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Uif!Obnjoh!pg!Kftvt Weekly Newsletter No.218 1 Sunday, 1st January, 2017 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Hymns: Joy to the World, 68, Abba Father, Anthem: The Lord bless you and keep you (Rutter), 594. Settings: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: All this time (Walton). Psalm 115. Hymns: 539, Anthem: New Year Carol (Britten), 271. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Norman Doe. Readings: Deuteronomy 30, 1-20. Acts 3, 1-16. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Kolhapur in the Church of North India (United), and Bishop Bathuel Tiwade and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, and we pray for all migrants and refugees fleeing places of war and persecution. We pray for the United Nations, especially those involved in the key role of conciliation, for retiring Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and for António Guterres who succeeds to the post today. We pray for the victims of the floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where many have died and thousands have been left homeless. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cwmafan, Rev Elaine Jenkyns, Rev Stephen Jenkyns and Reader Susan Powell. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Bill Berry, John Matthias, Nigel Rees, Charles Murray, Alec Colley and Mary Traynor. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Margaret Shepherd, whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said on Tuesday at 6pm and UIJT!XFFL! Thursday at 7pm. Morning Prayer on Saturday at 9am. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Lord Uvf!4se 6.00pm Evening Prayer. St Edward’s. bless you and keep you” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Xfe 9.30am Holy Eucharist. St Margaret’s. Introit at Evensong is “All this time” by Sir William Turner 5ui 10.15am Holy Eucharist. St Edward’s. Walton (1902-1983), and the anthem is “New Year Carol” by Edward Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Uivs 7.00pm Evening Prayer. St Edward’s. CHOIR PRACTICE. No practice on Thursday. Practice 6ui 7.00pm Circle Dance Rehearsal. Ely. following the Solemn Mass on Friday. 7.30pm Choir Practice. St Margaret’s. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets Sun 22 Jan 4.30pm. Gsj The Epiphany of Our Lord CHRISTMAS BREAKS. Parish Surgery resumes 9 Jan. 7ui 7.00pm Solemn Mass. St Edward’s. St Edward’s Orchestra 9 Jan. Lunch Club 11 Jan. Cardiff 8.00pm Choir Practice. St Edward’s. Recorded Music Society 11 Jan. Rock Choir 19 Jan. Tbu 9.00am Morning Prayer. St Edward’s. SOLEMN MASS to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany 8ui 10.30am Coffee Morning. Church House. of Our Lord at St Edward’s on Friday at 7pm. This is a 11.00am 20 Years Women Priests. Cathedral.! sung celebration of the Eucharist with incense. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of the Epiphany (the Baptism of Christ). The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Margaret’s at 8am and 9.30am, and at St Edward’s at 11am, with Sung Evensong at St Margaret’s at 6pm and Choral Evensong at St Edward’s at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 42: 1-9; Acts 10: 34-43; Matthew 3: 13-17. WEEKLY ENVELOPES. If you would like envelopes to make your weekly collection please speak to Sue Mansell. LA NATIVITÉ DU SEIGNEUR (the Birth of the Saviour) by Olivier Messiaen – a service of music and readings telling the story of the incarnation, performed by Stephen Moore at Llandaff Cathedral next Sunday, 3.30-4.30pm. ROATH FLOOD SCHEME. Welsh artist Rubin Eynon has been appointed to work with the community to develop a suitable piece of art for Roath Mill Gardens. There is a public drop-in session at St Peter’s Rugby Club (Minster Rd) to meet the construction team and artist on Wed 11 Jan, 3pm-7pm. COME AND SING IOLANTHE by Gilbert and Sullivan at St Edward’s on Sat 4 March, with soloists from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Cardiff University. Organised by Serenata Singing Group. Registration opens 9.30am, rehearsal 10am. Informal concert performance 5.30pm. £10 participation / £8 concert entry. FOODBANK. Thanks to everyone who contributed during Advent. We are still collecting food for the foodbank. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath Twitter: @StEdwardsRoath [email protected] A CHRISTMAS LETTER to churches around the world from TWENTY YEARS OF WOMEN PRIESTS. At Llandaff the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Cathedral on Saturday at 11am there will be a Service to Greetings in the name of Jesus, the Word made flesh who celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Epiphany came to dwell among us, Emmanuel. ordinations in 1997, when more than 70 women were In November, I visited Pakistan to express solidarity with Christian communities across the country, which have ordained priest in the Church in Wales. They are suffered much over recent years. We remember the slaughter planning a ‘danced’ offertory procession – anyone in the of innocent worshippers on Easter Sunday 2016 in Lahore, Circle Dance network is invited to contact Archdeacon and before that the attack on worshippers in Peshawar at Peggy and if possible attend a rehearsal for the whole Christmas 2013 and many other incidents. Such attacks are service at the Church of the Res, Ely, Thursday at 7pm. not only designed to inflict appalling suffering but also to sow LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING in Roath fear in the heart of Christian, and other minority communities. Church House on Saturday, 10.30am-12pm. Tickets £2 (inc During the visit I spoke with some of the survivors of these tea/coffee). Bring & Buy Stall, Book Stall and Raffle. Tarts will attacks, and I was deeply moved and humbled by their be on sale. Also Ladies Circle members are reminded to bring extraordinary courage in continuing to be faithful witnesses of a tin of beans or pot noodles! All proceeds towards our new Jesus. They spoke of knowing now more than ever that Jesus charities for 2017 – Motor Neuron Disease and The Amber is the Good Shepherd. Project. Tickets available from Ladies Circle members or In many parts of our troubled, uncertain world, Christian contact Gill Day (20-495496. minority communities along with other minorities are being similarly targeted. In some places, this is motivated by a PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP. We have lively discussions desire to eradicate the indigenous Christian presence over a cuppa as we attempt to find answers to some of the big completely. These are acts not only of terror but of genocide; questions in life. First meeting of 2017 is next Sunday at criminal acts for which the international community must bring 7.45pm upstairs in Roath Church House and the topic will be those guilty to account. Yet although so vulnerable and often “Prayer: Ways, Forms and Outcomes”. All welcome. Please forgotten and marginalised, our brothers and sisters are being feel free to just turn up or contact Paul Elliott for more info on courageous in the Lord. Indeed, ‘God chose what is weak in (20-482757 or email [email protected] the world to shame the strong’ (1 Corinthians 1.27). PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 9 In other places conflict and corruption have become so normal Jan, 7.30-9.30pm in Room 2, Roath Church House. New that the world forgets the suffering of the poor. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. I ask your prayers for those of us who live in safety that we Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James may not be bystanders afar off, beating our breasts as we [email protected] for details. retire to the security of our homes, but that we may draw nearer to the cross of Jesus, stand there alongside our LADIES CIRCLE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and suffering brothers and sisters and be ready to take our part in Chinese Auction in room 2 Roath Church House on Tue 10 practical action for change. I pray that Christ will strengthen all Jan at 7.15pm. New members very welcome. Subs for 2017 his people in our inner being with power through the Holy are due – £18. Further information and details can be Spirit to be faithful, to have courage and to live in hope. obtained from Gill Day (20-495496. Our new charities for More than ever we need Christ like communities proclaiming 2017 are the Amber Project & Motor Neutron Disease. the good news of the gospel in word and action. In many BRAHMS GERMAN REQUIEM will be performed (in German) countries there is no persecution but there is apathy and at St Edward’s at 3pm on Sun 15 Jan in aid of church funds. complacency which leads us, in the striking words of Pope TALK ON ALZHEIMER’S by Eric Hyett at St Edward’s Francis, to be practical atheists. on Tue 17 Jan at 7.30pm. We will also take the The measure of a Christ-like community is the extent to which it holds the vulnerable and marginalised of the world at the opportunity to discuss the possible use of the centre of its life. Jean Vanier, the founder of L’Arche, helped schoolroom as an Alzheimer’s meeting centre. the Primates of the Anglican Communion to see this at our NEXT COFFEE CONCERT at St Edward’s is on Sat 21 Jan, meeting in January this year.