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LLANDUDNO Cylchgrawn Plwyf Parish Magazine 50p January 2016 1 Services Holy Trinity Church St. Tudno’s Church, Sundays Great Orme 8.00 am Holy Eucharist 9.00 am Morning Prayer (Sat) 10.30 am Sung Eucharist (1st, 3rd & 11.00 am Open Air Service (Sun 4th Sundays) from end of May to end of September) Matins followed by shortened Eucharist (2nd On the first Sunday of Sunday) each month, the service is followed by a shortened Family Worship (5th Eucharist in the church. Sunday when applicable – Eucharist included in The pattern of Sunday and Weekday service or follows it) services sometimes changes. Please check the calendar in each month’s 5.00 pm Evening Prayer magazine and the weekly bulletin. 6.00 pm Exploring Worship – in The Rector is in Holy Trinity church nd Church Hall (2 Sunday on most Saturday mornings from unless notified otherwise) 11.30 - 12.00 to see parishioners on Weekdays any matter – for confessions, spiritual guidance, the booking of baptisms or 8.30 am Morning Prayer (Tue, Wed weddings etc. Thurs & Fri) 9.00 am Holy Eucharist (Wed) © 2016 Rectorial Benefice of 11.00 am Holy Eucharist (Thurs & Llandudno major saints’ days) Registered Charity 1131171 Holy Eucharist in Welsh www.llandudno-parish.org.uk (Sat) The deadline for copy for any edition is 5.00 pm Evening Prayer (Tue, Wed, the 7th of the previous month. Please Thurs & Fri) leave copy in box near pulpit in Holy Trinity Church or e-mail: Parish of Llandudno [email protected] Plwyf Llandudno Copy may be on disk, printed or Registered Charity No. 1131171 handwritten. 3 LLANDUDNO CYTUN DIARY Items in italics are organised by member churches, affiliated groups and others and are not the responsibility of CYTUN. Details of these events should be sought from the sponsoring organisations. CHRISTIAN UNITY WEEK Mon 18th Jan 10.30am Egyptian Coptic Church, Trinity Avenue, Llandudno Tue 19th Jan 7.30pm Gloddaeth United, Gloddaeth Avenue, Llandudno Wed 20th Jan 10.30am Our Lady Star of the Sea, St Mary’s Avenue, Llandudno Thu 21st Jan 10.30am Llandudno Baptist Church, Gt. Ormes Rd, West Shore, Llandudno Fri 22nd Jan 10.30am Seilo Welsh Chapels, Arfon Avenue, Llandudno Sat 23rd Jan 10.30am Holy Communion at St. David’s Methodist Church, Mostyn Avenue, Craig-y-Don Sun 24th Jan 6.00pm President’s Service at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Mostyn St, Llandudno ~~~~~ Sat 6th Feb 12 - 4.00pm Syria Day at Canolfan Iman Centre, Llandudno Junction Sun 7th Feb Poverty Sunday - resources from www.church-poverty.org.uk/ Tue 23rd Feb 10.30am CYTUN Executive at St. John’s Methodist Church, Mostyn St 11.00am CYTUN Council at St. John’s Methodist Church 22nd Feb - 5th Mar Fair Trade Fortnight 01492 877026 Fri 4th March Women’s World Day of Prayer Fri 25th March Good Friday Witness 3rd - 6th May Llandudno : Keswick Bible Week [email protected] or 01492 875008 8 From the Rectory 2016 has been designated a powerfully displayed. We ‘Year of Mercy’ (technically are encouraged to see this an ‘Extraordinary Jubilee of mercy of God at work in our Mercy’) by Pope Francis. The own lives and of course we Year actually began on De- should extend that mercy to cember 8th 2015 – the Feast others. Susan Heuver in The of the Immaculate Concep- Holy Year of Mercy’ writes: ‘In tion – and will end on the a world that is so filled with Feast of Christ the King, turmoil and suffering, we November 20th 2016. The Pope inau- need to experience God’s mercy to gurated the Year by opening the Holy others. Pope Francis reminds us that Door of St Peter’s in Rome, a door God never stops or goes halfway in normally only open only during such showing mercy to his children, and he years of Jubilee. calls us to do the same.’ This Year of Mercy is of course an Last year we chose to mark the 150th observance of the Roman Catholic Anniversary of Holy Trinity Church Church and as Anglicans we are under with a year of celebration rather than no obligation to pay it any attention at just having a series of isolated events. all. However, Christians of all denomi- This gave a real shape to the whole nations could surely gain a great deal by joining Roman Catholics in keeping this year – or at least reflecting on its theme. The Mercy of God is a major theme in the Bible and in an age in which hatred and brutality seem so prevalent and when unspeakable acts of violence are perpetrated in the name of God it is a theme the world desperately needs to hear. In the formal papal announcement of the Jubilee Year, Pope Francis reminded Christians that Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy and that in His conversations and actions, recorded “The Rector’s New Year Resolution is to in the Gospels, we can see that mercy attract more people by implementing a less-formal approach to church-going.” 9 of 2015. By joining our RC brothers 10th January). We won’t necessarily and sisters in keeping 2016 as a year be slavishly following the RC pattern to reflect upon the mercy of God we of keeping this year – though I suspect can have another ‘special’ year, one that they will also be following it in a which would build upon last year’s an- variety of ways – but I hope that this niversary year and one in which, most act of solidarity will enable us, together importantly of all, we might all grow in with so many others to experience our understanding of God’s mercy to afresh the mercy and love of God us in Jesus Christ. and to be able to extend it better to others. I therefore intend to inaugurate our keeping of the ‘Year of Mercy’ on the Fr. John Feast of the Baptism of Christ (Sunday News and Notices The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity As usual we will be taking a full part in the Week of Prayer for Unity. Please try to attend as many of the events as possible. Mon 18th Jan 10.30 am Egyptian Coptic Church, Trinity Avenue. Tue 19th Jan 7.30 pm Gloddaeth United, Gloddaeth Avenue. Wed 20th Jan 10.30 am Our Lady Star of the Sea, St Mary’s Avenue. Thu 21st Jan 10.30 am Llandudno Baptist Church, Gt. Ormes Rd, West Shore Fri 22nd Jan 10.30 am Seilo Welsh Church, Arfon Avenue, Llandudno Sat 23rd Jan 10.30 am Holy Communion at St. David’s Methodist Church, Mostyn Avenue, Craig-y-Don Sun 24th Jan 6.00pm President’s Service at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Mostyn St, Llandudno We are delighted to be hosting the President’s Service at Holy Trinity this The New Dean of Bangor year. The new Dean of Bangor (& Bro Dei- The reason the service is at Holy Trin- niol Ministry Area Leader) is to be the ity is that the Revd. Mike Harrison has Revd. Kathy Jones. Kathy comes to the been elected as President for the com- Diocese from an important Hospital ing year. We congratulate him on this Chaplaincy job in Newcastle. She is appointment and wish him well. however a native of our diocese and 11 was ordained here. She began her With generosity like yours, the Society ministry as curate in Holyhead right will continue to be a strong progressive at the beginning of my time as Rector force championing the Christian faith there – so I am particularly pleased that in the 21st century while at the same a former curate of mine is now to be time remaining true to its rich history Dean. Following her time in Holyhead and tradition. Kathy was Chaplain at Ysbyty Gwynedd Dean Gillespie and then Vicar of the Betws-y-Coed group of parishes. Kathy’s installation will be on Saturday 30th January at 2.00 Thank You 2 pm and all are invited to attend the service to welcome our new Dean. I am writing to thank you for the donation of £100.00 to The Mission to Seafarers, which we have gratefully Congratulations received. Your ongoing support helps the Mission to continue to be there for We offer our congratulations to the world’s 1.5 million seafarers. Fr. Derek & Marlene Simpson who celebrated their Golden Wedding Currently based in 260 ports across in December. On the Sunday before 71 countries, The Mission to Seafar- Christmas Fr. Derek & Marlene kindly ers is the world’s largest provider of hosted a reception for members of port based welfare services for crews. Holy Trinity congregation. We rely entirely on voluntary support from individuals and the industry and Fr. John on behalf of the Mission, thank you for your ongoing commitment. Your dona- tion will be used further our work in Thank You 1 offering help and support to those who On behalf of SPCK,thank you for Llan- work at sea. dudno PPe’s gift of £300.00 which I was Nicky Wynne delighted to receive recently. As a regular supporter of SPCKand a real heart for our mission, thank you for Thank You 3 your incredible generosity. Please know Once again we would like to thank that your ongoing support is extremely you for your recent kind donations . important to us and that your gift will During November we distributed 66 make a significant difference in driving parcels, an increase on the same period forward our Christian mission as well last year and we were able to help 54 as improving the lives of others across children.