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LLANDUDNO Cylchgrawn Plwyf Parish Magazine 50p March 2016 1 POYNTONS 417 ABERGELE RD OLD COLWYN 01492-515377 - 10 GLODDAETH ST LLANDUDNO 01492-876921 PENSIONERS’ DISCOUNT - MON, TUE & WED 2 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 GARDENING R. 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The Platt Partnership Ltd. represents only St. James’s Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website www.sjp.co.uk/products. The title 'Partner Practice' is a marketing term used to describe St. James's Place representatives. 5 From the Rectory With Easter coming early continue to keep Easter ac- this year Lent is almost upon cording to the ancient rules us – Ash Wednesday is on the whenever the official ‘Easter’ 10th February. As I write it Bank Holiday falls? seems strange to be prepar- I have to say that I am not ing for Lent when we have at all keen on the idea of a only just finished celebrating fixed Easter. It may be tempt- Christmas and Epiphany! It’s ing to want to tidy things up very tempting to wish that and make things easier for Easter could be moved to a fixed day ourselves – and this year in particular each year (say for the sake of argument, it would be good to have a few more the second Sunday of April) to make life weeks to prepare for the coming easier and give us time to ‘catch our of Lent. But Easter is not about our breath’ between the various seasons. convenience. The passion, death and Apparently the Archbishop of Canter- resurrection of Jesus are simply not tidy bury has recently been in discussions and convenient events. Because Christ with the leaders of other Christian has died and is risen, everything has Churches about this very subject – the changed and men and women are possibility of agreeing a fixed time for invited to respond to Him with the Easter. This would certainly be popular offering of their lives to the Living One with government, businesses; schools who proclaims that He will be with us etc, as planning would be so much to the end of time. easier if Easter was always at the same Of course we could celebrate all this time. just as well if Easter was at the same As it happens it’s actually very unlikely time each year as we do when it con- that all the Churches will agree to a tinues to be calculated by complicated fixed Easter any time soon, although rules connected with the waxing and it’s possible that the secular powers waning of the moon. But somehow it might decide to do it anyway what- would seem as if we were trying to ever Christians may think. Remember tame the untamable and reduce the how some years ago the Spring Bank greatest event in human history to a Holiday replaced the previous Whitsun convenience. Holiday – this could conceivably happen You may be wondering why I am writ- to Easter too. If it does, I wonder if the ing about Easter when Lent has yet to churches will fall into line or will they begin. But Lent is, above all, a time of 6 55 5 7 preparation for the keeping of Holy when Lent is so early!). Nothing can Week and Easter – part of the same make me worthy to keep Holy Week ‘package’. Originally a time when peo- and Easter but if I have the courage to ple were prepared for Baptism at the ‘gird up my loins’ and enter the desert Easter Vigil and those who had sinned with the Lord then He can help me to gravely were given an opportunity to do grow closer to him in the mystery of penance, Lent gradually became a time his death and resurrection. when Christians in general prepared What we actually choose to do in Lent for Holy Week and Easter by a time of is a secondary matter – we may give penitence and spiritual growth. things up, take things on, read a spiritual Seeing Lent as above all a time of book, attend a Lent course etc etc. You preparation for the keeping of Holy will find suggestions for what we might Week and Easter will certainly help to do elsewhere in this magazine. What give it focus – in the same way as an really matters is that we make that approaching examination helps us to effort to enter the desert to be with learn! I usually approach Lent with a Our Lord and so be made ready to be mixture of excitement and fear! Ex- with him in his passion and to share citement – because I appreciate the the joy of the Resurrection, a truly life opportunity to grow in my spiritual changing experience. life; fear – because I am lazy and would Fr. John prefer to be left in peace (especially News and Notices New Parish Website Launched and the wildlife which may be found there. The new parish website was launched after the 10.30 am service on Sunday Also on the website is The Great War 7 February. The new site contains a Project, which is part of the parish’s wealth of information including serv- commemoration of the centenary ices and events at Holy Trinity and St. of the First World War and includes Tudno’s Churches. There are details of biographies of the local men who died the various groups within the parish in that war. Launching the website, the and news of the parish’s support of Rector thanked those responsible for local charities and community projects. developing the new site and said “The Other pages give information on the website provides an excellent facility history of the parish and the churches, for anyone to learn about the life of management of the church grounds the parish and we invite everyone to 8 Father John and the new website. take a look at www.llandudno-parish. org.uk”. Andy Leitch who built the Website added that if anyone made the “Latest” page their Internet home page they would automatically see the latest news from the parish every time they logged on.