12 Weekly Leaflet
Fourth Sunday of Easter 21st April 2024
This week's services, events & notices
Services for Today, 21st April
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
12.00pm
Congregational Meeting
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
Monday
7.30pm
Bellringing
Tuesday
10.00am
Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s
Tuesday
11.30am
Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s
Tuesday
7.00pm
Choir Practice
Next Sunday 28th April
St Isan
8.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Faith
9.00am
Holy Eucharist
St Isan
10.30am
Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments
A Thank You from Cardiff Foodbank
I am writing to thank you for the donation of 156.3 kg of food in the period January – March 2024 from St Isan’s Church. This will provide 14 people with 3 meals a day for 3 days.
While we are glad and privileged to help people, we also know that it’s unacceptable that over 19,000 people in Cardiff have had to rely on emergency food. Alongside continuing to provide emergency food parcels and support, we would like to see an end to the need for foodbanks in Cardiff.
Thank you so much for standing with us in this in these challenging times.
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 by Sunday 02nd June.
If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.
Copies of the current Electoral Roll (2022) are at the back church, along with some forms.
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 in June. Date, time, venue to be decided.
Donations: You can now make donations to St Isan’s from home on your smart devices. Scan this QR code and you will be taken to our Give a Little website.
You can also access the same page via https://parishofllanishen.org.uk/give/ where you can also find out other ways of giving.
Christian Aid Sale A sale in support of Christian Aid will be held at Llanishen Baptist Church, Fidlas Road between 10.00 am and 12 noon on Saturday 27th April 2024. Items on sale will include jewellery, toiletries, books, bric-a-brac, cakes and refreshments.
Services for Today, 21st April
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist | |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist | |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist | |
| St Faith | 12.00pm | Congregational Meeting | |
This Week (at St Isan’s unless otherwise stated)
| Monday | 7.30pm | Bellringing |
| Tuesday | 10.00am | Community Coffee Morning at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 11.30am | Tadpoles Toddler Group at St Faith’s |
| Tuesday | 7.00pm | Choir Practice |
Next Sunday 28th April
| St Isan | 8.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Faith | 9.00am | Holy Eucharist |
| St Isan | 10.30am | Holy Eucharist followed by refreshments |
A Thank You from Cardiff Foodbank
I am writing to thank you for the donation of 156.3 kg of food in the period January – March 2024 from St Isan’s Church. This will provide 14 people with 3 meals a day for 3 days.
While we are glad and privileged to help people, we also know that it’s unacceptable that over 19,000 people in Cardiff have had to rely on emergency food. Alongside continuing to provide emergency food parcels and support, we would like to see an end to the need for foodbanks in Cardiff.
Thank you so much for standing with us in this in these challenging times.
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 by Sunday 02nd June.
If your contact details have changed, please also complete a new form.
Copies of the current Electoral Roll (2022) are at the back church, along with some forms.
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 in June. Date, time, venue to be decided.
Donations: You can now make donations to St Isan’s from home on your smart devices. Scan this QR code and you will be taken to our Give a Little website.
You can also access the same page via https://parishofllanishen.org.uk/give/ where you can also find out other ways of giving.
Christian Aid Sale A sale in support of Christian Aid will be held at Llanishen Baptist Church, Fidlas Road between 10.00 am and 12 noon on Saturday 27th April 2024. Items on sale will include jewellery, toiletries, books, bric-a-brac, cakes and refreshments.
This weeks readings
Collect 67
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life: raise us, who trust in him, from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that we may seek those things which are above, where he reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Acts 4. 5-12
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, ‘By what power or by what name did you do this?’
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers of the people and elders, if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.
This Jesus is “the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.”
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.’
Responsorial Psalm 23
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can / I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me be/side still waters. He shall re/fresh my soul and guide me in the paths of righteousness / for his name’s sake.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Though I walk through the valley of the sha/dow of death, I will / fear no evil; for / you are with me; your rod and your / staff, they comfort me.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
You spread a ta/ble before me in the presence of / those who trouble me; you have anointed my / head with oil and my cup / shall be full.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Surely goodness and loving mer/cy shall follow me all the days / of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the / Lord for ever.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
1 John 3. 16-24
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us – and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
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 10. 11-18
The Good Shepherd
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away – and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice.
So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 68
Merciful Father, you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd, and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again: keep us always under his protection, and give us grace to follow in his steps; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Collect 67
Almighty God, whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life: raise us, who trust in him, from the death of sin to the life of righteousness, that we may seek those things which are above, where he reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Acts 4. 5-12
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.
When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, ‘By what power or by what name did you do this?’
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers of the people and elders, if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.
This Jesus is “the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.”
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.’
Responsorial Psalm 23
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can / I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me be/side still waters. He shall re/fresh my soul and guide me in the paths of righteousness / for his name’s sake.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Though I walk through the valley of the sha/dow of death, I will / fear no evil; for / you are with me; your rod and your / staff, they comfort me.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
You spread a ta/ble before me in the presence of / those who trouble me; you have anointed my / head with oil and my cup / shall be full.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Surely goodness and loving mer/cy shall follow me all the days / of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the / Lord for ever.
R: The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
1 John 3. 16-24
We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us – and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
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 10. 11-18
The Good Shepherd
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away – and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice.
So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.’
V: This is the Gospel of the Lord
R: Praise to you, O Christ
Post Communion Prayer 68
Merciful Father, you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd, and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again: keep us always under his protection, and give us grace to follow in his steps; through Jesus Christ our Lord.