St Isan’s will be open on Thursday 31stOctober and Friday 01st November between 10am and 4pm. We can only do this with your support, so if you are able to help by volunteering as a steward, (2-hour slots), please complete the form at the back of church (or in the hall).
Messages from Elaine
Unfortunately, through no fault of our own, we have not yet been able to progress installing a new boiler. Therefore, I have decided that for the foreseeable future we will move our worship into the hall where we can be warm. There are exceptions to this in that The Pet Blessing Service and Remembrance Sunday will be held in church and, if we have no heating by Christmas, we will have to hire some form of heating as the hall will not accommodate our numbers. I know worshipping in the hall is not ideal; we love our church building.
However, the church is not the building but the people and my concern is that our people are as warm and comfortable as possible.
Good News
St Isan’s has had an offer from the Diocesan Growth Enablers to help us set up a Sunday Club for our younger members to be held twice a month during the 10.30 am service.
This, or course, will not be able to start before the heating is done, but we are hoping to begin in January. To make this happen we need volunteers to help out – it would be great if we could get a team so that not everybody has to be available for every session. If you would like to help us make this very important ministry happen please let me know.
Services for today, Sunday 13th October
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 20)
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall Followed by refreshments |
| St Isan | 12.30pm | Holy Baptism |
| St Isan | 4.00pm | Pet Blessing Service |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 1.30pm | Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
Services for next Sunday, 20th October
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist in Parish Hall |
Harvest Many thanks to Hilary and her family for organising a wonderful harvest luncheon and to Angela for compering the quiz.
All in all, we raised a fantastic £421 for our much needed church funds.
Cardiff Foodbank came on Wednesday to collect 10 crates worth of food that you donated as part of our Harvest Appeal. In addition £237 (plus Gift Aid) was raised. Many thanks to everyone who donated.
Pet Blessing Service will be held at St Isan’s today, at 4pm. All pets (and their owners) are welcome.
Church Open St Isan’s will be open on Thursday 31stOctober and Friday 01st November between 10am and 4pm. We can only do this with your support, so if you are able to help by volunteering as a steward, (2-hour slots), please complete the form at the back of church (or in the hall).
Messages from Elaine
Unfortunately, through no fault of our own, we have not yet been able to progress installing a new boiler. Therefore, I have decided that for the foreseeable future we will move our worship into the hall where we can be warm. There are exceptions to this in that The Pet Blessing Service and Remembrance Sunday will be held in church and, if we have no heating by Christmas, we will have to hire some form of heating as the hall will not accommodate our numbers. I know worshipping in the hall is not ideal; we love our church building.
However, the church is not the building but the people and my concern is that our people are as warm and comfortable as possible.
Good News
St Isan’s has had an offer from the Diocesan Growth Enablers to help us set up a Sunday Club for our younger members to be held twice a month during the 10.30 am service.
This, or course, will not be able to start before the heating is done, but we are hoping to begin in January. To make this happen we need volunteers to help out – it would be great if we could get a team so that not everybody has to be available for every session. If you would like to help us make this very important ministry happen please let me know.
This weeks readings
Collect 121
Almighty God, whose Holy Spirit wells up within your Church: by the Spirit’s gifts equip us to live the gospel of Christ and make us eager to do your will, that we may share with the whole creation the joys of eternal life; 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.
Job 23. 1-9, 16, 17
Then Job answered: ‘Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling! I would lay my case before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; but he would give heed to me. There an upright person could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.
‘If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him; on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him.
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me; If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!
Responsorial Psalm 22. 1-15
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
My God, my God, why have / you forsaken me: and are so far from my salvation, from the words of / my distress? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you / do not answer: and by night also, but I / find no rest.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Yet you are the Holy One: enthroned up/on the prai/ses of Israel. Our forebears trusted in you: they trusted, and / you delivered them. They cried out to you and / were delivered: they put their trust in you and were / not confounded.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
But as for me, I am a worm / and no man: scorned by all and despised / by the people. All who see me laugh / me to scorn: they curl their lips and wag / their heads, saying,
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
‘He trusted in the Lord; let / him deliver him: let him deliver him, if / he delights in him.’ But it is you that took me out / of the womb: and laid me safe upon my / mother’s breast.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
On you was I cast ever since / I was born: you are my God even from my / mother’s womb. Be not far from me, for trouble is / near at hand: and there is / none to help.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Mighty oxen / come around me: fat bulls of Bashan close me in on / every side. They gape upon me / with their mouths: as it were a ramping and a / roaring lion.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I am poured out like water; all my bones are / out of joint: my heart has become like wax melting in the depths / of my body. My mouth is dried up like a potsherd; my tongue cleaves / to my gums: you have laid me in the / dust of death.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Hebrews 4. 12-16
Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.
Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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 Mark
R: Glory to you, O Lord
Mark 10. 17-31 The Rich Man
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honour your father and mother.” ’
He said to him, ‘Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.’ Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’
When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!’ And the disciples were perplexed at these words.
But Jesus said to them again, ‘Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ They were greatly astounded and said to one another, ‘Then who can be saved?’ Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.’
Peter began to say to him, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you.’ Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age – houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions – and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 122
God our Father, whose Son, the light unfailing, has come from heaven to deliver the world from the darkness of ignorance:
let these holy mysteries open the eyes of our understanding that we may know the way of life, and walk in it without stumbling; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Collect 121
Almighty God, whose Holy Spirit wells up within your Church: by the Spirit’s gifts equip us to live the gospel of Christ and make us eager to do your will, that we may share with the whole creation the joys of eternal life; 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.
Job 23. 1-9, 16, 17
Then Job answered: ‘Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling! I would lay my case before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; but he would give heed to me. There an upright person could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.
‘If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him; on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him.
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me; If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!
Responsorial Psalm 22. 1-15
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
My God, my God, why have / you forsaken me: and are so far from my salvation, from the words of / my distress? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you / do not answer: and by night also, but I / find no rest.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Yet you are the Holy One: enthroned up/on the prai/ses of Israel. Our forebears trusted in you: they trusted, and / you delivered them. They cried out to you and / were delivered: they put their trust in you and were / not confounded.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
But as for me, I am a worm / and no man: scorned by all and despised / by the people. All who see me laugh / me to scorn: they curl their lips and wag / their heads, saying,
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
‘He trusted in the Lord; let / him deliver him: let him deliver him, if / he delights in him.’ But it is you that took me out / of the womb: and laid me safe upon my / mother’s breast.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
On you was I cast ever since / I was born: you are my God even from my / mother’s womb. Be not far from me, for trouble is / near at hand: and there is / none to help.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Mighty oxen / come around me: fat bulls of Bashan close me in on / every side. They gape upon me / with their mouths: as it were a ramping and a / roaring lion.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I am poured out like water; all my bones are / out of joint: my heart has become like wax melting in the depths / of my body. My mouth is dried up like a potsherd; my tongue cleaves / to my gums: you have laid me in the / dust of death.
R: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Hebrews 4. 12-16
Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.
Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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 Mark
R: Glory to you, O Lord
Mark 10. 17-31 The Rich Man
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honour your father and mother.” ’
He said to him, ‘Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.’ Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’
When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!’ And the disciples were perplexed at these words.
But Jesus said to them again, ‘Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ They were greatly astounded and said to one another, ‘Then who can be saved?’ Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.’
Peter began to say to him, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you.’ Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age – houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions – and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 122
God our Father, whose Son, the light unfailing, has come from heaven to deliver the world from the darkness of ignorance:
let these holy mysteries open the eyes of our understanding that we may know the way of life, and walk in it without stumbling; through Jesus Christ our Lord.