Capel Y Boro Service Sun 26 April 2020 at 11Am Replay: St Mungo
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Capel y Boro Service Intrada A talk on St Mungo by John Sun 26 April 2020 at 11am Ysbryd y tragwyddol Dduw, Jones – I disgyn arnom ni; Ysbryd y Replay: St Mungo / Power of tragwyddol Dduw, disgyn arnom the Resurrection ni: plyg ni, trin ni, golch ni, cod ni: Ysbryd y tragwyddol Dduw, Complete texts, readings, disgyn arnom ni. hymns with links, and translations Spirit of the eternal God, descend upon us; Spirit of the eternal God, descend upon us: fold us, treat us, wash us, raise us: Spirit of the eternal God, descend upon us. Intrada and welcome Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Blessed Assurance (F J van Alstyne) mine! O what a foretaste of glory Talk on St Mungo I (John Jones) This is a great opportunity to divine: remind ourselves of our great 1 Thessalonians: 2 heir of salvation, purchase of friends and near neighbours at God; Capel y Boro, St. Mungo’s, a Talk on St Mungo 2 (John Jones) born of his spirit, washed in his refuge that provides essential blood. shelter for the homeless of Psalm 16 Southwark who we have been Refrain: Talk on St Mungo 3 (John Jones) supporting for some years with This is my story, this is my song, collections of toiletries. It dates praising my Saviour all the day Rho d'arweiniad Arglwydd tirion back to the 1960s and has been long; (Rhuddlan, Timothy Rees) doing great work for over 50 this is my story, this is my song, years. But it has to be said that praising my Saviour all the day W H Auden Refugee Blues its work is largely invisible and it followed by a Prayer long. is always good to remember the charitable work going on under Jamie Smith Me, myself and I Perfect submission, perfect our noses. followed by a Celtic Blessing delight, I have done a little research visions of rapture burst on my The Lord’s my Shepherd about St. Mungo and was rather sight; (F Rous, rev. for Scottish Psalter) astonished by what I found out. angels descending bring from He was a sixth-century apostle in above Rhydwen Williams the kingdom of Strathclyde, an Pan ddaw fy nhro echoes of mercy, whispers of area in Glasgow which was love. formerly part of Yr Hen Ogledd, Philippians 3 the Old North. The name Perfect submission, all is at rest, Strathclyde was actually from the Dof fel yr wyf, 'does gennyf fi I in my Saviour am happy and (Charlotte Elliott, cyf. Eliza Evans) Welsh – Ystrad clud. The Old blest; North was a region that became watching and waiting, looking Power of the Resurrection – Scotland and was inhabited by Message by Geraint Tudur above, Celtic Britons in the early Middle filled with his goodness, lost in Ages. Its people spoke a variety Mawr oedd Crist yn his love. of the Brittonic or Brythoneg nhragwyddoldeb, (Bryn Myrddin, 1, language known as Cumbric, 3 Titus Lewis, 2 Anad.) https://www.youtube.com/watch? closely related to Old Welsh and v=n4pzveNsANw Blessing and closing music usually referred to as Early boarded the boat and sailed to be entrusted with the message Welsh. The region loomed large across the Firth of Forth where of the gospel, even so we speak, in Welsh literature and traditions she landed at Culross. In that not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts. for centuries after its kingdoms respect, we can describe them as As you know and as God is our had long disappeared. It was refugees. Mungo was brought up witness, we never came with conquered by the Anglo Saxons by his uncle, St. Serf, in Culross, a words of flattery or words of a in the ninth century with village on the River Forth on the pretext for greed; nor did we Strathclyde incorporated into east of Scotland and began his seek praise from mortals, what became the kingdom of missionary work in the Clyde whether from you or others, Scotland in the eleventh century. area where Glasgow Cathedral though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. Many Welsh texts were now stands. But we were gentle among you, attributed to the men of the like a nurse tenderly caring for North such as Taliesyn, Aneirin We now hear chapter 2 of the her own children. So deeply do and the Cynfeirdd poets. The first epistle to the Thessalonians we care for you that we are earliest Welsh poem is the sixth in which we hear Paul writing to determined to share with you century Y Gododdin by Aneurin the Thessalonians. He writes as not only the gospel of God but about the battle of Catraeth someone who has suffered also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us. which is present day Catterick in greatly for the gospel and North Yorkshire. The name travelled far in order to tell You remember our labour and Carlisle was from the Welsh Caer people about Jesus. He has been toil, brothers and sisters; we Luel and Gododdin was a persecuted on his journeys but worked night and day, so that we kingdom in what is nowadays the he responds to that persecution might not burden any of you Lothian region around Edinburgh. with tenderness and love rather while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. You are than revenge and violence. witnesses, and God also, how Mungo’s ancestry is recorded in pure, upright, and blameless our Bonedd y Saint, a genealogy of 1 Thessalonians: 2 conduct was towards you saints dating from the 13th believers. As you know, we dealt century. His birth name was with each one of you like a father Kentigern or Cyndeyrn, Mungo with his children, urging and being his pet name derived from encouraging you and pleading that you should lead a life worthy the Cumbric equivalent of Welsh of God, who calls you into his “fy nghy” – my dear one. There’s own kingdom and glory. a Llangyndeyrn in Carmarthenshire that some of We also constantly give thanks to you may know. His mother, God for this, that when you Denyw or Dwynwen, was the received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted daughter of King Lleuddyn who it not as a human word but as ruled around the Lothian district what it really is, God’s word, of the kingdom of Gododdin in which is also at work in you the Old North. The word believers. For you, brothers and Lothian is a form of Lleuddyn. She sisters, became imitators of the apparently became pregnant after churches of God in Christ Jesus You yourselves know, brothers being raped by Owain mab Urien that are in Judea, for you suffered and sisters, that our coming to the same things from your own of Rheged, the region north of you was not in vain, but though compatriots as they did from the Cumbria and fled further north. we had already suffered and been Jews, who killed both the Lord Legend has it that when they shamefully maltreated at Philippi, Jesus and the prophets, and discovered she was pregnant as you know, we had courage in drove us out; they displease God before marriage, her family threw our God to declare to you the and oppose everyone by gospel of God in spite of great her off a cliff. She survived hindering us from speaking to the opposition. For our appeal does unharmed and was soon met by Gentiles so that they may be not spring from deceit or impure saved. Thus they have constantly an unmanned boat. She knew she motives or trickery, but just as been filling up the measure of had no home to go to so she we have been approved by God their sins; but God’s wrath has overtaken them at last. of the day – their common task and using the psalms to shape his As for us, brothers and sisters, of building the church giving them offering of praise. On one when, for a short time, we were an instant and enduring bond of occasion, having suffered from made orphans by being separated friendship and affection. And I’ll this endurance, he sent the boy from you – in person, not in heart – we longed with great give thanks for the great twin Asaph who was then attending eagerness to see you face to face. miracles that seem to have been him, to bring a blazing wood to For we wanted to come to you – part of his life. The miracle of burn and warm him. Asaph certainly I, Paul, wanted to again friendship and of being much instead brought him live coals in and again – but Satan blocked our loved. Mungo thereafter travelled his apron, and the miracle way. For what is our hope or joy to North Wales where he revealed to Kentigern the or crown of boasting before our founded a monastery in Llanelwy sanctity of his disciple. Lord at his coming? Is it not you? Yes, you are our glory and joy! (the church on the river Elwy) or The King of Strathclyde, St. Asaph. I have a personal Rhydderch Hael, invited the A talk on St Mungo by John connection here as my paternal elderly Mungo to return to his Jones – 2 grandparents lived in St. Asaph kingdom, appointing St.Asaph, and I have many happy memories one of Mungo’s followers, as of the place, in particular Bishop of Llanelwy in his place. wandering up the hill to visit the There in Strathclyde, Mungo lived cathedral.