Uif!Obnjoh!pg!Kftvt Weekly Newsletter No.1857 Sunday, 1st January, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 594, 271, 1(MP), Anthem: Quem Pastores Laudavere (Rutter) , 68. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: All this time (Walton) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 115 . Hymns: 539, Anthem: The Truth From Above (Vaughan Williams) , 199(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Deuteronomy 30, 1-20 . Acts 3, 1-16 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia and Archbishop William Brown Turei and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Fairwater and Rev Colin Sutton . We pray for the clergy who minister in this parish , our Vicar, Rev Stewart Lisk, and the retired clergy who assist him, especially Rev John Woodward and Rev Vernon Hodgson. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially David Chick , who died this week, also Margaret Shepherd , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Uvftebz! 4se 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is open on Tuesday and Friday this week. NO PARISH SURGERY until Mon 9 Jan. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. PIANO RECITAL on Friday at 1pm at St Martin's Church, Caerphilly. Richard John and Dan Phelps will be performing music from their 6ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. new albums. Doors open 12.30pm, refreshments will be available. Gsjebz The Epiphany of Our Lord COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after 7ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. the Service this morning for a cup of coffee 1.00 pm Piano Recital. St Martin’s Church, Caerphilly. and a chat, and the 100 Club draw. Tbuvsebz! 8ui 10.30 am Ladies Circle Epiphany Coffee Morning. 115 Carisbrooke Way. Ofyu!Tvoebz we will celebrate the Epiphany of Our Lord . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Ephesians 3: 1-12; Matthew 2: 1-12. LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on LADIES CIRCLE A.G.M. and Silent Auction on Tue 10 Jan Saturday, 10.30am-noon at 115 Carisbrooke Way. Tickets at 7.15pm at Roath Church House. New members very £1 inc coffee and biscuits. All proceeds to our new charities welcome. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. – Vision 21 and the Society for Welfare of Horses and Ponies. Come and join us for a good start to the New Year. PUSS IN BOOTS pantomime by St Peter’s Players, 11-14 Jan at St Peter’s Church Hall. Doors open 7pm, PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at curtain up at 7.30pm. Adults £7.50 (conc. £4) 7.45pm in Roath Church House, when we will be (07811-335953 or [email protected] discussing the Epiphany. We would love to have some new members. We discuss over coffee and biscuits WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Cytûn and usually finish about 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20- United Service at St Edward’s on Wed 18 Jan at 7pm. 495496. Preacher: Rev Des Kitto. SOLEMN EUCHARIST . Guild of the Servers to the MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FR BOB MORGAN at the Sanctuary at 7.30pm on Mon 9 Jan in St Margaret’s. Church of the Resurrection, Ely, on Sat 21 Jan at 5.30pm, followed by refreshments in the church hall. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 9 Jan, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members ECUMENICAL VESPERS in St David’s RC Cathedral very welcome – assistance given to learners. Details from on Sun 22 Jan at 4pm, to celebrate the Week of Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- Prayer for Christian Unity. Archbishop George Stack [email protected] will lead the worship and everyone is invited to attend. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP ROWAN says in his Christmas sermon CHURCH IN WALES REVIEW: HAVE YOUR SAY . The that Christmas challenges individuals and whole Llandaff Diocese meeting is at Llandaff Cathedral societies alike not to build lives based on selfishness School on Tue 10 Jan at 7.30pm. Archbishop Barry and fear, but to be open to searching questions about urges people to attend. He said, “This is your chance to identity and solidarity, stark questions that are more help shape the Church of the future and ensure it is fit pressing in the wake of falling confidence in institutions for purpose for generations to come. We want everyone and challenges to social order. to be involved in this review and we will all have to be prepared to take seriously its findings and to be open to The coming of Christ still poses immense challenges to the possibility of significant change in our structures, the way people understand their lives and the times they ministry, use of buildings and other resources if it is live in. The Gospels are still full of questions to us about seen to be in the best interests of the church and its who we are and how we respond to God’s love. mission to the people and communities of Wales.” Very near the heart of Christian faith and practice is this The questions people will be asked at the open meeting encounter with God’s questions, ‘who are you, where are: are you?’ Are you on the side of the life that lives in Jesus, the life of grace and truth, of unstinting generosity 1. What aspect of your diocese and the Church in and unsparing honesty, the only life that gives life to Wales, do you feel most positive about? others? Or are you on your own side, on the side of 2. What major changes or initiatives would you like to disconnection, rivalry, the hoarding of gifts, the see in your diocese and in the Church in Wales, to obsession with control? make its ministry and witness more effective? The most pressing question we now face, we might well 3. Given the predicted shortfall in the number of clergy say, is who and where we are as a society. Bonds have what steps do you think should be taken to ensure that been broken, trust abused and lost. Whether it is an there continues to be ministry in every community? urban rioter mindlessly burning down a small shop that 4. Given the likely diminishment of the contribution of serves his community, or a speculator turning his back historic funds to the financing of the church (at present on the question of who bears the ultimate cost for his 30%) what steps do you think should be taken to ensure acquisitive adventures in the virtual reality of today’s the financial viability of the church in the future? financial world, the picture is of atoms spinning apart in the dark. 5. Are there any other issues you would like to see the review team investigating in order to enhance the And into that dark the Word of God has entered, in love ministry and witness of the Church in Wales? and judgment, and has not been overcome; in the darkness the question sounds as clear as ever, to each THE TALLIS SCHOLARS give a concert at St David’s Hall on of us and to our church and our society: ‘Britain, where Thur 3 May at 7.30pm, including the 40-part motet Spem in are you?’ Where are the words we can use to answer?” Alium (for which they will be joined by a local choir) and Lamentations of Jeremiah I . Tickets £10.50-£33.50. BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the MUSIC DIARY . church for people to bring and buy produce and other 6 Jan. 1pm. Piano Recital. St Martin’s, Caerphilly. items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. 11-14 Jan. 7pm. Puss in Boots. St Peter’s Church Hall. CHRISTMAS RAFFLE . The list of winners is displayed 17 Jan. 1pm. Organ Recital: James O’Donnell. St David’s Hall 28 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert. St Edward’s. in the porch. th ENVELOPES FOR 2012 are available for you to collect. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the 14 This is a good way of giving regularly and you can also century German carol “Quem Pastores Laudavere” gift aid your contributions. If you would like to join this arranged by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at th scheme please see Geoffrey Smith or Megan Martin, or Evensong is the 16 century carol “All this time” by Sir you may prefer to give directly by standing order via your William Turner Walton (1902-1983), and the anthem is bank – Alan Mayer has details of how to do this. Thank “The Truth from Above” arranged by Ralph Vaughan you for your continued financial support. Williams (1872-1958). CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: ST CADOC’S CHURCH, LLANCARFAN has been Wood in E flat No.2. Anthem: Thou, O God (Boyle). awarded a grant of £541,900 from the Heritage Lottery Visiting choir: Keble Choir. Fund to restore 500-year-old wall paintings rediscovered during repair work. The paintings revealed so far include CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. possibly the largest and best preserved image in the UK “Engaging with John” by Rev John Weaver. Four sessions, of “St George and the Dragon” and four depictions of the Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting 23 Jan. Fee: £20. Seven Deadly Sins – lust, sloth, pride and avarice – CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. which have just come to light. “Christianity and Science” by Rev John Weaver. Eight sessions, Mondays 7-9pm, starting 30 Jan. Fee: £30. CONTACT NUMBERS . Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. COFFEE CONCERTS . The third concert in our monthly Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] series, on Sat 28 Jan, is Rhiannon Llewellyn (Soprano). Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors person who is in hospital. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email the sidesmen if you are new with us. to [email protected]

Uif!Fqjqiboz!pg!Pvs!Mpse Weekly Newsletter No.1858 Sunday, 8th January, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 79, 595, 80, Anthem: Three Kings of Orient (Gardner) , 75. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: The Eastern Sages (Plainsong) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 98, 100 . Hymns: 74, Anthem: All people that on earth do dwell (Tallis) , 77 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A minor. Readings: Isaiah 60, 1-9. John 2, 1-11 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Australia and Archbishop Phillip John Aspinall and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Iran and Iraq . We pray for Nathan Ahimbisibwe , whose consecration and enthronement as the 1st Diocesan Bishop of South Ankole Diocese (Uganda) takes place today. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for Christians in Northern Nigeria whose churches and schools have been fatally attacked by extreme Islamist group Boko Haram. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of St Fagans with Michaelston-super-Ely and Rev Anthony Wintle, and St Fagans Church-in- Wales Primary School, Headteacher Alison Price and her staff. We pray for Lord Harris and all who are taking part in the Church in Wales Review . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Mary Stark and Rita Walters , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. :ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. PARISH SURGERY is on Mondays, 6pm-7pm in the 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Parish Office, for bookings of weddings and baptisms. 7.30 pm Guild of Servers of the Sanctuary Solemn Eucharist. St Margaret’s. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Uvftebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CHRISTMAS RAFFLE . The list of winners is displayed in the porch. 21ui 7.15 pm Ladies Circle AGM & Silent Auction. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm Review of the Church in Wales . Llandaff Cathedral School. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New 22ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. members very welcome – assistance given to 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James [email protected] for details. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 23ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. PUSS IN BOOTS pantomime by St Peter’s Players, 11-14 Jan at St Peter’s Church Hall. Doors open 7pm, curtain up at 7.30 pm. Adults Gsjebz!24ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. £7.50 (conc. £4) (07811-335953 or [email protected] Ofyu!Tvoebz we will celebrate the Baptism of Christ (the First Sunday of Epiphany) . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 1: 1-5; Acts 19: 1-7; Mark 1: 4-11. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm in Roath Church House, when we will be discussing the Epiphany. We would love to have some new members. We discuss over coffee and biscuits and usually finish about 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. LADIES CIRCLE A.G.M. and Silent Auction on Tuesday at 7.15pm at Roath Church House. New members very welcome. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. OPEN DEBATE on ‘presumed consent’ for organ donation at St John’s Church (town) on Sat 21 Jan at 2pm, with leading contributions from Archbishop Barry, Mr Roy Thomas (Executive Chair of Kidney Wales Foundation) and Dr Chris Jones (Medical Director of NHS Wales). The Government’s current consultation process focuses on the practicalities of the proposed system. The Church in Wales is inviting people to think about the moral and ethical questions too. The debate will explore the issues from a Christian standpoint, but welcomes contributions from people of other faiths or none. No booking required – just come along and join the debate. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CHURCH IN WALES REVIEW: HAVE YOUR SAY . COFFEE CONCERTS . The third concert in our monthly There will be an open meeting for our diocese at series, on Sat 28 Jan, is Rhiannon Llewellyn (Soprano). Llandaff Cathedral School on Tuesday at 7.30pm. Future concerts: Archbishop Barry urges people to attend. He said, “This 25 Feb. Pavane Early Music Consort is your chance to help shape the Church of the future 24 Mar. Gwenno Roberts (Violin) and ensure it is fit for purpose for generations to come. 28 Apr. Fernando Aguera (Guitar) We want everyone to be involved in this review and we 26 May. Steven Burges & Jayne Thomas (piano duets) will all have to be prepared to take seriously its findings 23 Jun. To be announced. and to be open to the possibility of significant change in 21 July. Julian Martin & James Chadwick (Piano/Guitar our structures, ministry, use of buildings and other Jazz Duo). resources if it is seen to be in the best interests of the ECUMENICAL VESPERS in St David’s RC Cathedral church and its mission to the people and communities of on Sun 22 Jan at 4pm, to celebrate the Week of Prayer Wales.” for Christian Unity. Archbishop George Stack will lead The questions people will be asked at the meeting are: the worship and everyone is invited to attend. 1. What aspect of your diocese and the Church in COMPLINE . Next service: 26 Jan. Wales, do you feel most positive about? CAMBRENSIS CHOIR & ORCHESTRA present 2. What major changes or initiatives would you like to Handel’s Messiah at Albany Road Baptist Church on Sat see in your diocese and in the Church in Wales, to 28 Jan at 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (conc. £6) (01656- make its ministry and witness more effective? 784376 or [email protected] 3. Given the predicted shortfall in the number of clergy what steps do you think should be taken to ensure that CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor there continues to be ministry in every community? Place. “Christianity and Science” by Rev John Weaver. 4. Given the likely diminishment of the contribution of Eight sessions, Mondays 7-9pm, starting 30 Jan. Fee: historic funds to the financing of the church (at present £30. 30%) what steps do you think should be taken to ensure PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (who rehearse at the financial viability of the church in the future? St Edward’s) perform at the Wales Millennium Centre 5. Are there any other issues you would like to see the Glanfa Stage on Sun 5 Feb at 3pm. review team investigating in order to enhance the CHURCHES TOGETHER WEDDING FAYRE on Sat 11 ministry and witness of the Church in Wales? Feb, 10am-4pm at Pontprennau Community Church People can also take part in the review by sending Centre. A range of local wedding businesses offering written observations to the Chair of the Working Group cakes, flowers, stationery, cars, photography, beauty, at the following address by 12 January: Lord Harries of etc., with emphasis on encouraging couples to consider Pentregarth, The House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW. a Church wedding with local clergy present to answer BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the questions. Admission free, refreshments will be served. church for people to bring and buy produce and other ENVELOPES FOR 2012 are available for you to collect. items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. This is a good way of giving regularly and you can also ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Three Kings gift aid your contributions. If you would like to join this of Orient”, a Caribbean Carol by Maurice Gardner. The scheme please see Geoffrey Smith or Megan Martin, or Introit at Evensong is the plainsong “Ibant Magi” (The you may prefer to give directly by standing order via your Eastern Sages) from “Paean Alphabeticus de Christo” bank – Alan Mayer has details of how to do this. Thank (which has a verse beginning with each letter of the Latin you for your continued financial support. alphabet – omitting J and U), words by Caelius Sedulius FOR YOUR DIARY . c.450AD and the anthem is “All people that on earth do 18 Jan. 7pm. Cytûn United Service. St Edward’s. dwell” by Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). 22 Jan. 4pm. Ecumenical Vespers. RC Cathedral. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at Llandaff Cathedral today. 26 Jan. 9pm. Compline. Congregational Evensong at 3.30pm. MUSIC DIARY . CYTÛN MEETING on Mon 16 Jan at 7.30pm in St 17 Jan. 1pm. Organ Recital: James O’Donnell. St David’s Hall Edward’s Schoolroom. 21 Jan. 7pm. Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Cytûn 28 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert. St Edward’s. United Service at St Edward’s on Wed 18 Jan at 7pm. 28 Jan. 7.30pm. Handel’s Messiah. Albany Rd Baptist Church. Preacher: Rev Des Kitto. 5 Feb. 3pm. Pavane. Wales Millennium Centre Glanfa Stage. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FR BOB MORGAN at the WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Church of the Resurrection, Ely, on Sat 21 Jan at and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of 5.30pm, followed by refreshments in the church hall. the sidesmen if you are new with us. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at CONTACT NUMBERS . St Edward’s) perform at the Norwegian Church on Sat Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. 21 Jan at 7pm. Suggested entry fee: £2. Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Place. “Engaging with John” by Rev John Weaver. Four person who is in hospital. sessions, Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting 23 Jan. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email Fee: £20. to [email protected]

Uif!Cbqujtn!pg!Disjtu Weekly Newsletter No.1859 Sunday, 15 th January, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 50, 226(MP), 60(MP), Anthem: In the beginning (Haydn) , 368 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Jesu Rex Admirabilis (Palestrina) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 46 & 47 . Hymns: 44, Anthem, 170(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Isaiah 42, 1-9. Ephesians 2, 1-10 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Bangladesh and Moderator Bishop Paul Sarker , who visited Llandaff in June to sign the link agreement “twinning” our diocese with Bangladesh. In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cyprus, Greece and Turkey . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Benefice of Merthyr Dyfan and Rev Robert Parrish . We pray for our Council of Churches (Cytûn) , those who work locally to promote Christian Unity, and those who work at a national and international level. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Elsie Victoria Mayer and Joan Elliot , whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 27ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. “CHRISTMAS – THE STORY” Service 7.30 pm Cytûn Meeting. Schoolroom. of Thanksgiving at Llandaff Cathedral on Friday at 7.30pm, followed by 1.00 pm Organ Recital: James O’Donnell. St David’s Hall. Uvftebz! refreshments in Prebendal House. 28ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who Xfeoftebz Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity begins rehearse at St Edward’s) perform at the 29ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Norwegian Church on Saturday at 7pm. 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Suggested entry fee: £2. 7.00 pm Cytûn United Service . St Edward’s. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FR BOB MORGAN at the 2:ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Church of the Resurrection, Ely, on Saturday at 5.30pm, followed by refreshments in the church hall. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 31ui 7.30 pm “Christmas – the Story” Service of Thanksgiving. Llandaff Cathedral. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 32tu 2.00 pm Open Debate on “presumed consent”. St John’s (town). 5.30 pm Memorial Service for Fr Bob Morgan. Church of the Resurrection, Ely. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir Concert. Norwegian Church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of Epiphany . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 14: 17-20; Revelation 19: 6-10; John 2: 1-11. ORGAN RECITAL by James O’Donnell (Westminster Abbey) at St David’s Hall on Tuesday, 1pm-2pm. Tickets £6 (conc. £5.50). OPEN DEBATE on ‘presumed consent’ for organ donation at St John’s Church (town) on Saturday at 2pm, with leading contributions from Archbishop Barry, Mr Roy Thomas (Executive Chair of Kidney Wales Foundation) and Dr Chris Jones (Medical Director of NHS Wales). The Government’s current consultation process focuses on the practicalities of the proposed system. The Church in Wales is inviting people to think about the moral and ethical questions too. The debate will explore the issues from a Christian standpoint, but welcomes contributions from people of other faiths or none. No booking required – just come along and join the debate. BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the church for people to bring and buy produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Cytûn PLANNED GIVING . As prices increase, especially the United Service at St Edward’s on Wednesday at 7pm. price of fuel for heating and lighting, the amount of Preacher: Rev Des Kitto. This year’s theme is “We will money needed to maintain our churches inevitably goes all be changed” coming to us from the churches in up. We need a reliable regular income to meet these Poland, who have reflected upon their own experience commitments. This is best provided by the envelope as a nation, and in particular how, as a nation, they have scheme (where people put their money in their been changed and transformed by the many upheavals envelopes even in weeks when they are not able to of their history, and sustained by their faith. attend the church, and bring them when they are next able to be present) or by monthly or annual standing CHRISTMAS RAFFLE . The list of winners is displayed orders or direct debits. If you are not already involved in in the porch. the planned giving schemes, please consider taking CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: part. If you would like to join the envelope scheme, Noble in B minor. Anthem: Lo! star-led chiefs (Crotch). please speak to one of the sidespersons or our PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at treasurer, Mr Geoffrey Smith. If you would like details of 7.45pm in Roath Church House, when we will be the standing order or direct debit scheme, please speak discussing the Epiphany. We would love to have some to Alan Mayer. new members. We discuss over coffee and biscuits and Archbishop Barry writes : usually finish about 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. My dear friends, ECUMENICAL VESPERS in St David’s RC Cathedral Wales, the UK and the world are all in the grip of an next Sunday at 4pm, to celebrate the Week of Prayer for economic recession, which experts tell us is the worse Christian Unity. Archbishop George Stack will lead the we have had since the 1920’s. The mission of God’s worship and everyone is invited to attend. church at such times however has to continue and is CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. arguably needed all the more at such a time than when “Engaging with John” by Rev John Weaver. Four sessions, the economic outlook is one of prosperity. Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting 23 Jan. Fee: £20. I therefore urge you to be generous in your giving so that COMPLINE . Next service: 26 Jan. God’s work can continue in the parishes of the diocese. Rest assured that the diocese has reduced costs to the COFFEE CONCERTS . The third concert in our monthly minimum and kept the parish share increase for 2012 to series, on Sat 28 Jan, is Rhiannon Llewellyn (Soprano). 1.6% which is the increase in stipends given to clergy. It CAMBRENSIS CHOIR & ORCHESTRA present has trimmed all its other costs. It also has to be Handel’s Messiah at Albany Road Baptist Church on Sat remembered that a quarter of what is spent in this 28 Jan at 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (conc. £6) (01656- diocese comes from provincial grants and investment 784376 or [email protected] income. Without that, our budget would either have to be CINDERELLA presented by “Revelations”, the youth cut drastically or we would be asking for even greater drama group of Llanishen Baptist Church, at the YMCA financial commitment from individuals and parishes. Theatre, The Walk. Thur/Fri 9/10 Feb at 7.15pm and Sat Every year we rise to the challenge. Let 2012 be no 11 Feb at 3.15pm.Tickets £6 from Angela Rodgers different. (20-753033. Any queries (20-753033. Yours in God’s love, †Barry CHURCHES TOGETHER WEDDING FAYRE on Sat 11 MUSIC DIARY . Feb, 10am-4pm at Pontprennau Community Church 17 Jan. 1pm. Organ Recital: James O’Donnell. St David’s Hall Centre. A range of local wedding businesses offering 21 Jan. 7pm. Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. cakes, flowers, stationery, cars, photography, beauty, 28 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert: Rhiannon Llewellyn (sop). etc., with an emphasis on encouraging couples to 28 Jan. 7.30pm. Handel’s Messiah. Albany Rd Baptist Church. consider a Church wedding with local clergy present to 5 Feb. 3pm. Pavane. Wales Millennium Centre Glanfa Stage. answer questions. Admission free, refreshments will be 25 Feb. 11am. Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort. served. 27 Feb. St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Concert. 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 13 Feb, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New WEBSITE STATS . Last week, St Edward’s website members very welcome – assistance given to learners. reached a lifetime total of 15,000 pages views. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- LADIES CIRCLE . Thanks to everyone who supported [email protected] for details. our Epiphany Coffee morning. We raised £270 towards ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on our charities for this year, which are Vision 21 and the Mon 27 Feb at 7pm. Programme: Don Giovanni Society for the Welfare of Horses and Ponies. Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany the sidesmen if you are new with us. Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 CONTACT NUMBERS . March, at 7pm. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. Parish Office (20-484808. [email protected] FOR YOUR DIARY . (( 22 Jan. 4pm. Ecumenical Vespers. RC Cathedral. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any 26 Jan. 9pm. Compline. person who is in hospital. 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Fqjqiboz Weekly Newsletter No.1860 Sunday, 22 nd January, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: At your feet we fall, 81, 402, Anthem: O taste and see (Sullivan) , 184 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Almighty and Everlasting God (Gibbons) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 33 . Hymns: I to the hills will lift mine eyes, Anthem: Exultate Justi (Viadana) , 78 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in Bb. Readings: Jeremiah 3,21 - 4,2 . Titus 2, 1-8 & 11-14 In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church in Brazil, Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, and Primate Maurício Jose Araujo de Andrade and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Sully and Rev Edward Dowding . In this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we pray for the unity of Christ’s Church throughout the world, for our own Council of Churches (Cytûn) , those who work locally to promote Christian Unity, and those who work at a national and international level. We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Bishop Ivor Rees (former Bishop of St David’s) who died last week, also Ronald Cox (Priest) and Rosamund Loder , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. COUNTY COUNCILLOR’S SURGERY on Friday, 6- 34se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. 7pm in Marlborough School (Agincourt Rd entrance). 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm St Margaret’s Committee. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed all week. Uvftebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. 35ui “Engaging with John” by Rev John Weaver. Four sessions, Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting this week. Fee: £20. Xfeoftebz The Conversion of St Paul HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING 36ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. at the Cathedral on Wednesday (the Conversion of St 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Paul) at 7.30pm (St Dyfrig Chapel). 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets 7.30 pm Paradise Run. in the vestry next Sunday at 4pm. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. CAMBRENSIS CHOIR & ORCHESTRA present Handel’s Messiah 37ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. at Albany Road Baptist Church on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £8 9.00 pm COMPLINE . (conc. £6) (01656-784376 or [email protected] COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Thursday of this week at 9pm. Compline is a 38ui 6.00 pm Councillor Surgery. Marlborough School. 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of the Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Coffee Concert: Rhiannon Llewellyn (Sop). monastic “hours”. Next service: 23 Feb. 39ui 7.30 pm Handel’s Messiah (Cambrensis). Albany Rd Baptist Church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany and will be celebrated as Candlemas . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Malachi 3, 1-5; Hebrews 2, 14-18; Luke 2: 22-40. PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of crisps, biscuits or cakes, and warm socks, hats, scarves and gloves. A big thank you to everyone for their support, especially over Christmas. Items can be given to Kathie Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House either at Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before the we leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of help please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] COFFEE CONCERT on Saturday at 11am. Through ECUMENICAL VESPERS in St David’s RC Cathedral Gilded Trellises...a song recital. £2 inc. refreshments today at 4pm, to celebrate the Week of Prayer for (10% of proceeds will be given to Marie Curie). Soprano Christian Unity. Archbishop George Stack will lead the Rhiannon Llewellyn and pianist Finnegan Downie Dear worship and everyone is invited to attend. present a mixed programme of Wolf's mournful Mignon Songs, Ravel's iridescent interpretation of Jules PACT MEETING . The next Police and Community Renard's animal poems and Walton's colourful setting of Together Meeting is at 7pm on Thur 16 Feb at St Peter’s Edith Sitwell's unconventional Façade poems. This Rugby Club, Minster Road. programme should serve as a wonderful antidote to the BRUNCH at St Anne’s Church Hall on Sat 18 Feb, January blues with sparkling introductions by the 10.30-1pm. Orange juice, toast, sausage, bacon, egg, musicians themselves. www.rhiannonllewellyn.weebly.com hash brown, black pudding, beans, tomatoes, tea & coffee. Cost £4.50. Tickets from Jean Gough (20- BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the 639233. church for people to bring and buy produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. NEW PROFESSIONAL EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE Cambrian Consort give their inaugural performance ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “O taste and “Music for Lent and Passiontide” at Llandaff Cathedral see how gracious the Lord is” by Arthur Sullivan (1842- on Fri 24 Feb at 7.30pm. Missa Pange lingua (Josquin 1900). The Introit at Evensong is a setting of today’s des Prés), Lamentations of Jeremiah (Tallis), Infelix ego Prayerbook collect “Almighty and Everlasting God” by (Byrd), Jesu meine Freude (Bach). Presented by Elin Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) and the anthem is Manahan Thomas. Tickets £20 (03700-101051. “Exultate Justi” by Ludovico da Viadana (1564-1645). ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: Mon 27 Feb at 7pm. Programme: Don Giovanni Brewer in D. Anthem: The Three Kings (Cornelius). Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". in Roath Church House, when we will be discussing the CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany Epiphany. We would love to have some new members. Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 We discuss over coffee and biscuits and usually finish March, at 7pm. about 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an IGNITE THE GOSPEL Youth Event at Solus, Cardiff Students’ extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Sat 31 Union next Sunday at 7.30pm. Featuring the Ignite Band and March at 11am. Anyone who knows the work (or can Going Public Theatre Company. Speaker: Dai Hankey. A sight-sing it) will be welcome to join us. chance for young people to experience the presence of God through lively worship, drama and teaching from some of the ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . best contemporary preachers who teach on topics that are 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. relevant and real. Entry £3. 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. FOR YOUR DIARY . “Christianity and Science” by Rev John Weaver. Eight 29 Jan. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. sessions, Mondays 7-9pm, starting 30 Jan. Fee: £30. 30 Jan. 7.30pm. Roath Church House Committee. PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (who rehearse at 18 Feb. 10.30-1pm. Brunch at St Anne’s. St Edward’s) perform at the Wales Millennium Centre 23 Feb. 9pm. Compline. Glanfa Stage on Sun 5 Feb at 3pm. 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. 31 Mar. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion. LECTURE at St Michael’s College on Wed 8 Feb at 6.15pm. “Christianity in the medieval West: One MUSIC DIARY . Reformation historian’s perspective” by Rev Prof 5 Feb. 3pm. Pavane. Wales Millennium Centre Glanfa Stage. Diarmuid N. J. MacCulloch, K.B., Professor of the 10 Feb. Organ concert: James Norrey. St John’s. History of the Church, Faculty of Theology, University of 25 Feb. 11am. Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort. 27 Feb. St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Concert. Oxford, Author of “A History of Christianity; the First 9 Mar. Organ concert: Stephen Disney. St John’s. Three Thousand Years” and Presenter of 2010 BBC 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. Television Series, A History of Christianity. All Welcome. Admission free. Refreshments provided. If you are UNITED SERVICE at St Edward’s last week was very interested in attending, please contact (20-563379, or much appreciated by all the Cytûn churches. £68 was email: [email protected] collected for famine relief in East Africa. CINDERELLA presented by “Revelations”, the youth WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors drama group of Llanishen Baptist Church, at the YMCA and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Theatre, The Walk. Thur/Fri 9/10 Feb at 7.15pm and Sat the sidesmen if you are new with us. 11 Feb at 3.15pm.Tickets £6 from Angela Rodgers CONTACT NUMBERS . (20-753033. Any queries (20-753033. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Mon 13 Feb, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. person who is in hospital. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email [email protected] for details. to [email protected]

Dboemfnbt Weekly Newsletter No.1861 Sunday, 29th January, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: Light has dawned, 544, Like a candle flame, Anthem: When to the temple Mary went (Eccard) , 42 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE 4.00 pm St Edward’s Committee. Vestry. meets in the vestry today at 4pm. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Jubilate (Lassus) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 34 . Hymns: 82, Anthem: Hear my Prayer O Lord (Purcell) , 28(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Norman Doe. Readings: 1 Samuel 3, 1-20 . 1 Corinthians 14, 12-20 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Burundi and Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . On World Leprosy Day we pray for all who suffer from leprosy, and for the work of the Leprosy Mission. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Ewenny and St Brides Major, the Ven Philip Morris (Priest in charge), Rev Moira Spence, Reader Hazel Norfolk, and St Brides Major Primary School, Headteacher Claire Matthews and her staff . On Homelessness Sunday we pray for the homeless throughout the world, and especially in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Elizabeth Audrey Williams, Frank Holmes and Douglas Snelling , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 41ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE wi th Rev John 7.30 pm Roath Church House Committee. Weaver, former principal of the South Wales Baptist College, at Cardiff Adult Christian Uvftebz!42tu ! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Education Centre (CACEC), City URC, Windsor Place, on Mondays at 7pm for 8 weeks beginning Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. this week. Fee £30. From Galileo, Newton and 2tu!Gfc 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Darwin to chance and design, the big bang, 6.30 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. multiple universes, designer babies and Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. evolution. (20-225190. 3oe 7.30 pm Choir Practice. PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (who rehearse at St Edward’s) perform at the Wales Millenniu m Centre 5ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Tbuvsebz! Glanfa Stage next Sunday at 3pm . Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Third Sunday Before Lent (Septuagesima) . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 40: 21-31; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-23; Mark 1: 29-39. IGNITE THE GOSPEL Youth Event at Solus, Cardiff Students’ Union today at 7.30pm. Featuring the Ignite Band and Going Public Theatre Company. Speaker: Dai Hankey. A chance for young people to experience the presence of God through lively worship, drama and teaching from some of the best contemporary preachers who teach on topics that are relevant and real. Entry £3. LECTURE at St Michael’s College on Wed 8 Feb at 6.15pm. “Christianity in the medieval West: One Reformation historian’s perspective” by Rev Prof Diarmaid N. J. MacCulloch, K.B. All Welcome. Admission free. Refreshments provided. If you are interested in attending, please contact (20-563379, or email: [email protected] CINDERELLA presented by “Revelations”, the youth drama group of Llanishen Baptist Church, at the YMCA Theatre, The Walk. Thur/Fri 9/10 Feb at 7.15pm and Sat 11 Feb at 3.15pm.Tickets £6 from Angela Rodgers (20-753033. Any queries (20-753033. PACT MEETING . The next Police and Community Together Meeting is at 7pm on Thur 16 Feb at St Peter’s Rugby Club, Minster Road. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT are looking for an church for people to bring and buy produce and other inspirational volunteer to create and lead a new fund- items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. raising group in Cardiff. From organizing and promoting fundraising events to giving talks in the local community, ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “When to the this leader will be making a massive difference to temple Mary went” by Johannes Eccard (1553-1611). Macmillan and to the lives of people affected by cancer. The Introit at Evensong is “Jubilate Deo” by Orlando de Please contact Rebecca Parke (07809-554968 if you Lassus (1532-1594) and the anthem is “Hear my Prayer, would like to find out more about this role. O Lord” by Henry Purcell (1659-1695). ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. Howells’ Collegium Regale. Anthem: O God, thou art my 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. God (Purcell). FOR YOUR DIARY . CHURCHES TOGETHER WEDDING FAYRE on Sat 11 29 Jan. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. Feb, 10am-4pm at Pontprennau Community Church 30 Jan. 7.30pm. Roath Church House Committee. Centre. A range of local wedding businesses offering 7 Feb. Copy date for “Croeso”. cakes, flowers, stationery, cars, photography, beauty, 18 Feb. 10.30-1pm. Brunch at St Anne’s. etc., with an emphasis on encouraging couples to 23 Feb. 9pm. Compline. consider a Church wedding with local clergy present to 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. answer questions. Admission free, refreshments will be 31 Mar. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion. served. MUSIC DIARY . PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on 5 Feb. 3pm. Pavane. Wales Millennium Centre Glanfa Stage. Mon 13 Feb, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New 10 Feb. Organ concert: James Norrey. St John’s. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. 25 Feb. 11am. Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- 27 Feb. St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Concert. [email protected] for details. 9 Mar. Organ concert: Stephen Disney. St John’s. 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. BRUNCH at St Anne’s Church Hall on Sat 18 Feb, 23 May. 7.30pm. The Peacemakers (Karl Jenkins) St David’s Hall. 10.30-1pm. Orange juice, toast, sausage, bacon, egg, hash brown, black pudding, beans, tomatoes, tea & WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES Central Committee coffee. Tickets £4.50 from Jean Gough (20-639233. Meeting in Crete, 23 Aug – 7 Sept 2012. The WCC are looking for Stewards for this meeting. You must be aged COMPLINE . Next service: 23 Feb. between 18 and 30. Board and lodging costs will be met COFFEE CONCERTS . Our thanks to Rhiannon by the WCC, but travel costs will have to be met by the Llewellyn and Finnegan Downie Dear for their excellent steward. The closing date for applications is 15 March. Song Recital in yesterday’s Coffee Concert. The fourth Places are limited. For more information contact Revd concert in our monthly series, on Sat 25 Feb, is given by Dr Sarah Rogers [email protected] Pavane Early Music Consort, who rehearse at St WALES’ STAINED GLASS WINDOWS ONLINE . In a Edward’s regularly. project initiated by artist & photographer Martin Crampin, ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on people interested in church history can now view and Mon 27 Feb at 7pm. Programme: Don Giovanni research more than 2,000 stained glass windows from Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and churches in Wales at http://stainedglass.llgc.org.uk. The David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". website allows windows to be searched thematically by date, artist or location. Although the funding has come to CHRISTIAN AID Evening Celebration & Day Conference an end, it is hoped that the catalogue will continue to “Hunger For Justice” at Manvers St Baptist Church, Bath grow. It is now possible to add further information and on 14/15 March. Evening Celebration (14 Mar 7.30pm): comments to the site. Music & worship from Renewal Gospel Choir, address by Joel Edwards. Day Conference (15 Mar 9.15am) with AN INVITATION TO POETRY READINGS with leading addresses, live debates and workshops on the work of Irish poet, Micheal O’Siadhail on Mon 26 March, 3.30pm Christian Aid. Both events free with retiring collections, at St Michael’s College, and 7.30pm at South Wales but please reserve a place: hungerforjustice.eventbrite.com Baptist College, Richmond Rd. Micheal O’Siadhail is on or (01454-415923. a tour of Britain reading from his recent book Tongues. CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany Admission free. Refreshments provided. Micheal will be Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 available afterwards to sign copies of his books. March, at 7pm. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Sat 31 the sidesmen if you are new with us. March at 11am. Anyone who knows the work (or can CONTACT NUMBERS . sight-sing it) will be welcome to join us. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. THE PEACEMAKERS conducted by Karl Jenkins, with Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Howell's School Senior Choir, Cor Caerdydd and the Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Orchestra of Welsh National Opera at St David’s Hall on person who is in hospital. Wed 23 May at 7.30pm. Includes Adiemus, The Armed To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email man, Requiem, Palladio. Tickets £15-£32.50. to [email protected]

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!Cfgpsf!Mfou;!Tfquvbhftjnb Weekly Newsletter No.1862 Sunday, 5th February, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 173(MP), I am a new creation, Anthems: Here we offer and present (Maunder) , All things bright and beautiful (Rutter) , 119(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: God be in my head (Walford Davies) . Psalms 5. Hymns: 83, Anthem: I will lay me down in peace (C.Lee Williams) , 242 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons Short Service. Readings: Numbers 13, 1-2 & 27-33 . Philippians 2, 12-28 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Canada and Primate Frederick Hiltz and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Ireland and the United Kingdom . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. On this Education Sunday we pray for all teachers and lecturers in our schools and colleges, for schoolchildren and students of all ages, and for all who work in education in a professional or voluntary capacity. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llanilid with Pencoed & Heol y Cyw, Rev Ian Hodges and Reader Bill Nicholas. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Janet Munday, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Edward Robert O'Donovan, Olive Vincent Gatfield and Amelia Bessia Mills , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea 7ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. University. "The Meaning in the Miracles" by The Very Reverend Dr Jeffrey John (Dean of St Albans) Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. on Thursday at 7pm. Admission free. 8ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist followed by committee meeting. St Anne’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Wednesday this week. 9ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 6.15 pm Lecture by Prof Diarmaid N. J. MacCulloch. St Michael’s College. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. ORGAN CONCERT by James Norrey (Llandaff 7.00 pm Orchestral Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Cathedral) on Friday, 1.15pm at St John’s Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. :ui 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture by the Dean of St Albans. Swansea University. 7.30 pm Choir Practice. CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: James Norrey. St John’s (town). perform Rachmaninov’s Vespers at 21ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. St Marti n in the Fields (Trafalgar Square) on Friday at 9pm. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 22ui 10.00 am Churches Together Wedding Fayre. Pontprennau Community Church Centre. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Second Sunday Before Lent (Sexagesima) . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Proverbs 8: 1, 22-31; Colossians 1: 15-20; John 1: 1-14. CINDERELLA presented by “Revelations”, the youth drama group of Llanishen Baptist Church, at the YMCA Theatre, The Walk, Thursday and Friday at 7.15pm and Saturday at 3.15pm.Tickets £6 from Angela Rodgers (20-753033. Any queries (20-753033. CHURCHES TOGETHER WEDDING FAYRE on Saturday, 10am-4pm at Pontprennau Community Church Centre. A range of local wedding businesses offering cakes, flowers, stationery, cars, photography, beauty, etc., with an emphasis on encouraging couples to consider a Church wedding with local clergy present to answer questions. Admission free, refreshments will be served. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s Mon 13 Feb, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was members very welcome – assistance given to learners. glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are [email protected] for details. invited to join us. LADIES CIRCLE meets at 7.15pm on Tue 14 Feb, at The presidents of Churches Together in England have Roath Church House. Our speaker will be Barrie Shiers described 2012 as “a year of celebrations”, citing the from Vision 21 which is one of our charities for this year. jubilee, the Olympic torch relay, the Olympics, and the Please join us for what we hope will be an enjoyable Paralympics: “We reaffirm our commitment made ten evening. Any queries contact Gill Day (20-495496. years ago in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen to work towards the visible unity of all Christians in the one BRUNCH at St Anne’s Church Hall on Sat 18 Feb, 10.30- faith, expressed in common discipleship, worship, 1pm. Orange juice, toast, sausage, bacon, egg, hash brown, witness and service.” black pudding, beans, tomatoes, tea & coffee. Cost £4.50. A new prayer to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee has Tickets from Jean Gough (20-639233. been composed by the Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral, LORD MAYOR’S CHARITY GALA CONCERT in aid of “at the Queen’s direction”: Cancer Research Wales on Wed 22 Feb at 7.30pm at “God of time and eternity, whose Son reigns as servant, the City Hall. Compère Boyd Clack; performers include not master; we give you thanks and praise that you have Daniel and Laura Curtis, Cardiff Male Choir, Cardiff blessed this Nation, the Realms and Territories with University Big Band, and many more. Tickets £15 from ELIZABETH, our beloved and glorious Queen. Cancer Research Wales (20-316976. “In this year of Jubilee, grant her your gifts of love and joy and peace as she continues in faithful obedience to PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7.30pm on you, her Lord and God and in devoted service to her Mon 20 Feb, in Room 2, Roath Church House. lands and peoples, and those of the Commonwealth, COFFEE CONCERTS . The fourth concert in our now and all the days of her life; through Jesus Christ our monthly series, on Sat 25 Feb, is given by Pavane Early Lord. Amen.” Music Consort, who rehearse at St Edward’s regularly. COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service this ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on morning for a cup of coffee & a chat, & the 100 Club draw. Mon 27 Feb at 7pm. Programme: Don Giovanni BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and church for people to bring and buy produce and other David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. THE SIXTEEN presents “The 12th Choral Pilgrimage: ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “All things The Earth Resounds” at Llandaff Cathedral on Sat 5 bright and beautiful” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit May at 8pm. The programme is centred around at Evensong is “God be in my head” by Henry Walford movements from the 12-part Missa Et ecce terraemotus Davies (1869-1941) and the anthem is “I will lay me by Brumel (the ‘Earthquake Mass’) and includes works down in peace” by Charles Lee Williams (1853-1935, by Lassus and Josquin des Prés. Tickets £22/£18/£12. organist of Gloucester Cathedral and one of the FOR YOUR DIARY . conductors of the Three Choirs Festival). 7 Feb. Copy date for “Croeso”. PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (who rehearse at 18 Feb. 10.30-1pm. Brunch at St Anne’s. St Edward’s) perform at the Wales Millennium Centre 20 Feb. 7.30pm. PCC. Glanfa Stage today at 3pm. 23 Feb. 9pm. Compline. 2 Mar. Women’s World Day of Prayer. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: Brewer 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. in E flat. Anthem: And I saw a new heaven (Bainton). MUSIC DIARY . TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Andrew’s & St. Teilo’s, Woodville 5 Feb. 3pm. Pavane. Wales Millennium Centre Glanfa Stage. Road, today at 7pm. 10 Feb. 1.15pm. Organ concert: James Norrey. St John’s. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm 25 Feb. 11am. Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort. 27 Feb. 7.15pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Concert. in Roath Church House, when we will be discussing 6 Mar. 1pm. Organ recital: Huw Tregelles Williams. St David’s Hall. Paul’s Journey. We would love to have some new 9 Mar. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Stephen Disney. St John’s. members. We discuss over coffee and biscuits and 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. usually finish about 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. LECTURE at St Michael’s College on Wednesday at 6.15pm. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors “Christianity in the medieval West: One Reformation and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of historian’s perspective” by Rev Prof Diarmaid N. J. the sidesmen if you are new with us. MacCulloch, K.B., Professor of the History of the Church, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, Author of “A History CONTACT NUMBERS . of Christianity; the First Three Thousand Years” and Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. Presenter of 2010 BBC Television Series, A History of Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Christianity. All Welcome. Admission free. Refreshments Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any provided. If you are interested in attending, please contact person who is in hospital. (20-563379, or email: [email protected] To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email COMPLINE . Next service: 23 Feb. to [email protected]

Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!Cfgpsf!Mfou;! Tfybhftjnb!–!Dsfbujpo!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1863 Sunday, 12 th February, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 372, 185, I believe in Jesus, Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter) , 368 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Hide me under the shadow (West) . Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Psalm 65 . Hymns: 266, Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Williams) , 26 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Genesis 2, 4b-25 . Luke 8, 22-35 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Province of Central Africa and Archbishop Albert Chama and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Portugal, Spain, Italy and Malta . We pray for Archbishop Bolly Lapok who is being installed today in Kuching, Sarawak, as the 4th Archbishop of the Province of South East Asia. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Baglan, Rev Pauline Williams, and Readers Pam Luke, Cyril Davies and Granville Victor . We pray for all who are suffering as a result of the cold weather , especially the elderly and infirm. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Brian Shapcott , who died last Sunday, also Dorothy M. Brothers , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. OUR THANKS to Gary for deputizing 24ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. for Norman this morning. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP 25ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath 7.15 pm Ladies’ Circe. Roath Church House. Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 27ui 7.00 pm PACT Meeting. St Peter’s Rugby Club, Minster Rd. 7.30 pm Choir Practice. HOLIDAY CLUB at Park End Church on Tuesday, 10am- 12pm or 4-11s. Craft games, live music, lots of fun. Price £1. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 29ui 10.30 am Brunch. St Anne’s Hall. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday 7.30 pm Wild West Charity Night. St Peter’s Hall. this week. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Sunday Before Lent (Quinquagesima) . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: 2 Kings 2: 1-12; 2 Corinthians 4: 3-6; Mark 9: 2-9. LADIES CIRCLE meets at 7.15pm on Tuesday, at Roath Church House. Our speaker will be Barrie Shiers from Vision 21 which is one of our charities for this year. We do hope you will be able to join us for what we hope will be an enjoyable evening. Any queries contact Gill Day (20-495496. PACT MEETING . The next Police and Community Together Meeting is at 7pm on Thursday at St Peter’s Rugby Club, Minster Road. BRUNCH at St Anne’s Church Hall on Saturday, 10.30-1pm. Orange juice, toast, sausage, bacon, egg, hash brown, black pudding, beans, tomatoes, tea & coffee. Cost £4.50. Tickets from Jean Gough (20-639233. WILD WEST CHARITY NIGHT organized by Cardiff Catenians at St Peter’s Hall on Saturday at 7.30pm. The evening will include a Barn Dance/Ceilidh with live music provided by Pluck and Squeeze, hot food and all are expected to dress appropriately! All profits to Crossroads Care and the Princess Royal Trust Carers Centre. Entry by ticket only, £18 from Peter Sullivan (20-490641. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] VOLUNTEERS NEEDED . Lots of jobs have to be done CONGRATULATIONS to Gwynn Ellis who has been to ensure the smooth running of services and other awarded the Marsh Award for Botany by the Marsh aspects of church life. Each Sunday we need people to Christian Trust, an organization set up to recognize the meet and greet worshippers, bible readers, servers, contributions of “unsung heroes and heroines who strive people to take the collection or to carry the elements to to improve the world we live in, out of love and the altar. Flowers have to be provided, arranged and dedication for their cause, not for personal fame or maintained. Linen, candles and other items need to be fortune”. The award for botany is run in partnership with washed, cleaned, maintained, repaired. For some tasks the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and recognizes a we need people to join rotas (and people to organize significant contribution to the field of Botanical rotas); in other cases we need people to help out as and Conservation. when they are needed. If you are willing to help in any MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St Edward’s way (not limited to the tasks described above!), please Choir and Orchestra in the context of a Devotional have a word in the first instance with Sue Mansell or the Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. Vicar. STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an THE FUNERAL OF MR BRIAN SHAPCOTT , Reader extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Holy and Churchwarden, will be held on Thur 23 Feb at Saturday (7 Apr) at 11am (please note change of date). 10.15am in St Margaret’s Church. We keep Geraldine Anyone who knows the work (or can sight-sing it) will be and all the family in our prayers. welcome to join us. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “A Gaelic THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at St Blessing” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s Evensong is “Hide me under the shadow of your wings” Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was glad” by John Ebenezer West (1863-1929) and the anthem is with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are invited to join us. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace” by Charles Lee Williams (1853-1935). FOR YOUR DIARY . 18 Feb. 10.30-1pm. Brunch at St Anne’s. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: 20 Feb. 7.30pm. PCC. Rubbra in A flat. Anthem: O where shall wisdom be 23 Feb. 10.15am. Funeral of Brian Shapcott. St Margaret’s. found (Boyce). 23 Feb. 9pm. Compline. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 2 Mar. Women’s World Day of Prayer. 7.45pm in Roath Church House, when we will be 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. discussing Judas. We would love to have some new 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). members. We discuss over coffee and biscuits and 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). usually finish about 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. MUSIC DIARY . 25 Feb. 11am. Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort. PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7.30pm on 27 Feb. 7.15pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Concert. Mon 20 Feb, in Room 2, Roath Church House. 6 Mar. 1pm. Organ recital: Huw Tregelles Williams. St David’s Hall. 9 Mar. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Stephen Disney. St John’s. LORD MAYOR’S CHARITY GALA CONCERT in aid of 16 Mar. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. St John’s Canton. Cancer Research Wales on Wed 22 Feb at 7.30pm at 17 Mar. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Millennium Centre. the City Hall. Compère Boyd Clack; performers include 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. Daniel and Laura Curtis, Cardiff Male Choir, Cardiff 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. University Big Band, and many more. Tickets £15 from CHURCH UNITY . Anglicans and members of the United Cancer Research Wales (20-316976. Reformed Church worshipped together at Westminster th COMPLINE . Next service: 23 Feb. Abbey last week, marking the 40 anniversary of the th inauguration of the URC (uniting Presbyterians and COFFEE CONCERTS . The 4 concert in our monthly Congregationalists) and the 350 th anniversary of the Act series, on Sat 25 Feb, is given by Pavane Early Music of Uniformity (1662), under which Presbyterian and Consort, who rehearse at St Edward’s regularly. Independent ministers had been forced out of the livings CIRCLE DANCING with Archdeacon Peggy Jackson at that they had held since the Commonwealth period. In St Michael’s & All Angels, Gelligaer St, Cathays, on Sat his sermon, Archbishop Rowan spoke of the “attractive” 25 Feb, 10am-12pm. vision of two Churches shaped by legacies of the Anglican parson-poet George Herbert, and Baxter, “who ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on so loved” him, as they drew together prayerfully into a Mon 27 Feb at 7pm. Programme: Don Giovanni friendly future. Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of COFFEE MORNING in aid of the George Thomas the sidesmen if you are new with us. Hospice at the Mansion House on Fri 2 March, 10am- CONTACT NUMBERS . 12pm. Coffee, welsh cakes and celebrity interview. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. Tickets £5 (02920-524150, www.gthc.org.uk or email Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] [email protected] Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany person who is in hospital. Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email March, at 7pm. to [email protected]

Uif!Tvoebz!Cfgpsf!Mfou;!! Rvjorvbhftjnb!–!Usbotgjhvsbujpo!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1864 Sunday, 19th February, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 559, And can it be, 558, Anthem: Then did Elijah the Prophet (Mendelssohn) , Shine Jesus Shine . Settings: Agutter in G , Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Go Return Upon Thy Way (Mendelssohn) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 2, 99 . Hymns: 184, Anthem: Behold God the Lord Passed By (Mendelssohn) , 560 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: 1 Kings 19, 1-16 . 2 Peter 1, 16-21 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central de America and Primate Armando Guerra Soria and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Newton Nottage, Porthcawl, Canon Philip Masson, Rev Marja Flipse and Reader Mervyn Trigg . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Brian Shapcott . EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7.30 pm Npoebz 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday in Room 2, Roath Church House. 31ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Parochial Church Council. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Thursday this week. for Brian Shapcott’s funeral. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and 32tu 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. Xfeoftebz Ash Wednesday 33oe 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST & IMPOSITION OF ASHES . Followed by coffee. 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 5.00 pm Holy Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. St Anne’s. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. on Thursday at 9pm. Compline is a 15- 7.30 pm Sung Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. St Margaret’s. minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic “hours”. 7.30 pm Paradise Run. Uivstebz 10.15 am Funeral of Brian Shapcott . St Margaret’s. LENT LUNCHES wi ll be held each Friday 34se 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 12pm-2pm. S oup, bread and cheese, and 7.30 pm Choir Practice. discussion over lunch – all proceeds will be 9.00 pm COMPLINE . going towards the Paradise Run. This week will be at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Gsjebz 12.00 pm Lent Lunch. 56 Colchester Ave. Colchester Avenue. Do come and join us. 35ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm Cambrian Consort: Music for Lent & Passiontide. Llandaff Cathedral. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Circle Dancing. St Michael & All Angels, Cathays. CONGRATULATIONS to Stephen Mayer on obtaining his Diploma in Management 36ui 11.00 am Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort . Accountancy. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of Lent . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 9: 8-17; 1 Peter 3: 18-22; Mark 1: 9-15. ASH WEDNESDAY . Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes at St Margaret’s 9.30am and 7.30pm (Sung), at St Edward’s at 10am, and at St Anne’s at 5pm. Choral Eucharist at Llandaff Cathedral at 7.30pm (Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices) with Preacher Fr Nicolas Stebbing C.R., who will also lead a Quiet Day at the Cathedral on Saturday from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. LORD MAYOR’S CHARITY GALA CONCERT in aid of Cancer Research Wales on Wednesday at 7.30pm at the City Hall. Compère Boyd Clack; performers include Daniel and Laura Curtis, Cardiff Male Choir, Cardiff University Big Band, and many more. Tickets £15 from Cancer Research Wales (20-316976. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] FR KEN . As many of you will know Fr Ken Martin is THE FUNERAL OF MR BRIAN SHAPCOTT , Reader making a slow but steady recovery after being very and Churchwarden, will be held on Thursday at 10.15am seriously ill for some months. Megan is looking after him in St Margaret’s Church. The service at the at home, and with the support of visits from carers he is Crematorium is at 11.45am followed by a reception at now able to get up for a few hours every day. They are Roath Church House. If any member of the both most thankful for the many telephone calls, letters congregation is able to provide a plate of food and enquiries they have received and would welcome (sandwiches/cakes) could they please bring them to visits from their friends at St Edwards & the Parish. Roath Church House, between 9.15 and 9.45am on Megan has been much missed from church since Thursday morning. We keep Geraldine and all the family Christmas. We are only now beginning to understand in our prayers. how much she did, and will need a small army of COFFEE CONCERTS . The fourth concert in our volunteers to fill the gap. Flowers and a card have been monthly series, on Saturday, is given by Pavane Early sent to them both on behalf of the congregation. Music Consort, who have rehearsed regularly at St VOLUNTEERS NEEDED . Lots of jobs have to be done to Edward’s for several years. They sing and play a wide ensure the smooth running of services and other aspects of variety of authentic medieval and renaissance period church life. Each Sunday we need people to meet and greet instruments - renaissance recorders, crumhorns, worshippers, bible readers, servers, people to take the rauschpfeifs, percussion, shawms, curtals, lutes, cittern, collection or to carry the elements to the altar. Flowers have to be provided, arranged and maintained. Linen, candles and theorbo, oud, gemshorns, viols, virginals, rebecs, other items need to be washed, cleaned, maintained, fiddles, hurdy-gurdy. They perform regularly at historic repaired. For some tasks we need people to join rotas (and sites for CADW, and provide musical atmosphere at people to organize rotas); in other cases we need people to weddings, Elizabethan banquets and medieval fayres. help out as and when they are needed. If you are willing to They have also appeared in a TV series made by Wild help in any way (not limited to the tasks described above!), Dream Films for Channel 4 about the English Civil War. please have a word in the first instance with Sue Mansell or the Vicar. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on Mon 27 Feb at 7pm. Programme: Don Giovanni OUR THANKS to Jane Colley for giving us a “triptych” Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and noticeboard for displays and exhibitions. Sadly Jane will David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". be leaving us in a few weeks to live in Bournemouth.

ANTHEMS . The Eucharist anthem is “Then did Elijah MAD MARCH FAYRE on Sat 3 March, 10.30-12.30pm the Prophet break forth like a fire”, the Introit at at Roath Church House. A mammoth sale of second Evensong is “Go return upon thy way” and the Evensong hand books, toys, bric-a-brac, videos and DVDs. Tea anthem is “Behold God the Lord passed by”, all from the and coffee will be on sale. We do not need any more oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47). items – but we do need your help, either setting up on the Friday evening from 7.30pm, serving on the stalls, CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: Moore clearing up afterwards. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. Second Service. Anthem: Cantate Domino (Croce). PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on in Roath Church House, when we will be discussing Mon 5 March, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. Judas. We would love to have some new members. We New members very welcome – assistance given to discuss over coffee and biscuits and usually finish about learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James 9pm. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. [email protected] for details. PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. corned beef using white medium sliced bread and individually 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of crisps, biscuits or cakes, and warm socks, hats, scarves and gloves. A big thank FOR YOUR DIARY . you to everyone for their continued support. Items can be 23 Feb. 9pm. Compline. given to Kathie Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House 2 Mar. Women’s World Day of Prayer. either at Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. the we leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). help please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). NEW PROFESSIONAL EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE MUSIC DIARY . Cambrian Consort give their inaugural performance “Music for 25 Feb. 11am. Coffee Concert: Pavane Early Music Consort. Lent and Passiontide” at Llandaff Cathedral on Friday at 27 Feb. 7.15pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Concert. 7.30pm. Missa Pange lingua (Josquin des Prés), 6 Mar. 1pm. Organ recital: Huw Tregelles Williams. St David’s Hall. Lamentations of Jeremiah (Tallis), Infelix ego (Byrd), Jesu 9 Mar. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Stephen Disley. St John’s. meine Freude (Bach). Presented by Elin Manahan Thomas. 16 Mar. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. St John’s Canton. Tickets £20 (03700-101051. 17 Mar. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Millennium Centre. CIRCLE DANCING with Archdeacon Peggy Jackson at 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. St Michael’s & All Angels, Gelligaer St, Cathays, on 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. Saturday, 10am-12pm. CONTACT NUMBERS . LENT COURSE . Each Sunday evening in Roath Church Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. House, Room 2, 7.45-9pm beginning next Sunday. The Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person theme this year is “ All you need is love ” and the topic who is in hospital. for Sunday is The Lost Sheep . For further information To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to please contact Gill Day (20-495496. [email protected]

Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou;! Weekly Newsletter No.1865 Sunday, 26 th February, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 92, 311, Purify my heart, Anthem: Wash Me Throughly (Halls), 182 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Call to Remembrance (Farrant) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 119, vv 17-32 . Hymns: 95, Anthem: For He Shall Give His Angels (Mendelssohn) , 91 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Genesis 2,15-17 & 3,1-7. Romans 5, 12-19 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Province de L’Eglise Anglicane Du Congo and Archbishop Kahwa Henri Isingoma and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Germany and France . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan , and for all places where there is civil unrest , especially Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. One year on from the Christchurch earthquake we pray for the people of New Zealand , where memorial services were held throughout the country this week. In Fair Trade Fortnight we pray for producers and workers in the developing world, and those who work to promote a fair deal for them and an opportunity to trade without exploitation. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cilybebyll and Rev Martyn Perry . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Brian Shapcott and Jill Rees , also Walter George Shepherd, Joan Riddett, Phyl Riddett and Lilian Martin , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. PARISH OFFICE will close on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are Ember Days. Monday at 11.30am and all day on Npoebz 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Wednesday of this week. 38ui 7.15 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Mozart Evening . Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the Cathedral on Wednesday at 7.30pm (Lady Chapel). Lenten 39ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Address by Canon Richard Lowndes. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. 3:ui 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral. Uivstebz St David, Patron Saint of Wales 2tu!Nbsdi 10.45 am All Wales National St David’s Day Service. St John’s (town). 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT COFFEE MORNING with Art 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Exhibition by Nikki Askins at St Andrew’s & St. Teilo’s, Gsjebz Women’s World Day of Prayer Woodville Road, on Saturday, 10am-12pm. 3oe 10.45 am Coffee Morning for George Thomas Hospice. Mansion House. 12.00 pm Lent Lunch. 87 Llanedeyrn Rd. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 4se 10.00 am Fairtrade Coffee Morning. SS Andrew & Teilo, Woodville Rd. 10.30 am Mad March Fayre. Roath Church House. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second Sunday of Lent . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 17: 1-7, 15-16; Romans 4: 13-25; Mark 8: 31-38. LENT COURSE . Each Sunday evening in Roath Church House, Room 2, 7.45-9pm. The theme this year is “ All you need is love ”. For further information please contact Gill Day (20-495496. ALL WALES NATIONAL ST DAVID’S DAY SERVICE at St John’s (town) on Thursday at 10.45am. All welcome. The National St David’s Day Parade leaves City Hall at 12.30pm. Those wishing to participate please contact Marc Evans (20-213629 or [email protected] COFFEE MORNING in aid of the George Thomas Hospice at the Mansion House on Friday, 10am-12pm. Coffee, welsh cakes and celebrity interview. Tickets £5 (02920-524150, www.gthc.org.uk or email [email protected] Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 27 Feb - 11 March. To mark MAD MARCH FAYRE on Saturday, 10.30-12.30pm at Fairtrade Fortnight there will be a stall at the back of St Roath Church House. A mammoth sale of second hand Edward’s on Wednesday and next Sunday with tea, books, toys, bric-a-brac, videos and DVDs. Tea and coffee, dried goods etc for people to buy. Fair trade aims coffee will be on sale. We do not need any more items to transform the lives of poor producers in the – but we do need your help, either setting up on Friday developing world by enabling them to use their skills and evening from 7.30pm, serving on the stalls, clearing up resources to trade their way out of poverty. Please afterwards. Contact Gill Day (20-495496. support this effort by buying something from the stall CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany next week. Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 MEGAN AND KEN would like to thank everyone for the March, at 7pm. flowers and card. We send them our prayers and best MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St Edward’s wishes. Choir and Orchestra in the context of a Devotional CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Holy in East Africa. Saturday (7 Apr) at 11am (please note change of date). ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Wash me Anyone who knows the work (or can sight-sing it) will be throughly from my wickness” by David Halls (b.1963). welcome to join us. The Introit at Evensong is “Call to Remembrance” by ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . Richard Farrant (d.1581) and the anthem is a three-part 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. arrangement of “For He Shall Give His Angels Charge 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. Over Thee” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47). FOR YOUR DIARY . 15 Mar. 9pm. Compline. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: Wood in D. Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford). 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA MOZART CONCERT on 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). Monday at 7.15pm. Programme: Don Giovanni MUSIC DIARY . Overture, Concertone K190 for 2 violins (Phil Ellis and 6 Mar. 1pm. Organ recital: Huw Tregelles Williams. St David’s Hall. David Morrell soloists) and Symphony No.41 "Jupiter". 9 Mar. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Stephen Disley. St John’s. LENT LUNCHES will be held each Friday 12pm-2pm. 16 Mar. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. St John’s Canton. 17 Mar. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Millennium Centre. Soup, bread and cheese, and discussion over lunch – all 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. proceeds will be going towards the Paradise Run. This 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. week will be at Chris Webb’s, 87 Llanedeyrn Road. Do come and join us. GERALDINE SHAPCOTT and family would like to thank St Margaret’s, St Edward’s and St Anne’s CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor congregations, along with everyone who meets regularly Place. “The Johannine Letters” by Rev Edward at Roath Church House, for their heartfelt messages of Dowland-Owen. Four sessions, Mondays 10.30am- sympathy, visits and beautiful flowers sent to us on the 12.30pm starting 5 March. Fee: £20. sudden death of Brian. You have all said such lovely PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on things about Brian and I shall never forget your Mon 5 March, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. kindness. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James iPAD APP . The Episcopal Church (USA) has launched [email protected] for details. its first “mobile content” in the form of a free quarterly iPad app called Wayfarer, downloadable from iTunes. FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT OLIVE TASTING with All the content can also be viewed in a browser. visiting olive farmers Taysir Arbasi and Riziq Abu Wayfarer features “stories about people, possibilities Nasser from Palestine at Chapter Arts Centre on Wed 7 and action across a broad landscape, told through March, 6.30-8.30pm. Come and chat to them, learn video, photographs and words”. The first issue is about their situation, and taste their produce. Kivalina, about indigenous Alaskans having to move COMPLINE . Next service: 15 March. their entire village to higher ground because of rising sea levels. THE WELSH CAMERATA present “Music for Lent” at St John’s, Canton on Fri 16 Mar at 7.30pm, and at St WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Mary’s Priory Church, Monmouth on Sat 17 Mar at and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of 7.30pm. Music by Buxtehude & Charpentier. the sidesmen if you are new with us. TRADITIONAL ST PATRICK’S NIGHT at St Peter’s Hall CONTACT NUMBERS . on Sat 17 March, 7.30pm - late. Irish music from Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. Gaeltacht ; Irish fayre (boiled ham and colcannon). Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Admission by ticket only, from Paul (07740-486-406. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any COFFEE CONCERTS . Our thanks to Pavane for their concert person who is in hospital. yesterday. The fifth concert in our monthly series, on Sat 24 To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email March, is given by Gwenno Roberts (violin). to [email protected]

Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou! Weekly Newsletter No.1866 Sunday, 4 th March, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 193, 333, 211, Anthem: Tydi a Roddaist (Arwel Hughes), The Servant King . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O God of Bethel (Tye) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 135 . Hymns: 22(MP), Anthem: Reverie (Doe) , 106(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Norman Doe. Readings: Genesis 12, 1-9. Hebrews 11, 1-3 & 8-16 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of England and Archbishop Rowan and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the victims of Cyclone Giovanna which hit Madagascar a fortnight ago, those who have died, and the 250,000 who have been made homeless. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Vale of Neath , where they await the appointment of a new Vicar. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Janet Munday, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Henry Bruce Grant and Dora June Hayman , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on UIJT!XFFL! Thursday at 7pm and on Friday at 6pm this week. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Megan who 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. th Npoebz celebrates her 96 birthday on Tuesday. 6ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday of this week. Uvftebz 1.00 pm Organ Recital: Huw Tregelles Williams. St David’s Hall. 7ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. ORGAN RECITAL at St David’s Hall on Tuesday, 1pm-2pm: Huw Tregelles Williams (Tabernacle Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Chapel, Morriston). £6.50 (conc. £5.50). 8ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 6.30 pm Fair Trade Fortnight Olive Tasting. Chapter Arts Centre. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. ORGAN CONCERT by Stephen Disley (Southwark Cathedral) on Friday, 9ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. 1.15-1.45pm at St John’s (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . St Marg- Gsjebz 12.00 pm Lent Lunch. 87 Llanedeyrn Road. aret’s or St Anne’s S couts would be :ui 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Stephen Disley. St John’s (town). pleased to receive vouchers , which 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. can be used for equipment. There is Tbuvsebz! 21ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. an envelope at the back of the church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of Lent . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Exodus 20: 1-17; 1 Corinthians 1: 18-25; John 2: 13-22. OBOE STOLEN . The house of one of our oboists in St Edward’s Orchestra, Rachel Kilby, was broken into last week and her oboe was stolen. It is a Howarth S2 made of rosewood (brown), serial number 3320. The case is black with a green velvet lining, in a carry case with a shoulder strap. Any information that may help recover the instrument would be gratefully received. ROATH MILL PROJECT: GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY on Sat 17 March. Cardiff Archaeological Society & GeoArch will carry out a comprehensive geophysical survey of the site of Roath Mill Gardens (opposite St Edward’s) to see if there are any remains of the old mill below ground. The site is shown on 19th-century maps but almost no trace is left above ground. The mill is mentioned as early as 1107, the very first mention of the place-name 'Roath'. The final mill building was demolished in 1897 after a working period of almost 800 years. Anyone interested is welcome to visit during the survey. Members of the Society will be there to answer questions and show people around. The survey will start at 9 am and take about 6 to 7 hours. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] COFFEE IN THE SCHOOLROOM . This month our “first FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 27 Feb - 11 March. To mark Sunday of the month” coffee will be in the Schoolroom to Fairtrade Fortnight there is a stall at the back of St celebrate and admire the completion of the Sunday Edward’s with tea, coffee, dried goods etc for people to School West Window project. The result of their work is buy. Fair trade aims to transform the lives of poor very impressive. Please join us after the Service for a producers in the developing world by enabling them to cup of coffee and a chat, and the 100 Club draw. use their skills and resources to trade their way out of poverty. Please support this effort by buying something ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Tydi a from the stall next week. Roddaist” composed by Arwel Hughes (1909-1988) to the words of T.Rowland Hughes (1937-1973). The Introit CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back at Evensong is “O God of Bethel” by Christopher Tye of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft (1500-1573) and the anthem is “Reverie” (My Soul there produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief is a Country) by Norman Doe. in East Africa. QUIET DAY FOR LENT at Llangasty Retreat House (Brecon) CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: on Mon 19 March (coffee 10am, commence 10.30am). Stanford in B flat. Anthem: Wash me throughly (Wesley). “Jonah, the reluctant prophet” led by Rev Janet Russell. An LENT COURSE . Each Sunday evening in Roath Church enjoyable opportunity to reflect on our own journeys into faith House, Room 2, 7.45-9pm. The theme this year is “ All & think about how and why we share God’s love with others. you need is love ”, and this week’s topic is Recognition. Cost £27.50. [email protected] (01874-658-250. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. SOUTH EAST WALES ORGANISTS’ ASSOCIATION invite you to a Come and Play Evening at St John the CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Baptist Church in Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, on Tue 20 Place. “The Johannine Letters” by Rev Edward March from 7.30pm, marking 125 years since the organ Dowland-Owen. Four sessions, Mondays 10.30am- was transferred from St Andrew’s (now Dewi Sant). 12.30pm starting this week. Fee: £20. COFFEE CONCERTS . The fifth concert in our monthly series, FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT OLIVE TASTING with on Sat 24 March, is given by Gwenno Roberts (violin). visiting olive farmers Taysir Arbasi and Riziq Abu AN EVENING WITH JOHN ARCHER (comedian & Nasser from Palestine at Chapter Arts Centre on magician) in aid of “Thomas Wish to Walk” appeal Wednesday, 6.30-8.30pm. Come and chat to them, organized by Lisvane Baptist Church at Lisvane learn about their situation, and taste their produce. Memorial Hall on Fri 23 March at 7.30pm. Thomas is an LENT LUNCHES will be held each Friday 12pm-2pm. Soup, 8 year old boy from Rhiwbina who suffers from cerebral bread and cheese, and discussion over lunch – all proceeds palsy. Tickets £10 (20-752895. will be going towards the Paradise Run. This week will be at OPERA MINT presents a Gala Concert of Opera Chris Webb’s, 87 Llanedeyrn Road. Do come and join us. Scenes at Dinas Powys Community Parish Hall on Sat LADIES CIRCLE meets on Tue 13 March, 7.15 for 24 March at 7.30pm. Tickets £10. (07795-322-602. 7.30pm. Our speaker is Andrea Davies from the Society CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany Choral for the Welfare of Horses and Ponies, which is one of Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 Mar, at 7pm. our charities for this year. All welcome. Further MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St Edward’s information from Gill Day (20-495496. Choir and Orchestra in the context of a Devotional COMPLINE . Next candlelight service: 15 March. Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. THE WELSH CAMERATA present “Music for Lent” at St STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an John’s, Canton on Fri 16 Mar at 7.30pm, and at St extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Holy Mary’s Priory Church, Monmouth on Sat 17 Mar at Saturday (7 Apr) at 11am. Anyone who knows the work 7.30pm. Music by Buxtehude & Charpentier. (or can sight-sing it) will be welcome to join us. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at FOR YOUR DIARY . St Edward’s) give a free concert at Wales Milllennium 15 Mar. 9pm. Compline. Centre Glanfa Stage on 17 March at 6.15pm. 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. 31 Mar. 5.30pm. Concert: Pupils of Esther Walker. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT “Freedom From 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). Fear: How the Church can respond to domestic abuse” at St 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). John’s (town) on Mon 19 March, 2-5pm. Violence, aggression and bullying, especially in situations that should be MUSIC DIARY . characterised by love and trust, are particularly horrible 16 Mar. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. St John’s Canton. violations of the Christian principles of care, respect and 17 Mar. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Millennium Centre. mutuality in relationships. But women from all walks of life can 24 Mar. 7.30pm. Opera Mint. Dinas Powys Parish Hall. suffer abuse, and churches need to be equipped – pastorally, 20 Apr. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Gerard Brooks. Dewi Sant. practically and theologically – to take the issue seriously and WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and offer women the support they need. Organised by MIND newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the Cymru, Mothers’ Union Cymru and St Michael’s College, this sidesmen if you are new with us. event is open to all; there will be plenty of time for questions, discussion and information-sharing; it’s free of charge CONTACT NUMBERS . (booking not required) and ends with tea and cakes. Main Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. speakers are Natalie Collins of Restored, an international Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Christian alliance working to end violence against women; Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person and Hannah Austin, Policy and Campaigns Officer from who is in hospital. Welsh Women’s Aid. Supported by the Welsh Government. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou;! Weekly Newsletter No.1867 Sunday, 11 th March, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 210, 41, Cross of Jesus, Anthem: The Heavens Are Telling (Haydn) , Jesus is Lord . Settings: Nicholson in G, Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Hide not thou thy face (Farrant) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 11, 12 . Hymns: Go Down Moses, Anthem: Sicut Cervus (Palestrina) , 293 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Exodus 5,1 - 6,1 . Philippians 3,4b-14 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and Archbishop Paul Kwong and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Myanmar and Thailand . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Pendoylan with Welsh St Donats, Rev Edwin Counsell and Readers Peter Atkins and Geoff Lunn, and for Pendoylan Church in Wales Primary School and Headteacher Lyn Murray . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Arthur Broughton and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Kenneth Stanley Griffiths, Cecil Martin and Iris Roberts , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Npoebz PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday of this week. 23ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. LADIES CIRCLE meets on Tuesday , 7.15 for 7.30pm. Our speaker is Andrea Davies from the Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Society for the Welfare of Horses and Ponies, which 24ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. is one of our charities for this year. All welcome. 7.15 pm Ladies Circle. Roath Church House. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on 25ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Thursday of this week at 9pm. Compline is a 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic “hours”, sung by candlelight. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. LENT LUNCHES each Friday 12pm-2pm. 26ui 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. Soup, bread and cheese, and discussion 7.30 pm Choir Practice. over lunch – all proceeds will be g oing 9.00 pm COMPLINE . towards the Paradise Run. This week will Gsjebz 12.00 pm Lent Lunch. 87 Llanedeyrn Rd. be at Chris Webb’s, 87 Llanedeyrn Road. 27ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Do come and join us. 7.30 pm Welsh Camerata Music for Lent. St John’s, Canton. 100 CLUB DRAW (postponed last week) will take p lace in the vestry Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Roath Mill Geophysical Survey. after the Eucharist this morning. 28ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 6.15 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir. Wales Millennium Centre Glanfa Stage. 7.30 pm Traditional St Patrick’s Night. St Peter’s Hall. 7.30 pm Welsh Camerata Music for Lent. St Mary’s Priory Church, Monmouth. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Mothering Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Exodus 2: 1-10; 2 Corinthians 1: 3-7; Luke 2: 33-35. MEGAN would like to thank all her friends throughout the parish for all the cards, gifts and flowers she received on her 96 th birthday. She misses church very much but as things stand at the moment it is impossible. Thank you also for the concern shown for Ken. At the moment he is unable to do anything for himself. Again many thanks for everything. LENT COURSE . Each Sunday evening in Roath Church House, Room 2, 7.45-9pm. The theme this year is “ All you need is love ”; this week’s topic is “The Samaritan Woman at the Well”. Information from Gill Day (20-495496. THE WELSH CAMERATA present “Music for Lent” at St John’s, Canton on Friday at 7.30pm, and at St Mary’s Priory Church, Monmouth on Saturday at 7.30pm. Music by Buxtehude & Charpentier. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ROATH MILL PROJECT: GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY on Saturday. Cardiff Archaeological Society & GeoArch will carry out a comprehensive geophysical survey of the site of Roath Mill Gardens (opposite St Edward’s) to see if there are any remains of the old mill below ground. The site is shown on 19th-century maps but almost no trace is left above ground. The mill is mentioned as early as 1107, the very first mention of the place-name 'Roath'. The final mill building was demolished in 1897 after a working period of almost 800 years. Anyone interested is welcome to visit during the survey. Members of the Society will be there to answer questions and show people around. The survey will start at 9 am and take about 6 to 7 hours. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 19 March, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James [email protected] for details. COFFEE CONCERTS . The fifth concert in our monthly series, on Sat 24 March, is given by Gwenno Roberts (violin). New West Window created by St Edward’s Sunday School OPERA MINT presents a Gala Concert of Opera Scenes at Dinas Powys Community Parish Hall on Sat CONGRATULATIONS to St Edward’s Sunday School 24 March at 7.30pm. Tickets £10. (07795-322-602. children and teachers for their magnificent effort in creating a beautiful window for the schoolroom. CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Passion Sunday, 25 ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “The March, at 7pm, with music by Tomás Luis da Vittoria. Heavens Are Telling” from the oratorio “Creation” by Josef Haydn (1732-1809). The Introit at Evensong is ST ANNE’S PALM SUNDAY DINNER 1 Apr, 12.30 for “Hide not thou thy face from us O Lord” by Richard 12.45pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Roast Beef Sunday Dinner, Farrant (d.1581) and the anthem is “Sicut Cervus” by dessert, tea/coffee £7. Raffle. Contact Jean Gough Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (1525-1594). (20-639233 or Joan Gough (20-307256. MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St Edward’s FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 27 Feb - 11 March. There is Choir and Orchestra in the context of a Devotional a stall at the back of St Edward’s with tea, coffee, dried Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. goods etc for people to buy. STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Holy Tomkins Fifth Service. Anthem: Jehova, quam multi sunt Saturday (7 Apr) at 11am. Anyone who knows the work (Purcell). (or can sight-sing it) will be welcome to join us. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Andrew’s & St. Teilo’s, Woodville FOR YOUR DIARY . Road, today at 7pm. 15 Mar. 9pm. Compline. 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University. 31 Mar. 5.30pm. Concert: Pupils of Esther Walker. "The Future of Christian Theology" by Professor David 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). Ford (Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). Cambridge) on Thursday at 7pm. Admission free. MUSIC DIARY . SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at 24 Mar. 7.30pm. Opera Mint. Dinas Powys Parish Hall. St Edward’s) give a free concert at Wales Millennium 31 Mar. 7.30pm. Karl Jenkins Evening. Eglwys Dewi Sant. Centre Glanfa Stage on Saturday at 6.15pm. 20 Apr. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Gerard Brooks. Dewi Sant. 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. TRADITIONAL ST PATRICK’S NIGHT at St Peter’s Hall 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. on Saturday, 7.30pm - late. Irish music from Gaeltacht ; 18 May. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Carleton Etherington. Dewi Sant Irish fayre (boiled ham and colcannon). Admission by SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . St Margaret’s or St Anne’s ticket only, from Paul (07740-486-406. Scouts would be pleased to receive vouchers, which can be used for equipment. An envelope is at the back of the church. QUIET DAY FOR LENT at Llangasty Retreat House (Brecon) WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors on Mon 19 March (coffee 10am, commence 10.30am). “Jonah, the reluctant prophet” led by Rev Janet Russell. The and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of day offers an enjoyable opportunity to reflect on our own the sidesmen if you are new with us. journeys into faith and to think about how and why we share CONTACT NUMBERS . God’s love with others. Cost £27.50. [email protected] Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. (01874-658-250. Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT “Freedom who is in hospital. From Fear: How the Church can respond to domestic To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to abuse” at St John’s (town) on Mon 19 March, 2-5pm. [email protected]

Npuifsjoh!Tvoebz! Weekly Newsletter No.1868 Sunday, 18th March, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 296, 442, 153(MP), Anthem: Old Irish Blessing (Agay) , 215(MP) . Settings: Nicholson in G, Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Lord we beseech thee (Batten) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 107, vv 1-9. Hymns: 94, Anthem: Miserere (Allegri) , 185 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in B flat. Readings: Numbers 21, 4-9. Ephesians 2, 1-10 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean and Archbishop Ian Gerald James Ernest and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Archbishop Rowan as he prepares to step down as Archbishop of Canterbury and return to academic life as Master of Magdalene College. We pray for the children and their teachers who died or were injured in the coach crash in Switzerland . In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Bargoed and Deri with Brithdir, Rev Andrew Bookless and Readers Helen Bookless, John Fenton and Susan Pratten . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Arthur Broughton and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rev Frank Begley , who was curate at St Edward’s, whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, and UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 2.00 pm International Women’s Day Event. St John’s (town). PARISH OFFICE is closed on 2:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Wednesday of this week. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Church House. Church House. New members v ery welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- 31ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. [email protected] for details. 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. CHOIR PRACTICE with Cathays Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Consort in church at 4.30pm today. 32tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 7.15 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir Free Concert. Royal Glamorgan Hospital. 7.30 pm Paradise Run. LENT COURSE . Each Sunday evening in Roath Church House, Room 2, 7.45- Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 9pm. The theme this year is “ All you need is love ”, an d this week’s topic is 33oe 7.30 pm Choir Practice. “Hope and Perseverance”. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. CURRY AND QUIZ NIGHT in Prebendal Gsjebz 12.00 pm Lent Lunch. 56 Colchester Ave. House on Friday at 7pm, in aid of the 34se 7.00 pm Curry & Quiz Night. Prebendal House. Llandaff Cathedral Choir Association. 7.30 pm Evening with John Archer. Lisvane Memorial Hall. Tickets £10 (children £5) only in advance from [email protected] Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Ecumenical Celebration of the Life of Oscar Romero. Corpus Christie High School. 35ui 11.00 am Coffee Concert : Gweno Roberts (violin) and David Rhodes (piano). St Edward’s. 7.30 pm Opera Mint Gala Concert. Dinas Powys Community Parish Hall. 7.30 pm Fauré’s Requiem (Cavatina). Trinity Methodist Church, Penarth. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Passion Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, followed by the Congregational Meeting , and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Hebrews 5: 5-10; John 12: 20-33. LENT LUNCHES will be held each Friday 12pm-2pm. Soup, bread CLOCKS GO and cheese, and discussion over lunch – all proceeds will be going FORWARD towards the Paradise Run. This week will be at Mal & Steve next weekend. Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Ave . Do come and join us. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ANNUAL ELECTIONS . Nomination papers for officers COFFEE CONCERT . The fifth concert in our monthly and members of the Parochial Church Council and series takes place this Saturday at 11am, and is given Church Committees are in church today. Please would by Gweno Roberts (violin) and David Rhodes (piano). you ensure that your name appears on the Electoral Roll Programme includes Bach, Hess, Monti and Gluck. £2 of the Parish if you wish to stand. Those who wish to inc. refreshments. stand for People’s Warden, or people’s sub-warden OUR THANKS to those who met yesterday to make the must be between the ages of 18 and 75. They also must posies for Mothering Sunday. have a current Criminal Records Bureau check. For Electoral Roll enquiries please check with Tricia Osman, PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of Parish Secretary and for C.R.B. Forms please see the sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, Vicar. Many thanks to all who are willing to take on these ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread important positions in the running of our Parish. and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of Stewart Lisk. crisps, biscuits or cakes, and warm socks, hats, scarves and gloves. A big thank you to everyone for their CONGREGATIONAL MEETING will be held after the continued support. Items can be given to Kathie Mayer Eucharist next Sunday morning. Everyone who is on the (20-495769 or left at Church House either at Parish Electoral Roll is eligible to attend these meetings Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before the and vote on any of the positions that are for election. we leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of This is an important meeting: please make every effort help please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. to attend. The Annual Vestry Meeting will take place on Mon 23 Apr at 7.30pm at Roath Church House, at which AN EVENING WITH JOHN ARCHER (comedian & magician) the Annual Report and Accounts will be presented. in aid of “Thomas Wish to Walk” appeal organized by Lisvane Baptist Church at Lisvane Memorial Hall on Friday at 7.30pm. FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT . As a result of the stall at St Thomas is an 8 year old boy from Rhiwbina who suffers from Edward’s, £100 worth of Fairtrade items were sold. cerebral palsy. Tickets £10 (20-752895. There are still some items left on the stall. AN ECUMENICAL SERVICE AND CELEBRATION of the Life ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Old Irish of Oscar Romero on Saturday, 9.30am-2pm at Corpus Christie High School, Ty Draw Rd, Lisvane. An opportunity to Blessing” by Denes Agay (1911-2007). The Introit at learn more about the Life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Evensong is “Lord, we beseech thee” by Adrian Batten Salvador, and to join fellow Christians in worship, prayer, and (1591-1637?) and the anthem is “Miserere” by Gregorio discussions, including CAFOD's 'Live Simply'. Please bring a Allegri (1582-1652). packed lunch to share. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: OPERA MINT presents a Gala Concert of Opera Stanford in A. Anthem: Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell). Scenes at Dinas Powys Community Parish Hall on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVENT “Freedom From Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £10. (07795-322-602. Fear: How the Church can respond to domestic abuse” at St CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany John’s (town) on Monday, 2-5pm. There will be plenty of time Choral Evensong at St Edward’s next Sunday at 7pm. for questions, discussion and information-sharing; it’s free of charge (booking not required) and ends with tea and cakes. EASTER CAROL SERVICE at 7pm on Easter Day. DR JAMES FLEMING LECTURE . An illustrated ST ANNE’S PALM SUNDAY DINNER 1 Apr, 12.30 for presentation on recent discoveries relating to the trials 12.45pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Roast Beef Sunday Dinner, and crucifixion of Jesus, on Tuesday, 10.15am-1.145pm dessert, tea/coffee £7. Raffle. Contact Jean Gough (20- 639233 or Joan Gough (20-307256. at The Chapter House, Bristol Cathedral. Book at walkwherejesuswalked.com or (0207-299-1101. ST EDWARD’S QRCODE . This is a Quick Response code (like a barcode). THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University. "Evolution and how the Universe became self-aware: what are It takes a mobile phone to our website. the theological consequences?" by Professor Simon Conway FOR YOUR DIARY . Morris (Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the 25 Mar. 7pm. Choral Evensong: Cathays Consort. Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge) 31 Mar. 5.30pm. Concert: Pupils of Esther Walker. on Tuesday at 7pm. Admission free. 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). SOUTH EAST WALES ORGANISTS’ ASSOCIATION invite 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). you to a Come and Play Evening at St John the Baptist 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). Church in Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, on Tuesday from 7.30pm, marking 125 years since the organ was transferred MUSIC DIARY . from St Andrew’s (now Dewi Sant). 25 Mar. 3pm. Cardiff University Choir. St David’s Hall. 31 Mar. 7pm. Messiah (Cantemus Choir). RWCMD. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at 31 Mar. 7.30pm. Karl Jenkins Evening. Eglwys Dewi Sant. St Edward’s) give a free concert in the foyer of the Royal 31 Mar. 7.30pm. Ardwyn Singers. Llandaff Cathedral. Glamorgan Hospital on Wednesday at 7.15pm, part of WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and the Welsh Government’s “Healthy Sounds” scheme. newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St Edward’s sidesmen if you are new with us. Choir and Orchestra in the context of a Devotional CONTACT NUMBERS . Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an Parish Office (((20-484808. [email protected] Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Holy who is in hospital. Saturday (7 Apr) at 11am. Anyone who knows the work To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to (or can sight-sing it) will be welcome to join us. [email protected]

Qbttjpo!Tvoebz! Weekly Newsletter No.1869 Sunday, 25 th March, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 108, 111, 214, Anthem: So thou liftest thy divine petition (Stainer) , 175(MP) . Settings: Nicholson in G, Thomas Mass (David Thorne). The Eucharist will be followed by the Congregational Meeting . 7.00 pm Choral Evensong accompanied by Cathays Consort of Viols. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: O Vos Omnes (Vittoria) . Preces & Responses: William Smith of Durham. Psalm 34 . Hymns: 106, Anthem: Populi Meus (Vittoria) , 105 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Quarti Toni (Vittoria). Readings: Exodus 7, 8-24 . Romans 5, 12-21 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Ireland and Archbishop Alan Edwin Thomas Harper and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for China, Hong Kong and Macao . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for Cynon Valley Deanery and Area Dean Bernard Jones, and St John Baptist Church in Wales School, Headteacher Susan Mitchell and her staff . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Arthur Broughton and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Mon day UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 3.30 pm Poetry Readings: Micheal O’Siadhail. St Michael’s College. 37ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CHOIR PRACTICE with Cathays 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Consort in church at 4.30pm today. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Poetry Readings: Micheal O’Siadhail. South Wales Baptist College. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed 38ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. on Monday of this week. 7.00 pm Poetry Readings: Micheal O’Siadhail. Swansea University. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. CONGRATULATIONS to David Mayer on 39ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. obtaining a distinction in his MSc in Statistics. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Soloists Concert . 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing and Lenten Address. Llandaff Cathedral. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. ARCHBISHOP ROWAN will give a keynote 3:ui 7.00 pm Taizé Service. St Mary of the Angels, Canton. address to the National Assembly ‘What 7.30 pm Choir Practice. turns society into a comm unity?’ at the Pierhead Building on Monday at 1pm. Gsjebz 12.00 pm Lent Lunch. 56 Colchester Ave. MUSICAL MEDITATION at St Martin’s 41ui 7.30 pm Ignite: Hope for Wales. All Nations Church. next Sunday at 4.30pm: J.S. Bach, Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Variations on Sei gegrüset, Jesu 42tu 5.30 pm Concert: Pupils of Esther Walker. St Edward’s. (728); Pergolesi, Stabat Mater Dolorosa. 7.00 pm Cantemus Choir: Handel’s Messiah. RWCMD. 7.30 pm Ardwyn Singers: Nelson Mass. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm Philharmonic Choir: Karl Jenkins Evening. Eglwys Dewi Sant. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Palm Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 50: 4-9a; Philippians 2: 5-11; Mark 15: 1-39. AN INVITATION TO POETRY READINGS with leading Irish poet, Micheal O’Siadhail on Monday, 3.30pm at St Michael’s College, and 7.30pm at South Wales Baptist College, Richmond Rd. Micheal O’Siadhail is on a tour of Britain reading from his recent book Tongues. Admission free. Refreshments provided. He will be available afterwards to sign copies of his books. He will also give an Evening of Poetry at Swansea University on Tuesday at 7pm. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CONGREGATIONAL MEETING will be held after the CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany Eucharist today. Everyone who is on the Parish Electoral Choral Evensong at St Edward’s today at 7pm, with Roll is eligible to attend the meeting and vote on any of music by Tomás Luis da Vittoria: Magnificat and Nunc the positions that are for election. This is an important Dimittis (Quarti Toni), O Vos Omnes (part of the meeting: please stay to take part. Nomination papers for Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday) and the officers and members of the Parochial Church Council setting of the Improperia (Reproaches) “Popule Meus” and Church Committees are still available. Please from the Pontificale of Prudentius (846-61) – three ensure that your name appears on the Electoral Roll of couplets sung antiphonally, with alternate Greek and the Parish if you wish to stand. Those who wish to stand Latin responses, often used on Good Friday afternoon. for People’s Warden, or people’s sub-warden must be between the ages of 18 and 75. They also must have a TAIZÉ SERVICE of Reflective Prayer & Praise at St current Criminal Records Bureau check. For Electoral Peter’s next Sunday at 7pm. Roll enquiries please check with Tricia Osman, Parish LAST SUPPER STORYTELLING DAY at Llangasty Secretary and for C.R.B. Forms please see the Vicar. Retreat House (Brecon) on Mon 2 Apr (coffee 10am, Many thanks to all who are willing to take on these commence 10.30am). Led by Rev Eva McIntyre. Cost important positions in the running of our Parish. The £27.50. (01874-658250. [email protected] Annual Vestry Meeting will take place on Mon 23 Apr at 7.30pm at Roath Church House, at which the Annual MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St Edward’s Report and Accounts will be presented. Choir and Orchestra in the context of a Devotional Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. ONE HUNDRED CLUB . The “Big Draw” takes place STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as an next week, with a top prize of £100 and five prizes of extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir on Holy £20. A total of £750 will be donated to Church Funds. It Saturday (7 Apr) at 11am. Anyone who knows the work is time to join for 2012-13: £12 now, or by installments. (or can sight-sing it) will be welcome to join us. Cheques/cash to Cynthia, (payable to Mrs C. Williams at Principality Building Society) please. If you are not ROATH CHURCH HOUSE LUNCH CLUB . There will be currently a member, please consider joining – have a no lunch on Wed 11 Apr due to hall maintenance. word with Cynthia. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on ANTHEM at the Eucharist is the duet “So thou liftest thy Mon 16 Apr, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. divine petition” from the sacred cantata “Crucifixion” by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901). COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 19 April. CONCERT by Cardiff University Choir and Symphony COFFEE CONCERT . Our thanks to Gweno Roberts and Orchestra at St David’s Hall today at 3pm includes David Rhodes for an excellent concert yesterday. The Mozart’s Kyrie in D Minor (K341). Tickets £10. sixth concert in our monthly series takes place on Sat 28 Apr at 11am. £2 including refreshments. LENT COURSE . Each Sunday evening in Roath Church House, Room 2, 7.45-9pm. The theme this year is “ All CHORAL WORKSHOP by The Sixteen at the Royal you need is love ”, and this week’s topic is “Hating and Welsh College of Music & Drama on Sat 5 May, 12- Loving”. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. 4pm. The four hour workshop will focus on the music of Brumel, Lassus and Josquin. Places are £25 each inc. TAIZÉ SERVICE . A Lenten Service of Reflection at St Mary of refreshments and sheet music. Contact Cate Hall the Angels, Kings Road, Canton, featuring music of the Taize Community with St Mary's Music Group, Thursday at 7pm. (020-7936-3420 or [email protected] LENT LUNCHES will be held each Friday 12pm-2pm. Soup, FOR YOUR DIARY . bread & cheese, & discussion over lunch – all proceeds will 6 Apr. 7.30pm. Mozart’s Requiem (Choir & Orchestra). be going towards the Paradise Run. This week will be at Mal 7 Apr. 11am. Stainer’s Crucifixion (Choir). & Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Ave . Do come & join us. NETWORK . The ecumenical newsletter for Easter is IGNITE EVENT : “Hope for Wales” on Friday, 7.30- available in church today. There are also some to deliver 9.30pm at All Nations Church, Sachville Ave. to local streets. If you can help, please take a pack. CANTEMUS CHOIR give a chamber choir performance EARTH HOUR 2012 : Sat 31 March at 8.30pm. Last year of Handel’s Messiah, with period instrument orchestra more than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries Bristol Ensemble Baroque Band, on Saturday at 7pm at worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011, the Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall in the RWCMD. Tickets sending a powerful message for action on climate £18 and £20 (0787-027-6427. change. Sign up at www.earthhour.org CARDIFF ARDWYN SINGERS present music by Haydn WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm: Nelson newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the Mass, Te Deum, Trumpet Concerto. Tickets £12/£10. sidesmen if you are new with us. KARL JENKINS EVENING presented by Cardiff Philharmonic CONTACT NUMBERS . Choir at Egwlys Dewi Sant, St Andrew’s Crescent on Saturday Rev Stewart Lisk: at 7.30pm, in aid of Eglwys Dewi Sant roof fund. Tickets £8 (((20-484808/20-487854. from choir members of parishioners of the church. Parish Office (((20-484808, STAINER'S CRUCIFIXION performed by the combined choirs [email protected] of the Rectorial Benefice of Canton at St Catherine's, Kings Please let the clergy know Road, Canton, next Sunday at 6pm. Retiring Collection in aid of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. of the St Catherine's Organ Restoration Fund. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Qbmn!Tvoebz! Weekly Newsletter No.1870 Sunday, 1st April, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Blessing of Palms and Procession through the park. Hymns: 597, 99, Were you there?, Anthem: Thou that destroyest the temple (Peace) , Hosanna! Settings: Nicholson, Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O Saviour of the World (Goss) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 69, vv 1-18 . Hymns: 96, Anthem: Christus Factus Est (Bruckner) , 102 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tallis Short Evening Service. Readings: Isaiah 5, 1-7. Mark 12, 1-12 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Jerusalem in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and Bishop Suheil Dawani and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Hirwaun, Rev Bernard Jones and Readers Cerys Hartley, Cledwyn Morgan, Delia Powell and Mark Williamson-Price . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Arthur Broughton and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church , also William James Doe, Robert Henry Woolgar Riddett, Vernon Trevor Evans and William John Coleman , whose anniversaries occur at this time. CHOIR PRACTICE for Stainer’s UIJT!XFFL! Crucifixion in church at 5pm today. Npoebz 10.00 am Last Supper Storytelling. Llangasty Retreat House. 3oe 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm, and 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist . St Margaret’s. on Good Friday at 6.45pm. Morning Prayer Good Friday at 9am. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 4se 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist . St Anne’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed this week on Good Friday. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. 5ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. HOT CROSS BUNS at Heather & Norman’s Good 7.30 pm HOLY EUCHARIST . St Edward’s. Friday morning from 10.30am. Everyone is invited. Uivstebz Maundy Thursday MOZART’S REQUIEM will be performed by St 6ui 11.00 am Chrism Eucharist. Cathedral. Edward’s Choir and Orchestra in the context of 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. a Devotional Service on Good Friday at 7.30pm. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar . St Edward’s. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar. St Margaret’s. 8.00 pm Holy Eucharist, Stripping of the Altar followed by Vigil. St Anne’s. 8.00 pm Choir Practice. STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be performed as 11.30 pm Tenebrae. Llandaff Cathedral. an extra “Coffee Concert” by St Edward’s Choir at 11am on Saturday . Anyone who knows the Gsjebz Good Friday work (or can sight-sing it) will be welcome to 7ui 9.00 am Morning Prayer. sing – everyone is invited to listen, sing the 9.30 am Liturgy & Ante-communion . St. Anne’s. hymns and join us for coffee afterwards. 10.30 am Hot Cross Buns. 21 Blenheim Rd. 12.00 pm Three Hour Devotion . St Margaret’s. EASTER CAROL SERVICE . Music and readings 4.00 pm Stations of the Cross . St Anne’s. for Easter on Easter Day at 7pm in St Edward’s 5.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. in place of Choral Evensong. Please speak to 6.45 pm Evening Prayer. Alan if you would likeLUNCH to read CLUB one of. theThere Lessons. will be 7.30 pm Devotional Service: Mozart’s Requiem . St Edward’s. no lunch at Roath Church House on Wed 11 Apr due to Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Stainer’s Crucifixion . hall maintenance. 8ui 7.30 pm Easter Vigil & First Communion of Easter . St Margaret’s. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Easter Day . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and the Service of Lessons and Carols for Easter will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 25: 6-9; Acts 10: 34-43; Mark 16: 1-8. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PALM SUNDAY . Our Service this morning begins with NORMAN DOE has been appointed as Chancellor of the Blessing of the Palms and a Procession of Witness the Diocese of Bangor and will be installed at Bangor through the park (weather permitting). After the Service Cathedral, in the stall of the cancellarius diocesis , later the “Big Draw” for the 100 Club takes place today, with a this year. top prize of £100 and five prizes of £20. A total of £750 LADIES CIRCLE meets on Tue 10 Apr, 7.15 for 7.30pm will be donated to Church Funds. It is time to join for in room 2, Roath Church House. Our speaker is ‘The 2012-13: £12 now, or by installments. Cheques/cash to Knitting Man’. Do come and join us for what promises to Cynthia, (payable to Mrs C. Williams at Principality be a very enjoyable evening. We will have a Sales Table Building Society) please. If you are not currently a for Books, CDs, DVDs and Videos. Details from Gill Day member, please consider joining – have a word with (20-495496. Cynthia. CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service Place. “Luke’s New World” by Rev Dr Tom Arthur. Four this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, and the 100 sessions, Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting 16 Apr. Club draw. Fee: £20. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft Mon 16 Apr, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief members very welcome – assistance given to learners. in East Africa. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Thou that destroyest the temple” from the sacred cantata COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 19 April. “Darkness and Dawn” by Fred W. Peace. The Introit at THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at Evensong is “O Saviour of the World” (the Collect for the St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s Visitation of the Sick) by John Goss (1800-1880) and the Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was anthem is the Gradual “Christus Factus Est” by Anton glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 Joseph Bruckner (1824-96). June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are PROCESSION IN TOWN . Cardiff Cytûn Palm Sunday invited to join us. Procession of Witness led by a donkey at 3pm from ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . Windsor Place to St John’s Church. 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: Soriano “primi toni” with solemn Litany sung in FOR YOUR DIARY . procession. Anthem: Lamentations (part 1) Tallis . 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). MUSICAL MEDITATION at St Martin’s today at 4.30pm: MUSIC DIARY . 13 Apr. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Jeffrey Howard. St John’s. J.S. Bach, Variations on Sei gegrüset, Jesu 14 Apr. 6pm. RSCM Voices Choral Evensong. Cathedral. (728); Pergolesi, Stabat Mater Dolorosa. 20 Apr. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Gerard Brooks. Dewi Sant. STAINER'S CRUCIFIXION performed by the combined 20 Apr. 8pm. Brahms Requiem (Polyphonic). RWCMD. choirs of the Rectorial Benefice of Canton at St 26 Apr. 7.30pm. SW Clarinet Choir. Ewenny Priory. 28 Apr. 7.30pm. Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Cathedral. Catherine's, Kings Road, Canton, today at 6pm. Retiring 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. Collection in aid of the St Catherine's Organ Restoration 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. Fund. 18 May. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Carleton Etherington. Dewi Sant TAIZÉ SERVICE of Reflective Prayer & Praise at St LENT LUNCHES . Thank you to everyone who Peter’s today at 7pm. supported our lunches; they were a great success this year and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who came. LENT COURSE this evening in Roath Church House, We will let you know next week how much we raised for Room 2, 7.45-9pm. The theme this year is “ All you the Paradise Run. need is love ”, and this week’s topic is “Christ is Risen”. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . St Margaret’s or St Anne’s Scouts would be pleased to receive vouchers, which can LAST SUPPER STORYTELLING DAY at Llangasty be used for equipment. There is an envelope at the back Retreat House (Brecon) on Monday (coffee 10am, of the church. commence 10.30am). Led by Rev Eva McIntyre, who WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors has been telling stories to spellbound congregations in and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Worcester Diocese with powerful results. She takes the sidesmen if you are new with us. well-known biblical characters and the stories recorded about them, and explores them from a very human CONTACT NUMBERS . angle. The insight gained directly inspires and Rev Stewart Lisk: challenges our own faith and life as Christians. Cost (((20-484808/20-487854. £27.50. (01874-658250. [email protected] Parish Office (((20-484808, [email protected] ROATH CHURCH HOUSE MAIN HALL will be closed Please let the clergy know between Good Friday and Fri 13 Apr while the floor is of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. repaired and re-polished. Our apologies for any To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email inconvenience. to [email protected]

Fbtufs!Ebz Weekly Newsletter No.1871 Sunday, 8th April, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 238(MP), 132, 94(MP), Anthem: Alleluia Christ is Risen (Simper) , 134 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols for Easter. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 134, 128, 140, 137, 135 . Anthems: All in the April Evening (Roberton) , There is a green hill (Gounod) They have taken away my Lord (Stainer) , O Death where is thy sting? (Handel) , Haec Dies (Byrd) , Behold the Lamb of God (Handel) , And behold I am alive for evermore (Simper) , A Clare Benediction (Rutter). In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray today for East Timor, Indonesia and Philippines . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil, St David and Abercanaid, Rev Martyn Davies, Rev David Morris and Reader K. Lewis. We pray for our Church Wardens, Sub-wardens and PCC Members , those who are about to relinquish office, and those who have been newly elected. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maureen Hanks . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Arthur Broughton , who died this week, also Anthony Barton Goble , whose anniversary occurs at this time. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday and Friday at 6pm this week. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed this week on 21ui 7.15 pm Ladies Circle. Room 2, Roath Church House. Monday and Tuesday, and will close at noon on Wednesday. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. 22ui 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. NO PARISH SURGERY this week. Surgery will resume on Mon 30 Apr. Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Jeffrey Howard. St John’s (town). 24ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. NO ORCHESTRA OR CHOIR PRACTICE this week. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 25ui 6.00 pm Choral Evensong with the RSCM Voices (Midlands & South West). Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Second Sunday of Easter, or Low Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Exodus 14: 10-31, 15: 20,21; Acts 4: 32-35; John 20: 19-31. THE CLERGY wish everyone a holy, peaceful and HOLY EUCHARIST AT ST ANNE’S normally held on happy Eastertide. a Tuesday evening, is cancelled for this week and the following week (15 th April,). ONE HUNDRED CLUB . A special thank-you to Cynthia for organizing this. A total of £750 was LADIES CIRCLE meets on Tuesday, 7.15 for 7.30pm donated to Church Funds from the 2011-2012 Club. It in room 2, Roath Church House. Our speaker is ‘The is time to join for 2012-13: £12 now, or by installments. Knitting Man’. Do come and join us for what promises Cheques/cash to Cynthia, (payable to Mrs C. Williams to be a very enjoyable evening. We will have a Sales at Principality Building Society) please. If you are not Table for Books, CDs, DVDs and Videos. Details from currently a member, please consider joining – have a Gill Day (20-495496. word with Cynthia. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE LUNCH CLUB . There will EASTER CAROL SERVICE . Music and readings for be no lunch on Wednesday this week due to hall Easter today at 7pm in St Edward’s in place of Choral maintenance. Evensong. Please speak to Alan if you would like to ORGAN CONCERT by Jeffrey Howard (Cardiff) on read one of the Lessons. Friday, 1.15pm at St John’s (town). Entrance free. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE MAIN HALL is closed until Retiring collection. Friday this week while the floor is repaired and re- polished. Our apologies for any inconvenience. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP BARRY’S EASTER MESSAGE . PARISH ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING is the Annual The Resurrection is, if you like, God’s ‘Yes’ to Jesus’ General Meeting of our Parish, open to all who attend way of life. Had God raised either Herod or Pilate, it our churches. It takes place on Mon 23 Apr. The current would have been ratification of human monstrosity. The PCC will meet at 7pm to accept the Parish Report and fact that He raised Jesus ratified, and ratifies, the values Accounts. The Vestry follows that meeting. The Annual of Jesus, the values of forgiveness and mercy, of Vestry is an important Parish meeting, at which the compassion of joy and service. Jesus’ acceptance and Election of the People’s Warden and sub wardens are graciousness in inviting outcasts to share table with Him formalised, along with the PCC members and church is echoed in His parables and sayings – the Prodigal is committee members for the coming year 2012-3. feasted on his return, the Lost Sheep is borne off in the arms of the Shepherd and all manner of people are DISCUSSION GROUP . The Lent Course was very forgiven. No matter how far people had fallen into interesting, but we were disappointed only between 6-8 darkness, Jesus invited them to fellowship. No-one, no people attended each week. Our next meeting will be matter how badly they have behaved is beyond the on Sun 6 May at 7.45pm when the topic for discussion reaches of His love. Jesus is the guarantee that love is will be The Sacred Tent. We do hope more people will stronger than death and that the God who made the join us for what are very lively and interesting world has not abandoned it, but taken on its pain and discussions, which will be held monthly until we break shame and broken through to a new creation. for the summer. If we are in Christ Jesus, baptised into Him and raised to THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at new life in Him, then the implications of that are that we St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s too should live out those values of love, forgiveness and Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was compassion in our relationships with one another. glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 We, who are in Christ, are agents of His kingdom, not June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are just its beneficiaries. So we have to be concerned about, invited to join us. and do something about issues of hunger, war, violence and deprivation – things that mar God’s image and FOR YOUR DIARY . disfigure His world. For how else can we witness to the 19 Apr. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. fact that Jesus is alive and that His values are the only 28 Apr. 11am. Coffee Concert. ones in the end that count. We can only do so by 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). displaying them in our own lives and by so committing MUSIC DIARY . ourselves to His cause, enable His kingdom to come on 20 Apr. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Andrew Kirk. Dewi Sant. earth as it is in Heaven. 20 Apr. 8pm. Brahms Requiem (Polyphonic). RWCMD. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back 26 Apr. 7.30pm. SW Clarinet Choir. Ewenny Priory. 27 Apr. 7pm. Cancer Research Concert. BBC Hoddinott Hall. of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft 28 Apr. 7.30pm. Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Cathedral. produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief 28 Apr. 7.30pm. Cambrensis. Stanwell Rd Baptist Church. in East Africa. 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. SOLEMN EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: 5 May. 12-4pm. Choral Workshop (The Sixteen). RWCMD. Dyson in D. Anthem: Hallelujah! (Handel). 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. 18 May. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Carleton Etherington. Dewi Sant CHORAL EVENSONG will be sung by RSCM Voices OUR THANKS to the Choir and Orchestra for their (Midlands & South West) at Llandaff Cathedral on rendering of Mozart’s Requiem on Good Friday, and to Saturday at 6pm. all who took part in Stainer’s Crucifixion on Saturday. CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. “Luke’s New World” by Rev Dr Tom Arthur. Four sessions, LENT LUNCHES . Thank you to everyone who support-ed our Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting 16 Apr. Fee: £20. lunches; they were very successful this year attended by between 8 -16 people each week who enjoyed beautiful soup PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on and good company. We raised £400 which will go to providing Mon 16 Apr, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New food for the Paradise Run over the next year. Our grateful members very welcome – assistance given to learners. thanks to the hosts and the soup makers. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . St Margaret’s or St Anne’s Scouts would be pleased to receive vouchers. There's COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 19 April. an envelope at the back of the church. ICON WRITING WEEKEND at St Michael’s College, 20- WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors 22 Apr. The event us led by Helen McIldowie-Jenkins and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of www.elenisicons.co.uk To attend or make an enquiry the sidesmen if you are new with us. please contact Sheryl Williams-Gascoigne (20-838070 email: [email protected] CONTACT NUMBERS . Rev Stewart Lisk: CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR present Brahms (20-484808/20-487854. German Requiem and Schubert’s Gott ist mein Hirt (( Parish Office (20-484808, (Psalm 23) on Fri 20 Apr at 8pm at Dora Stoutzker Hall, (( [email protected] Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Please let the clergy know COFFEE CONCERT . The sixth concert in our monthly of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. series takes place on Sat 28 Apr at 11am. £2 inc. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email refreshments. to [email protected]

Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1872 Sunday, 15 th April, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 136, 137, O Thou who didst with love untold, Anthem: I am alpha and omega…And behold I have the keys (Peace) , 140 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O Praise the Lord (Batten) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 143, vv 1-11 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons Short Service. Hymns: 129, Anthem: When it began to dawn…There was a great earthquake (Peace) , 142 . Readings: Isaiah 26, 1-7 & 19 . Luke 24, 1-12 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Anglican Communion in Japan) and Primate Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the Governing Body of the Church in Wales meeting in Llandudno this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llantwit Fardre, Rev Philip Gullidge and Rev Kevin Simpson . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Doreen Brown and Janet Munday , who died recently, also Hilda Winifred Thomas whose anniversary occurs at this time. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. and Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. 27ui 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. Uvftebz!28ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE . We hope the Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. hall will be opening on Monday this week. 29ui 7.30 pm Paradise Run. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. 2:ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James 9.00 pm COMPLINE BY CANDLIGHT . craftylady [email protected] for details. Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Recital: Andrew Kirk. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 31ui 8.00 pm Brahms’ Requiem: Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Dora Stoutzker Hall, RWCMD. Tbuvsebz! 32tu 9.00 am Christian Counsellors Conference. Bethel Baptist Church, Pontyclun. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of Easter, or Low Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Zephaniah 3: 14-20; Acts 3: 12-19; Luke 24: 36b-48. PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of HOLY EUCHARIST AT ST ANNE’S normally held on sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, a Tuesday evening, is cancelled for this week. ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread COMPLINE by candlelight will be sung on Thursday at and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - crisps, biscuits or cakes, and warm socks, hats, the last of the monastic “hours”. scarves and gloves. A big thank you to everyone for their continued support. Items can be given to Kathie ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Friday at Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House either at 1.15pm, to celebrate 125 years of the Father Willis Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before the organ: Andrew Kirk (St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol). we leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of ICON WRITING WEEKEND at St Michael’s College, 20-22 help please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. Apr. The event us led by Helen McIldowie-Jenkins www.elenisicons.co.uk To attend or make an enquiry NO PARISH SURGERY this week. Surgery will please contact Sheryl Williams-Gascoigne (20-838070 resume on Mon 30 Apr. [email protected] Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP ROWAN’S EASTER SERMON suggests that CHRISTIAN AID WEEK is 13-19 May. As usual we need the tide might be turning towards a more positive view of volunteers for the door-to-door collection. Please speak religion from those outside it. He referred to the way in which to Sue Mansell if you are willing to help. various secular commentators “surprisingly float the idea that, without some input from religious thinking, our ludicrous and JANET MUNDAY died last Tuesday, after many years destructive economic habits are more likely to go unchecked”. suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Our thoughts and There was also evidence that young people shared this prayers are with husband Rod and daughter Michelle. positive view, and, “while still statistically deeply unlikely to be Her funeral will be at Park End Church (Rhydypenau churchgoers, don’t have the hostility to faith that one might Crossroads) on Thur 26 Apr at 2pm. expect”. This makes it “about the worst possible moment to downgrade the status and professional excellence of religious COFFEE CONCERT . The sixth concert in our monthly education in secondary schools”. Archbishop Rowan went on series takes place on Sat 28 Apr at 11am. £2 inc. to preach about the action of God: “Perhaps ‘religion’ is more refreshments. useful than the passing generation of gurus thought; but is it true. . . ? We are not told that the story of the empty tomb is a LADIES CIRCLE presents an Evening with Terry beautiful imaginative creation that offers inspiration to all sorts Walton, Radio 2 Allotment Gardener on Sat 5 May at of people; we are not told that the message of Jesus lives on. 7.30pm at Roath Church House. All proceeds to our two We are told that God did something.” He emphasised the charities for 2012 – Vision 21 and the Society for the need to realise the truth of “this compelling vision” rather than Welfare of Horses and Ponies. Admission £6 by ticket only “looking respectfully and wistfully at what it might offer” only, please contact Gill Day for tickets ( (20-495496.) from the outside: “We learn and assimilate its truth by the risk of living it.” He praised networks that fostered “a feeling for the DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 6 May at 7.45pm when other or the enemy that we’d rather not have to develop – the topic for discussion will be The Sacred Tent. We do hope small moments of recognition and kindness”. Archbishop more people will join us for what are very lively and interesting Rowan ended by focusing on the need to speak of God: discussions, which will be monthly until we break for summer. “What matters isn’t our usefulness or niceness or whatever: THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at St it’s God, purposive and active.” Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s FR KEN . Please keep Fr Ken in your prayers. He is Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was glad” currently in the Heath Hospital for tests. with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are invited to join us. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “I am alpha and omega…and behold I have the keys” from the sacred cantata ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . “Darkness and Dawn” by Fred W. Peace. The Introit at 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. Evensong is “O Praise the Lord” by Adrian Batten (1591- 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. 1637?) and the anthem is “When it began to dawn…There was a great earthquake”, also from Darkness and Dawn. FOR YOUR DIARY . 19 Apr. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral 3.30pm today: 23 Apr. Annual Vestry. Roath Church House. Tallis in Dorian Mode. Anthem: Abendlied (Rheinberger). 28 Apr. 11am. Coffee Concert. Visiting choir: Cantores Llandavenses. 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). CACEC BIBLE STUDY GROUP at City URC, Windsor Place. “Luke’s New World” by Rev Dr Tom Arthur. Four sessions, MUSIC DIARY . Mondays 10.30am-12.30pm starting tomorrow. Fee: £20. 26 Apr. 7.30pm. SW Clarinet Choir. Ewenny Priory. 27 Apr. 7pm. Cancer Research Concert. BBC Hoddinott Hall. THE GOVERNING BODY of the Church in Wales meets at 28 Apr. 7.30pm. Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Cathedral. Llandudno on Wed and Thur this week. The ordination of 28 Apr. 7.30pm. Cambrensis. Stanwell Rd Baptist Church. women as bishops, the Anglican Covenant, Welsh language 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. ministry, Fair Trade status and Christian Aid will be among the 4 May. 7.30pm. Cardiff University Chamber Choir. Cathedral. topics discussed. There will be a presentation from guest 5 May. 12-4pm. Choral Workshop (The Sixteen). RWCMD. speaker Loretta Minghella, chief executive of Christian Aid. 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR present Brahms 11 May. 1.15pm. Organ concert: David Ponsford. St John’s. German Requiem and Schubert’s Gott ist mein Hirt 18 May. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Carleton Etherington. Dewi Sant (Psalm 23) on Friday at 8pm at Dora Stoutzker Hall, ATTENDANCE AT CATHEDRAL SERVICES in the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Church of England increased by 30 per cent over the ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELLORS decade 2001-2011. Conference: “Extreme Reactions” (dealing with young LENT BOXES . Thanks to everyone who saved money in people who self harm) with speaker Pauline Andrew at Lent boxes this Lent. The boxes should now be returned Bethel Baptist Church, Pontyclun, on Saturday, 9am- to church as soon as possible. 4.30pm. Fee £30. (0845-1235267 [email protected] WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 23 and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Apr. No need to book. the sidesmen if you are new with us. PARISH ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING is the Annual CONTACT NUMBERS . General Meeting of our Parish, open to all who attend Rev Stewart Lisk: our churches. It takes place on Mon 23 Apr. The current (((20-484808/20-487854. PCC will meet at 7pm to accept the Parish Report and Parish Office (((20-484808, Accounts. The Vestry follows that meeting. The Annual [email protected] Vestry is an important Parish meeting, at which the Please let the clergy know Election of the People’s Warden and sub wardens are of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. formalised, along with the PCC members and church To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email committee members for the coming year 2012-3. to [email protected]

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1873 Sunday, 22 nd April, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk . Preacher: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Hymns: 128, 222, For this purpose, Anthem: O Sons and Daughters (Walford Davies) , Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Give almes of thy goods (Tye) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 142 . Hymns: 133, Anthem: King of kings (Simper) , 20 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Chant Service in G (S.S.Wesley). Readings: Deuteronomy 7, 7-13 . Revelation 2, 1-11 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and President Bishop Mouneer Hanna Anis and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Djibouti and Somalia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the victims of the air disaster in Pakistan . We pray for doctors and researchers who are fighting to eradicate malaria , and for the millions throughout the world who suffer from the disease. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Pen Rhondda Fawr, incorporating St George, Cwmparc, St Matthew, Treorchy and St Mary’s Church Centre, Treherbert, & Rev Brian Taylor . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Arthur Broughton and Janet Munday , whose funerals are this week, also Maria Barinovsky , who died this week, and Clive Lisk , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 10.00 am Drop-In Day. Llangasty Retreat House. CONGRATULATIONS to Ed Doe who 34se 7.00 pm Parochial Church Council. Roath Church House. celebrates his 21 st birthday on Monday. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. NO PARISH SURGERY this week. 7.30 pm ANNUAL PARISH VESTRY . Roath Church House. Surgery will resume on Mon 30 Apr. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Thursday this week. 35ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. ARTHUR BROUGHTON’S FUNERAL is at 8.00 pm Launch of new SPCK book. 61 Park Place. St Edward’s on Wednesday at 1pm. Xfeoftebz St Mark the Evangelist. JANET MUNDAY’S FUNERAL is at Park End 36ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Church (Rhydypenau Crossroads) on Thursday 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. at 1pm, then Thornhill Crematorium at 2pm. 1.00 pm Funeral of Arthur Broughton. St Edward’s. Please note change of time from that 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. announced last week. Uivstebz 1.00 pm Funeral of Janet Munday. Park End Church. 37ui 6.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. THE WELSH CAMERATA recorded earlier 7.30 pm Choir Practice. this year at St Margaret’s, will be on Sunday 7.30 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir. Ewenny Priory. Half Hour, BBC Radio 2, 8-30 to 9pm next Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Sunday and Sun 24 June. 38ui 7.00 pm Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert (Cancer Research). BBC Hoddinott Hall, WMC. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. ROATH PARK CYTÛN meets at St Edward’s 39ui 11.00 am Coffee Concert : Grace Power (soprano). Schoolroom on Mon 30 Apr at 7.30pm. 7.30 pm Vivaldi’s Gloria (Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society). Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm John Rutter’s Psalm Fest (Cambrensis). Stanwell Rd Baptist Church, Penarth. 7.30 pm LAVISH Cardiff. Bethel Baptist Church, Whitchurch. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of Easter . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13; Acts 4: 5-12; John 10: 11-18. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PARISH ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING is the Annual COFFEE CONCERT . The sixth concert in our monthly General Meeting of our Parish, open to all who attend series takes place on Saturday at 11am. Unfortunately, our churches. It takes place on Monday. The current Fernando Aguera, the guitarist who was originally PCC will meet at 7pm to accept the Parish Report and advertised for this concert has moved back to Brazil. Accounts. The Vestry follows that meeting. The Annual However, we are fortunate to have Grace Power Vestry is an important Parish meeting, at which the (Soprano), who performed with Fernando last time he Election of the People’s Warden and sub wardens are gave a concert at St Edward’s, together with Stephen formalised, along with the PCC members and church Nicholls (French Horn) and Erik Azzopardi (Piano). Their committee members for the coming year 2012-3. programme includes “Auf dem strom” (Schubert) and Everyone whose name is on the Parish Electoral Roll is “Now sleeps the crimson petal” (Britten). As usual, £2 eligible to vote at the Annual Vestry – if you are not on inc. refreshments. the Roll please ask one of the wardens for a form. KING JOHN IN WALES AND THE MARCHES is the title of a ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “O Sons and free talk by James Jenkins at St David’s College, Tygwyn Rd Daughters” by Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941). The next Sunday, 2.30pm. Organised by Catholic History Society. Introit at Evensong is “Give almes of thy goods” by SPRING FAYRE at Roath Church House on Sat 19 May Christopher Tye (1500-1573) and the anthem is “King of 10am-12pm (please note earlier opening times). Items are kings” by Caleb Simper (1857-1942). required for the following stalls: books, toys, bric-a-brac, bottles, jam/marmalade, jewellery, toiletries, scarves, NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. handbags, videos, CDs, plants, cakes and for the Jubilee – Congregational Evensong at 3.30pm. red, white and blue stall. The scouts deliver all our flyers, LAUNCH OF NEW SPCK BOOK 'Finding God in Other which is a great help, but please take a few posters to your Christians' by Lorraine Cavanagh, on Tuesday at 8pm in the local shops, hairdressers, post offices etc, to expand our Anglican Chaplaincy at 61 Park Place. There will be a glass of advertising. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Pat Hyett (20- wine, 10% discount and a short talk from the author. 471247 for further information. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at St FOR YOUR DIARY . Edward’s) perform in the Ewenny Priory Festival at Ewenny 13-19 May. Christian Aid Week. Priory Church on Thursday at 7.30pm, with Take Note (Youth 17 May. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. Choir from Bridgend). Tickets £10 (conc. £7.50). 19 May. 10am. Spring Fayre. Roath Church House. LORD MAYOR’S CHARITY GALA CONCERT in aid of 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). Cancer Research Wales. An evening of songs from MUSIC DIARY . Movies and Musicals in BBC Hoddinott Hall at WMC on 3 May. 7.30pm. The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. Friday at 7pm. Tickets £12 (03700-101051. 4 May. 7.30pm. Cardiff University Chamber Choir. Cathedral. VIVALDI’S GLORIA and Handel’s Ode to the Birthday of 5 May. 12-4pm. Choral Workshop (The Sixteen). RWCMD. 5 May. 8pm. The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. Queen Anne by Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society at the Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the CAMBRENSIS CHOIR & ENSEMBLE present John RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for Rutter’s Psalm Fest and other music at Stanwell Rd the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at Baptist Church, Penarth on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets night and they are desperate for warm hats. If you can £5. [email protected] (01656-782632. help in any way – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns LAVISH CARDIFF is a non-denominational series of events available) or buying hats – contact Tricia (20-484808. for women providing a safe space in which to share their stories. It will be hosted at various venues throughout Cardiff THE GOVERNING BODY of the Church in Wales and all women are welcome to attend these FREE events. discussed the Anglican Covenant and voted to affirm The first is on Saturday, 7.30pm in Bethel Baptist Church, commitment to the Communion and the Covenant Whitchurch. Information on www.lavishcardiff.wordpress.com process, but asked questions of the Anglican PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 30 Consultative Council which meets in October. They Apr, 7.30-9.30pm in Church House. New members welcome – feared the recent rejection of the Covenant by the assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Church of England jeopardised its future and Ann James [email protected] for details. clarifications about that were now needed before a LADIES CIRCLE presents an Evening with Terry decision could be made. Walton, Radio 2 Allotment Gardener on Sat 5 May at LENT BOXES . Thanks to everyone who saved money in 7.30pm at Roath Church House. All proceeds to our two Lent boxes this Lent. The boxes should now be returned charities for 2012 – Vision 21 and the Society for the to church as soon as possible. Welfare of Horses and Ponies. Admission £6 by ticket WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors only, please contact Gill Day for tickets ( (20-495496.) and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 6 May at 7.45pm the sidesmen if you are new with us. when the topic for discussion will be The Sacred Tent. CONTACT NUMBERS . We do hope more people will join us for what are very Rev Stewart Lisk: lively and interesting discussions, which will be held (((20-484808/20-487854. monthly until we break for the summer. Parish Office (((20-484808, CHRISTIAN AID WEEK is 13-19 May. As usual we need [email protected] volunteers for the door-to-door collection. Please speak Please let the clergy know to Sue Mansell if you are willing to help. of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to COMPLINE . Next service: Ascension Day (17 May). [email protected]

Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1874 Sunday, 29th April, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: I will sing the wondrous story, I am a new creation, Anthems: A new commandment (Shephard) , O Be Joyful (Stanford) , Christ is our cornerstone . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 6.00 pm Deanery Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Verily, Verily (Tallis) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 81, vv 8-16 . Hymns: 296, Anthem: The Day is Past and Over (Marks) , At your feet we fall . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Exodus 16, 4-15 . Revelation 2, 12-17 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Kenya and Archbishop Eliud Wabukala and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Eritrea and Ethiopia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as she makes her Jubilee Tour of Britain. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Ynyshir, Rev Paul Bigmore and Reader G.L.Jones , and also for Rev Michael John who begins his ministry as Vicar of Pentyrch with Capel Llanillterne this week. We pray for all who are involved in the local elections this week, especially the candidates and their party workers, and for all who vote, that they may use their votes wisely. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Adelaide Malkin Briers , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. ROATH PARK CYTÛN meets at St Edward’s Schoolroom on Monday at 7.30pm. 41ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Cytûn Meeting. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE is closed on 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Thursday and Friday this week. THE WELSH CAMERATA recorded earlier this year Uvftebz SS Philip & James, Apostles at St Margaret’s, will be on Sunday Half Hour, BBC 2tu!Nbz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Radio 2, 8-30 to 9pm today and Sun 24 June. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath 3oe 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Church House. New members very welcome 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. Uivstebz Local Elections. Schoolroom and Church House. 4se 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm Choir Practice. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . These need to 7.30 pm The Tallis Scholars. St David’s Hall. be brought to church by 27 May. There is an envelope at the back of the church. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 5ui 7.30 pm University Chamber Choir: Mozart’s Coronation Mass. Llandaff Cathedral . Tbuvsebz 12.00 pm Choral Workshop by The Sixteen. RWCMD. DEANERY SONGS OF PRAISE is being 6ui 7.30 pm An Evening with Terry Walton. Church House. held at 6pm today in St Margaret’s. 8.00 pm The Sixteen. Llandaff Cathedral. Come and join in this joyous service. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fifth Sunday of Easter . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 22: 1-18; Acts 8: 26-40; John 15: 1-8. LADIES CIRCLE presents an Evening with Terry Walton, Radio 2 Allotment Gardener on Saturday at 7.30pm at Roath Church House. All proceeds to our two charities for 2012 – Vision 21 and the Society for the Welfare of Horses and Ponies. Admission £6 by ticket only, please contact Gill Day for tickets ( (20-495496.) Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from CHRISTIAN AID WEEK is 13-19 May. As usual we need Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the volunteers for the door-to-door collection. Please speak RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for to Sue Mansell if you are willing to help. the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at COMPLINE . Next service: Ascension Day (17 May). night and they are desperate for warm hats. If you can help in any way – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns SPRING FAYRE at Roath Church House on Sat 19 May available) or buying hats – contact Tricia (20-484808. 10am-12pm (please note earlier opening times). Items are required for the following stalls: books, toys, bric-a-brac, ONE HUNDRED CLUB . It is not too late to join for 2012- bottles, jam/marmalade, jewellery, toiletries, scarves, 13: £12 now, or by installments. Cheques/cash to handbags, videos, CDs, plants, cakes and for the Jubilee – Cynthia please. If you are not currently a member, red, white and blue stall. The scouts deliver all our flyers, please consider joining – have a word with Cynthia. The which is a great help, but please take a few posters to your local shops, hairdressers, post offices etc, to expand our first draw for the new club is next Sunday. advertising. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Pat Hyett (20- ANTHEMS . The anthems at the Eucharist are “A New 471247 for further information. Commandment” by Richard Shephard (b.1949) and “O Be THE PEACEMAKERS conducted by Karl Jenkins, with Joyful in the Lord” by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852- 1924). The Introit at Evensong is “Verily, verily” by Thomas Howell's School Senior Choir, Cor Caerdydd and the Tallis (c.1505-1585) and the anthem is “The Day is Past and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera at St David’s Hall on Over” by James Christopher Marks (1863-1946). Wed 23 May at 7.30pm. Includes Adiemus, The Armed KING JOHN IN WALES AND THE MARCHES is the man, Requiem, Palladio. Tickets £15-£32.50 – a few still title of a free talk by James Jenkins at St David’s available. College, Tygwyn Rd today at 2.30pm. Organised by the COFFEE CONCERT . Our thanks to Grace Power, Catholic History Society. Stephen Nicholls and Erik Azzopardi for their concert CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral at 3.30pm yesterday. The seventh concert in our monthly series is today: Stanford in C. Anthem: Ye choirs of new by Steven Burges and Jayne Thomas (piano duets) on Jerusalem (Stanford). Sat 26 May. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at on Wednesday at 7pm: "Can the gospels be trusted?" St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s by Dr Peter Williams, Warden of Tyndale House Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was Cambridge, Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Cambridge glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 University. Everyone Welcome. Admission Free. June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are invited to join us. THE TALLIS SCHOLARS give a concert at St David’s Hall on Thursday at 7.30pm, including the 40-part motet Spem in ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 11 Alium (for which they will be joined by a local choir) and July at 7.30pm. Lamentations of Jeremiah I . Tickets £10.50-£33.50. FOR YOUR DIARY . CONCERT by Cardiff University Chamber Choir & 13-19 May. Christian Aid Week. Chamber Orchestra at Llandaff Cathedral on Friday at 17 May. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. 7.30pm. Biber’s Marian Vespers and Mozart’s 19 May. 10am. Spring Fayre. Roath Church House. Coronation Mass. Tickets £8/£5 (students/u18s free). 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). IGNITEHOPE 2012 : 4-7 May, meeting together in a marquee 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. village in Sophia Gardens to have teaching, worship, MUSIC DIARY . celebration and a whole load of fun! Speakers: Roy Crowne, 11 May. 1.15pm. Organ concert: David Ponsford. St John’s. Dai Hankey, Rachel Gardner and Rob Parsons. Featuring the 18 May. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Carleton Etherington. Dewi Sant Ignite Band and Going Public Theatre Company. Prices: £50 DIAMOND JUBILEE SERVICE . More than 600 people (single), £45 (group 10+). You need to be 13+ to register. attended the national service of thanksgiving at the CHORAL WORKSHOP by The Sixteen at the Royal Welsh Cathedral for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on College of Music & Drama on Saturday, 12-4pm. The four Thursday, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. hour workshop will focus on the music of Brumel, Lassus and Josquin, and offers a range of vocal coaching including The service was led by the Dean, John Lewis, the invigorating warm-ups, advice on breathing technique and address was given by Archbishop Barry, and lessons voice production, and the opportunity to gain insights into the were read by First Minister Carwyn Jones and the Lord music and its historic context. Places are £25 each and Mayor of Cardiff, Professor Delme Bowen. Prayers were include refreshments and sheet music. Contact Cate Hall read by representatives from the different faith (020-7936-3420 or [email protected] communities in Wales. THE SIXTEEN present “The 12th Choral Pilgrimage: WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors The Earth Resounds” at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of at 8pm. The programme is centred around movements the sidesmen if you are new with us. from the 12-part Missa Et ecce terraemotus by Brumel (the ‘Earthquake Mass’) and includes works by Lassus CONTACT NUMBERS . and Josquin des Prés. Tickets £22/£18/£12. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on next Sunday at Parish Office (((20-484808, 7.45pm when the topic for discussion will be The Sacred [email protected] Tent. We do hope more people will join us for what are Please let the clergy know very lively and interesting discussions, which will be held of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. monthly until we break for the summer. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Gjgui!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1875 Sunday, 6th May, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 149(MP), 15(MP), 411, Anthem: Panis Angelicus (Franck) , 248(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: He that shall endure to the end (Mendelssohn) . Psalm 96 . Hymns: 220, Anthem: If Ye Love Me (Tallis) , 242 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: Isaiah 60, 1-14 . Revelation 3, 1-13 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Korea and Primate Paul Kim and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Sudan and Uganda . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Christians in Nigeria , remembering those murdered by the Islamist group Boko Haram as they worshipped at the Bayero University campus in Kano last week. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as she makes her Jubilee Tour of Britain. We pray for the Crown Nominations Commission under its Chairman Lord Luce, preparing to select the next Archbishop of Canterbury. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cardiff, St Mary with St Dyfrig & St Samson, Canon Graham Francis and Rev Ben Andrews , and for St Mary the Virgin Church in Wales Primary School, Headteacher Ruth Jackson and her staff and pupils . We pray for our County Councillors elected this week, those who were successful, and those who were disappointed. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Peter Lewis , who was murdered last week. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz!8ui 11.00 am Fete. Nazareth House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. Uvftebz 1.00 pm Organ Recital: Thomas Trotter. St David’s Hall. NAZARETH HOUSE FETE on Monday at 9ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 11am. Stalls, refreshments and fun for 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. the children. Entry £1, kids free. NO PARISH SURGERY on the bank holiday. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. :ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. ORGAN RECITAL at St David’s Hall on 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. Tuesday, 1pm-2pm: Thomas Trotter (Birm- ingham City Organist). £6.50 (conc. £5.50). 7.30 pm The Hermitage Ensemble. All Hallows, Miskin. ORGAN CONCERT by Dr David Ponsford Uivstebz 10.30 am St Teilo’s Leavers Service. St Margaret’s. (Cirencester) on Friday, 1.15pm at St John’s 21ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. 7.30 pm Choir Practice. CHRISTIAN AID PLANT SALE at Llanishe n Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: David Ponsford. St John’s. Baptist Church, Fidlas Rd, on Saturday , 22ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 9.30am-12.30pm. Plants, bric-a-brac, books, 7.30 pm William Hodgkins Lecture. Swansea University. toys, cakes, refreshments. THE FITZHARDINGE CONSORT present Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. “Treasures of the Tudor Age” at St Martin’s 23ui 9.30 am Christian Aid Plant Sale. Llanishen Baptist Church. Church on Saturday at 7.30pm. Music 10.30 am Penrhys Pilgrimage. includes Byrd’s Laudibus in Sanctis and 7.30 pm The Fitzhardinge Consort. St Martin’s. Sheppard’s Verbum Caro. Free entry. 7.30 pm Organ Recital: George Speed. Trinity Methodist. Donations in aid of the charitable works of the Order o f St Lazarus. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Rogation Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, St Edward’s Committee meets at 4pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 55: 1-11; Acts 10: 44-48; John 15: 9-17. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . These need to be brought to church by 27 May. An envelope is at the back of church. CONGRATULATIONS to Tricia on topping the poll at the Penylan Ward local elections. THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 June at 7.30pm. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CHRISTIAN AID WEEK . Could you feed yourself on £1 FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like a day for 5 days? May 13-19 is Christian Aid Week. to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for Many poor communities have no choice but to survive a particular week, please put you name and phone on £1 a day, or less. Could you take up the challenge? number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the And/or, give up a few hours that week to do a street rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. collection to raise money to help improve the lives of COMPLINE . Next service: Ascension Day (17 May). others? Speak to Sue Mansell today to volunteer. SPRING FAYRE at Roath Church House on Sat 19 May COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service 10am-12pm (please note earlier opening times). Items are this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, and the 100 required for the following stalls: books, toys, bric-a-brac, Club draw – it’s not too late to join for 2012-13: £12 now, bottles, jam/marmalade, jewellery, toiletries, scarves, or by installments. Cheques/cash to Cynthia please. If handbags, videos, CDs, plants, cakes and for the Jubilee – red, white and blue stall. The scouts deliver all our flyers, you are not currently a member, please consider joining which is a great help, but please take a few posters to your – have a word with Cynthia. local shops, hairdressers, post offices etc, to expand our ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Panis Angelicus” advertising. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Pat Hyett (20- by César Franck (1822-90). The Introit at Evensong is “He 471247 for further information. that shall endure to the end” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix COFFEE CONCERT . The seventh concert in our Mendelssohn (1809-47) and the anthem is “If ye love me” by monthly series is by Steven Burges and Jayne Thomas Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). (piano duets) on Sat 26 May. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral at 3.30pm FOR YOUR DIARY . today: Ireland in F. Anthem: Blessed be the God and 13-19 May. Christian Aid Week. Father (Wesley). 17 May. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm when the topic 19 May. 10am. Spring Fayre. Roath Church House. for discussion will be The Sacred Tent. We do hope more 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). people will join us for what are very lively and interesting 30 Jun. 12pm. Penylan Music School Pupils Concert. discussions, which will be monthly until we break for summer. 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. THE HERMITAGE ENSEMBLE of St Petersburg, Russia MUSIC DIARY . present an evening of unaccompanied male voices 18 May. 1.15pm. Organ recital: Carleton Etherington. Dewi Sant. performing Russian, Welsh and English traditional folk songs 20 May. 3pm. Brass Students of RWCMD. Holy Cross, Cowbridge. and church music at All Hallows Church, Miskin, on 23 May. 7.30pm. The Peacemakers (Karl Jenkins). St David’s Hall. Wednesday at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (07792-672287. 24 May. 7.30pm. Organ recital: Christopher Barton. St German’s. 2012 WILLIAM HODGKINS LECTURE . “In the Shadow of the COMMUNICATORS NEEDED . There is a shortage of Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales” by Professor M. qualified communicators in the Anglican Communion, Wynn Thomas on Friday at 7.30pm. Prof Thomas is Professor according to an international Working Group on of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at communications. They claim that the Communion life is Swansea University, a Fellow of the British Academy and threatened by the inability to source and share news and Vice-President of the Learned Society of Wales. The lecture stories widely. “In many cases the job of telling the story of the will explain some of the ways in which the English language Church is left to busy Provincial Secretaries, unqualified writers of Wales have portrayed the world of the chapels. volunteers or, in some cases, the bishop or Primate. The PENRHYS PILGRIMAGE on Saturday. 12pm Internet and mobile phone technology is challenging the way the Anglican Communion engages in God’s mission: sermons Concelebrated Sung Mass at Rhondda Fach Sports now reach global audiences; evangelism is happening via Centre, Tylorstown. (tea/coffee and children’s activities Google’s Search Engine and text messages. Increasing from 10.30am). 2.30pm Benediction followed by Prayer access to Social Media means there is greater, often instant, & Healing Ministry at the Shrine. (20-499867. dialogue between everyone; church communication is no AN EVENING AT THE ORGAN with George Speed at Trinity longer simply ‘top down’. A key recommendation is that every Methodist Church, Penarth, on Saturday at 7.30pm. A variety Province should have a paid Communications Director.” of music played on one of the finest pipe organs in Wales. SERMONS NEED TO BE TAGGED . All Souls Church, Admission £7 on the door, for church funds. Langham Place in London has appealed through Social Media and its website for volunteers to help 'tag' 3,600 free sermons ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets next Sunday at and talks. They have made their entire archive free online, 4pm in the vestry. even though income from the sales of tapes and CDs paid for ORGAN RECITAL by James Norrey at Llandaff Cathedral someone's annual wage. But the sermons need “tags” – index next Sunday at 4.45pm. Tickets £5 at the door. words added to the files to help visitors to search the archive. If you can help, visit www.signupgenius.com/go/allsouls2 JOINT CHOIR & ORCHESTRA PRACTICES for the Jubilee Service start Mon 14 May at 7pm. Singers WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors interested in taking part are invited to join us. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 14 May, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New CONTACT NUMBERS . members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Rev Stewart Lisk: Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- (((20-484808/20-487854. [email protected] for details. Parish Office (((20-484808, [email protected] BBC FILMING OUTSIDE ST EDWARD’S on Wed 16 May, 5pm-7pm for a new children’s show. They have asked that the Please let the clergy know road outside the church should be kept free of cars, and their of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. actors will be using the schoolroom. Please avoid trying to To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email access the church for that short period. to [email protected]

Uif!Tjyui!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs;!Sphbujpo!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1876 Sunday, 13 th May, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 607, 399, 38(MP), Anthem: Lift up your heads (Handel) , 262(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 4.00 pm St Edward’s Committee Meeting. Vestry. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Creation’s Hymn (Beethoven) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 45 . Hymns: 144, Anthem: My Heart is Inditing (Handel) , 274(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A minor. Readings: Song of Solomon 4,16 - 5,2 & 8, 6-7. Revelation 3, 14-22 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church in Melanesia and Archbishop David Vunagi and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Kenya and Tanzania . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as she makes her Jubilee Tour of Britain. In this diocese we pray for the Conventional District of Tremorfa, Rev Bob Capper and Rev Gill Dallow . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Emrys Lewis Davies and Francis Digby Riddett , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, DIJTUJBO!BJE!XFFL! Tuesday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz St Matthias the Apostle JOINT CHOIR & ORCHESTRA PRACTICES for 25ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. the Jubilee Service start this Monday at 7pm. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. NO SERVICE AT ST ANNE ’S on Tuesday. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Uvftebz Rogation Day PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday , 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very 26ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20- Xfeoftebz Rogation Day 495496 or Ann James [email protected] for details. 27ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. SHEILA ECCLES wishes to be remembered to al l her 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. friends at St Edward’s & sends them all good wishes. 5.00 pm BBC Filming outside St Edward’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday. 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. 7.30 pm Paradise Run. ASCENSION DAY . Sung Eucharist at St Margaret’s at 7.30pm. Choral Uivstebz Ascension Day Eucharist at the Cathedral: Mozart’s Coronation Mass, also at 7.30pm. 28ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. OUR THANKS to Gary for deputizing on 7.30 pm Sung Eucharist . St Margaret’s. organ and piano this morning. 7.30 pm Choral Eucharist: Mozart’s Coronation Mass. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm Choir Practice. COMPLINE BY CANDLIGHT will 9.00 pm COMPLINE BY CANDLELIGHT . be sung for Ascension Day at Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Recital: Carleton Etherington. Eglwys Dewi Sant. St Edward’s on Thursday at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute service 29ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. of plainchant - the last of the 7.00 pm An Audience with Yazz. Holy Cross, Cowbridge. monastic “hours”. 7.30 pm Preparation for Fayre. Roath Church House. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . These need Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Spring Fayre. Roath Church House. to be brought to church by 27 May. There 2:ui 7.30 pm St David’s Praise. St David’s Hall. is an envelope at the back of the church. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Rogation Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Ezekiel 36: 24-28; Acts 1: 15-17, 21-26; John 17: 6-19. ORGAN RECITAL by James Norrey at Llandaff Cathedral today at 4.45pm. Tickets £5 at the door. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] CHRISTIAN AID WEEK . Could you feed yourself on £1 SPRING FAYRE at Roath Church House on Saturday a day for 5 days? This week is Christian Aid Week. 10am-12pm. Items are required for the following stalls: Many poor communities have no choice but to survive books, toys, bric-a-brac, jam/marmalade, jewellery, on £1 a day, or less. Could you take up the challenge? toiletries, scarves, handbags, videos, CDs & DVDs, And/or, give up a few hours that week to do a street plants, cakes and for the Jubilee red, white and blue collection to raise money to help improve the lives of stall. Items can be brought to Church House on Friday others? Speak to Sue Mansell today to volunteer. from 7.30pm. Help is also needed to set up the stalls FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like Friday evening – coffee will be provided!! We hope that to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for as many of you as possible will come along on Saturday a particular week, please put you name and phone to support this event. Light refreshments will be number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the available. We still need a few more people on the rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. stalls. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Pat Hyett (20- 471247 for further information. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Lift up you heads” from the oratorio “Messiah” by George Frideric COUNTY COUNCIL SURGERY 6pm-7pm on Fri 25 May at Handel (1685-1759). The Introit at Evensong is the Agincourt Road entrance (old Infants entrance) at Marlborough Primary School. Local Councillors in attendance. “Creation’s Hymn” by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827) and the anthem is the Coronation Anthem for COFFEE CONCERT by Emyr Wyn (piano) on Sat 26 May (not George II “My heart is inditing”, a setting, also by Handel, Steven Burges and Jayne Thomas as previously advertised). of the King James Version of this evening’s Psalm 45. JULIE LEWIS has an exhibition “Metromorphosis – CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Adventures in Glass”, the Swansea School of Glass Blair in B minor. Anthem: My beloved spake (Hadley). 2012 Degree Show at the National Waterfront Museum Swansea 29 May to 23 June. BBC FILMING OUTSIDE ST EDWARD’S on Wednesday, 5pm-7pm for a new children’s show. They have asked that the DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 10 June at road outside the church should be kept free of cars, and their 7.45pm when the topic for discussion will be Joseph. actors will be using the schoolroom. Please avoid trying to We do hope more people will join us for what are very access the church for that short period. lively and interesting discussions, which will be held THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University monthly until we break for the summer. on Wednesday at 7pm: "Is all love divine?" by Timothy THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at Radcliffe OP, Catholic Priest and Dominican Friar of the St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s English Province and former Master of the Order of Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was Preachers 1992-2001. All Welcome. Admission Free. glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or invited to join us. Practices are on Monday evenings. corned beef using white medium sliced bread and individually FOR YOUR DIARY . wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of crisps, biscuits or 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). cakes. Items can be given to Kathie Mayer 20-495769 or ( 30 Jun. 12pm. Penylan Music School Pupils Concert. left at Church House either at Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before the we leave at 7.30pm. For further 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. information or offers of help, ring Chris Webb (20-455641. MUSIC DIARY . 23 May. 7.30pm. The Peacemakers (Karl Jenkins). St David’s Hall. ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Friday at 24 May. 7.30pm. Organ recital: Christopher Barton. St German’s. 1.15pm, to celebrate 125 years of the Father Willis 26 May. 7.30pm. Sine Nomine Singers. St Michael’s College. organ: Carleton Etherington (Tewkesbury Abbey). 31 May. 7.30pm. Students of RWCMD. Ewenny Priory. AN AUDIENCE WITH YAZZ at Holy Cross Church Cowbridge 8 June. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Robin Baggs. St John’s. on Friday at 7pm. With a history of worldwide success in the 9-17 June. Llandaff Festival. mainstream music scene, Yazz, singer and songwriter reveals THE QUEEN’S SPEECH included the Small Donations Bill, her personal and moving journey to faith in Jesus Christ allowing charities to claim “top-up payments”, similar to Gift through her extraordinary testimony, music and amazing Aid, on donations of £20 or less, up to a total of £5000 a year visuals. It will be an evening that will leave a lasting per charity, without a need for donors to fill in forms. If the cap impression and reveal just how Jesus can change a is applied to individual parishes rather than the Church in life! Tickets £3 from Holy Cross Office (01446-772302. Wales (the consultation covers potential rules to ensure this) it ST DAVID’S PRAISE . An evening of the finest Christian will help us a lot, although it will still be necessary for regular music spanning the centuries, with hymns and songs in and/or large contributions to be gift-aided. If you pay tax and have not filled in a form, please ask Geoff, Alan or Sue for one many styles, with the Cambrensis Choir and Orchestra today – the Church gets an extra 25p for every £1 you donate. and the St David’s Praise Choir at St David’s Hall on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £11/£12. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the MATTERS OF BRASS featuring students from the sidesmen if you are new with us. Royal College of Music and Drama, at Holy Cross Parish CONTACT NUMBERS . Church, Cowbridge next Sunday at 3pm. Tickets £7 (inc. Rev Stewart Lisk: afternoon tea) from Holy Cross Office (01446-772302. (((20-484808/20-487854. AN EVENING WITH CHRISTIAN AID at St Mark’s, Gabalfa, Parish Office (((20-484808, next Sunday at 6.30pm, with Moses Tutesgensi who recently [email protected] completed the 'Mocat Challenge' running from Edinburgh to Please let the clergy know London via Cardiff in aid of Christian Aid's support for the of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. 'Size of Wales' global warming project. Other Christian aid To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to staff will also be taking part. [email protected]

Uif!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Btdfotjpo!Ebz Weekly Newsletter No.1877 Sunday, 20 th May, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 147, 149, Reign in me, Anthem: The Lord is Exalted (West) , Majesty . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Aeterne Rex altissime (Plainsong) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 147, vv 1-11 . Hymns: 204, Anthem: I am alpha and omega (Stainer) , 146 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hyton Stewart. Readings: Isaiah 61, 1-11 . Luke 4, 14-21 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Communion and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Malawi and Zambia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as she makes her Jubilee Tour of Britain. On this Ministry and Calling Sunday we pray for people who are thinking about training to be priests, and for Bishop Gregory Cameron , who leads the Church’s vocations strategy called “Here I Am, Send Me”. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Llandaff, Area Dean Canon Jenny Wigley, and for Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School, Headteacher Rev Christopher Hollowood, the staff and children . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Sue Oxenham, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially William Everitt Scobie and Morgan William Rees Morgan , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 10.00 am Drop-In Day. Llangasty Retreat House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. 32tu 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. THE PEACEMAKERS conducted by Karl 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Jenkins, with Howell's School Senior Choir , 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. Cor Caerdydd and the Orchestra of Welsh 7.00 pm Sale of Afghan Carpets. St Michael’s College. National Opera at St David’s Hall on Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Wedn esday at 7.30pm. Includes Adiemus, 33oe 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. The Armed man, Requiem, Palladio. Tickets £15 -£32.50 – a few still available. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. CHRISTIAN AID . Our thanks to 34se 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. everyone who helped with the door-to- 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. door collection . Please return all the 7.30 pm “The Peacemakers” (Karl Jenkins). St David’s Hall. envelopes to Sue as soon as possible. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. ORGAN RECITAL by Christopher Barton (Newport Cathedral) at St 35ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. German’s on Thursday, 7.30-8.45pm. Admission free, retiring collection. 7.30 pm Organ Recital: Christopher Barton. St German’s Church. COUNTY COUNCIL SURGERY 6pm- Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7pm on Friday at the Agincour t Road 36ui 6.00 pm Council Surgery. Marlborough Primary School. entrance (old Infants entrance) at Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Marlborough Primary School. Local 37ui 11.00 am Coffee Concert : Emyr Wyn (Piano. St Edward’s. Councillors will be in attendance. 7.30 pm Sine Nomine Singers. The Chapel, St Michael’s College. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Day of Pentecost, Whitsunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am when Rev Dr Mark Dimond will preach, Cytûn Pentecost Praise is in St Margaret’s Church grounds at 3pm and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Ezekiel 37: 1-14; Acts 2: 1-21; John 15: 26-27; 16: 4b-15. THE FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL’S COLLEGE invite you to a display and sale of unique, traditional, hand-made Afghan carpets at the College on Monday, 7pm-9pm. This will include the blessing by the Archbishop of Wales of a carpet commissioned by the Friends of St Michael’s College from Afghan Action, who run a Training and Business Incubation Centre for young men and women, some disabled, in Kabul. You can help too - by purchasing a carpet (prices start at £200) or making a donation. Or you can “Sponsor a Trainee” for £450 (payable by instalments). Further info (20-563379. REV DR MARK DIMOND will preach at 9.30am at St Margaret’s and at 11 am at St Edward’s next Sunday. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] CYTUN PENTECOST PRAISE this year will take place COFFEE CONCERT . The seventh concert in our in St Margaret’s Church Grounds at 3pm next Sunday. monthly series is by Emyr Wyn (piano) on Saturday at Come and join with fellow Christians from all 11am. Programme includes Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca denominations as we celebrate the birth of the Christian (Liszt), Polonaise in F Sharp Minor Op. 44 (Chopin), Church. Polonaise in C Sharp Minor Op. 26 (Chopin), Suite for FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like Piano (Bartok) and Two Pieces Op. 57 (Scriabin). to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for Entrance £2 inc. coffee. a particular week, please put your name and phone FOR YOUR DIARY . number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. 30 Jun. 12pm. Penylan Music School Pupils Concert. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief MUSIC DIARY . in East Africa. 31 May. 7.30pm. Students of RWCMD. Ewenny Priory. 8 June. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Robin Baggs. St John’s. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Lord is 9-17 June. Llandaff Festival. Exalted” by John Ebenezer West (1863-1929). The Introit at Evensong is a translation of the ancient SPRING FAYRE . Thank you to everyone who helped Plainsong Office Hymn “Aeterne Rex altissime” (Latin c. over the week-end in any way with the Spring Fayre. 5th century) and the anthem is “I am alpha and omega” We will let you know next week how much we made. by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901). ARCHBISHOP BARRY has been elected to serve on the Crown Nominations Commission for Canterbury, the body that MATTERS OF BRASS featuring students from the Royal will nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury. He was College of Music and Drama, at Holy Cross Parish Church, elected by members of the Standing Committee and is the Cowbridge today at 3pm. Tickets £7 (inc. afternoon tea) from first Primate of the Anglican Communion invited to serve on Holy Cross Parish Office (01446-772302. the Commission. They were asked to nominate one Primate CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: to represent the Anglican Communion and their chosen Murrill in E. Anthem: God is gone up (Finzi). Primates were grouped according to the five regions of the AN EVENING WITH CHRISTIAN AID at St Mark’s, Gabalfa, Communion. The Standing Committee then voted by single today at 6.30pm, with Moses Tutesgensi who recently transferable vote by email. Archbishop Barry said, “It’s an completed the 'Mocat Challenge' running from Edinburgh to honour to have been elected by the Standing Committee and I London via Cardiff in aid of Christian Aid's support for the look forward to representing its interest in the appointment of 'Size of Wales' global warming project. Other Christian aid the next Archbishop of Canterbury.” staff will also be taking part. HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from Mathew DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Monday. Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for the troops 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at night and they for prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part are desperate for warm hats. If you can help in any way – of the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. knitting or crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – No charge, but donations welcome. No need to book. please contact Tricia (20-484808. SINE NOMINE SINGERS present ‘Music for a Royal SOUTH EAST WALES DEAF CHURCH are looking Occasion’ at The Chapel, St Michael’s College, on for people, lay or ordained, who might feel called by God Saturday at 7.30pm. Refreshments will be available. to minister with the Deaf community. We try to work Organised by Friends of St Michael’s College. Tickets across the dioceses of Llandaff and Monmouth, but we £6 from St Michael’s College prior to the event or at the do not have enough people to do so effectively. Who door. (20-563379. [email protected] might be suitable? A person who is Deaf, deafened or JULIE LEWIS has an exhibition “Metromorphosis – hard of hearing. A person who is proficient in British Adventures in Glass”, the Swansea School of Glass Sign Language to at least Level 2. A person who would 2012 Degree Show at the National Waterfront Museum like to have a reason to learn or improve British Sign Swansea 29 May to 23 June. Language. If you are interested, please contact The Ven Peggy Jackson, [email protected] DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 10 June at (01446-750053 or the Chaplain, Rev Margaret Le 7.45pm when the topic for discussion will be Joseph. Grice, (01633 281942, [email protected] We do hope more people will join us for what are very lively and interesting discussions, which will be held SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . These need to be brought monthly until we break for the summer. to church by 27 May. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the Mon 11 June, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. sidesmen if you are new with us. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James CONTACT NUMBERS . [email protected] for details. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at Parish Office (((20-484808, St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s [email protected] Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was Please let the clergy know glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to invited to join us. [email protected]

Uif!Ebz!pg!Qfoufdptu;!Xijutvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1878 Sunday, 27th May, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk . Preacher: Rev Dr Mark Dimond. Hymns: 236, 233, 157, Anthem: If Ye Love Me (Simper) , 153 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). WE WELCOME Rev Dr Mark Dimond 3.00 pm Cytûn Pentecost Praise. St Margaret’s Church Grounds. who will preach at our Eucharist this morning. There will be an opportunity 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. to chat to him over coffee afterwards. Introit: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Williams) . Psalm 139, vv 1-18 & 23-24 . Hymns: 151, Anthem: Sicut Cervus (Palestrina) , 230 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: Ezekiel 36, 22-28 . Acts 2, 22-38 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico and Presiding Bishop Carlos Touche-Porter and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Botswana and Zimbabwe . On this Day of Pentecost we give thanks for the working of the Spirit in our lives, for the gifts we have and the guidance we have received. We pray for those who have been our teachers and educators, for all who have brought us into a fuller and richer life. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as she makes her Jubilee Tour of Britain. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Pentyrch with Capel Llanilterne and Rev Michael John , who was inducted as Vicar there last month. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Alfred Edward Richards , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday, UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are Ember Days PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. this week. 39ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. JULIE LEWIS has an exhibition “Metro- 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. morphosis – Adventures in Glass”, the 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. Swansea School of Glass 2012 Degree Show 7.30 pm St Margaret’s Committee. Roath Church House. at the National Waterfront Museum Swansea 29 May to 23 June. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the 3:ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Cathedral on Wednesday at 7.30pm (St Dyfrig Chapel). Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS . These 41ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. need to be brought to church today . 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the 42tu 7.30 pm Choir Practice. church for people to bring and buy homecraft produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. Gsjebz!2tu!Kvo 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Ofyu! Tvoebz is Trinity Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 6: 1-8; Romans 8: 12-17; John 3: 1-17. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University on Tuesday at 7pm: "On Writing Biography" : J.H. Newman and G.K. Chesterton, by Rev Dr Ian Ker , Catholic Priest in the Parish of Burford, Senior Research Fellow at St Benet's Hall Oxford and a Lecturer in Theology at Oxford University. Everyone Welcome. Admission Free. CAR BOOT SALE in support of Living Room Cardiff will be held in the large car park at the rear of the Welsh Baptist College at 58 Richmond Road and adjacent to the main entrance to Living Room Cardiff, on Mon 4 June, 10am-4pm. Vending participants need to apply in advance to 58 Richmond Rd: each car will be charged £10. THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are invited to join us (practice Monday at 7pm). http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] CYTUN PENTECOST PRAISE takes place this TRIBUTE TO ARCHBISHOP ROWAN from Archbishop Barry: afternoon in St Margaret’s Church Grounds at 3pm. Dr Rowan Williams has been the most able Archbishop of Come and join with fellow Christians from all Canterbury for centuries and perhaps his true worth will only denominations as we celebrate the birth of the Christian really be appreciated by the Church once he’s gone. He is a deeply Christian man, both humble and holy, always Church. approachable and never standing on ceremony. As such he EMBER DAYS . Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this has endeared himself to many people. week are Ember Days, which have historically been He has worked tirelessly over the past decade to hold the days of prayer and fasting, and are still observed in Anglican Communion together, taking very seriously the views some form by many Christians. They occur in the weeks of those who differ from him. He has tried to encourage everyone to work together, rather than to pursue their own following the Third Sunday of Advent, the First Sunday agendas, and that is always a difficult task. of Lent, Pentecost, and the week beginning on the In Wales, of course, we’ve been particularly proud of him and Sunday after Holy Cross Day (14 Sept). he’s been a wonderful ambassador for our country. He’s CHURCH REFURBISHMENT . The faculty has been always delighted to return and has an official Welsh weekend granted, allowing us to proceed with the work. At the every year when he’s always welcomed back with open arms. No doubt, being Archbishop of Canterbury has been a committee meeting last week, Kathie Mayer was asked gruelling job for him and I expect he’ll now be looking forward to coordinate the fundraising, and she will be pleased to to returning to reading, writing and lecturing. He has an receive any ideas/donations. So far we have £1200 and enormous ability to think in a deep and profound way and is we are investigating the availability of various grants. able to bring things to light thoughtfully and effectively – a ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “If ye love me” by quality which I think people will miss and he will certainly not Caleb Simper (1857-1942). The Introit at Evensong is “Thou want to get in the way of whoever succeeds him.” wilt keep him in perfect peace” by Charles Lee Williams (1853-1935, organist of Gloucester Cathedral and one of the FOR YOUR DIARY. conductors of the Three Choirs Festival) and the anthem is 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). “Sicut Cervus” by Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (1525-1594). 30 Jun. 12pm. Penylan Music School Pupils Concert. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. Wise in F. Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord (Elgar). MUSIC DIARY . QUIET DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Thur 7 8 June. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Robin Baggs. St John’s. June: a day to explore the relationship between our self 9-17 June. Llandaff Festival. esteem and our perceptions of God. Led by Rev Eva 23 June. 7.30pm. Organ: Huw Tregelles Williams. Dewi Sant. McIntyre. 10am-4pm. Cost £27.50. Booking essential: 29 June. 7pm. Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. [email protected] (01874-658250. 30 June. 7.30pm. Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Eglwys Dewi Sant. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 10 June at 1 July. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Ashley Grote. Cathedral. 7 July. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.45pm when the topic for discussion will be Joseph. We do hope more people will join us for what are very LENT BOXES . Thank you to everyone who returned lively and interesting discussions, which will be held USPG Lent collecting boxes. We raised £248 for the monthly until we break for the summer. work of USPG in supporting churches overseas. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on LLANDAFF FESTIVAL at Llandaff Cathedral 9-17 June. Mon 11 June, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. Events are free apart from the Champagne & Canapés. New members very welcome – assistance given to Sat 9 June 4pm. Afternoon concert: Bach Violin Sonata learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James by Ulrich von Hecker (violin) and Graham Holcombe [email protected] for details. (piano). MAMMOTH BOOK SALE on Sat 16 June, 10am-4pm at Sun 10 June. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Jeffrey Howard. Roath Church House. Mon 11 June. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem: Llandaff STRAWBERRY CREAM TEA on Sat 16 June, 3-5pm at Cathedral Choral Society. St Anne’s. Tue 12 June. 7.30pm. WNO Instrumentalist inc. Gail COFFEE CONCERT . Our thanks to Emyr Wyn for his concert Pearson (sop) and James Southall (piano). yesterday. The eighth concert in our monthly series is by Thur 14 June. 7.30pm. Jazz Evening: RWCMD. Gareth Blake (bass) & Anne Braley (mezzo sop) on Sat 23 Fri 15 June. 7.30pm. Piano Recital: Matthew Drinkwater. June at 11am, and there will be another “extra” concert by Sat 16 June. 7.30pm. Concert: Llandaff Cathedral Choir pupils of Gary Mullins on Sat 30 June at 12pm. The final and RWCMD Symphonic Brass. concert is on Sat 21 July at 11am, by Julian Martin & James Sun 17 June. 10.45am. Festival Service of Thanksgiving Chadwick (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). followed by Champagne & Canapés (tickets required). HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for sidesmen if you are new with us. the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at CONTACT NUMBERS . night and they are desperate for warm hats. If you can Rev Stewart Lisk: help in any way – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns (((20-484808/20-487854. available) or buying hats – please contact Tricia (20- Parish Office (((20-484808, 484808. [email protected] SPRING FAYRE . Thank you to everyone who helped in Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. any way with the Spring Fayre. The total raised to date is To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to £1872 – a really fantastic effort. Well done every one. [email protected]

Usjojuz!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1879 Sunday, 3rd June, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Canon Roy Doxsey . Hymns: 163, 23(S), 616, Anthem: And as Moses… God so loved the world (Stainer) , 166 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Lift Thine Eyes (Mendelssohn) . Officiant: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Psalm 104, vv 1-9. Hymns: 158, Anthem: Justorum Animae (Byrd) , 164 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons Short Service. Athanasian Creed (Quicumque vult). Readings: Ezekiel 1, 4-10 & 22-28a . Revelation 4, 1-11 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Connor in the Province of Armagh, and Bishop Alan Francis Abernethy and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as she celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Barry All Saints, Canon Adrian Berry and Rev Emma Rees, and for All Saints Church in Wales Primary School, Headteacher Richard Ware, the staff and children there . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Joyce Davies , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. UIJT!XFFL! PARISH OFFICE is closed on Npoebz!5ui 10.00 am Car boot sale (Living Room Cardiff). 158 Richmond Rd . Monday and Tuesday this week. Uvftebz!6ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. NO PARISH SURGERY on Monday, and no Tuesday Eucharist at St Anne’s this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. MAMMOTH BOOK SALE on Sat 16 June, 7ui 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. 10am-4pm at Roath Church House. Uivstebz Thanksgiving for the Holy Communion: Corpus Christi 8ui 10.00 am Quiet Day. Llangasty Retreat House. ORGAN CONCERT by Robin Baggs (St Peter & St 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. Paul, Broadwell, Oxon) on Friday, 1.15pm at St 7.30 pm Choir Practice. John’s (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Robin Baggs. St John’s (town). STRAWBERRY CREAM TEA on 9ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Sat 16 June, 3-5pm at St Anne’s. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. :ui 10.30 am Ladies Circle Plant Sale and Coffee Morning. 110 Carisbrooke Way. 4.00 pm Bach Violin Sonata: Ulrich von Hecker (violin) & Graham Holcombe (piano). Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Ezekiel 17: 22-24; 2 Corinthians 5: 6-10; 14-17; Mark 4: 26-34. JULIE LEWIS has an exhibition “Metromorphosis – Adventures in Glass”, the Swansea School of Glass LADIES CIRCLE PLANT SALE and coffee morning 2012 Degree Show at the National Waterfront on Saturday, 10.30am to noon at Dawn Jones’s, 110 Museum Swansea 29 May to 23 June. Carisbrooke Way. Cake stall, books, bric-a-brac and raffle. Tickets £1. Proceeds to our charities – Vision 21 CAR BOOT SALE in support of Living Room Cardiff and the Society of Welfare of Horses and Ponies. will be held in the large car park at the rear of the Welsh Baptist College at 58 Richmond Road and DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm adjacent to the main entrance to Living Room Cardiff, when the topic for discussion will be Joseph. We do on Monday, 10am-4pm. hope more people will join us for what are very lively and interesting discussions, which will be held monthly QUIET DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Thursday: until we break for the summer. a day to explore the relationship between our self esteem and our perceptions of God. Led by Rev Eva WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors McIntyre. 10am-4pm. Cost £27.50. Booking essential: and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one [email protected] (01874-658250. of the sidesmen if you are new with us. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] O God, who providest for INTRODUCING: A MONTHLY PARISH QUIZ SHEET . thy people by thy power, You have a whole month to answer as many questions and rulest over them in as you can – return the answer sheet (you can have it love: Vouchsafe so to bless on e-mail – see form for contact details). The Quiz starts thy Servant our Queen, today, at a reasonable cost of £1 per quiz sheet. All the that under her this nation proceeds go to Parish Funds – you could sell some to may be wisely governed, the “clever members” of your family and friends, don’t and thy Church may serve just keep it to yourself. thee in all godly quietness; and grant that she being THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at devoted to thee with her St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s whole heart, and Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was persevering in good works glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on Wed 13 unto the end, may, by thy June at 7.30pm. Singers interested in taking part are guidance, come to thine invited to join us. everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ thy Son our COFFEE CONCERT . The eighth concert in our monthly Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy series is “Songs of Night and Dreams” by Gareth Blake Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (bass), Anne Braley (mezzo sop) and Carl Grainger (Accompanist) on Sat 23 June at 11am. COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, & the 100 Club draw. VILLAGE FETE in aid of the NDCS (National Deaf Children’s Society) at Roath Church House on Sun 24 CHURCH REFURBISHMENT . The faculty has been June, 12-5pm. Lots of stalls: handcrafts, jewellery granted, allowing us to proceed with the work. At the pictures and many more; face painting, coconut shy, recent committee meeting, Kathie Mayer was asked to lucky dip and many more games. Refreshments on sale, coordinate the fundraising, and she will be pleased to with performances by the Roath Children’s Choir. receive any ideas/donations. So far we have £1200 and we are investigating the availability of various grants. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at St Edward’s) give a concert at the Norwegian Church on Fri 29 ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “And as June at 7-8pm. Doors open 6.30pm. Suggested entry fee £2. Moses… God so loved the world” by Sir John Stainer SUMMER CONCERT by pupils of “The Piano School – (1840-1901). The Introit at Evensong is the trio “Lift Cardiff” (Gary Mullins) at St Edward’s on Sat 30 June at Thine Eyes” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix 12pm. Music by Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Stephen Foster, Mendelssohn (1809-47) and the anthem is “Justorum Beethoven & others. Tickets £2 inc. coffee (children Animae” by William Byrd (1543-1623). free) in aid of St Edward’s Refurbishment Fund. All CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: welcome. Brewer in D. Anthem: As truly as God is our Father (Mathias). FOR YOUR DIARY . LLANDAFF FESTIVAL at Llandaff Cathedral 9-17 June. 13 Jun. 7.30pm. Coronation Mass (Choir & Orchestra). Events are free apart from the Champagne & Canapés. 30 Jun. 12pm. Music School Cardiff Pupils Concert. Sat 9 June 4pm. Afternoon concert: Bach Violin Sonata 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. by Ulrich von Hecker (violin) and Graham Holcombe 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. (piano). Sun 10 June. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Jeffrey Howard. MUSIC DIARY . 8 June. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Robin Baggs. St John’s. Mon 11 June. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem: Llandaff 9-17 June. Llandaff Festival. Cathedral Choral Society. 23 June. 7.30pm. Organ: Huw Tregelles Williams. Dewi Sant. Tue 12 June. 7.30pm. WNO Instrumentalist inc. Gail 29 June. 7pm. Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. Pearson (sop) and James Southall (piano). 30 June. 7.30pm. Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Eglwys Dewi Sant. Thur 14 June. 7.30pm. Jazz Evening: RWCMD. 1 July. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Ashley Grote. Cathedral. Fri 15 June. 7.30pm. Piano Recital: Matthew Drinkwater. 7 July. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem. Llandaff Cathedral. Sat 16 June. 7.30pm. Concert: Llandaff Cathedral Choir CHRISTIAN AID . Thanks to everyone who helped – over and RWCMD Symphonic Brass. £700 was collected. Sun 17 June. 10.45am. Festival Service of Thanksgiving HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from followed by Champagne & Canapés (tickets required). Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 11 RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for June, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day night and they are desperate for warm hats. If you can (20-495496 or Ann James [email protected] for help – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns available) or details. Advance Notice: we will be holding an afternoon tea on Sat 14 July at Roath Church House, when you will be able buying hats – please contact Tricia (20-484808. to see some of the work we have done and bring any hats and CONTACT NUMBERS . squares ready for us to send off. Tickets available shortly. Rev Stewart Lisk: LADIES CIRCLE JUBILEE PARTY with cakes and wine (((20-484808/20-487854. Parish Office (((20-484808, at Roath Church House on Tue 12 June, 7.15 for th [email protected] 7.30pm. It is also our 35 Birthday – if you have any Please let the clergy know photographic memories of the Coronation or Ladies of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. Circle memorabilia please bring them along. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to COPY DATE FOR CROESO is Tue 12 June. [email protected]

Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1880 Sunday, 10 th June, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 34(MP), 260, 408, Anthem: Old Irish Blessing (Agay) , 236 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Introit: Locus Iste (Bruckner) . Psalm 37, vv 1-14 . Hymns: 142(MP), Anthem: Saviour thy children keep (Sullivan) , 24 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A minor. Readings: Jeremiah 6, 16-21 . Romans 9, 1-13 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of the Province of Myanmar (Burma) and Archbishop Stephen Than Myint Oo and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Angola and Mozambique . On this Covenant Sunday we give thanks for the continuing and deep commitment of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, the Church in Wales, the United Reformed Church, the Methodist Church and some Baptist congregations to the Covenant and to the Commission of the Covenanted Churches in Wales. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for Her Majesty the Queen as we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee with a special service this Wednesday. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Porthkerry & Rhoose and Rev David Treharne . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on UIJT!XFFL! Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6pm this week. Npoebz St Barnabas the Apostle JOINT CHOIR & ORCHESTRA PRACTICE for 22ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. the Jubilee Service on Monday at 7pm. No choir 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. practice on Thursday this week. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Tuesday and Thursday this week. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Uvftebz COPY DATE FOR CROESO 23ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. is Tuesday of this week. 7.15 pm Ladies Circle Jubilee Party. Room 2, Roath Church House. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. MAMMOTH BOOK SALE on Saturday, 10am-4pm at Roath Church House. 24ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm CHORAL EUCHARIST: MOZART’S CORONATION MASS . 7.30 pm Paradise Run. JULIE LEWIS has an exhibition “Metromorphosis – Adventures in Gsjebz!26ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Glass”, the Swansea School of Glass 2012 Degree Show at t he National Waterfront Museum Swansea until 23 June. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Mammoth Book Sale. Roath Church House. STRAWBERRY CREAM TEA on 27ui 3.00 pm Strawberry Cream Tea. St Anne’s. Saturday, 3-5pm at St Anne’s. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Ezekiel 17: 22-24; 2 Corinthians 5: 6-10; 14-17; Mark 4: 26-34. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. Advance Notice: we will be holding an afternoon tea on Sat 14 July at Roath Church House, when you will be able to see some of the work we have done and bring any hats and squares ready for us to send off. Tickets available shortly. PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of crisps, biscuits or cakes. Items can be given to Kathie Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House either at Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before we leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of help ring Chris Webb (20-455641. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] COLLECT FOR COVENANT SUNDAY . Loving Father, THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE will be marked at you never cease calling us back to your loving purposes St Edward’s with a Choral Eucharist including Mozart’s for our lives and for your Church. Inspire us by the Coronation Mass and Parry’s Coronation Anthem “I was power of your Spirit to continue in Covenant with one glad” with St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra on another and with you; to seek the unity which is your will Wednesday at 7.30pm. and to proclaim your love in word and deed, through THE WELSH CAMERATA SUMMER CONCERT including a Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns, now and first performance of a setting of words by the great Welsh forever. Amen . medieval poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, composed by Andrew Today we celebrate the Welsh covenant "ENFYS" Wilson-Dickson, on Sat 23 June at 7.30pm in St Illtud's (meaning "rainbow" in Welsh) which was inaugurated in Church, Llantwit Major, and on Fri 29 June at 7.30pm at 1975, and committed the original partner churches to Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Road East. Raising funds working towards "visible unity". The Covenant now for the National Eisteddfod, held this year in the Vale of includes the Presbyterian Church of Wales, the Church Glamorgan. Tickets for Llantwit Major £14 (conc. £12) and for Canton £10 (conc. £8) [email protected] (01446- in Wales, the United Reformed Church, the Methodist 419294 inc. strawberries & cream supper. Church and some Baptist congregations. SUMMER CONCERT by pupils of “The Piano School – INTRODUCING: A MONTHLY PARISH QUIZ SHEET . Cardiff” (Gary Mullins) at St Edward’s on Sat 30 June at You have a whole month to answer as many questions 12pm. Music by Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Stephen Foster, as you can – return the answer sheet (you can have it Beethoven & others. Tickets £2 inc. coffee (children free) in aid of St Edward’s Refurbishment Fund. All welcome. on e-mail – see form for contact details). The Quiz is reasonably priced at £1 per quiz sheet. All the proceeds WHIZZ OFF TO WESTON with Llandaff Diocese Care of go to Parish Funds – you could sell some to the “clever Churches Department on Thur 12 July. We will be visiting Bath & Wells Diocese, looking at three churches (Wraxall, members” of your family and friends, don’t just keep it to Nailsea and Weston) and hearing about how they have been yourself. developed for community use and ministry. In the afternoon ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Old Irish there will be free time at Weston-super-Mare – why not take Blessing” by Denes Agay (1911-2007). The Introit at the opportunity to enjoy the attractions of the recently re- Evensong is the gradual “Locus Iste” by Anton Joseph opened Grade II listed Grand Pier? Coach picks up at Radyr. Booking essential. [email protected] £15 Bruckner (1824-96) and the anthem is “Saviour thy per person. All welcome. children keep” by Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. Evensong at 3.30pm: Brewer in D. Anthem: Rejoice in 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. the Lamb (Britten) – Cathedral School Girls Choristers. FOR YOUR DIARY . DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm when the topic 23 Jun. 11am. Coffee concert. for discussion will be Joseph. We do hope more people will join us for what are very lively and interesting discussions, 30 Jun. 12pm. Music School Cardiff Pupils Concert. which will be held monthly until we break for the summer. 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. LADIES CIRCLE JUBILEE PARTY with cakes and wine at Roath Church House on Tuesday, 7.15 for 7.30pm. It MUSIC DIARY . is also our 35 th Birthday – if you have any photographic 23 June. 7.30pm. Organ: Huw Tregelles Williams. Dewi Sant. memories of the Coronation or Ladies Circle 23 June. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. Llantwit Major. 26 June. 8pm. CCSO. St John the Evangelist, Canton. memorabilia please bring them along. 29 June. 7pm. Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. LLANDAFF FESTIVAL at Llandaff Cathedral this week. 29 June. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. Canton Uniting Church. Events are free apart from the Champagne & Canapés. 30 June. 7.30pm. Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Eglwys Dewi Sant. Sun 10 June. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Jeffrey Howard. 30 June. 7.30pm. Samaritan’s Purse Concert. City Temple. Mon 11 June. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem: Llandaff 1 July. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Ashley Grote. Cathedral. 7 July. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem. Llandaff Cathedral. Cathedral Choral Society. Tue 12 June. 7.30pm. WNO Instrumentalist inc. Gail HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from Mathew Pearson (sop) and James Southall (piano). Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for the troops Thur 14 June. 7.30pm. Jazz Evening: RWCMD. presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at night and they Fri 15 June. 7.30pm. Piano Recital: Matthew Drinkwater. are desperate for warm hats. If you can help in any way – Sat 16 June. 7.30pm. Concert: Llandaff Cathedral Choir knitting or crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – and RWCMD Symphonic Brass. please contact Tricia (20-484808. Sun 17 June. 10.45am. Festival Service of Thanksgiving WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors followed by Champagne & Canapés (tickets required). and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of COFFEE CONCERT . The eighth concert in our monthly the sidesmen if you are new with us. series is “Songs of Night and Dreams” by Gareth Blake CONTACT NUMBERS . (bass), Anne Braley (mezzo sop) and Carl Grainger Rev Stewart Lisk: (Accompanist) on Sat 23 June at 11am. (((20-484808/20-487854. VILLAGE FETE in aid of the NDCS (National Deaf Parish Office (((20-484808, Children’s Society) at Roath Church House on Sun 24 [email protected] June, 12-5pm. Contact Rhian (0798-798484, Lisa Please let the clergy know (07791-345851 or Rebecca (07919-184443. of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. COMPLINE . Next service: 28 June. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1881 Sunday, 17th June, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Holy Baptism of Kitty Emmett Edwards. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Hymns: 205, 255, 425, Anthem: Here we offer and present (Maunder) , 336 . 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Lead me, Lord (Wesley) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 39 . Hymns: 32(S), Anthem: Ave Verum (Elgar) , 43(S) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Jeremiah 7, 1-16 . Romans 9, 14-26 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Nigeria and the Metropolitan and Primate of all Nigeria, Archbishop Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Brazil . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Coity, Nolton & Brackla, Rev Michael Komor, Rev Sue Beverly, Rev Ceirion Rees and Reader Huw Jones, and for Archdeacon John Lewis Church in Wales Primary School and Headteacher Sian Evans and her staff and all the children. We pray for the clergy who minister in this parish , our Vicar, Rev Stewart Lisk, and the retired clergy who assist him, especially Rev John Woodward and Rev Vernon Hodgson. We pray for Kitty Emmett Edwards , to be baptised at our Eucharist this morning. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. 29ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. JULIE LEWIS has an exhibition “Metromorphosis – Adventures Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. in Glass”, the Swanse a School of Glass 2012 Degree Show at 2:ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. the National Waterfront Museum Swansea until 23 June. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on 31ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Saturday at 7.30pm: Huw Tregelles Wil liams. 12.00 pm St Teilo’s Leavers’ Service. St Margaret’s. Pre-concert talk “In Praise of Father Willis” at 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. 6.45pm. Followed by a glass of wine and light refreshments in the hall. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 32tu 7.30 pm Choir Practice. THE WELSH CAMERATA concert recorded earlier this year at St Margaret’s, will be on Sunday Half Gsjebz!33oe 6.00 pm Pupils Concert (Miaow Chew). Hour, BBC Radio 2, 8 -30 to 9pm next Sunday. Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Coffee Concert: Gareth Blake (bass), Anne Braley (mezzo sop) and Carl Grainger . 34se 7.30 pm Welsh Camerata Summer Concert. St Illtud’s, Llantwit Major. 7.30 pm Organ Recital: Huw Tregelles Williams. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 7.30 pm Concert: Canton R.F.C. Male Voice Choir. St Mary’s, Canton. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Nativity of St John the Baptist (Gwyl Ifan) . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 40: 1-11; Galatians 3: 23-29; Luke 1: 57-66, 80. THE WELSH CAMERATA SUMMER CONCERT including a first performance of a setting of words by the great Welsh medieval poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, composed by Andrew Wilson-Dickson, on Saturday at 7.30pm in St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major, and on Fri 29 June at 7.30pm at Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Road East. Raising funds for the National Eisteddfod, held this year in the Vale of Glamorgan. Tickets for Llantwit Major £14 (conc. £12) and for Canton £10 (conc. £8) [email protected] (01446-419294 inc. strawberries & cream supper. CONCERT by Canton R.F.C. Male Voice Choir with Christ Congregational Church Chancel Choir, Maryland, USA, at St Mary’s Church, Canton on Saturday at 7.30pm. £5 on the door. Proceeds shared between Cancer Research Wales and renovations to St Mary’s Church. Further information (20-567184. DIAMOND JUBILEE SERVICE . Many thanks to the Choir & Orchestra for their performance of Mozart’s Coronation Mass on Wednesday. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] COFFEE CONCERT . The eighth concert in our monthly ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 11 series is “Songs of Night and Dreams” by Gareth Blake July at 7.30pm. Programme includes Weber’s Der (bass), Anne Braley (mezzo sop) and Carl Grainger Freischutz Overture, Keller’s Flute Concerto in D (soloist (Accompanist) on Saturday at 11am. £2 including coffee Jo Seal) and Schubert’s 5th Symphony. and biscuits. 10% of proceeds to Marie Curie. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at St PARISH QUIZ SHEET is available in church today. You Edward’s) give a concert at the Norwegian Church on Fri 29 have a whole month to answer as many questions as June at 7-8pm. Doors open 6.30pm. Suggested entry fee £2. you can – return the answer sheet (you can have it on e- WHIZZ OFF TO WESTON with Llandaff Diocese Care mail – see form for contact details). Price £1 per quiz of Churches Department on Thur 12 July. We will be sheet. All the proceeds go to Parish Funds – you could visiting Bath & Wells Diocese, looking at three churches sell some to the “clever members” of your family and (Wraxall, Nailsea and Weston) and hearing about how friends, don’t just keep it to yourself. they have been developed for community use and ministry. In the afternoon there will be free time at FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like Weston-super-Mare – why not take the opportunity to to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for enjoy the attractions of the recently re-opened Grade II a particular week, please put you name and phone listed Grand Pier? Coach picks up at Radyr. Booking number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the essential. [email protected] £15 per rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. person. All welcome. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft produce and AFTERNOON TEA hosted by the knitting and crochet other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. group on Sat 14 July at Roath Church House, 2pm-4pm, when you will be able to see some of the work we have ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Here we done and bring any hats and squares ready for us to offer and present” from the cantata “Bethelehem” by send off. Tickets are £1 to cover costs. If you would like John Henry Maunder (1858-1920). The Introit at a lift please ring Kathie Mayer (20-495769. Evensong is “Lead Me, Lord”, from “Praise the Lord, O My Soul” by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) and FINAL COFFEE CONCERT in the current series is on the anthem is the 14 th century Eucharistic hymn “Ave Sat 21 July at 11am, by Julian Martin & James Chadwick Verum Corpus” by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934). (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Said FOR YOUR DIARY . Evensong at 3.30pm. 28 Jun. 9pm. Compline. VILLAGE FETE in aid of the NDCS (National Deaf Children’s 30 Jun. 12pm. Music School Cardiff Pupils Concert. Society) at Roath Church House next Sunday, 12-5pm. Lots 7 Jul. 2pm. Pupils Concert (Jayne Thomas). of stalls: handcrafts, jewellery pictures and many more; face 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. painting, coconut shy, lucky dip and many more games. 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. Refreshments on sale, with performances by the Roath 16 Jul. Associated Board Examinations at St Edward’s. Children’s Choir. Contact Rhian (0798-798484, Lisa (07791-345851 or Rebecca (07919-184443. MUSIC DIARY . 26 June. 8pm. CCSO. St John the Evangelist, Canton. COMPOSER’S CONCERT at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville 29 June. 7pm. Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. Road, next Sunday at 3pm. The First Year Composers of the 29 June. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. Canton Uniting Church. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama present a 30 June. 7.30pm. Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Eglwys Dewi Sant. programme of new music in aid of the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. 30 June. 7.30pm. Samaritan’s Purse Concert. City Temple. Adults £4.50 (conc. & students £2.50). 1 July. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: Ashley Grote. Cathedral. COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 28 June. 7 July. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem. Llandaff Cathedral. SUMMER CONCERT by pupils of “The Piano School – HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from Cardiff” (Gary Mullins) at St Edward’s on Sat 30 June at Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the 12pm. Music by Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Stephen Foster, RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for Beethoven & others. Tickets £2 inc. coffee (children the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at free) in aid of St Edward’s Refurbishment Fund. All night and they are desperate for warm hats. If you can welcome. help in any way – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – please contact Tricia (20- PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on 484808. Mon 2 July, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of [email protected] for details. the sidesmen if you are new with us. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 8 July at 7.45pm CONTACT NUMBERS . when we will be arranging the programme for next year. Rev Stewart Lisk: Please come along or send us ideas for discussion. We (((20-484808/20-487854. do hope more people will join us for what are very lively Parish Office (((20-484808, and interesting discussions, which will re-start in Sept. [email protected] Please let the clergy know ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. to [email protected]

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Uif!Obujwjuz!pg!Tu!Kpio!uif!Cbqujtu Weekly Newsletter No.1882 Sunday, 24 th June, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 553, 552, Purify my heart, Anthem: How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn) , Make Way . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Prevent Us O Lord (Harris) . Psalms 80, 82 . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 551, Anthem: Behold a virgin shall conceive… O Thou that tellest (Handel) , 51(S) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in B flat. Readings: Malachi 4 . Matthew 11, 2-19 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of India (United) , including Anglican, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Brethren in India, and the Disciples of Christ, and Moderator Bishop Philip Marandih , and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of Egypt , facing civil unrest and demonstrations in the aftermath of elections there. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for people across Europe who are suffering as a result of the crisis in the Eurozone . We pray for all who are suffering as a result of the recent flooding . In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llangynwyd with Maesteg, Rev Geraldine Blyth, Rev Beverley Reaney, and Readers David Barrington Evans and Mostyn Kearle . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Frederick Vernon Waite , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is close d on Wednesday this week . 36ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. TENOVUS LADIES COMMITTEE invite 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. you to a Coffee Morning at 5 St Edeyrn’s Uvftebz 10.30 am Tenovus Coffee Morning. 5 St Edeyrn’s Close. Close, Cyncoed on Tuesday at 10.30am . 37ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Raffle, Cakes, Stalls. Admission £2.50. All 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. proceeds to Tenovus. 8.00 pm Concert: City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra. St John the Evangelist, Canton. CONGRATULATIONS to Megan & Ken, who Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. th 38ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. celebrate their 64 wedding anniversary on Tues. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. COMPLINE BY CANDLELIGHT will be sung at St Edward’s on Thursday of this week at 9pm. 39ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - the 9.00 pm COMPLINE BY CANDLELIGHT . last of the monastic “hours”. Gsjebz St Peter the Apostle 3:ui 11.00 am Solemn Capitular Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.00 pm Concert: South Wales Clarinet Choir. Norwegian Church. 7.00 pm Concelebrated Mass (50 th Ordination Anniversary of Fr Harold Clarke). St Martin’s. 7.00 pm Welsh Camerata Summer Concert. Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Rd. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Choral Eucharist with Ordination. Llandaff Cathedral. 41ui 12.00 pm Summer Concert by the Piano School Cardiff (Gary Mullins) . 7.30 pm Concert: “How sweet the sound” by Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 7.30 pm Samaritan’s Purse Charity Concert. City Temple, Cowbridge Rd. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24; 2 Corinthians 8: 7-15; Mark 5: 21-43. THE WELSH CAMERATA concert recorded earlier this year at St Margaret’s, will be on Sunday Half Hour, BBC Radio 2, 8-30 to 9pm tonight. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at St Edward’s) give a concert at the Norwegian Church on Friday at 7-8pm. Doors open 6.30pm. Suggested entry fee £2. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] SUMMER CONCERT by pupils of “The Piano School – ORGAN RECITAL at Llandaff Cathedral next Sunday at Cardiff” (Gary Mullins) at St Edward’s on Saturday at 4.45pm: Ashley Grote (Gloucester Cathedral). Tickets 12pm. Music by Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Stephen Foster, £5 at the door. Beethoven & others. Tickets £2 inc. coffee (children DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 2 Jul. free) in aid of St Edward’s Refurbishment Fund. All 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for welcome. prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, PARISH QUIZ SHEET is available in church today. but donations welcome. No need to book. Please note that the completed sheets are due to be PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on returned by Saturday of this week. You can also have it Mon 2 July, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New on e-mail – see form for contact details. Price £1 per members very welcome – assistance given to learners. quiz sheet. All the proceeds go to Parish Funds – you Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- could sell some to the “clever members” of your family [email protected] for details. and friends, don’t just keep it to yourself. LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY present FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Pastoralmesse and Vaughan to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for Williams’ Five Mystical Songs at Llandaff Cathedral on a particular week, please put you name and phone Sat 7 July at 7.30pm. number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 8 July at 7.45pm CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the when we will be arranging the programme for next year. church for people to bring and buy homecraft produce and Please come along or send us ideas for discussion. We other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. do hope more people will join us for what are very lively ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “How lovely are and interesting discussions, which will re-start in Sept. the messengers” from the oratorio “St Paul” by Felix ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 11 Mendelssohn (1809-47). The Introit at Evensong is “Prevent July at 7.30pm. Programme includes Weber’s Der Us O Lord” by William Henry Harris (1883-1973) and the Freischutz Overture, Keller’s Flute Concerto in D (soloist anthem is “O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion” from the Jo Seal) and Schubert’s 5th Symphony. oratorio “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). AFTERNOON TEA hosted by the knitting and crochet VILLAGE FETE in aid of the NDCS (National Deaf Children’s Society) at Roath Church House today, 12-5pm. Lots of stalls: group on Sat 14 July at Roath Church House, 2pm-4pm, handcrafts, jewellery pictures and many more; face painting, when you will be able to see some of the work we have coconut shy, lucky dip and many more games. Refreshments done and bring any hats and squares ready for us to on sale, with performances by the Roath Children’s Choir. send off. Tickets are £1 to cover costs. If you would like Contact Rhian (0798-798484, Lisa (07791-345851 or a lift please ring Kathie Mayer (20-495769. Rebecca 07919-184443. ( COFFEE CONCERT . Our thanks to Gareth Blake, Anne COMPOSERS’ CONCERT at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Braley and Carl Grainger for their excellent concert Road today at 3pm. The First Year Composers of the Royal yesterday. The final concert in the current series is on Welsh College of Music and Drama present a programme of Sat 21 July at 11am, by Julian Martin & James new music in aid of the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. Adults £4.50 (conc. & students £2.50). Chadwick (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . Walmisley in D minor. Anthem: Give us the wings of 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. faith (Bullock). 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. CITY OF CARDIFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA give a concert FOR YOUR DIARY . at St John the Evangelist Church, Canton, on Tuesday at 7 Jul. 2pm. Pupils Concert (Jayne Thomas). 8pm: Hebrides Overture (Mendelssohn), Second Horn 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Concerto (Strauss), Symphony No.3 (Schumann). Tickets £8 14 Jul. 2pm. Afternoon Tea. Roath Church House. (conc. £6) at the door or (20-306696. 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. CONCELEBRATED MASS at St Martin’s on Friday at 7pm to th 16 Jul. Associated Board Examinations at St Edward’s. celebrate the 50 anniversary of the ordination to the 21 Jul. Coffee Concert (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). priesthood of Father Harold Clarke, former vicar of St Martin’s. All welcome. Details from Rev Irving Hamer (20-482295. MUSIC DIARY . THE WELSH CAMERATA SUMMER CONCERT on Friday at 7 July. 7.30pm. Fauré’s Requiem. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30pm at Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Road East. 11 July. 1pm. Piano Recital: Charles Timberlake. Cathedral. Raising funds for the National Eisteddfod, held this year in the WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Vale of Glamorgan. Tickets £10 (conc. £8) (01446-419294 [email protected] inc. strawberries & cream supper. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR give a concert “How sweet the sound” at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Saturday at CONTACT NUMBERS . 7.30pm. A contemporary repertoire, and an opportunity Rev Stewart Lisk: to hear the young and very talented Welsh soprano Llio (((20-484808/20-487854. Evans. Tickets £10 (over-60 £8, student £5) at the door. Parish Office (((20-484808, SAMARITAN’S PURSE CHARITY CONCERT at City Temple, [email protected] Cowbridge Road East, on Saturday at 7.30pm. Join us for an Please let the clergy know evening of contemporary music and song with a fascinating of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. insight into the work of a major global charity. Tickets £5. 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Uif!Gjgui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1883 Sunday, 1st July, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: Jesus is the Name we honour, O for a thousand tongues to sing, Great is the Lord, Anthem: I’m gonna sing (Spiritual) , We are marching (Siya Hamba) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: I am the resurrection (Tomkins) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 52, 53 . Hymns: 362, Anthem: Ubi Caritas (Duruflé), 184 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: S.S.Wesley Chant Service in G. Readings: Jeremiah 11, 1-14 . Romans 13, 1-10 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Pakistan (United) and Moderator Bishop Samuel Robert Azariah and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Bolivia, Chile and Peru . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for all our Armed Forces and especially for the veterans of the Falklands War , as the memorial is rededicated this weekend. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Margam and Area Dean Canon Philip Masson . We pray for those who were ordained at Llandaff Cathedral Petertide ordinations yesterday: Craig Vaughan, Susan Pratten and Andrew Highway who were ordained as deacons, Emma Louise Rees who was ordained priest, and Fr Phelim O’Hare , formerly a priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Northern Ireland who left to marry and was received into the Church in Wales. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Fr Ken Martin, Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. ORGAN RECITAL at Llandaff Cathedral today 10.00 am Drop-In Day. Llangasty Retreat House. Npoebz at 4.45pm: Ashley Grote (Gloucester Cathedral). 3oe 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Tickets £5 at the door. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. PARISH OFFICE is closed on 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Tuesday this week. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday , Uvftebz St Thomas the Apostle 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very 4se 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20- 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 495496 or Ann James [email protected] for details. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets in 5ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. the vestry on Sun 15 July at 4pm. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. 8.00 pm International Justice Mission Evening. Mackintosh Evangelical Church. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. MUSICAL EVENING at Llangasty Retreat House (Brecon) on Fri at 7pm. 6ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Tickets £7 inc. wine & light refreshments, (01874-658250 or at door. LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CHORAL Gsjebz!7ui 7.00 pm Musical Evening. Llangasty Retreat House. SOCIETY present Fauré’s Requiem , Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Mozart’s Pastoralmesse and 8ui 10.30 am Annual Readers’ Service. Llandaff Cathedral. Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical 11.00 am World Games Family Fun Day. Christchurch, Radyr. Songs at Llandaff Cathedral on 11.00 am Summer Fayre. Llanishen Methodist Church. Saturday at 7.30pm. 2.00 pm Adult Education Pupils Concert (Jayne Thomas). St Edward’s. 7.30 pm Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society: Fauré’s Requiem. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost and will be celebrated as Sea Sunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Ezekiel 2: 1-5; 2 Corinthians 12: 2-10; Mark 6: 1-13. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] ANNUAL READERS’ SERVICE at Llandaff Cathedral NEXT SUNDAY IS SEA SUNDAY . There will be a on Saturday at 10.30am. Bishop David will preside and retiring collection for the work of Mission to Seafarers Dr Michael Glenn, a Reader in the parish of St Mark's, supporting those working at sea from all over the world Gabalfa will be the preacher. Mr Glyn Davies of the by providing spiritual and practical support. Sea Sunday parish of Cwmbach will be licensed as a Reader at this will be celebrated at Cardiff Bay next Sunday at 3pm, service. with the Blessing of the Sea and an Ecumenical Service COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service this at Lightship 2000. morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, & the 100 Club draw. REFLECTIVE RETREAT at Llangasty Retreat House PARISH QUIZ for July is available in church today price 20-22 July: “A Wider Vision” led by Rev Jonathan £1. The winning score for June will be announced next Robinson. Arrive 4pm Friday, depart after lunch Sunday. week so hurry and get your June answers in to Kathie Cost £150. [email protected] (01874-658250. Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your COFFEE CONCERT . The final concert in the current name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or series is on Sat 21 July at 11am, by Julian Martin & email [email protected] James Chadwick (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual “I’m gonna sing”. The Introit at Evensong is “I am the SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at resurrection and the life” by Thomas Tomkins (1572- St Edward’s) give a free concert at St David’s Hall Level 1656) and the anthem is “Ubi Caritas” by Maurice 3 on Sat 28 July at 1pm. Duruflé (1902-1986). FOR YOUR DIARY . CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 9 Jul. 7.30pm. Cytûn Meeting. Schoolroom. Sumsion in A. Anthem: Save us, O Lord (Bairstow). 11 Jul. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Monday, 10am- 14 Jul. 2pm. Afternoon Tea. Roath Church House. 4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for prayer 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. and personal reflection – come for all or part of the day. Bring 16 Jul. Associated Board Examinations at St Edward’s. your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, but 21 Jul. 11am. Coffee Concert (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). donations welcome. No need to book. MUSIC DIARY . INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION EVENING at 11 July. 1pm. Piano Recital: Charles Timberlake. Cathedral. Mackintosh Evangelical Church, Mackintosh Place, on 13 July. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Daniel Moult. St John’s. Wednesday, 8-9.30pm. You are invited to come and 20 July. 8pm. Chamber Philharmonia Cologne. Cathedral. learn about issues of modern day slavery and global 21 July. 7.30pm. Organ recital: John Scott. Eglwys Dewi Sant. injustice and how IJM works to combat these issues. 23 July. 1pm. Organ recital: Carlo Curley. St David’s Hall. Entrance free. Tea and coffee provided. 28 July. 1pm. Clarinet Choir. St David’s Hall Level 3. WORLD GAMES FAMILY FUN DAY at Christchurch, Radyr USPG NAME CHANGE . At its annual conference last week on Saturday 11am to 2pm. Test your Athletic prowess on the the 311-year-old Anglican mission and development agency Bouncy Castle and Inflatable Obstacle Course! Also Stalls, USPG announced it will be changing its name. The new name Games & Prizes, Sporty Crafts, Fancy Dress Competition, – United Society to be known as Us. – will be officially Face Painting, Guess the Weight of the Medallion Cake, BBQ adopted at a launch event in November. & Bar, Lunches and much more… THE SMALL CHARITABLE DONATIONS BILL was SUMMER FAYRE at Llanishen Methodist Church, introduced to Parliament last week. This will allow churches to Melbourne Rd, on Saturday, 11am-1pm. Books, claim back tax on the small change (up to £5000) donated on sweets, cakes, ice cream, tombola, games, jewellery, the collection plate, as if it were Gift Aided. Only cash plants, bottle stall, home produce, greetings cards white donations are covered: standing orders or cheques must still be Gift Aided. The scheme is expected to start next April. The elephant, refreshments/light lunch. Church of England is expecting it to generate an extra £13m. DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm FAITH PARTNERSHIP PRINCIPLES is the title of an initiative when we will be arranging the programme for next year. by the Department for International Development, launched at Please come along or send us ideas for discussion. We Lambeth Palace last week. A document has been produced do hope more people will join us for what are very lively by DFID in consultation with a working group from faith-based and interesting discussions, which will re-start in Sept. development organizations across the faith spectrum, setting CHURCHES TOGETHER . Roath Park Cytûn meets in out principles to guide DFID’s relationship with faith groups, to build greater common understanding, mutual respect and the Schoolroom on Mon 9 July at 7.30pm. cooperation in overcoming poverty. Archbishop Rowan said ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 11 “What we share with each other as faith communities is a July at 7.30pm. Programme includes Weber’s Der vision of humanity that speaks not just of rights but of the Freischutz Overture, Keller’s Flute Concerto in D (soloist honour due to human beings, an honour that informs and Jo Seal) and Schubert’s 5th Symphony. drives our commitment to international development." AFTERNOON TEA hosted by the knitting and crochet CONTACT NUMBERS . group on Sat 14 July at Roath Church House, 2pm-4pm, Rev Stewart Lisk: when you will be able to see some of the work we have (((20-484808/20-487854. done and bring any hats and squares ready for us to Parish Office (((20-484808, send off. Tickets are £1 to cover costs. If you would like [email protected] a lift please ring Kathie Mayer (20-495769. Please let the clergy know ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. to [email protected]

Uif!Tjyui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu;!Tfb!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1884 Sunday, 8th July, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 487, 292, 10(MP), Anthem: I’m Gonna Sing, 119(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: For His is the sea (Ratcliffe) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 63, 64 . Hymns: 272, Anthem: The Radiant Morn (Woodward) , 245 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Jeremiah 20, 1-11a . Romans 14, 1-17. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea and Archbishop Joseph Kopapa and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . On this Sea Sunday we pray for all who “go down to the sea in ships and do business in great waters” (Psalm 107) and for the ministry of The Mission to Seafarers, remembering that seafarers transport more than 90% of the food and goods we use every day. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Kenfig Hill and Rev Jonathan Durley . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Fr Ken Martin and Anne Wright , whose funerals take place this week. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 11.15 am Requiem Eucharist for Mrs Anne Wright. St Anne’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed on :ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Monday and Thursday this week. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. CHURCHES TOGETHER . Roath Park Cytûn 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. meets in the Schoolroom on Monday at 7.30pm. 7.30 pm Cytûn Meeting. Schoolroom. PIANO RECITAL by pianist and composer Charles Timberlake at Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Llandaff Cathedral on Wednesday at 1pm. An informal lunchtime 21ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. recital with a programme of original compositions to sooth the soul. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. CONCERT CANCELLED . 22ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. St Edward’s Orchestra have had 1.00 pm Piano Recital: Charles Timberlake. Llandaff Cathedral. to cancel their concert planned for 6.30 pm Festival of St Teilo’s. St Teilo’s High School . Wednesday evening due to the 7.30 pm Paradise Run. illness of one of the soloists. Uivstebz 1.00 pm REQUIEM EUCHARIST FOR FR KEN MARTIN . St Edward’s. 23ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. ORGAN CONCERT by Daniel Moult (London) on Friday, 7.30 pm Choir Practice. 1.15pm at St John’s (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Daniel Moult. St John’s (town). 24ui 2.30 pm Dance Therapy. Schoolroom. Tbuvsebz! 25ui 2.00 pm Afternoon Tea with Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Seventh Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and there will be a Cakestall and Coffee in the Schoolroom after the Service. St Edward’s Committee will meet at 4pm in the vestry, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Amos 7: 7-15; Ephesians 1: 3-14; Mark 6: 14-29. TODAY IS SEA SUNDAY . There will be a retiring collection for the work of Mission to Seafarers supporting those working at sea from all over the world by providing spiritual and practical support. Sea Sunday will be celebrated at Cardiff Bay at 3pm, with the Blessing of the Sea and an Ecumenical Service at Lightship 2000. CAKESTALL AND COFFEE in the Schoolroom after the Eucharist next Sunday. A chance to admire the mosaic created by the children. Proceeds to the Noahs Ark Appeal. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets in the vestry next Sunday at 4pm. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] FUNERAL AND REQUIEM EUCHARIST for Fr Ken AFTERNOON TEA hosted by the knitting and crochet Martin takes place at St Edward’s on Thursday at 1pm, group on Saturday at Roath Church House, 2pm-4pm, and 2.45pm at the Crematorium. We hold Megan and when you will be able to see some of the work we have her family in our prayers at this sad time. done and bring any hats and squares ready for us to send off. Tickets are £1 to cover costs. If you would like PARISH QUIZ . Congratulations to Stephen Bailey of St a lift please ring Kathie Mayer (20-495769. Margaret’s who won the June Quiz with a score of 83. The July Quiz is available in church today price £1, or COFFEE CONCERT . The final concert in the current via email from Kathie Mayer [email protected] series is on Sat 21 July at 11am, by Julian Martin & James Chadwick (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Sat 21 July at a particular week, please put you name and phone 7.30pm, to celebrate 125 years of the Father Willis organ: number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the John Scott (St Thomas’ Church, Fifth Ave, New York). rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back St Edward’s) give a free concert at St David’s Hall Level of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft 3 on Sat 28 July at 1pm. produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany in East Africa. Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Sun 2 Sep at 7pm. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual MOTHERS UNION FAMILY FUN DAY at St Fagan’s “I’m gonna sing”. The Introit at Evensong is “For His is Museum School on Thur 9 Aug. Play sessions “The the Sea” by Desmond Ratcliffe (1917-2001) and the games we used to play” 11am-3pm. anthem is “The Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away” by Rev Herbert Hall Woodward (1847-1909). ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. Kelly in C. Anthem: Evening Hymn (Balfour Gardiner). FOR YOUR DIARY . DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm when we 15 Jul. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. will be arranging the programme for next year. Please 16 Jul. Associated Board Examinations at St Edward’s. come along or send us ideas for discussion. We do 21 Jul. 11am. Coffee Concert (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo). hope more people will join us for what are very lively and 2 Sep. 7pm. Choral Evensong with Cathays Consort. interesting discussions, which will re-start in Sept. MUSIC DIARY . FESTIVAL OF ST TEILO’S at St Teilo’s School on 20 July. 8pm. Chamber Philharmonia Cologne. Cathedral. Wednesday, 6.30-8.30pm. This is an evening where 21 July. 7.30pm. Organ recital: John Scott. Eglwys Dewi Sant. students' Art and Design Technology work will be on 23 July. 1pm. Organ recital: Carlo Curley. St David’s Hall. display and guests will be entertained with musical and 28 July. 1pm. Clarinet Choir. St David’s Hall Level 3. dramatic items. Entrance free. Parents, students and 28 July. 7.30pm. National Youth Choir of Wales. Cathedral. friends are invited to join us! 4 Aug. 7.30pm. Summer Music Concert. Park End Church. 10 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: James Gough. St John’s. PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of CONGRATULATIONS to Edward Doe who has sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, obtained a First Class Honours in his Physiotherapy ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread degree at London, and received a player of the year and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of award at Blackheath Rugby Football Club. crisps, biscuits or cakes, and warm socks, hats, scarves and gloves. A big thank you to everyone for their HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from continued support. Items can be given to Kathie Mayer Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the (20-495769 or left at Church House either at RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before we the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of help night and they are desperate for warm hats. If you can please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. help in any way – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – please contact Tricia (20- QUIET DAY at Llangasty Retreat House (Brecon) on 484808. Mon 16 July: “Saints and Sinners of the Marches” led by the Very Revd Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Coffee 10am. Commence 10.30am. Cost £27.50. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. ST PETER’S PLAYERS CHARITY CABARET NIGHT at St Peter’s Church Hall on Fri 20 July at 7pm. In aid of CONTACT NUMBERS . MENCAP and Woodlands High School. Tickets £17.50 Rev Stewart Lisk: (table of 10 £160) inc. 2 course meal (07967-507310 (((20-484808/20-487854. or [email protected] Parish Office (((20-484808, [email protected] REFLECTIVE RETREAT at Llangasty Retreat House Please let the clergy know 20-22 July: “A Wider Vision” led by Rev Jonathan of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. Robinson. Arrive 4pm Friday, depart after lunch Sunday. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email Cost £150. [email protected] (01874-658250. to [email protected]

Uif!Tfwfoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1885 Sunday, 15 th July, 2012 Amos 7 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE Hymns: 311, 255, 122(MP), Anthem: Steal Away (Tippett) , 248(MP) . will meet in the vestry this Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). afternoon at 4pm. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Deliver Us O Lord Our God (Batten) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 66 . Hymns: 310, Anthem: Te Deum Laudamus (Woodward) , 372 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Norman Doe. Readings: Ecclesiasticus 4, 11-31 . Romans 15, 14-29 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Episcopal Church in the Philippines and Prime Bishop Edward Pacyaya Malecdan and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this country we pray for those who are suffering as a result of the floods . In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Neath and Area Dean Zoe King . We pray for our Schools , especially Marlborough Road and St Teilo’s, for the teachers and pupils, especially those who are leaving school this week and preparing for the next stage in their careers. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Fr Ken Martin , also Muriel Alice Munday, Annette Osman and Frederick Frank Loder whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday and Friday at 7pm this week. COPY DATE FOR ROATH NEWS is 9.00 am Associated Board Examinations. St Edward’s. Npoebz Monday this week. 27ui 10.00 am Quiet Day. Llangasty Retreat House. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE COMMITTEE meets at 10am on Friday in Room 2 of Roath Church House. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Uvftebz ASSOCIATED BOARD EXAMINATIONS take place at 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 28ui St Edward’s throughout the day on Monday. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. ST PETER’S PLAYERS CHARITY CABARET 29ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. NIGHT at St Peter’s Church Hall on Friday at 7pm. In 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. aid of MENCAP and Woodlands High School. Tickets £17.50 (table of 10 £160) inc. 2 course meal Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. (07967-507310 or [email protected] 2:ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. WELCOME . We extend a warm wel- come to all visitors and newcomers. Gsjebz 10.00 am Roath Church House Committee. Please make yourself known to one of 31ui 4.00 pm Reflective Retreat (3 days). Llangasty Retreat House. the sidesmen if you are new with us. 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.00 pm St Peter’s Players Charity Cabaret Night. St Peter’s Church Hall. 8.00 pm Concert: Chamber Philharmonia Cologne. Llandaff Cathedral. Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Coffee Concert : Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo. 32tu 7.30 pm Organ Recital: John Scott. Eglwys Dewi Sant. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Feast of St Mary Magdalene . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Song of Solomon 3: 1-4; 2 Corinthians 5: 14-17; John 20: 1-2, 11-18. THANK YOU to everyone who helped with Fr Ken’s funeral; to our friends from St Margaret’s who robed and joined the choir; to those who donated money for the flowers; and especially to Sue Oxenham for the beautiful arrangement of the flowers. It was a very moving and fitting farewell to someone who touched all our lives. HATS FOR HEROES AFTERNOON TEA . Thanks to everyone who supported this. It was a great success. Geraldine Burfoot, whose son Matthew is serving with the RAF in Afghanistan had 72 hats to send to “our heroes”. There were also about 8 blankets for Headley Court Rehabilitation Unit for wounded service personnel. CHAMBER PHILHARMONIA COLOGNE give a concert at Llandaff Cathedral on Friday at 8pm. Music by Vivaldi, Bach & Mozart. Tickets ( 20-873573. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] MRS MEGAN MARTIN WRITES: COFFEE CONCERT . The final concert in the current I would like to thank everyone for the kindness shown to series is by Julian Martin & James Chadwick me during the last seven months. I’ve not left the house (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo) on Saturday at 11am. Julian in those months, but knowing so many were thinking of Martin teaches Jazz at Cardiff University and the Gate us helped so much. Arts Centre and has worked with many leading British I cannot speak highly enough for the care Ken received musicians, including Peter King, Jim Mullen, and Alan from the doctor and carers who came in four times a Barnes. He co-founded the Wales Jazz Composers day. Orchestra and has written and produced scores for The service on Thursday was a lovely tribute to Ken and several television and radio shows, including the again I thank Stewart, the clergy, Norman and the choir. children's TV series, Igam Ogam. James Chadwick is a It will take me some time to come to terms with my great regular performer on the British jazz scene and has loss, but I hope to return to church on Sunday. played with Lee Goodall, Chris Batchelor, Thad Kelly Judith and family join me in thanking everyone. Megan. and The Steve Waterman Jazz Orchestra. He teaches on the CL Jazz Course and has been a tutor on the CAKESTALL AND COFFEE in the Schoolroom after the Jamie Abersold and Wavendon jazz courses. Eucharist today. A chance to admire the mosaic created by the children. Proceeds to the Noahs Ark Appeal. ECUMENICAL CELEBRATION at St Mary's, Bute St on Sun 19 Aug at 8.30pm: Vespers, Torchlight Procession, PARISH QUIZ for July is available in church today price Fireworks & Barbecue. £1. Answers to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like (20-495496 or Ann James [email protected] to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . a particular week, please put you name and phone 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. Fireworks Studio. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft FOR YOUR DIARY . produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief 8 Aug. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. in East Africa. A lot of items were sold at the afternoon 19 Aug. 6pm. Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. tea yesterday, raising £15, so we need more items to 3 Sept. Knitting & Crochet Group. sell. 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual MUSIC DIARY . “Steal away to Jesus” from the oratorio “A child of our 21 July. 7.30pm. Organ recital: John Scott. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 23 July. 1pm. Organ recital: Carlo Curley. St David’s Hall. time” by Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905-1998). The 28 July. 1pm. Clarinet Choir. St David’s Hall Level 3. Introit at Evensong is “Deliver Us O Lord Our God” by 28 July. 7.30pm. National Youth Choir of Wales. Cathedral. Adrian Batten (1591-1637?) and the anthem is a setting 4 Aug. 7.30pm. Summer Music Concert. Park End Church. of “Te Deum Laudamus” by Rev Herbert Hall Woodward 10 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: James Gough. St John’s. (1847-1909). SCHOOL LEAVERS . More than 600 Year Six pupils CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: from across South Wales, who will say goodbye to their Wood in D. Anthem: With a voice of singing (Shaw). primary schools for the last time this week, gathered at Visiting choir: Cantonian Illtud. Llandaff Cathedral last Tuesday to celebrate their time together and to prepare for the giant step up to QUIET DAY at Llangasty Retreat House (Brecon) on secondary school. They were joined by the Assistant Monday: “Saints and Sinners of the Marches” led by the Bishop of Llandaff, David Wilbourne, who talked to them Very Revd Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford. Coffee about how far they had travelled already and blessed 10am. Commence 10.30am. Cost £27.50. them on their way. The service was led by the Revd REFLECTIVE RETREAT at Llangasty Retreat House Edwin Counsell, director for education for Llandaff 20-22 July: “A Wider Vision” led by Rev Jonathan Diocese. They carried homemade school banners as Robinson. Arrive 4pm Friday, depart after lunch Sunday. they processed into the cathedral, sang hymns and Cost £150. [email protected] (01874-658250. placed personal mementoes, which they had chosen to remind them of their time in primary school, on a table at ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Saturday at 7.30pm, to celebrate 125 years of the Father Willis organ: the front of the church. The children prepared the music John Scott (St Thomas’ Church, Fifth Ave, New York). for the service using practice material recorded at St Edward’s. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at CONTACT NUMBERS . St Edward’s) give a free concert at St David’s Hall Level Rev Stewart Lisk: 3 on Sat 28 July at 1pm. (((20-484808/20-487854. MOTHERS UNION FAMILY FUN DAY at St Fagan’s Parish Office (((20-484808, Museum School on Thur 9 Aug. Play sessions “The [email protected] Please let the clergy know games we used to play” 11am-3pm. of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Margaret’s on Sun To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to 19 Aug at 6pm. This Service will have a “Jubilee” theme. [email protected]

Uif!Gfbtu!pg!Tu!Nbsz!Nbhebmfof Weekly Newsletter No.1886 Sunday, 22 nd July, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 556, I am a new creation, Magdalene cease from sobs and sighs, Anthem: They have taken away my Lord (Stainer) , 127 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: He is not here (Peace) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 63. Hymns: Mary weep not, Anthem: Dum Transisset Sabbatum (Tallis) , 282(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tallis Short Evening Service. Readings: Zephaniah 3, 14-20 . Mark 15,40 - 16,7. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the L’Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda and Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the Revd Ellinah Wamukoya , who has been elected as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (and in the African Continent). In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Neath, Canon Treasurer Stephen Ryan, Rev Lynda Newman and Readers Ken Reynolds and Sheila Lawrence . We pray for St Margaret’s Church , as they celebrate their Patronal Festival. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Alice Susan Lyon Riddett, Ingrid Baldwin and John Satchel , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. ORGAN RECITAL at St David’s Hall on Npoebz 1.00 pm Organ Recital: Carlo Curley. St David’s Hall. Monday, 1pm-2pm: Carlo Curley (concert 34se 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. organist). £6.50 (conc. £5.50). 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday this week. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the 35ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Cathedral on Wednesday at 7.30pm (St Dyfrig Chapel). Xfeoftebz St James the Apostle 36ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Thursday of this week 37ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of 9.00 pm COMPLINE . the monastic “hours”, sung by candlelight. Next service: 30 Aug. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 39ui 1.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir free concert. St David’s Hall Level 3. 7.30 pm National Youth Choir of Wales. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Ninth Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. St Anne’s will celebrate their Patronal Festival. Eucharist readings: 2 Kings 4: 42-44; Ephesians 3: 14-21; John 6: 1-21. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR (who rehearse at St Edward’s) give a free concert at St David’s Hall Level 3 on Saturday at 1pm. AUGUST QUIZ now available £1. As requested 50 questions only this month. Due to the holidays the July winner will be announced later in the month, so you have a bit longer to submit your answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] PAINTING AND PRAYER at Llangasty Retreat House 6-13 Aug. Chaplain: Rev Michael Campling. Tutor: Christine Dodd. Theme: Glory. Cost £370. (01874-658250 [email protected] MOTHERS UNION FAMILY FUN DAY at St Fagan’s Museum School on Thur 9 Aug. Play sessions “The games we used to play” 11am-3pm. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund THE CHURCH IN WALES REVIEW was published this raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your week, and will now be presented to the Governing Body letter/plastic wallets this week in church. Instructions are for consideration. It makes 50 recommendations which in the letter from the Vicar. Please support this effort and include: try to encourage family members & friends to take part. • Parishes replaced by much larger ‘ministry areas’ which would mirror the catchment areas of secondary FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like schools, where possible, and be served by a team of to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for clergy and lay people; a particular week, please put you name and phone • Creative use of church buildings to enable them to be number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the used by the whole community; rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. • Training lay people to play a greater part in church CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back leadership; of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft • Investing more in ministry for young people; produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief • Developing new forms of worship to reach out to those in East Africa. unfamiliar with church services; • Encouraging financial giving to the church through ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “They have tithing. taken away my Lord” by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901). Full report: http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/review. The Introit at Evensong is “He is not here” from the cantata “Darkness and Dawn” by Fred W. Peace, and FOR YOUR DIARY . the anthem is “Dum transisset sabbatum” (“When the 8 Aug. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. Sabbath was past”) by Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). 19 Aug. 6pm. Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm. MUSIC DIARY . 4 Aug. 7.30pm. Summer Music Concert. Park End Church. WATERLOO FEST in Waterloo Gardens on Sunday 10 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: James Gough. St John’s. afternoon, 19 Aug. The Parish is running the Book and White Elephant Stall and we would be grateful for some ALL THE BELLS . Churches across the UK are being volunteers to help man the stall. If you have any items urged to join together on the first day of the Olympics by for the stall they can be brought directly to the Park on ringing their church bells to welcome the games. At the day from 1pm. For further information or offers of 8.12am on Friday the bells will ring out for three minutes help please contact Gill Day (20-495496. All proceeds as part of a special commission called “All the Bells” by from the Fest to three local charities: Holme Towers, the Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Noah’s Ark Appeal and the Children’s Heart Unit for Creed. It marks the final day of a 70-day Prayer Relay Wales. organised by “More Than Gold” – an organisation equipping Christians to get involved in the games. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Margaret’s on Sun Batons containing prayers have been handed over from 19 Aug at 6pm. This Service will have a “Jubilee” theme. community to community as the relay has followed the ECUMENICAL CELEBRATION at St Mary's, Bute St on Olympic Torch around the UK. Individuals and churches Sun 19 Aug at 8.30pm: Vespers, Torchlight Procession, have taken time to pray for the Games and those Fireworks & Barbecue. involved as well as their own communities as this relay has passed through. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New BISHOP GREGORY'S OLYMPIC PRAYER : Lord God, members very welcome – assistance given to learners. in the gifts of creation you give us strength and power Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- and the will to excel. We seek your blessing on the [email protected] for details. London Olympic and Paralympic Games this year. May they be a time when nations come together in harmony, EUROPEAN HERITAGE “OPEN DOORS 2012” . St when we celebrate all that can be achieved by physical Edward’s will be open on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm. If you and mental application and in human co-operation. have ideas for exhibitions or activities for this event Grant that as the athlete strives for excellence, so we please have a word with Sue Mansell. may be inspired in the spiritual race you set before us COFFEE CONCERTS. Our thanks to Julian Martin & and strive the win the prize offered through the grace James Chadwick (Piano/Guitar Jazz Duo) for their revealed in Christ. Amen. excellent concert yesterday, bringing the current series WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors to an end. Our thanks to Janice for organizing the raffle, and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of which raised £71 for the redecoration fund. The new the sidesmen if you are new with us. series starts on Sat 22 Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano). CONTACT NUMBERS . Rev Stewart Lisk: ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . (((20-484808/20-487854. 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. Parish Office (((20-484808, 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the [email protected] Fireworks Studio. Please let the clergy know 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. Jayne Thomas (accomp). To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. to [email protected]

Uif!Ojoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1887 Sunday, 29 th July, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 34(MP), 296, 415, Anthem: Brother James’ Air (Marosa) , 137(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Compline Hymn . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 74 vv 12-17 . Hymns: 86(MP), Anthem: Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber) , 192 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Job 19, 1-27a . Hebrews 8 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Scottish Episcopal Church and Primus David Chillingworth and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llanharry . We pray for the Very Revd John T. Lewis , who retires as Dean of Llandaff this week. We pray for St Anne’s Church as they celebrate their Patronal Festival today. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Diana Beckitt , who died recently, also Phyllis Smith , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at UIJT!XFFL! St Edward’s on Friday at 6pm this week. Npoebz!41ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. Uvftebz!42tu 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. PARISH SURGERY is on Mondays, 6pm-7pm Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. in the Parish Office, for bookings of weddings 2tu!Bvh 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. and baptisms. Gsjebz!4se 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Tbuvsebz! 5ui 7.30 pm Summer Music Concert. Park End Presbyterian Church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Tenth Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Exodus 16: 2-4, 9-15; Ephesians 4: 1-16; John 6: 24-35. MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your letter/plastic wallets this week in church. Instructions are in the letter from the Vicar. Please support this effort and try to encourage family members and friends to take part. FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for a particular week, please put you name and phone number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at night and they are desperate for warm hats. We have sent out 72 hats so far. Please continue knitting hats and making squares which will be sent off in the Autumn. If you can help in any way – knitting or crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – please contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Tricia Osman (20-484808. SUMMER MUSIC CONCERT at Park End Presbyterian Church on Saturday at 7.30pm. Popular music & songs, followed by light refreshments. Free entry. Retiring collection to support the Church Guatemala Appeal and funds for mission in Nepal. PAINTING AND PRAYER at Llangasty Retreat House 6-13 Aug. Chaplain: Rev Michael Campling. Tutor: Christine Dodd. Theme: Glory. Cost £370. (01874-658250 [email protected] http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] AUGUST QUIZ now available £1. As requested 50 EUROPEAN HERITAGE “OPEN DOORS 2012” . St questions only this month. The June winner was Edward’s will be open on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm. If you Stephen Bailey. Due to the holidays the July winner will have ideas for exhibitions or activities for this event be announced later in the month, so you have a bit please have a word with Sue Mansell, Alan or Kathie longer to submit your answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Mayer. Newminster Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or e-mail DISCUSSION GROUP will restart after the holidays with [email protected] monthly meetings, the first of which is on Sun 2 Sep at 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House, topic to be ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Brother announced. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion James’ Air” (the tune Marosa), composed by James (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits Leith Macbeth Bain (c.1840-1925). The Introit at finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day Evensong is the plainsong Compline hymn “Before the (20-495496. ending of the day”, and the anthem is “Pie Jesu” from COFFEE CONCERTS . The new series starts on Sat 22 the Requiem by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948). Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano). 10% of the NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Music Evensong at 3.30pm: Ireland in F. Anthem: Evening as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see their website Hymn (Balfour Gardiner). Visiting choir: Orrishmere http://www.musicastherapy.org/. There will also be an Singers. opportunity to make further donations to the charity. Future concerts (all Sat 11am): MOTHERS UNION FAMILY FUN DAY at St Fagan’s 27 Oct John Sadler (Baritone), Jayne Thomas (accomp) Museum School on Thur 9 Aug. Play sessions “The 24 Nov C’est Bon-Opera Ensemble games we used to play” 11am-3pm. 15 Dec Viva Voce (Vocal Ensemble) ART EXHIBITION at the Gate Arts & Community Centre 26 Jan Catherine Milledge (Piano) 17Aug - 7 Sept. “Spirit of Place” – a collection of 23 Feb Pavane Early Music Consort drawings of urban Welsh landscapes by the renowned 23 Mar APQuick Trio artist Brian R. Gardiner, who is a member of the 27 Apr Emyr Roberts (piano), Elizabeth May (flute) Thursday morning Art Group which meets at Roath 25 May Green Dragon String Quartet Church House. 22 Jun Nicola Harris (Sop) & Jayne Thomas (accomp) 20 Jul Jazz Duo: Julian Martin (piano) & James CAPEL-Y-FFIN PILGRIMAGE on Sat 18 Aug. 11.30am Chadwick (guitar) Solemn Eucharist at St David’s Church, Llanthony. 1.30pm Assemble outside St David’s for Pilgrimage ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . Walk. 3.30pm Assemble outside St Mary’s, Capel-y-ffin 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. to process to the Wayside Calvary and to the Abbey 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the Church for the Ecumenical Office of the Blessed Virgin Fireworks Studio. Mary, followed by prayers at the Statue of Our Lady of 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & Llanthony. Jayne Thomas (accomp). 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. WATERLOO FEST in Waterloo Gardens on Sunday afternoon, 19 Aug. The Parish is running the Book and FOR YOUR DIARY . White Elephant Stall and we would be grateful for some 8 Aug. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. volunteers to help man the stall. If you have any items 19 Aug. 6pm. Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. for the stall they can be brought directly to the Park on 30 Aug. 9pm. Compline. the day from 1pm. For further information or offers of 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. help please contact Gill Day (20-495496. All proceeds MUSIC DIARY . from the Fest to three local charities: Holme Towers, 10 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: James Gough. St John’s. Noah’s Ark Appeal and the Children’s Heart Unit for 24 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ: David Geoffrey Thomas. Dewi Sant. Wales. ALL THE BELLS . St Edward’s joined thousands of CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Margaret’s on Sun churches across Britain ringing their bells for three 19 Aug at 6pm. This service is a fitting finale to the minutes at 8.12 last Friday to mark the opening of the Waterloo Fest and will have a “Jubilee” theme. Olympic Games. ECUMENICAL CELEBRATION at St Mary's, Bute St on WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Sun 19 Aug at 8.30pm: Vespers, Torchlight Procession, and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Fireworks & Barbecue. the sidesmen if you are new with us. COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at CONTACT NUMBERS . St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- Rev Stewart Lisk: minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic (((20-484808/20-487854. “hours”, sung by candlelight. Next service: 30 Aug. Parish Office (((20-484808, PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on [email protected] Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New Please let the clergy know members very welcome – assistance given to learners. of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. 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Uif!Ufoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1888 Sunday, 5th August, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 362, 400, 390, Anthem: Panis Angelicus (Franck) , 368 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O Lord Increase My Faith (Gibbons) . Officiant: Rev Vernon Hodgson. Psalm 88 . Hymns: 181, Anthem: Exsultate Deo (Scarlatti) , 185 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: Job 28 . Hebrews 11, 17-31 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of South East Asia and Metropolitan Archbishop Bolly Lapok and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Canada and the USA . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Archdeaconry of Morgannwg and Archdeacon Christopher Smith . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rubina Eccles and Philip Burfoot , whose anniversaries occur at this time. NO EVENING PRAYER this week. UIJT!XFFL! MOTHERS UNION FAMILY FUN DAY at St Fagan’s Npoebz!7ui The Transfiguration of Our Lord Museum School on Thursday. Play sessions “The games we used to play” 11am -3pm. Uvftebz!8ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. ORGAN CONCERT by James Gough (Swansea) on Friday, 1.15pm at St John’s Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. 9ui 7.30 pm Paradise Run. Uivstebz!:ui 11.00 am Mothers’ Union Family Fun Day. St Fagan’s Museum School. Gsjebz!21ui 1.15 pm Organ Concert: James Gough. St John’s (town). BELL PEAL at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday, 10am-12.45pm. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 22ui 10.00 am Peal of Bells. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: 1 Kings 19: 4-8; Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2; John 6: 35, 41-51. MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your letter/plastic wallets this week in church. Instructions are in the letter from the Vicar. Please support this effort and try to encourage family members and friends to take part. AUGUST QUIZ now available £1. As requested 50 questions only this month. Due to the holidays the July winner will be announced later in the month, so you have a bit longer to submit your answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] ART EXHIBITION at the Gate Arts & Community Centre 17Aug - 7 Sept. “Spirit of Place” – a collection of drawings of urban Welsh landscapes by the renowned artist Brian R. Gardiner, who is a member of the Thursday morning Art Group which meets at Roath Church House. WATERLOO FEST in Waterloo Gardens on Sunday afternoon, 19 Aug. The Parish is running the Book and White Elephant Stall and we would be grateful for some volunteers to help man the stall. If you have any items for the stall they can be brought directly to the Park on the day from 1pm. For further information or offers of help please contact Gill Day (20-495496. All proceeds from the Fest to three local charities: Holme Towers, Noah’s Ark Appeal and the Children’s Heart Unit for Wales. RETREAT: LETTING GO OF CONKERS at Llangasty Retreat House 3-5 Sept, led by Rev Alan Jevons. Exploring Autumn through readings and poems, pictures, music and songs, all within a structure of worship. Arrive 4pm Monday, depart after lunch on Wed. Cost £150. (01874-658250 [email protected] http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of UN REPORT ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE has sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, criticized the aid system: one year after famine was ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread declared in the Horn of Africa, more than nine million and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of people are still in need of humanitarian assistance. crisps, biscuits or cakes. A big thank you to everyone for The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2012 says their continued support. Items can be left at Church that the aid system is struggling to respond and adapt in House either at Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening a world affected by economic instability, conflict, and just before we leave at 7.30pm. For further information natural disasters. The slow response to events in the or offers of help please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. Horn of Africa demonstrates the inability, or unpreparedness, of the international response-system to COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service heed early warnings. In Somalia, the worst-affected this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, and the 100 country in the region, only 28 per cent of the UN funding Club draw. appeal requirements had been met by June 2011, just ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Panis weeks before famine was declared. Angelicus” by César Franck (1822-90). The Introit at The needs of larger disasters have been met at the Evensong is “O Lord Increase My Faith” by Orlando expense of smaller, less high-profile crises. Two Gibbons (1583-1625), and the anthem is “Exsultate Deo” recipients – Haiti and Pakistan – received 42 per cent of by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725). the total, while all other recipients saw a reduction in their share. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung The report also found that only four per cent of official Evensong at 3.30pm: Sumsion in D. Anthem: Like as the aid was spent on disaster prevention and preparedness hart (Howells). Visiting choir: Lees Court Choir. between 2006 and 2010. Mortality and malnutrition rates in Somalia remain COMPLINE . Next service: 30 Aug. among the highest in the world, and about 2.5 million DISCUSSION GROUP will restart after the holidays with Somalis survive on humanitarian aid. monthly meetings, the first of which is on Sun 2 Sep at "In 2011, the world didn't act until famine was declared, 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House, topic to be and the delay cost lives and money," the country director announced. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion for Oxfam, Senait Gebregziabher, said. "Now, with the (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing warning signs of a worsening crisis, lessons from last about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. year must be learned." PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Margaret’s on Sun Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New 19 Aug at 6pm. This service is a fitting finale to the members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Waterloo Fest and will have a “Jubilee” theme. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. FOR YOUR DIARY . 19 Aug. 6pm. Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. EUROPEAN HERITAGE “OPEN DOORS 2012” . St Edward’s 30 Aug. 9pm. Compline. will be open on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm. If you have ideas for 5 Sep. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. exhibitions or activities for this event please have a word with 8-9 Sep. Opera Mint Summer School. Sue Mansell, Alan or Kathie Mayer. 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. COFFEE CONCERTS . The new series starts on Sat 22 MUSIC DIARY . Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano). 10% of the 24 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ: David Geoffrey Thomas. Dewi Sant. proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Music 14 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Catherin Ennis. St John’s. as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see their website 16 Sep. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: David Thomas. Cathedral. http://www.musicastherapy.org/. There will also be an 21 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Peter King. Eglwys Dewi Sant opportunity to make further donations to the charity. HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from Mathew Future concerts (all Sat 11am): Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the RAF, the 27 Oct John Sadler (Baritone), Jayne Thomas (accomp) Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for the troops 24 Nov C’est Bon-Opera Ensemble presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at night and they 15 Dec Viva Voce (Vocal Ensemble) are desperate for warm hats. We have sent out 72 hats so far. 26 Jan Catherine Milledge (Piano) Please continue knitting hats and making squares which will be sent off in the Autumn. If you can help in any way – knitting 23 Feb Pavane Early Music Consort or crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – please 23 Mar APQuick Trio contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Tricia Osman (20-484808. 27 Apr Emyr Roberts (piano), Elizabeth May (flute) WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors 25 May Green Dragon String Quartet 22 Jun Nicola Harris (Sop) & Jayne Thomas (accomp) and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of 20 Jul Jazz Duo: Julian Martin (piano) & James the sidesmen if you are new with us. Chadwick (guitar) CONTACT NUMBERS . ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . Rev Stewart Lisk: 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. (((20-484808/20-487854. 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the Parish Office (((20-484808, Fireworks Studio. [email protected] 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & Please let the clergy know Jayne Thomas (accomp). of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Fmfwfoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1889 Sunday, 12 th August, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 245, 399, 153(MP), Anthem: Laudamus Te (Vivaldi) , 375 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Let all the world (Nicholas) . Officiant: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Psalm 91, vv 1-12 . Hymns: 266, Anthem: Lord of all being, throned afar (Campbell) , 371 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Job 39,1 - 40,4 . Hebrews 12, 1-17 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of South India (United), one of the four United Churches in the Anglican Communion, and Moderator Gnanasigamony Devakadasham and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Gelligaer, Rev Tony Stephens and Rev Susan Stephens . We pray for the clergy who minister in this parish , our Vicar, Rev Stewart Lisk, and the retired clergy who assist him, especially Rev John Woodward and Rev Vernon Hodgson. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Hubert Carlyon Riddett and John Henry Eccles , whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday at 6pm and Thursday at 7pm this week. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 25ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Xfeoftebz The Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary (The Assumption). 26ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Margaret’s next 27ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Sunday at 6pm. This service is a fitting finale to the Waterloo Fest and will have a “Jubilee” theme. Tbuvsebz! 29ui 11.30 am Capel-y-ffin Pilgrimage. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Twelfth Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, the Waterloo Fest takes place in Waterloo Gardens at 2pm, Cytûn Songs of Praise is at St Margaret’s at 6pm and Choral Evensong will be sung at St Edward’s at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Proverbs 9: 1-6; Ephesians 5: 15-20; John 6: 51-58. ART EXHIBITION at the Gate Arts & Community Centre 17Aug - 7 Sept. “Spirit of Place” – a collection of drawings of urban Welsh landscapes by the renowned artist Brian R. Gardiner, who is a member of the Thursday morning Art Group which meets at Roath Church House. ECUMENICAL CELEBRATION at St Mary's, Bute St on Sun 19 Aug at 8.30pm: Vespers, Torchlight Procession, Fireworks & Barbecue. DISCUSSION GROUP will restart after the holidays with monthly meetings, the first of which is on Sun 2 Sep at 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House, topic to be announced. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. RETREAT: LETTING GO OF CONKERS at Llangasty Retreat House 3-5 Sept, led by Rev Alan Jevons. Exploring Autumn through readings and poems, pictures, music and songs, all within a structure of worship. Arrive 4pm Monday, depart after lunch on Wed. Cost £150. (01874-658250 [email protected] PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. EUROPEAN HERITAGE “OPEN DOORS 2012” . St Edward’s will be open on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm. If you have ideas for exhibitions or activities for this event please have a word with Sue Mansell, Alan or Kathie Mayer. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] WATERLOO FEST in Waterloo Gardens next Sunday CAPEL-Y-FFIN PILGRIMAGE on Saturday. 11.30am afternoon, 19 Aug. The Parish is running the Book and Solemn Eucharist at St David’s Church, Llanthony. White Elephant Stall and we would be grateful for some 1.30pm Assemble outside St David’s for Pilgrimage volunteers to help man the stall. If you have any items Walk. 3.30pm Assemble outside St Mary’s, Capel-y-ffin for the stall they can be brought directly to the Park on to process to the Wayside Calvary and to the Abbey the day from 1pm. For further information or offers of Church for the Ecumenical Office of the Blessed Virgin help please contact Gill Day (20-495496. All proceeds Mary, followed by prayers at the Statue of Our Lady of from the Fest to three local charities: Holme Towers, Llanthony. There is seating in the Abbey Church, but if Noah’s Ark Appeal and the Children’s Heart Unit for the weather isn’t suitable the service will be at 3.30pm at Wales. St Mary’s, followed by the procession. Car parking in the field at Chapel Farm. Please do not park at or near The MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your letter/plastic Monastery itself. There will be a Walk Leader for the wallets this week in church. Instructions are in the letter from Pilgrimage Walk. The route will be up the secluded lane the Vicar. Please support this effort and try to encourage on the east side of the valley, not on the main road that family members and friends to take part. carries the valley vehicle traffic. Stout footwear and AUGUST QUIZ now available £1. As requested 50 weatherproof clothing are essential . questions only this month. Due to the holidays the July FOR YOUR DIARY . winner will be announced later in the month, so you have 19 Aug. 6pm. Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. a bit longer to submit your answer sheets to Kathie 30 Aug. 9pm. Compline. Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your 5 Sep. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or 8-9 Sep. Opera Mint Summer School. e-mail [email protected] 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the duet MUSIC DIARY . “Laudamus Te” from “Gloria” by Antonio Vivaldi (1675- 24 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ: David Geoffrey Thomas. Dewi Sant. 1741). The Introit at Evensong is “Let all the world”, 14 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Catherin Ennis. St John’s. words by George Herbert, music by Morgan Nicholas 16 Sep. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: David Thomas. Cathedral. and the anthem is “Lord of all being, throned afar”, 21 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Peter King. Eglwys Dewi Sant words by O. Wendell Holmes, music by S.S.Campbell. HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the Evensong at 3.30pm: Wood in F. Anthem: Hail RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for gladdening light (Wood). the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at COMPLINE . Next service: 30 Aug. night and they are desperate for warm hats. We have sent out 75 hats so far. Please continue knitting hats COFFEE CONCERTS . The new series starts on Sat 22 and making squares which will be sent off in the Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano). Autumn. If you can help in any way – knitting or ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. please contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Tricia Osman 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the (20-484808. Fireworks Studio. 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & WELSH BIBLE JOINS COLLECTION IN ROME . A Jayne Thomas (accomp). Welsh Bible, donated by Archbishop Barry, has been 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. presented to a Christian community in Rome. The British Ambassador to the Holy See, Nigel Baker, WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors presented it to the Sant’Egidio Community in Rome. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Archbishop Rowan visited the Community’s Chapel in the sidesmen if you are new with us. March. The Chapel’s “Altar of the Bibles” is home to SAYING GOODBYE SERVICE . Cathedrals in England, copies of the Bible from all around the world, in many Wales and Scotland are to hold remembrance services languages, demonstrating the extraordinary diversity of for people who have suffered miscarriage, early term language and cultures of the Bible messages. But with loss or early infant loss. The Saying Goodbye services no Bible in Welsh present in the collection, an appeal for will provide an opportunity for people to join with others a copy was made through the Ambassador’s blog, and who have experienced a loss. In the UK, the life of a one was donated the Archbishop Barry. It is the 1988 baby who dies before 24 weeks gestation is not translation, Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd, the New Welsh recorded with a certificate which leaves the parent with Bible, the successor of the first translation of the Bible no official recognition of the baby’s life. The Saying into Welsh, published in 1588 and revised in 1620. Goodbye website www.SayingGoodbye.org reveals that CONTACT NUMBERS . approximately one in four pregnancies end in Rev Stewart Lisk: miscarriage, and it states that “many people who (((20-484808/20-487854. experience miscarriage are left reeling with little sense Parish Office (((20-484808, of how to commemorate a baby who once held all the [email protected] promise of a life to be lived.” A Service will be held at Please let the clergy know Llandaff Cathedral on Sat 3 Nov at 3pm. More of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. information: www.SayingGoodbye.org or on Twitter To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email @SayinggoodbyeUK to [email protected]

Uif!Uxfmgui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1890 Sunday, 19th August, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk . Preacher: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Hymns: 223, 369, 386, Anthem: Ave Verum (Mozart) , 201(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 2.00 pm Waterloo FEST. Waterloo Gardens. 6.00 pm Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Blessed are the Pure in Heart (Walford Davies) . Hymns: How shall I sing that majesty, Anthem: I will pray the Father (Torrance) , 33 . Psalms 92, 100 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A minor. Readings: Exodus 2,23 - 3,10 . Hebrews 13, 1-15 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church in Southern Africa, and Archbishop Dr Thabo Makgoba and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for The Pacific islands: Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa and the French Overseas Territories of New Caledonia (Kanaky) and French Polynesia (Tahiti) . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Ystrad Mynach & Llanbradach, and Canon Steven Kirk . We pray for those who are on holiday at this time , and for all who live and work in our local community. We pray for our Council of Churches (Cytûn) , those who work locally to promote Christian Unity, and those who work at a national and international level. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Edith Davies , also Margaret Millicent Martin, Winifred Coleman, Beryl Kirby and Stan Kirby , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and UIJT!XFFL!Tuesday at 6pm, Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6.15pm this week. NO PARISH SURGERY until September. Npoebz!31ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday this week. Uvftebz!32tu 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ART EXHIBITION at the Gate Arts & Community Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Centre 17Aug - 7 Sept. “Spirit of Place” – a collection of drawings of urban Welsh landscapes Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. by the renowned artist Brian R . Gardiner, who is a 34se 7.30 pm Choir Practice. member of the Thursday morning Art Group which meets at Roath Church House. Gsjebz St Bartholomew the Apostle 35ui 1.15 pm Organ Recital: David Geoffrey Thomas. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Friday at 1.15pm, to celebrate 125 years of the Father Willis organ : David Tbuvsebz! 36ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Geoffrey Thomas (Llandaff Cathedral). Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Joshua 24: 1-2a, 14-18; Ephesians 6: 10-20; John 6: 56-69. MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your letter/plastic wallets this week in church. Instructions are in the letter from the Vicar. Please support this effort and try to encourage family members and friends to take part. AUGUST QUIZ now available £1. As requested 50 questions only this month. The winner of the July quiz was Ann James, with an outstanding score of 97. Well done to all who submitted their answer sheets. Please submit your August answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Sun 16 Sep at 7pm (please note change of date). http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] WATERLOO FEST TODAY in Waterloo Gardens this EUROPEAN HERITAGE “OPEN DOORS 2012” . St afternoon. Music, bouncy castle, hot food & drinks, Edward’s will be open on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm. If you books, cakes, raffle, Find the Wine, Bric-a-brac and have ideas for exhibitions or activities for this event much more. The Parish is running the Book and White please have a word with Alan or Kathie Mayer. Elephant Stall and we would be grateful for some COFFEE CONCERTS . The new series starts on Sat 22 volunteers to help man the stall, even if it is only for an Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano). 10% of the hour – so far we have very few helpers. If you have any proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Music items for the stall they can be brought directly to the as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see their website Park from 1pm. For further information or offers of help http://www.musicastherapy.org/. There will also be an please contact Gill Day (20-495496. All proceeds from opportunity to make further donations to the charity. the Fest to three local charities: Holme Towers, Noah’s Future concerts (all Sat 11am): Ark Appeal and the Children’s Heart Unit for Wales. 27 Oct John Sadler (Baritone), Jayne Thomas (accomp) CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Margaret’s today 24 Nov C’est Bon-Opera Ensemble at 6pm. This service is a fitting finale to the Waterloo 15 Dec Viva Voce (Vocal Ensemble) Fest and will have a “Jubilee” theme. 26 Jan Catherine Milledge (Piano) 23 Feb Pavane Early Music Consort ECUMENICAL CELEBRATION at St Mary's, Bute St 23 Mar APQuick Trio today at 8.30pm: Vespers, Torchlight Procession, 27 Apr Emyr Roberts (piano), Elizabeth May (flute) Fireworks & Barbecue. 25 May Green Dragon String Quartet 22 Jun Nicola Harris (Sop) & Jayne Thomas (accomp) FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like 20 Jul Jazz Duo: Julian Martin (piano) & James to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for Chadwick (guitar) a particular week, please put you name and phone number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the th ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the 14 Fireworks Studio. century Eucharistic hymn “Ave Verum Corpus” by 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). The Introit at Jayne Thomas (accomp). Evensong is “Blessed are the pure in heart” by Henry 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. Walford Davies (1869-1941) and the anthem is “I will FOR YOUR DIARY . pray the father” by Rev George William Torrance (1835- 30 Aug. 9pm. Compline. 1907). 5 Sep. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung 8-9 Sep. Opera Mint Summer School. Evensong at 3.30pm: Darke in F. Anthem: My soul, 16 Sep. 7pm. Choral Evensong with Cathays Consort. there is a country (Parry). Visiting choir: Wessex 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. Cantorum. MUSIC DIARY . 24 Aug. 1.15pm. Organ: David Geoffrey Thomas. Dewi Sant. COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at 14 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Catherin Ennis. St John’s. St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- 16 Sep. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: David Thomas. Cathedral. minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic 21 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Peter King. Eglwys Dewi Sant “hours”, sung by candlelight. Next service: 30 Aug. HATS FOR HEROES . In response to a request from DISCUSSION GROUP will restart after the holidays with Mathew Burfoot (Tricia’s nephew), who is serving in the monthly meetings, the first of which is on Sun 2 Sep at RAF, the Knitting and Crochet Group is making hats for 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House, topic to be the troops presently in Afghanistan as it gets very cold at announced. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion night and they are desperate for warm hats. We have (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits sent out 72 hats so far. Please continue knitting hats finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day and making squares which will be sent off in the (20-495496. Autumn. If you can help in any way – knitting or PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on crocheting hats (patterns available) or buying hats – Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New please contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Tricia Osman members very welcome – assistance given to learners. (20-484808. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors [email protected] for details. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of HERITAGE OPEN DAYS AT ST MARGARET’S are Sat the sidesmen if you are new with us. 15 Sep 12.30-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sep 2-5.30pm. We CONTACT NUMBERS . need help to serve afternoon teas, supervise access to Rev Stewart Lisk: the tower, serve at the sales tables and general (((20-484808/20-487854. stewarding. Any contributions for the sales tables would Parish Office (((20-484808, be appreciated. Garden produce or plants etc., would be [email protected] good. Homemade jam and chutney is a favourite and as Please let the clergy know always, we call on our cooks for help with homemade of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. cakes to serve with the refreshments. Contact Pat Hyett To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email or Sue Oxenham for any further information. to [email protected]

Uif!Uijsuffoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1891 Sunday, 26 th August, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 303, In Christ Alone, This is my Body, Anthem: Michael Row the Boat Ashore, 262(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Haste Thee O God (Batten) . Psalm 116 . Hymns: Go down Moses, Anthem: God be merciful unto us (Doe) , 217 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons Short Service. Readings: Exodus 4,27 - 5,1 . Hebrews 13, 16-21 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de America and Presiding Bishop Hector Zavala Muñoz and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there, for the people of Haiti , still living in makeshift camps after the earthquake two years ago, and now suffering as a result of Tropical Storm Isaac, and for the victims of cholera in Sierra Leone . In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cwmbach and Ven Christopher Smith , and for Cwmbach Church in Wales Primary School, Headteacher Lloyd Thomas and his staff and pupils. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Elizabeth (Betty) Ann Judd, Hugh James and Wilfred Lewkins , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday UIJT!XFFL! at 6pm, Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6.15pm this week. NO PARISH SURGERY until September. Npoebz!38ui 10.00 am Bell Peal. Llandaff Cathedral . PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. Uvftebz!39ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. BELL PEAL at Llandaff Cathedral on Bank Xfeoftebz The Beheading of St John the Baptist. Holiday Monday, 10am-12.45pm. 3:ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Thursday 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic “hours”, sung b y Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. candlelight. 41ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. ORGAN RECITAL at Wesley Methodist Church, 9.00 pm COMPLINE . Caerphilly, on Saturday at 7.30pm: Martin Clarke (St Oswald’s, Durham). Admission free (retiring collection). Gsjebz 12.00 pm Tax Justice Service. St John’s (town). 42tu 12.30 pm Christian Aid / Church Action on Poverty Meeting. Tabernacle Hall, The Hayes. 6.15 pm Evening Prayer. 6.30 pm Christian Aid / Church Action on Poverty Meeting. “Communities First”, 69b Splott Rd. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Big Clean. St Margaret’s. 2tu 7.30 pm Organ Recital: Martin Clarke. Wesley Methodist Church, Caerphilly. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Deuteronomy 4: 1,2,6-9; James 1: 17-27; Mark 7: 1-8, 14, 15, 21-23. MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your letter/plastic wallets this week in church. Instructions are in the letter from the Vicar. Please support this effort and try to encourage family members and friends to take part. THE HINENI EXHIBITION at the Old Library until 28 Sept, features 59 edited life stories and photographic portraits from the Cardiff Reform Jewish community. It tells their stories, including aspects of work, family and leisure and explores their relationships with Wales, with the UK and with Judaism. Details from Sue Mansell. ST MARGARET’S BIG CLEAN on Sat 1 Sept, 10am-1pm. Can you help? As well as general cleaning, we need to tackle the cobwebs which are high up – ladies and gentlemen to long brushes needed!! Tea and coffee will be provided, if you can help, if only for an hour, please contact Gill Day (20-495496. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] CHRISTIAN AID TAX JUSTICE TOUR is taking the EUROPEAN HERITAGE “OPEN DOORS 2012” . St message of tax justice around Britain and Ireland in a Edward’s will be open on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm, double-decker bus, which will be stopping in Cardiff at starting with Mattins at 10am. Fair Trade stall, Working Street (near the market) on Fri 31 Aug, 10am- exhibitions, Teas/coffees. A warm welcome awaits you. 6pm. Tax dodging costs developing countries an If you have ideas for exhibitions or activities please have estimated £160bn every year – one and a half times a word with Alan or Kathie Mayer. what they receive in international aid. This is caused by loopholes in the global financial system and the ST ANNE’S OPEN DAY 10am-4pm on Sat 15 Sept. unscrupulous companies who seek to exploit them. Home-made cakestall and light refreshments – you are Christian Aid will be joined on the bus by Church Action welcome to attend. on Poverty who will talk about how tax dodging also HERITAGE OPEN DAYS AT ST MARGARET’S are Sat affects lives & livelihoods in the UK. Associated events: 15 Sep 12.30-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sep 2-5.30pm. 12.00-12.30pm. Tax Justice Service at St John’s. Following the session on the Sunday, Evensong will be 12.30-2.30pm. Joint public meeting with Church Action replaced by a Dedication Service for the new extension on Poverty in Tabernacle Hall, The Hayes (Guest at 6pm. speakers: Alvin Mosioma, director of the Tax Justice Network Africa and Niall Cooper, Head of Church Action CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany on Poverty). Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Sun 16 Sep at 7pm. 6.30-7.30pm. Joint public meeting with Church Action on COPY DATE for Newsletter “Croeso” is Tue 18 Sept. Poverty at Communities First, 69b Splott Road. Further details from Mari McNeill (((20-844676, email: COFFEE CONCERTS . As a result of the collections at [email protected] our Coffee Concerts, £206 was sent to the Marie Curie Hospice Penarth. The new series of concerts starts on AUGUST QUIZ now available £1. Please submit your Sat 22 Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano). answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Michael Fireworks Studio. Row the Boat Ashore” by Maurice Gardner (1909-2002). 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & The Introit at Evensong is “Haste Thee O God” by Jayne Thomas (accomp). Adrian Batten (1591-1637?) and the anthem is the 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. setting of Psalm 67 “God be merciful unto us” by Norman Doe. FOR YOUR DIARY . 5 Sep. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung 8-9 Sep. Opera Mint Summer School. Evensong at 3.30pm: Sumsion in A. Anthem: They that 9 Sep. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee Meeting. go down to the sea in ships (Sumsion). 16 Sep. 7pm. Choral Evensong with Cathays Consort. DISCUSSION GROUP will restart after the holidays with 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. monthly meetings, the first of which is next Sunday at 7.45pm MUSIC DIARY . in Room 2 Roath Church House, topic to be announced. Do 14 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Catherin Ennis. St John’s. come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just 16 Sep. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: David Thomas. Cathedral. listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further 21 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Peter King. Eglwys Dewi Sant information from Gill Day (20-495496. CONGRATULATIONS to Harriet Evans Webb who will RETREAT: LETTING GO OF CONKERS at Llangasty be leaving us in September to read English Literature at Retreat House 3-5 Sept, led by Rev Alan Jevons. Exeter University. We wish her every success. Exploring Autumn through readings and poems, pictures, music and songs, all within a structure of WATERLOO FEST . Thank you to everyone who helped, worship. Arrive 4pm Monday, depart after lunch on Wed. especially setting, selling and clearing up on the books Cost £150. (01874-658250 [email protected] and white elephant stall. We raised £173 towards the total which is approximately £2000 and will be shared PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on between Marie Curie Holme Towers, Noah’s Ark Appeal Mon 3 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New and the Children’s Heart Unit for Wales. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors [email protected] for details. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets on Sun 9 Sept at 4pm. the sidesmen if you are new with us. LADIES CIRCLE VISIT to The South Wales 2000 Clay CONTACT NUMBERS . Target Shooting Ground at Mynyddislwyn near Rev Stewart Lisk: Blackwood. You are invited to join us on Mon 10 Sept (((20-484808/20-487854. (10am-4pm). The cost is £5 per person, which includes Parish Office (((20-484808, tea/coffee, a bacon bap and a chance to try clay target [email protected] shooting. If you would like to join us please let Gill Day Please let the clergy know know (20-495496. Maps and directions are available of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. (journey approximately 25 minutes). To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Gpvsuffoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1892 Sunday, 2nd September, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 171, My Jesus My Saviour, 357, Anthem: Deep River (Hellyer-Jones) , Jesus is King . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Purge Me O Lord (Tallis) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 119, vv 1-16 . Hymns: 212, Anthem: The Lord is My Shepherd (Schubert) , 20 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Exodus 12, 21-27 . Matthew 4,23 - 5.20 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Episcopal Church of the Sudan and Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul Yak and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for The Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llantrisant, Rev Vivian Parkinson and Rev Jonathan Ormrod . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Tom Moore, Mollie Clarissa Morgan and Maud Evelyn Holmes , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm, Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed all 4se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. this week , and reopens on 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Wed 12 Sept. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at 5ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. the back of the church for people to bring and Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. buy homecraft produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. 6ui 7.30 pm Paradise Run. 7.30 pm Roath Church House Committee. Room 2, Roath Church House. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30- 7ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. 9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann Gsjebz!8ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. James [email protected] for details. Tbuvsebz! 9ui 10.00 am Opera Mint Summer School. St Edward’s. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, St Edward’s Committee will meet at 4pm in Roath Church House, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 35: 4-7a; James 2: 1-10, 14-17; Mark 7: 24-37. MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund THE HINENI EXHIBITION at the Old Library until 28 raising effort is now taking place. You can obtain your Sept, features 59 edited life stories and photographic letter/plastic wallets this week in church. Instructions are portraits from the Cardiff Reform Jewish community. It in the letter from the Vicar. Please support this effort and tells their stories, including aspects of work, family and try to encourage family members & friends to take part. leisure and explores their relationships with Wales, with ART EXHIBITION at the Gate Arts & Community Centre the UK and with Judaism. Details from Sue Mansell. until 7 Sept. “Spirit of Place” – a collection of drawings of OPERA MINT SUMMER SCHOOL takes place at St urban Welsh landscapes by the renowned artist Brian R. Edward’s on Saturday and Sunday next weekend. Gardiner, who is a member of the Thursday morning Art DISCUSSION GROUP restarts today at 7.45pm in Group which meets at Roath Church House. Room 2 Roath Church House. The topic is The Creation PAUSE FOR THOUGHT . Heather will be doing Pause Story and Evolution. Do come and give it a try – lively for Thought on Radio 2 on Saturday at 4.30am on the discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and Richard Allinson show and next Sunday at 3.30am. If you biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information from prefer to sleep at these times, you could listen to her on Gill Day (20-495496. iplayer! http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of ST EDWARD’S OPEN DAY . St Edward’s will be open sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, on Sat 15 Sept, 10am-4pm, starting with Mattins at ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread 10am. Fair Trade stall, exhibitions, Teas/coffees. A and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of warm welcome awaits you. If you have ideas for crisps, biscuits or cakes. Items can be given to Kathie exhibitions or activities or are willing to help in any way, Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House either at please have a word with Kathie Mayer. Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before we leave at 7.30pm. Thank you for your continued support. CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany For further information or offers of help please ring Chris Choral Evensong at St Edward’s on Sun 16 Sep at 7pm Webb (20-455641. (please note change of date). COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service COPY DATE for the Diocesan Newsletter “Croeso” is Tue 18 Sept. this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, and the 100 Club draw. COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 20 Sept. SEPTEMBER QUIZ now available £1. August winner COFFEE CONCERTS . As a result of the collections at was Rose O’Donoghue, with a score of 48. As requested our Coffee Concerts, £206 was sent to the Marie Curie 50 questions only this month. Please submit your Hospice Penarth. The new series of concerts starts on answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – Sat 22 Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins (piano) and or leave them with your name and contact details (in an Diana Painter (violin), including César Franck’s Sonata envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] for violin & piano (movements 1 & 4), Massenet’s Thais FLOWER ROTA is posted in the porch. If you would like "Méditation" and Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G to provide (or pay for) flowers to decorate the church for minor. 10% of the proceeds of this year’s Coffee a particular week, please put you name and phone Concerts will go to Music as Therapy (Project Beit number on the rota. The colour of the Sunday on the Sahour) http://www.musicastherapy.org/. rota indicates the colour of the altar frontal for the day. OUTING TO COVENTRY on Sat 13 Oct, leaving ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual “Deep Llanishen Leisure Centre at 8.45am and Parkminster River” arranged by Jonathan Hellyer Jones. The Introit at URC (Minister Rd) at 9am. Cost of coach £15 approx. Evensong is “Purge me O Lord” by Thomas Tallis (c.1505- depending on numbers. Leave Coventry at 4pm; back in 1585) and the anthem is the setting of Psalm 23 “The Lord is Cardiff about 7pm. Time to visit Cathedral and City. my Shepherd” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Contact Colwyn Williams 24 Harrismith Rd (20-487260 NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung [email protected] Evensong at 3.30pm: Stanford in A. Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley). Visiting Choir: Cantorion Iesu. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. LADIES CIRCLE VISIT to The South Wales 2000 Clay 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the Target Shooting Ground at Mynyddislwyn near Fireworks Studio. Blackwood. You are invited to join us on Mon 10 Sept 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & (10am-4pm). The cost is £5 per person, which includes Jayne Thomas (accomp). tea/coffee, a bacon bap and a chance to try clay target 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. shooting. If you would like to join us please let Gill Day know (20-495496. Maps and directions are available FOR YOUR DIARY . (journey approximately 25 minutes). 5 Sep. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. ALAN SYKES who has played the organ for many 8-9 Sep. Opera Mint Summer School. services at St Edward’s is giving an organ recital at St 9 Sep. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee Meeting. Mary’s, Swansea on Tue 11 Sept, 1.10-1.50pm. 16 Sep. 7pm. Choral Evensong with Cathays Consort. 20 Sep. 9pm. Compline. CANDLELIT CONCERT on behalf of LATCH on Holy 3 Oct. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. Cross Day, Fri 14 Sept, 7.30pm at Llandaff Cathedral, 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. featuring Treorchy Male Voice Choir & Llandaff Cathedral Choir. Tickets £12 (20-748859. MUSIC DIARY . 14 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Catherin Ennis. St John’s. ST ANNE’S OPEN DAY 10am-4pm on Sat 15 Sept. 16 Sep. 4.45pm. Organ Recital: David Thomas. Cathedral. Home-made cakestall and light refreshments – you are 21 Sep. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Peter King. Eglwys Dewi Sant welcome to attend. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors HERITAGE OPEN DAYS AT ST MARGARET’S are Sat and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of 15 Sep 12.30-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sep 2-5.30pm. We the sidesmen if you are new with us. need help to serve afternoon teas, supervise access to the tower, serve at the sales tables and general CONTACT NUMBERS . stewarding. Any contributions for the sales tables would Rev Stewart Lisk: be appreciated. Garden produce or plants etc., would be (((20-484808/20-487854. good. Homemade jam and chutney is a favourite and as Parish Office (((20-484808, always, we call on our cooks for help with homemade [email protected] cakes to serve with the refreshments. Contact Pat Hyett Please let the clergy know or Sue Oxenham for any further information. Following of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. the session on the Sunday, Evensong will be replaced To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email by a Dedication Service for the new extension at 6pm. to [email protected]

Uif!Gjguffoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1893 Sunday, 9th September, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: The Servant King, 196, I Believe in Jesus, Anthem: Lacrymosa (Mozart) , 166 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 4.00 pm St Edward’s Committee. Roath Church House. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Let thy merciful ears (Mudd) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 119, vv 41-56. Hymns: 292, Anthem: Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell) , 13 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in B flat. Readings: Exodus 14, 5-31 . Matthew 6, 1-18. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Tanzania and Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. On this Racial Justice Sunday we pray for all who suffer as a result of human trafficking, where men, women and children are exploited as commodities for sale, pleasure and exploitation. We pray for the Governing Body of the Church in Wales meeting at Lampeter on Thursday and Friday this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Dinas & Penygraig with Williamstown and Rev Christopher Lewis-Jenkins . We pray for Fr Jim McKnight as he retires from his ministry at St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Percy Morgan Martin , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm and Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 10.00 am Ladies Circle Clay Target Shooting Visit. PARISH OFFICE is closed Monday and Tues- 21ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. day, and reopens on Wednesday this week. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. LADIES CIRCLE VISIT to The South Wales 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 2000 Clay Target Shooting Ground at Mynyddislwyn near Blackwood. You are invited 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Uvftebz to join us on Monday (10am-4pm). T he cost is 22ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. £5 per person, which includes tea/coffee, a Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. bacon bap and a chance to try clay target 23ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. shooting. If you would like to join us please let 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. Gill Day know (20-495496. Maps and directions are available (j ourney approximately Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 25 minutes). 7.30 pm Choir Practice. 24ui ALAN SYKES who has played the organ for many services at St Edward’s is Gsjebz Holy Cross Day giving an organ recital at St Mary’s, Swansea on Tuesday, 1.10-1.50pm. 25ui 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Catherine Ennis. St John’s (town). CANDLELIT CONCERT on behalf 7.00 pm Setting up for the Open Day. of LATCH on Holy Cross Day, 7.30 pm LATCH Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. Friday, 7.30pm at Llandaff Cath- edral, featuring Treorchy Male Voice Tbuvsebz 10.00 am St Edward’s Open Day begins with Morning Prayer. Choir & Llandaff Cathedral Choir. 26ui 10.00 am St Anne’s Open Day. Tickets £12 (20-748859. 12.30 pm St Margaret’s Open Day. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, St Margaret’s Open Day takes place 2pm-5.30pm, there will be a Dedication Service for the new extension at St Margaret’s at 6pm and Choral Evensong will be sung at St Edward’s (accompanied by the Cathays Consort of Viols) at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 50: 4-9a; James 3: 1-12; Mark 8: 27-38. ST EDWARD’S OPEN DAY . St Edward’s will be open on Saturday, 10am-4pm, starting with Morning Prayer at 10am. Fair Trade stall, exhibitions, Teas/coffees. A warm welcome awaits you. Help is also needed on Friday evening from 7pm to set up the exhibitions and prepare for the open day. Anyone who can spare some time please come along. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets today at 4pm in Room 2, Roath Church House. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] CATHAYS CONSORT OF VIOLS will accompany SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT – MATERIAL NEEDED . Choral Evensong at St Edward’s next Sunday at 7pm. If anyone has any scraps of old fabric, buttons, sequins, Introit: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen wool etc, the Sunday School would be pleased to use (William Byrd, 1543-1623); Anthem: Exultate Deo them in their next project: a collage for the Nativity (Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, 1525-1594); Canticles: Scene. Please let Julie Lewis have anything you can Fourth Service (Adrian Batten, 1591-1637?); Preces & contribute. Responses: William Smith of Durham. CHURCH CHILDREN’S WORKERS CONFERENCE at SEPTEMBER QUIZ now available £1. August winner Archdeacon John Lewis School, Brackla, Bridgend, on Sat 6 was Rose O’Donoghue, with a score of 48. As requested Oct: Let the children come to me (the whys and how of children’s work) with guest speaker Mary Hawes (Church of 50 questions only this month. Please submit your England National Children’s Adviser). Kathie Mayer, Lucian answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – Goble and Jane Colley will give a workshop on the “Easter or leave them with your name and contact details (in an Experience” which was presented in Roath for local school envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] children last year. To attend the conference, book by 29 Sept. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Lacrymosa” from THE GATHERING at The Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). The on Sat 13 Oct, 11am-4.30pm celebrates 40 years of Introit at Evensong is The Collect “Let Thy Merciful Ears” covenanting for mission in Wales by the Covenanting Baptist variously attributed to Thomas Weelkes, William Mudd or Churches, the Church in Wales, the Methodist Church, the John Mudd (all 17 th century) and the anthem is “Hear my Presbyterian Church of Wales and the United Reformed prayer, O Lord” by Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Church. Members from all churches/denominations are very welcome to attend. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Jackson in G. Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 14 Oct at 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House. The topic is The Creation Story perfect peace (Wesley). and Evolution. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion THE HINENI EXHIBITION at the Old Library until 28 Sept, (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing features 59 edited life stories, photographic portraits from the about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. Cardiff Reform Jewish community. Details from Sue Mansell. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . ORGAN CONCERT by Catherine Ennis (St Lawrence This year’s Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art Jewry, London) on Friday, 1.15pm at St John’s (town). Group” that meets at Roath Church House. Entrance free. Retiring collection. 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. ST ANNE’S OPEN DAY 10am-4pm on Saturday. 20/21 Oct. Made in Roath Ceramics Exhibition from the Home-made cakestall and light refreshments – you are Fireworks Studio. welcome to attend. 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & Jayne Thomas (accomp). HERITAGE OPEN DAYS AT ST MARGARET’S are on 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. Saturday 12.30-5.30pm and next Sunday 2-5.30pm. We need help to serve afternoon teas, supervise access to FOR YOUR DIARY . the tower, serve at the sales tables and general 18 Sep. Copy date for Diocesan Newsletter “Croeso”. stewarding. Any contributions for the sales tables would 20 Sep. 9pm. Compline. be appreciated. Garden produce or plants etc., would be 3 Oct. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. good. Homemade jam and chutney is a favourite and as 13-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. always, we call on our cooks for help with homemade GOVERNING BODY OF THE CHURCH IN WALES meets cakes to serve with the refreshments. Contact Pat Hyett Thursday and Friday this week at Lampeter to discuss the or Sue Oxenham for any further information. Following Review carried out during the last year, and published in July. the session on the Sunday, Evensong will be replaced All three members of the Review Group will be present: Lord by a Dedication Service for the new extension at 6pm. (Richard) Harries of Pentregarth, former Bishop of Oxford, the group’s chair; Professor Charles Handy, former professor of ORGAN RECITAL at Llandaff Cathedral next Sunday at the London Business School; and Professor Patricia Peattie, 4.45pm: David Thomas (Llandaff Cathedral). first chairwoman of the Lothian University Hospitals NHS DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 17 Sept. Trust and former Chair of the Episcopal Church in Scotland’s 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for Standing Committee. Following the discussion, members will prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the be asked to vote on a motion to welcome the report, thank the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, Review Group and commend the report to the Church for but donations welcome. No need to book. study and action. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Mon 17 Sept, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of members very welcome – assistance given to learners. the sidesmen if you are new with us. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- CONTACT NUMBERS . [email protected] for details. Rev Stewart Lisk: COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 20 Sept. (((20-484808/20-487854. COFFEE CONCERTS . The new series of concerts Parish Office (((20-484808, starts on Sat 22 Sept with a concert by Gary Mullins [email protected] (piano) and Diana Painter (violin), including César Please let the clergy know Franck’s Sonata for violin & piano (movements 1 & 4), of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. Massenet’s Thais "Méditation" and Brahms’ Hungarian To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected] Dance No. 5 in G minor.

Uif!Tjyuffoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1894 Sunday, 16 th September, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: Great is the Darkness, Here I am Lord, 358, Anthem: The Lord bless you and keep you (Rutter) , 142(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 2.00 pm St Margaret’s Open Day. 4.30 pm Choir Practice with Cathays Consort of Viols. St Edward’s. 6.00 pm Evensong with Service of Dedication of the new extension. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong with Cathays Consort of Viols. Preces & Responses: William Smith of Durham. Introit: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen (Byrd) . Psalm 119, vv73-88 . Hymns: 344, Anthem: Exsultate Deo (Palestrina) , 189 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Adrian Batten’s Fourth Service. Readings: Exodus 18, 13-26 . Matthew 7, 1-14 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Province of Uganda and Archbishop Henry Orombi and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for our Parliament , the Coalition Government and the opposition parties. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Tonyrefail with Gilfach Goch, Rev Ruth Moverley, Rev Jayne Shaw and Readers Hendrik Haye and Steve Vargus . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Philip Hugh Williams , whose anniversary occurs at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and UIJT!XFFL! Tuesday at 6pm, Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6.15pm this week. Wednesday and Saturday are Ember Days PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday Npoebz 10.00 am Open Day. Llangasty Retreat House. this week. 28ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. COPY DATE for the Diocesan Newsletter 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. “Croeso” is Tuesday of this week. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Uvftebz 5.30 pm Hineni Exhibition Talk. Cardiff Story Museum. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath 29ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Church House. New members very welcome 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- 2:ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. [email protected] for details. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Thursday of this week at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of the 31ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. monastic “hours”, sung by candlelight. 9.00 pm COMPLINE . ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant Gsjebz St Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist on Friday at 1.15pm, to celebrate 125 32tu 1.15 pm Organ Recital: Peter King. Eglwys Dewi Sant. years of the Father Willis organ: Peter 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. King (Bath Abbey). 6.15 pm Evening Prayer. Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Coffee Concert: Gary Mullins (piano) & Diana Painter (violin) . 33oe 7.30 pm Royal British Legion Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Jeremiah 11: 18-20; James 3:13 - 4: 3 & 7-8a; Mark 9: 30-37. ROATH NEWS copy date for the Michaelmas magazine is next Sunday, 23 Sept. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] COFFEE CONCERTS . The new series of concerts ORDINATION OF MARK DIMOND . There will be a starts on Saturday of this week with a concert by Gary Choral Eucharist with Ordination at Llandaff Cathedral Mullins (piano) and Diana Painter (violin), including on Thur 27 Sept at 7pm, at which our former chorister César Franck’s Sonata for violin & piano (movements 1 and Sunday School leader Mark Dimond will be & 4), Massenet’s Thais "Méditation" and Brahms’ ordained priest. Please keep Mark in your prayers, and if Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor. As a result of the possible attend his Ordination Service. collections at our last series of Coffee Concerts, £206 CONCERT OF RUSSIAN MUSIC (both Sacred & Folk) was sent to the Marie Curie Hospice Penarth. 10% of by the Voskresenije Choir of St Petersburg at Christ the proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Church, Lake Road North, on Thur 4 Oct at 7.30pm. Music as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see their Tickets £10 (079-09986736 or at door. website http://www.musicastherapy.org/ CHURCH CHILDREN’S WORKERS CONFERENCE at ST EDWARD’S OPEN DAY . Our thanks to everyone Archdeacon John Lewis School, Brackla, Bridgend, on Sat 6 who helped with the Open Day yesterday: the exhibitions Oct: Let the children come to me (the whys and how of children’s work) with guest speaker Mary Hawes (Church of and refreshments, music, welcoming people, tidying up England National Children’s Adviser). Kathie Mayer, Lucian afterwards. Goble and Jane Colley will give a workshop on the “Easter MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund raising Experience” which was presented in Roath for local school effort is now taking place. You can obtain your letter/plastic children last year. To attend the conference, book by 29 Sept. wallets this week in church. Instructions are in the letter from ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . the Vicar. Please support this effort and try to encourage This year’s Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art family members and friends to take part. Wallets and coins Group” that meets at Roath Church House. should be returned at any Service on Sun 21 Oct. 10 Oct. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. SEPTEMBER QUIZ now available £1. Please submit your 13 Oct. Made in Roath: Moldovian Orphan Drawing answer sheets by 30 Sep to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Project by Clive Ward. (Schoolroom). Road – or leave them with your name and contact details (in 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. an envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] 19-21 Oct. Made in Roath: a collection of 2D and 3D ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Lord artwork from the graduating class of Fine Art (Howard Bless You and Keep You” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Gardens) 2012 (schoolroom) . Introit at Evensong is “O Lord, make thy servant 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & Elizabeth our Queen” by William Byrd (1543-1623) and Jayne Thomas (accomp). the anthem is “Exsultate Deo” by Giovanni Pierluigi 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. Palestrina (1525-1594). FOR YOUR DIARY . CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 18 Sep. Copy date for Diocesan Newsletter “Croeso”. 20 Sep. 9pm. Compline. Dyson in F. Anthem: I was glad (Purcell). 22 Sep. Coffee Concert: Gary Mullins & Diana Painter. ORGAN RECITAL at Llandaff Cathedral today at 23 Sep. Copy date for Roath News. 4.45pm: David Thomas (Llandaff Cathedral). 30 Sep. Back to Church Sunday. 3 Oct. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. ST MARGARET’S OPEN DAYS continue today, 2pm-5.30pm, and at Evensong at 6pm the new extension will be dedicated. Refreshments 4 Nov. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. will be served after the Service. 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Monday. MUSIC DIARY . 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause 4 Oct. 7.30pm. Russian Choir. Christ Church, Lakeside. 5 Oct. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Huw Williams. Dewi Sant. for prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part 12 Oct. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Thomas Trotter. St John’s. of the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Australian Voices. St Martin’s. No charge, but donations welcome. No need to book. 20 Oct. 7pm Clarinet Choir charity concert. Highfields Church. THE HINENI EXHIBITION at the Old Library until 28 23 Oct. 1pm. Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith. St David’s Hall. 30 Oct. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Glanfa Stage, WMC. Sept, features 59 edited life stories and photographic portraits from the Cardiff Reform Jewish community. It SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT – MATERIAL NEEDED . If tells their stories, including aspects of work, family and anyone has any scraps of old fabric, buttons, sequins, wool etc, the Sunday School would be pleased to use them in their leisure and explores their relationships with Wales, with next project: a collage for the Nativity Scene. Please let Julie the UK and with Judaism. Open Wed-Sun 11am-4pm. Lewis have anything you can contribute. Details from Sue Mansell. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors HISTORY IN THE MAKING . Dr Glenn Jordan and Colin and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Heyman give a short talk about the Hineni Exhibition and the sidesmen if you are new with us. describe how you can create your own oral-history project, at the Cardiff Story Museum (Old Library) on Tuesday, 5.30- CONTACT NUMBERS . 7pm. Places limited: please book (20-788334. Rev Stewart Lisk: (((20-484808/20-487854. CHURCH CHILDREN’S WORKERS CONFERENCE at Parish Office (((20-484808, Archdeacon John Lewis School, Brackla, Bridgend, on [email protected] Sat 6 Oct: Let the children come to me (the whys and Please let the clergy know how of children’s work) with guest speaker Mary Hawes of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. (Church of England National Children’s Adviser). Book To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email by 29 Sept. to [email protected]

Uif!Tfwfouffoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1895 Sunday, 23 rd September, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 258, 256, 11, Anthem: O Be Joyful (Stanford) , 248(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Hail Gladdening Light (Stainer) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 119, vv137-152 . Hymns: 313, Anthem: Agnus Dei (Rutter) , 175 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: Exodus 19, 10-25 . Matthew 8, 23-34 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Episcopal Church in the USA and Presiding Bishop Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the families and colleagues of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes , murdered in Manchester last week, and for Kim, Kayleigh and Kimberley Buckley , who died in the fire at Cwmbran. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cardiff, St Mary with St Dyfrig & St Samson, Canon Graham Francis and Rev David Morris , and for St Mary’s Church in Wales Primary School, Headteacher Ruth Jackson , her staff and all the children. We pray for Mark Dimond as he prepares for his Ordination to the Priesthood on Thursday, and for Norman Doe who will be installed as Chancellor of Bangor Diocese on Thursday. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at 6pm and Morning Prayer will be said on Saturday UIJT!XFFL! at 9.30am (for St Michael & All Angels) this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Tuesday this week. 35ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. CARDIFF LADIES BIBLE SOCIETY ACTION 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. GROUP invite you to a Service wit h a Fair and 7.30 pm St Margaret’s Committee. Church House. Coffee Evening to follow. At Tabernacl, the Hayes, on Wednesday at 7pm. Guest speaker: Rev. Denzil Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. John. Admission to fair £1. 36ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING at 10.30 am Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. on Friday at 19 Axminist er Rd by Fenella 37ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Clapham. Please support this most wor thy 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. charity either by your presence or by donation. 7.00 pm Bible Society Service, Fair & Coffee Evening. Tabernacl, the Hayes. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral. Uivstebz 5.30 pm Installation of Diocesan Chancellor. Bangor Cathedral. SEPTEMBER QUIZ now available £1. Please submit your answer 38ui 7.00 pm ORDINATION of Rev Mark Dimond. Llandaff Cathedral. sheets by 30 Sep. Gsjebz!39ui 10.30 am MacMillan Coffee Morning. 19 Axminster Rd. OUR THANKS to Gary for deputizing for Norman on piano and organ this morning. Tbuvsebz St Michael & All Angels 3:ui 9.30 am Morning Prayer. ROATH NEWS copy date is TODAY . 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm LAVISH Cardiff. Cathays Methodist Church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY) . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Numbers 11: 4-6, 10-16, 24-29; James 5: 13-20; Mark 9: 38-50. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Norman Doe whose Installation as Diocesan Chancellor of the Diocese of Bangor takes place at Bangor Cathedral on Thursday at Choral Evensong (5.30pm). The music for the Service includes Stanford’s Evening Service in Bb and Stanford’s “O Be Joyful”. ORDINATION OF MARK DIMOND . There will be a Choral Eucharist with Ordination at Llandaff Cathedral on Thursday at 7pm, at which our former chorister and Sunday School leader Mark Dimond will be ordained priest. Please keep Mark in your prayers, and if possible attend his Ordination Service. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] THE CHURCH IN WALES GOVERNING BODY discussed the Church in Wales Review Report last week. They unanimously welcomed the Report, and Next Sunday people all around Britain will be inviting thanked the Review Group. Dioceses and parishes are friends, who once attended church, but for one reason asked for their initial reactions to and comments on the or another have lapsed or drifted away, to come back to recommendations in the Report, and to send them to the church, at least for one Sunday. This year we have Standing Committee by 9 Nov. You can download a registered St Edward’s as a “Back to Church” Church. copy using the following (memorable!) URL: The idea is that every one of us should think carefully www.churchinwales.org.uk/structure/govbody/sep12/r.pdf or about the people we know who may have attended just follow the link in the News section of the St church in the past, and personally invite them to come to Edward’s homepage: StEdward.roath.org.uk church with us next Sunday. There are invitation cards at the back of the church to hand out, if that helps. We DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 14 Oct at 7.45pm in believe success isn’t a percentage, a number, or a line Room 2 Roath Church House. The topic is one of the Genesis stories. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part on a graph. Success is one person inviting one person. or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Please help us to make Back to Church Sunday a Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. success at St Edward’s. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund This year’s Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art raising effort is now taking place. Wallets and coins Group” that meets at Roath Church House. should be returned at any Service on Sun 21 Oct. 10 Oct. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. 13 Oct. Made in Roath: Moldovian Orphan Drawing ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “O Be Joyful Project by Clive Ward. (Schoolroom). in the Lord” by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924). 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. The Introit at Evensong is the third century hymn “Hail 19-21 Oct. Made in Roath: a collection of 2D and 3D gladdening Light” set to music by John Stainer (1840- artwork from the graduating class of Fine Art (Howard 1901) and the anthem is the setting of “Agnus Dei” from Gardens) 2012 (schoolroom) . the Requiem by John Rutter (b.1945). 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Jayne Thomas (accomp). Rubbra in A flat. Anthem: Expectans expectavi (Wood). 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. FOR YOUR DIARY . THE HINENI EXHIBITION at the Old Library until 28 30 Sep. Back to Church Sunday. Sept, features 59 edited life stories and photographic 3 Oct. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. portraits from the Cardiff Reform Jewish community. 7 Oct. Harvest Thanksgiving. Open Wed-Sun 11am-4pm. Details from Sue Mansell. 10-27 Oct. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival 2012. LAVISH CARDIFF at Cathays Methodist Church, Crwys 4 Nov. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. Rd, on Saturday at 7.30pm, brings women together from 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. various walks of life and stages of their journey with MUSIC DIARY . God. It is a safe place to know you are Loved Accepted 2 Oct. 7.30pm. Voskresenije Choir. St Mary’s, Barry. Valued Important Significant and know his Heart. 4 Oct. 7.30pm. Voskresenije Choir. Christ Church, Lakeside. Worship, prayer and testimony, followed by tea, coffee, 5 Oct. 1.15pm. Organ Recital: Huw Williams. Dewi Sant. cakes and chat. Free Christian event for women of all 12 Oct. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Thomas Trotter. St John’s. ages. www.lavishcardiff.wordpress.com 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Australian Voices. St Martin’s. 20 Oct. 7pm Clarinet Choir charity concert. Highfields Church. ARCHBISHOP BARRY presents “The Poetry of R S 23 Oct. 1pm. Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith. St David’s Hall. Thomas” at Holy Cross Church, Cowbridge on Tue 2 30 Oct. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Glanfa Stage, WMC. Oct at 7.30pm in aid of the Holy Cross Restoration COFFEE CONCERTS . Our thanks to Gary Mullins and Appeal. Tickets £7 (inc. a glass of Wine or Soft Drink) Diana Painter for starting our new series of Coffee (01446-772771. Concerts so well yesterday. Next: 27 Oct. THE VOSKRESENIJE CHOIR in concert at St Mary’s SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT – MATERIAL NEEDED . If Church, Holton Road, Barry, on Tue 2 Oct at 7.30pm. anyone has any scraps of old fabric, buttons, sequins, wool Tickets £6 (01446-747928. Also at Christ Church, Lake etc, the Sunday School would be pleased to use them in their Road North, on Thur 4 Oct at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 next project: a collage for the Nativity Scene. Please let Julie (079-09986736 or at door. Lewis have anything you can contribute. HARVEST THANKSGIVING will be celebrated WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and throughout the parish on Sun 7 Oct. Any gifts of dried or newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. tinned food will be gratefully received and these will be sent to the homeless hostels in Cardiff. In place of CONTACT NUMBERS . Choral Evensong that day there will be a special service Rev Stewart Lisk: (20-484808/20-487854. of music and readings for Harvest. (( Parish Office (((20-484808, PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on [email protected] Mon 8 Oct, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New Please let the clergy know members very welcome – assistance given to learners. of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] [email protected] for details.

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Uif!Fjhiuffoui!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1896 Sunday, 30 th September, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 296, 171, Purify my heart, Anthem: When the saints go marching in, We are marching . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Hide not Thou Thy face from us O Lord (Farrant) . Psalms 120, 121 . Hymns: 325, Anthem: Turn Thy face from my sins (Attwood) , 478 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A minor. Readings: Exodus 24 . Matthew 9, 1-8. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church in Wales and Archbishop Barry Morgan and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the victims of flooding , especially in Southern Spain, and the victims of the air crash in Nepal . We pray for Norman Doe who was installed as Diocesan Chancellor of the Diocese of Bangor on Thursday. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Lisvane, Rev Chris Burr and Reader Duncan Shadwell . We pray for Mark Dimond, Jon Ormrod and Ben Rabjohns who were ordained priest by Bishop David on Thursday. We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially James Ernest John Mills, Ralph Holtam (priest) and Dora Madeline Holly , whose anniversaries occur at this time.

We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us, and join us for a cup of coffee in the vestry after the Service. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday at 6pm and Thursday UIJT!XFFL! at 7pm, and Morning Prayer will be said at 9.30am on Saturday this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ARCHBISHOP BARRY presents “The Poetry of R S 2tu 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. Thomas” at Holy Cross Church, Cowbridge on Tuesday at 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30pm in aid of the Holy Cross Restoration Appeal. Tickets £7 (inc. a glass of Wine or Soft Drink) (01446-772771. Uvftebz 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 3oe 7.30 pm The Poetry of R.S.Thomas (Archbishop Barry). Holy Cross, Cowbridge. 7.30 pm The Voskresenije Choir. St Mary’s, Holton Rd, Barry. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Tuesday this week. 4se 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT – MATERIAL 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. NEEDED . If anyone has any scraps of old 7.30 pm Paradise Run. fabric, buttons, sequins, wool etc, the Sunday 7.30 pm Servers’ Annual Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. School would be pleased to use them in their next project: a collage for the Nativity Scene. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. Please let Julie Lewis have any thing you can 5ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. contribute. 7.30 pm The Voskresenije Choir. Christ Church, Lake Rd North. Gsjebz!6ui 1.15 pm Organ Recital: Huw Williams. Eglwys Dewi Sant. ORGAN RECITAL at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Friday at 1.15pm, to celebrate 125 Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Morning Prayer years of the Father Willis organ: Huw 7ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Williams (Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, 10.00 am Decorating the church for Harvest Thanksgiving . St James’s Palace, London). 10.00 am Church Children’s Workers Conference. Archdeacon John Lewis School, Brackla. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Harvest Thanksgiving . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. The Service of Harvest Readings and Music replaces Choral Evensong at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Joel 2: 21-27; 1 Timothy 2: 1-7; Matthew 6: 25-33. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] HARVEST THANKSGIVING will be celebrated CHURCH CHILDREN’S WORKERS CONFERENCE at throughout the parish next Sunday. Any gifts of dried or Archdeacon John Lewis School, Brackla, Bridgend, on tinned food will be gratefully received and these will be Saturday, 10am-3pm: Let the children come to me (the sent to the homeless hostels in Cardiff (please, no items whys and how of children’s work) with guest speaker in glass jars). Tricia will be pleased to receive Mary Hawes (Church of England National Children’s contributions towards flowers for decorating the church. Adviser). Kathie Mayer, Lucian Goble & Jane Colley will She will be in church from 10am on Saturday and will give a workshop on the “Easter Experience” which was appreciate help with the decorating. In place of Choral presented in Roath for local school children last year. Evensong next Sunday there will be a special service of THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC is presented by Revelations music and readings for Harvest: if you would like to read as a Charity Concert to raise funds for Lightship 2000, at the one of the lessons, please speak to Alan. Great Hall, Howell’s School, Llandaff on Fri 12 Oct at 7.30pm. MILE OF POUNDS . Wallets and coins should be Tickets £10 (conc. £7.50) (07836-264223 inc. buffet. returned at any Service on Sun 21 Oct. CARDIFF HALF MARATHON takes place on Sun 14 Oct and will involve temporary closure of Marlborough Rd from the SEPTEMBER QUIZ is due in today . Please submit your bottom of Blenheim Rd to Roath Park, Ninian Rd and Lake answer sheets to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – or Roads East and West from 8am until after our 11am Service. leave them with your name and contact details (in an Those who use these roads will need to find an alternative envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] route to church that morning. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “When the DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 14 Oct at 7.45pm in Saints Go Marching In” (arr. Denys Hood). The Introit at Room 2 Roath Church House. The topic is one of the Genesis Evensong is “Hide Not Thou Thy Face From Us O Lord” stories. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part by Richard Farrant (d.1581) and the anthem is “Turn thy or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. face from my sins” by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838). ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2012 . CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: This year’s Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art Jesus College Service (Mathias). Anthem: Factum est Group” that meets at Roath Church House. silentium (Dering). 10 Oct. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Andrew’s & St Teilo’s, Woodville 13 Oct. Made in Roath: Moldovian Orphan Drawing Road today at 7.30pm. Project by Clive Ward. (Schoolroom). THE VOSKRESENIJE CHOIR in concert at St Mary’s Church, 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. Holton Road, Barry, on Tuesday at 7.30pm. Tickets £6 19-21 Oct. Made in Roath: a collection of 2D and 3D (01446-747928. Also at Christ Church, Lake Road North, on artwork from the graduating class of Fine Art (Howard Thur 4 Oct at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (079-09986736 or at Gardens) 2012 (schoolroom) . door. Concerts of Russian Music, both sacred and folk. 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of Jayne Thomas (accomp). sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread QUIZ NIGHT on Sat 20 Oct at 7.30pm in Roath Church and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of House. Teams of six or just come along and we will put you crisps, biscuits or cakes. Items can be given to Kathie with a team. This is a fun evening so please support it. Bring Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House either at your own drinks, glasses and nibbles. Tea/coffee will be Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before we provided in the interval. Tickets cost £5 and are available from leave at 7.30pm. Thank you for your continued support. Pat Hyett or Gill Day or you can pay at the door on the night. For further information or offers of help please ring Chris SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Advance Webb (20-455641. notice: leaflets giving details of how to help a PETERSTON ORGAN FESTIVAL 2012 at St Peter’s, disadvantaged child by filling a shoe box with gifts will be Peterston-super-Ely this week. Wednesday David Geoffrey available in church soon. The service to receive the Thomas (Llandaff Cathedral); Thursday James Bull (St boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm on Sun 18 Nov. Peter’s, Peterston-super-Ely) with Ben Creighton Griffiths FOR YOUR DIARY . (harp); Friday David Butler (Cardiff) with Louise Salmond Smith (recorder & flute); Saturday Gordon Stewart (Kirklees 4 Nov. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. Borough Organist). All 7.30pm. All admission free (retiring 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. collection) except for Saturday (admission £10). MUSIC DIARY . THE CAMBRIAN CONSORT present “Music Divine – the Life 12 Oct. 1.15pm. Organ Concert: Thomas Trotter. St John’s. and Work of Thomas Tomkins” at St Augustine’s, Penarth, 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Thank you for the music. Howell’s School. next Sunday at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (07500-314936. 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Australian Voices. St Martin’s. 20 Oct. 7pm Clarinet Choir charity concert. Highfields Church. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on 23 Oct. 1pm. Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith. St David’s Hall. Mon 8 Oct, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New 30 Oct. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Glanfa Stage, WMC. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. CONTACT NUMBERS . Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- Rev Stewart Lisk: [email protected] for details. (((20-484808/20-487854. LADIES CIRCLE MEETING on Tue 9 Oct at 7.30pm. Our Parish Office (((20-484808, speaker will be from the Swan Rescue: ladies invited to join [email protected] us. There will be a toiletries sales table (unused/new items). Please let the clergy know COFFEE CONCERTS . The second concert in the series of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to is by John Sadler (Baritone) accompanied by Jayne [email protected] Thomas (piano) on Sat 27 Oct at 11am.

]Uibolthjwjoh!gps!uif!Ibswftu Weekly Newsletter No.1897 Sunday, 7th October, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 482, 173(MP), 52(MP), Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Greene) , 483 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Service of Harvest Music and Readings. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 257, 38(MP), 486, 80(MP), 47(MP), 483. Anthems: Creation’s Hymn (Beethoven) , Ye shall dwell in the land (Stainer) , Be glad and rejoice (Statham) , Thou fillest all things (Simper) , For his is the sea (Ratcliffe) , Old Irish Blessing (Agay). In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Province of West Africa and Archbishop Justice Akrofi and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . We pray for Canon Margaret Vertue who has been elected Bishop of the Diocese of False Bay in South Africa, the second female Anglican bishop in Africa. We pray for Dr Richard Clarke , Bishop of Meath & Kildare, who has been appointed Primate of All Ireland. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops meeting in Rome this week, when they will be addressed by Archibishop Rowan, the first time that an Anglican has delivered a substantial address to the synod. At this time of Harvest Thanksgiving , we pray for farmers and all who work on the land, especially those facing stress and financial difficulties. We pray for people throughout the world who are starving , especially in many parts of Africa. We pray for April Jones , her family, and all who have been searching for her. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Roath, St Martin, and Rev Irving Hamer . We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Jean Dolores Taylor, Mildred Edna Mary Hudd and Betty Eleanor Cohen , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at UIJT!XFFL! 6pm, Thursday at 7pm and Saturday (St Edward’s Day) at 6.30pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service 9ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, and the 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 100 Club draw. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New :ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. members very welcome – assistance given to 7.30 pm Ladies’ Circle. Roath Church House. learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. James [email protected] for details. 21ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Concert (St Edward’s Festival) . LADIES CIRCLE MEETING on Tuesday at 7.30pm. Our Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. speaker will be from the Swan Rescue: ladies i nvited to join 22ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. us. There will be a toiletries sales table (unused/new items). Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Thomas Trotter. St John’s (town). 23ui 7.30 pm Thank you for the music (for Lightship 2000). Howell’s School. 7.30 pm The Australian Voices. St Martin’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday this week. 7.30 pm Ignite Event. Rhiwbina Baptist Church. 7.30 pm Cantemus: The Glory of Venice. Dora Stoutzker Hall, RWCMD. Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Outing to Coventry. Parkminster URC. MILE OF POUNDS . Wallets and coins should 24ui 11.00 am Fairtrade Faire. Lisvane Memorial Hall. be returned at any Service on Sun 21 Oct. 11.00 am The Gathering (covenanting for mission in Wales). The Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University. 12.00 pm Devotions to Our Lady of Walsingham. St German’s. 2.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir. Swansea Waterfront Museum. 4.00 pm Theology Public Lecture: Sir Jeremy Cooke. Swansea University. 6.30 pm Evening Prayer. Ofyu!Tvoebz we celebrate our Patronal Festival: The Translation of St Edward, King and Confessor . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Sirach 2: 1-9; Philippians 4: 4-9; John 17: 18-23. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] HARVEST THANKSGIVING will be celebrated through- ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL starts this week. out the parish today. Dried or tinned food will be sent to The first concert is by St Edward’s Orchestra , on the homeless hostels in Cardiff. In place of Choral Wednesday at 7.30pm. Programme includes Keller’s Evensong today there will be a special service of music Flute Concert in D (with Jo Seal as Soloist), Schubert’s and readings for Harvest: if you would like to read one of 5th Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Folk Song Suite. the lessons, please speak to Alan this morning. The Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art OCTOBER QUIZ now available £1. The September Group” that meets at Roath Church House. winner was Anne James, with a score of 47, well done Next Saturday (and Sunday afternoon) there will be an Anne. Please submit your answer sheets by 31 Oct. exhibition in the Schoolroom of the Moldovian Orphan CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Drawing Project by Clive Ward (part of the Made in Daniel Purcell in E minor. Anthem: How lovely are thy Roath Festival). dwellings fair (Brahms). Other events in the following weeks: THE CAMBRIAN CONSORT present “Music Divine – the Life 17 Oct. 7.45pm. CCVG Symphonic Brass. and Work of Thomas Tomkins” at St Augustine’s, Penarth, 19-21 Oct. Made in Roath: a collection of 2D and 3D artwork today at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (07500-314936. from the graduating class of Fine Art (Howard Gardens) 2012 (schoolroom) . ORGAN CONCERT by Thomas Trotter on Friday, 1.15pm at th 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & St John’s (town), marking the 118 anniversary of the organ Jayne Thomas (accomp). made in 1894 by ‘Father’ Henry Willis & Sons. 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC is presented by Revelations DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm in Room as a Charity Concert to raise funds for Lightship 2000, at the 2 Roath Church House. The topic is one of the Genesis Great Hall, Howell’s School, Llandaff on Friday at 7.30pm. stories. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. Tickets £10 (conc. £7.50) (07836-264223 inc. buffet. VICAR ACADEMY is a BBC Wales series showing a year in THE AUSTRALIAN VOICES in concert at St Martin’s on the life of trainee priests. A TV crew spent a year following Friday at 7.30pm. Programme includes Back, Rachmaninov, ordinands from across Wales at St Michael’s College. Starts Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and more. Tickets £12 (conc. £8, Mon 15 Oct 10.35pm, BBC One Wales. student £6) (020-3286-6786 or at the door. Purchase a ticket to get entry to a free workshop at 6.30pm. Register QUIET GARDEN AUTUMN EVENT at Llanishen Methodist online www.theaustralianvoices.com Church, Melbourne Rd on Thur 18 Oct at 11am: "Peace" - a half hour of prayer and silence. Tea/Coffee from 10.30am. IGNITE EVENT on Friday, 7.30pm at Rhiwbina Baptist Further information from Priscilla Quinn (20-753108. Church, featuring the Ignite Band and Going Public Theatre Company. Price £3. PLANTING BULBS IN THE CHURCH GROUNDS . We have a large number of bulbs to plant out. Meet at the church on CANTEMUS present The Glory of Venice: Venetian Sat 20 Oct at 10am – bring a trowel! Details from Tricia. Renaissance & Baroque Music by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, QUIZ NIGHT on Sat 20 Oct at 7.30pm in Roath Church Hassler and Schütz on Friday at 7.30pm at Dora Stoutzker House. Teams of six or just come along and we will put you Hall, RWCMD. Tickets £20/£14 (limited view). with a team. This is a fun evening so please support it. Bring OUTING TO COVENTRY on Saturday, leaving Llanishen your own drinks, glasses and nibbles. Tea/coffee will be Leisure Centre at 8.45am and Parkminster URC (Minister Rd) provided in the interval. Tickets cost £5 and are available from at 9am. Cost of coach £15 approx. depending on numbers. Pat Hyett or Gill Day or you can pay at the door on the night. Leave Coventry at 4pm; back in Cardiff about 7pm. Time to COFFEE CONCERTS . The second concert in the series visit Cathedral and City. Contact Colwyn Williams 24 Harrismith Rd (20-487260 [email protected] is by John Sadler (Baritone) accompanied by Jayne Thomas (piano) on Sat 27 Oct at 11am. FAIRTRADE FAIR at Lisvane Memorial Hall, Heol y Delyn, on Saturday, 11am-2pm. Supported by Cardiff Arms Male Voice PARKMINISTER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (Minister Choir 1.30-2pm. Entrance 50p (u16 free). Road) have on Open Day 11am-3.30pm on Sat 20 Oct to celebrate their redevelopment. All are welcome to come and THE GATHERING at The Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, see the work that has been carried out, and there will also be on Saturday, 11am-4.30pm celebrates 40 years of a Service of Re-dedication at 3pm on Sun 18 Nov. covenanting for mission in Wales by Anglicans, Baptists, SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Advance notice: Methodists, Presbyterians and URC. Members from all churches/denominations are very welcome to attend. leaflets of how to help a disadvantaged child by filling a shoe box with gifts will be available soon. The service to receive the DEVOTIONS TO OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM at St boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm on Sun 18 Nov. German’s on Saturday: 12pm Concelebrated Sung FOR YOUR DIARY . 4 Nov. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. Mass, 2.30pm Procession, Liturgy of Healing and 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. Benediction. Bring packed lunch. Details (20-499867. CHURCH CHILDREN’S WORKERS CONFERENCE . Thanks THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University on to Kathie Mayer, Lucian Goble and Jane Colley who gave a Saturday at 4pm, in association with the Lawyers Christian workshop on the “Easter Experience” on behalf of the parish. Fellowship. “Judge Not…” by the Hon Mr. Justice (Sir Jeremy) WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and Cooke, who has judged many high profile cases, including newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the most recently the Pakistan cricket match-fixing trial. sidesmen if you are new with us. ART EXHIBITION by Brian Gardiner at Inkspot, Newport CONTACT NUMBERS . Road, 13-20 Oct. Opening view 6.30pm on Saturday – wine, Rev Stewart Lisk: soft drinks and buffet will be provided. (((20-484808/20-487854. CARDIFF HALF MARATHON next Sunday involves Parish Office (((20-484808, temporary closure of Marlborough Rd from the bottom of [email protected] Blenheim Rd to Roath Park, Ninian Rd and Lake Roads East Please let the clergy know and West from 8am until after our 11am Service. Those who of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. use these roads need to find an alternative route to church. For an e-newsletter, email [email protected]

Uif!Usbotmbujpo!pg!Tu!Fexbse-!Ljoh!'!Dpogfttps Weekly Newsletter No.1898 Sunday, 14 th October, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Shrine of St Edward Blessing of Legilium Fall given in memory of Fr Ken Martin. Hymns: 474, 274(MP), 519, Anthem: What are these? (Stainer) , 208(MP) . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Lord, make me to know thy ways (Byrd) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 127, 128 . Hymns: 303, Anthem: Ave Maria (Arcadelt) , 192 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: S.S.Wesley Chant Service in G. Readings: Joshua 5,13 - 6.20 . Matthew 11, 20-30 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church in the West Indies and Archbishop John Holder and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the victims of flooding this week in South and West Wales, Devon, Isle of Man and Scotland. We pray for the young Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai shot in the head by a Taliban gunman because she campaigned for girls to be educated. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llandaff North and Rev Stephen Jenkyns . We pray for our musicians and artists taking part in St Edward’s Music and Arts Festival. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially David Stanley Griffiths and Alexander Benjamin John Munday , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Tuesday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors 26ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us.. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. AN EVENING WITH FRANK HENNESSY at Nazareth House Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. on Tuesday at 7.30pm with special gues t, harpist Bethan Nia. 27ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Tickets £10, inc. a drink and light refreshments (20 -220943. 7.30 pm An Evening with Frank Hennessy. Nazareth House. ART EXHIBITION by Brian Gardiner at New Gallery Section, Inkspot Arts and Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Crafts Centre, Newport Rd, 13-20 Oct. 28ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 7.45 pm Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Symphonic Brass (St Edward’s Festival). Uivstebz St Luke the Evangelist PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. 29ui 11.00 am Quiet Garden Autumn Event. Llanishen Methodist Church. 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist (Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices). Llandaff Cathedral. 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR perform in a charity concert for 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Operation Christmas Child at Highfields Church on Saturday at 7pm. Gsjebz!2:ui 10.00 am Graduating Class of Fine Art (Howard Gardens) 2012. Schoolroom Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Planting bulbs. St Edward’s Church Grounds. 31ui 10.00 am Graduating Class of Fine Art (Howard Gardens) 2012. Schoolroom 11.00 am Open Day. Parkminster URC, Minster Rd. ROATH PARK CYTÛN AGM will be held in St 11.00 am Harvest Fair. Steiner School, St Anne’s. Edward’s Schoolroom on Mon 22 Oct at 7.30pm. 11.00 am Seafarers’ Service. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir Charity Concert. Highfields Church. 7.30 pm Roath Church House Quiz. Roath Church House. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Please return your Mile of Pounds contributions next Sunday. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 53: 4-12; Hebrews 5: 1-10; Mark 10: 35-45. AFTER THE EUCHARIST please take a look at the Festival Art Exhibition by the “Thursday Art Group”, and visit the Moldavian Orphan Drawing Project in the Schoolroom and join us in the vestry for a glass of sherry/coffee and the 100 Club Draw. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL continues this week. PLANTING BULBS IN THE CHURCH GROUNDS . We have a large number of bulbs to plant out. Meet at the The Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art church on Saturday at 10am – bring a trowel! Details Group” that meets at Roath Church House. from Tricia. Today there is an exhibition in the Schoolroom of the DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 22 Oct. Moldavian Orphan Drawing Project by Clive Ward 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. Bring your own lunch. (part of the Made in Roath Festival). It will be open after Coffee/tea provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No the service this morning, and 2pm-4pm this afternoon. need to book. On Wednesday at 7.45pm there is a concert by Cardiff TRADITIONAL SILENT RETREAT at Llangasty Retreat County and Vale of Glamorgan Symphonic Brass , House, 22-25 Oct, looking at the spirituality of Luke. Led and in the schoolroom next weekend ( 19-21 Oct) a by Fr Martin Williams. Price £210. (01874-658250. collection of 2D and 3D artwork from the Graduating [email protected] Class of Fine Art (Howard Gardens) 2012 (also part of PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on the Made in Roath Festival). Mon 22 Oct, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New Other events the following week: members very welcome – assistance given to learners. 27 Oct. 11am. Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) & Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- Jayne Thomas (accomp). [email protected] for details. 27 Oct. 7.30pm. Opera Mint: Magic Flute. ANNUAL FRIENDS LECTURE at St Michael’s College on MILE OF POUNDS . The Parish “Mile of Pounds” fund Mon 22 Oct at 7.30pm. Open to all. “Policing Society- Its history and where we are today “ by Sir Trefor Morris CBE, raising effort is now taking place. Wallets and coins QPM, formerly HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for should be returned at any Service next Sunday . England and Wales. Admission free. If you are interested in OCTOBER QUIZ now available £1. Please submit your attending, contact (20-563379 or [email protected] answer sheets by 31 Oct to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 25 Oct. – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE will be performed by Opera Mint at St Edward’s as the final concert of St Edward’s ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “What are These?” by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901). The Introit at Festival on Sat 27 Oct at 7.30pm. Proceeds in aid of St Evensong is “Lord, make me to know thy ways” by William Edward’s funds. Tickets available (01443-217368. Byrd (1543-1623) and the anthem is “Ave Maria” by Jacob SKITTLES EVENING . The Parish of Roath is proud to Arcadelt (c.1507-1568) who died 444 years ago today. announce the First St Anne's Open Skittles evening CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: on Tue 30 Oct at the Croft Public House, Croft St. Tomkins Fifth Service. Anthem: O pray for the peace of Commencing at 8pm (arrive to register from 7.30) the Jerusalem (Howells). event is an open challenge to all parishioners of Roath DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm in Room 2 with team and individual competitions on the night. It is Roath Church House. The topic is one of the Genesis stories. hoped that we can raise three teams from each Church Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just and make this a regular triangular tournament or failing listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further that just a pleasant social evening. Contact Kathie information from Gill Day (20-495496. Mayer (20-495769 [email protected] VICAR ACADEMY is a BBC Wales series showing a year in the life of trainee priests. A television crew spent a year SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Advance following ordinands from across Wales training for ministry at notice: leaflets giving details of how to help a St Michael’s College. Starts Monday 10.35pm, BBC1 Wales. disadvantaged child by filling a shoe box with gifts will be QUIET GARDEN AUTUMN EVENT at Llanishen Methodist available in church soon. The service to receive the Church, Melbourne Rd on Thursday at 11am: "Peace" - a half boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm on Sun 18 Nov. hour of prayer and silence. Tea and Coffee Served from FOR YOUR DIARY . 10.30am. Details from Priscilla Quinn (20-753108. 4 Nov. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. PARKMINISTER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. (Minister Road) have on Open Day 11am-3.30pm on MUSIC DIARY . Saturday to celebrate their redevelopment. All are 23 Oct. 1pm. Organ: Clive Driskill-Smith. St David’s Hall. welcome to come and see the work that has been 30 Oct. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Glanfa Stage, WMC. carried out, and there will also be a Service of Re- FENELLA CLAPHAM would like to thank everyone who dedication at 3pm on Sun 18 Nov. supported her coffee morning for Macmillan’s Cancer HARVEST FAIR at the Steiner School in St Anne’s. Nurses. £400 was raised. Lovely food 11am-4pm on Saturday. All welcome. HARVEST THANKSGIVING . Our thanks to everyone QUIZ NIGHT on Saturday at 7.30pm in Roath Church who contributed in any way to our Harvest Thanksgiving. House. Teams of six or just come along and we will put CONTACT NUMBERS . you with a team. This is a fun evening so please support Rev Stewart Lisk: it. Bring your own drinks, glasses and nibbles. (((20-484808/20-487854. Tea/coffee will be provided in the interval. Tickets cost Parish Office (((20-484808, £5 and are available from Pat Hyett or Gill Day or you [email protected] can pay at the door on the night. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. COFFEE CONCERTS . The second concert in the series is by To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to John Sadler (Baritone) accompanied by Jayne Thomas [email protected] (piano) on Sat 27 Oct at 11am.

Uif!Uxfouz.Gjstu!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1899 Sunday, 21 st October, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 167, Christ Triumphant, Broken for Me, Anthem: Domine Fili (Vivaldi) , 370 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Dixit Dominus (Vittoria) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 141 . Hymns: 299, Anthem: Ye that stand in the house (Spinney) , 27 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A minor. Readings: Joshua 14, 6-14 . Matthew 12, 1-21 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Ceylon (Extraprovincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Penarth & Barry, and Area Dean Peter Cox . We pray for the people of Unity State, South Sudan , for returnees and refugees, and for those suffering now in the rainy season from waterborne diseases and snake bites. We pray for the victims of the series of hit-and-runs in Cardiff on Friday. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell, Maisie Webb & Cynthia Williams . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Kenneth Eccles, Norman Briers, Arthur Thomson and Elizabeth Jane Harries , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at 6pm UIJT!XFFL! and on Thursday at 7pm this week and Morning Prayer on Saturday at 9.30am. Npoebz 10.00 am Drop-In Day. Llangasty Retreat House. NO PARISH SURGERY on Monday this week. 33oe 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday this week. 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP 7.30 pm Cytûn Annual General Meeting. Schoolroom . meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Church House. Church House. New members very 7.30 pm Annual Friends Lecture. St Michael’s College. welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann Uvftebz 1.00 pm Organ Recital: Clive Driskill-Smith. St David’s Hall. James [email protected] for 34se 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. details. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. ROATH PARK CYTÛN AGM will be held in St Edward’s Schoolroom on Monday at 7.30pm. 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on 35ui 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. Thursday at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. service of plainchant - the last of the monastic 36ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. “hours”, sung by candlelight. 9.00 pm COMPLINE . CLOCKS go back an hour on Saturday night. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Morning Prayer. 38ui 11.00 am Coffee Concert: John Sadler (Baritone) and Jayne Thomas (piano). 7.30 pm The Magic Flute (Opera Mint) . Ofyu! Tvoebz is Bible Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 55: 1-11; 2 Timothy 3:14 – 4:5; John 5: 36b-47. COFFEE CONCERTS . The second concert in the series is “From Flanders to Swann (…and lots between)” by John Sadler (Baritone) accompanied by Jayne Thomas (piano) on Saturday at 11am. 10% of the proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Music as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see their website http://www.musicastherapy.org/. There will also be an opportunity to make further donations to the charity. DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Monday, 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No need to book. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University on Monday at 7pm. “Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living” by Prof. Robert White FRS, Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University. ANNUAL FRIENDS LECTURE at St Michael’s College on Monday at 7.30pm. Open to all. “Policing Society- Its history and where we are today” by Sir Trefor Morris CBE, QPM, formerly HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales. Admission free. If you are interested in attending, please contact (20-563379 or [email protected] http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE will be performed by Opera Mint at St Edward’s as the final concert of St Edward’s Festival on Saturday at 7.30pm. Proceeds in aid of St Edward’s funds. Tickets £10 on the door or (01443- 217368. This is an important fund-raising event – please give it your support. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 4 Nov at 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House. The topic is Celtic Christianity. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. PARKMINISTER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (Minister Road) have a Service of Re-dedication 3pm on Sun 18 Nov. SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Advance Planting the bulbs on Saturday morning. notice: leaflets giving details of how to help a OUR THANKS to all the people who came to help plant disadvantaged child by filling a shoe box with gifts will be the bulbs in the church grounds yesterday morning. Lots available in church soon. The service to receive the of people helped, and it was a most enjoyable occasion. boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm on Sun 18 Nov. MILE OF POUNDS . Wallets and coins should be ST MARGARET’S FAYRE on Sat 24 Nov at Roath returned at any Service today. If you have forgotten your Church House, 10am-12.30pm. Please bring items for wallet(s) – please return them as soon as possible. stalls to Roath Church House on the Friday evening OCTOBER QUIZ now available £1. Please submit your from 7.30pm. The stalls are books, white elephant, answer sheets by 31 Oct to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road Christmas Gifts (new), jewellery, CDs, DVDs & videos, – or leave them with your name and contact details (in an toiletries (new), scarves & bags, toys, cakes, bottles, envelope) in church or [email protected] jams & marmalades, colour stall (red & silver). ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Domine Fili” from Information from Gill Day or Pat Hyett. “Gloria” by Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741). The Introit at FOR YOUR DIARY . Evensong is “Dixit Dominus” by Tomás Luis da Vittoria (c.1548-1611) and the anthem is “Ye that stand in the house 30 Oct. 7.30pm. Skittles Evening. Crofts Public House. of the Lord” by Rev Walter Spinney (1853-94). 4 Nov. 4pm. St Edward’s Committee. 18 Nov. 3pm. Parkminster Service of Rededication. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 18 Nov. 6pm. Samaritan’s Purse Service. St Margaret’s. Bairstow in D. Anthem: Steal away (arr. Barnard). 24 Nov. 10am. St Margaret’s Fayre. Church House. STUDENT ECUMENICAL GATHERING at Cathays 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. Methodist Church today at 4.30pm. All welcome. MUSIC DIARY . ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL concludes this week. 30 Oct. 6.15pm. Clarinet Choir. Glanfa Stage, WMC. 31 Oct. 1.05pm Guitar & flute concert. Beulah URC, Rhiwbina. The Festival Art Exhibition is by the “Thursday Art 4 Nov. 3pm. Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. St German’s. Group” that meets at Roath Church House. 4 Nov. 4.45pm. Organ recital: Jonathan Vaughn. Cathedral. Today there is an exhibition in the Schoolroom: a 10 Nov. 7.30pm. Ardwyn Singers. Cathedral. collection of 2D and 3D artwork from the Graduating 14 Nov. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. Blake Theatre, Monmouth. 16 Nov. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Philip Thomas. St John’s. Class of Fine Art (Howard Gardens) 2012 (part of the 17 Nov. 7.30pm Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Cathedral. Made in Roath Festival). FESTIVAL PAINTINGS . Most of the paintings in the On Saturday we have a Coffee Concert “From Flanders Festival Exhibition by the Roath Church House Thursday to Swann (…and lots between)” at 11am by John Sadler Group are for sale at very reasonable prices, with most (Baritone) & Jayne Thomas (piano). (and in some cases all) of the money going to St The final event is Opera Mint’s presentation of “Magic Edward’s Refurbishment Fund. Please see Janice Goble Flute” at 7.30pm on Saturday evening. for more details. ORGAN RECITAL at St David’s Hall on Tuesday, 1pm- SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT – MATERIAL NEEDED . If 2pm, by Clive Driskill-Smith (Christ Church, Oxford). anyone has any scraps of old fabric, buttons, sequins, wool £5.50 (conc. £4.50). etc, the Sunday School would be pleased to use them in their next project: a collage for the Nativity Scene. Please let Julie SOUTH WALES CLARINET CHOIR perform on the Glanfa Lewis have anything you can contribute. Stage, Wales Milliennium Centre, on Tue 30 Oct at 6.15pm. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and SKITTLES EVENING . The Parish of Roath is proud to newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the announce the First St Anne's Open Skittles evening sidesmen if you are new with us. on Tue 30 Oct at the Croft Public House, Croft St. CONTACT NUMBERS . Commencing at 8pm (arrive to register from 7.30) the Rev Stewart Lisk: event is an open challenge to all parishioners of Roath (((20-484808/20-487854. with team and individual competitions on the night. Parish Office (((20-484808, Tickets £6 inc. buffet. It is hoped that we can raise three [email protected] teams from each Church and make this a regular Please let the clergy know triangular tournament or failing that just a pleasant social of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. evening. Contact Kathie Mayer (20-495769 To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email [email protected] to [email protected]

Cjcmf!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1900 Sunday, 28th October, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: At your feet we fall, How shall I sing that majesty, By the Waters of Babylon, Anthem: The Lord gave the Word (Handel) , 266 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Agnus Dei (Batten) . Psalm 119, vv 1-16 . Hymns: When in our music, Anthem: Teach me O Lord (Byrd) , 98(S) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Norman Doe. Readings: 2 Kings 22 . Colossians 3, 12-17 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the Indian Ocean islands: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Maldives . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Penmark and Llancarfan with Llantrithyd, Ven. Peggy Jackson and Rev Gwyn ap Gwilym . We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for our Muslim Community in Cardiff as they celebrate the Festival of Eid al-Adha. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Elizabeth Lily Ronicle , whose anniversary occurs at this time. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at 6pm, Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6.15pm this week. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 3:ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. WEDNESDAY MORNING EUCHARIST is changing time from 10am to 10.15am until further notice. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 41ui 6.15 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir. Glanfa Stage, Wales Millennium Centre. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. NO PARISH SURGERY on 7.30 pm Parish Skittles Evening. The Croft Public House. Monday this week. Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE is closed 42tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. on Tuesday this week. 1.05 pm Guitar/Flute Concert. Beulah United Reformed Church, Rhiwbina. 7.30 pm Paradise Run. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral. Uivstebz All Saints Day HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the 2tu!Opw 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. Cathedral on Wednesday at 7.30pm (St David Chapel). 7.30 pm Choir Practice. ALL SOULS REQUIEM EUCHARIST at St Margaret’s next Sunday at 6pm. There is a list at the back of the church for the names of those to be Gsjebz All Souls Day remembered. They will also be read out at All Soul’s (Friday) Evening Prayer. 3oe 6.15 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm The Magic Flute (Opera Mint). Community Hall, Dinas Powys. Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets next 4se 10.00 am Annual Fair Trade Sale. Park End Church Hall. Sunday at 4pm in the vestry. 3.00 pm Saying Goodbye Service. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is All Saints Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Wisdom 3: 1-9; Revelation 21: 1-6a; John 11: 32-44. ANNUAL FAIR TRADE SALE at Park End Church Hall, Rhydypenau Crossroads, on Saturday, 10am-4pm. Traidcraft tea & coffee served all day. Food, Christmas cards & decorations, gift wrap, jewellery, crafts, beverages, stationery. Come an purchase Christmas gifts that will benefit their producers. Details from Jan Tucker (20-759802. SAYING GOODBYE SERVICE . A remembrance services for people who have suffered miscarriage, early term loss or early infant loss, at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 3pm. Information: www.SayingGoodbye.org or on Twitter @SayinggoodbyeUK ORGAN RECITAL at Llandaff Cathedral next Sunday at 4.45pm: Jonathan Vaughn (Wells Cathedral). http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] SKITTLES EVENING . The Parish of Roath is proud to PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of announce the First St Anne's Open Skittles evening sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, on Tuesday at the Croft Public House, Croft St. ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread Commencing at 8pm (arrive to register from 7.30) the and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of event is an open challenge to all parishioners of Roath crisps, biscuits or cakes. A big thank you to everyone for with team and individual competitions on the night. their continued support. Items can be given to Kathie Tickets £6 inc. buffet. It is hoped that we can raise three Mayer (20-495769 or left at Church House either at teams from each Church and make this a regular Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before we triangular tournament or failing that just a pleasant social leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of help evening. Contact Kathie Mayer (20-495769 please ring Chris Webb (20-455641. [email protected] PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on MILE OF POUNDS . If you did not return your wallets Mon 19 Nov, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New last week, please return them as soon as possible. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. OCTOBER QUIZ still available £1. Please submit your answer Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- sheets by Wednesday to Kathie Mayer, 8 Newminster Road – [email protected] for details. or leave them with your name and contact details (in an ST MARGARET’S FAYRE on Sat 24 Nov at Roath Church envelope) in church or e-mail [email protected] House, 10am-12.30pm. Please bring items for stalls to Roath ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Lord gave Church House on the Friday evening from 7.30pm. The stalls the word” from the oratorio “Messiah” by George Frideric are books, white elephant, Christmas Gifts (new), jewellery, Handel (1685-1759). The Introit at Evensong is a setting of CDs, DVDs & videos, toiletries (new), scarves & bags, toys, “Agnus Dei” by Adrian Batten (1591-1637?) and the anthem is cakes, bottles, jams & marmalades, colour stall (red & silver). “Teach me O Lord” by William Byrd (1543-1623). Information from Gill Day or Pat Hyett. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung CONFERENCE AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE . Exploring Evensong at 3.30pm: Parry in D. Anthem: Give us the wings science, religion and superstition: where does science begin of faith (Alan Smith). Visiting choir: Antony Singers. and superstition end? What should Christians take seriously? At St Mark’s Church, North Rd, on Sat 24 Nov, 10am-4.30pm. LUNCHTIME CONCERT in Beulah United Reformed Cost £15 (conc. £10) contact The Church in Wales, 39 Church, Rhiwbina, on Wednesday at 1.05pm: William Cathedral Rd, (20-348252, by Fri 9 Nov. Browne (guitar) & Victoria Guise (flute). Tickets £6 (conc. £5) on the door. Information (20-625786. COFFEE CONCERTS . Our thanks to John Sadler and Jayne Thomas for their very entertaining concert MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE by Opera Mint at the Community yesterday. The third concert in the series is by the “C’est Hall in Dinas Powys on Friday at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 (u17 Bon” Opera Ensemble on Sat 24 Nov at 11am. free with accompanying adult) (01443-217368. CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR and the Mavron String FOR YOUR DIARY . Quartet present Fauré’s Requiem & Cantique de Jean 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. Racine, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and Saint- MUSIC DIARY . Saëns’ Ave Verum Corpus at St German’s Church next 10 Nov. 7.30pm. Ardwyn Singers. Cathedral. Sunday at 3pm. Tickets £14 (over-60 £12, student £6). 14 Nov. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. Blake Theatre, Monmouth. DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm in Room 16 Nov. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Philip Thomas. St John’s. 2 Roath Church House. The topic is Celtic Christianity. Do 17 Nov. 7.30pm Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Cathedral. come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL . Our thanks to all the music listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further groups and artists who took part in this year’s Festival, information from Gill Day (20-495496. and to all who supported the events. QUIET DAY at Llangasty Retreat House (Brecon) on ROATH PARK CYTÛN AGM . At the meeting last week, Tue 6 Nov: “Biblical Spouses and Siblings” led by the Rev Des Kitto of St Andrew’s URC was elected Very Revd Geoffrey Marshall, Dean of Brecon. Coffee Chairman, Philip Richards was elected Vice Chairman 10am. Commence 10.30am. Cost £27.50. and Treasurer, and Alan Mayer was elected Secretary. CIRCLE DANCING FOR REMEMBRANCE-TIDE at St FESTIVAL PAINTINGS . Most of the paintings in the Festival Michael’s, Gelligaer St, on Sat 10 Nov, 10am-12pm. Exhibition by the Roath Church House Thursday Group are for Details from the Ven. Peggy Jackson (01446-750053. sale at very reasonable prices, with most (and in some cases TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Catherine’s Church, King’s Rd, all) of the money going to St Edward’s Refurbishment Fund. Canton, on Sat 10 Nov at 7pm. All welcome. Please see Janice Goble for more details. DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 12 Nov. SCOUT POST . Please support your local Scouts. Scout 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for stamps remain good value at 20p from group members prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the or in church. Last date of posting: 3 Dec. day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and but donations welcome. No need to book. newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the COPY DATE for Diocesan Newsletter “Croeso” is Tue 13 Nov. sidesmen if you are new with us. PARKMINISTER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (Minister CONTACT NUMBERS . Road) Service of Re-dedication at 3pm on Sun 18 Nov. Rev Stewart Lisk: SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Advance (((20-484808/20-487854. Parish Office (((20-484808, [email protected] notice: leaflets giving details of how to help a Please let the clergy know disadvantaged child by filling a shoe box with gifts will be of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. available in church soon. The service to receive the To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm on Sun 18 Nov. [email protected]

Bmm!Tbjout!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1901 Sunday, 4th November, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: Lord who in thy perfect wisdom, 570, Taizé: Adoramus Te Domine, Anthem: Lo Round the Throne (Ley) , For all the saints . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). ALL SOULS REQUIEM EUCHARIST at St Margaret’s 4.00 pm St Edward’s Committee. Vestry. today at 6pm, when the list of the names of those to be 6.00 pm All Souls Requiem Eucharist. St Margaret’s. remembered will be read. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: All Saints Introit (Adlam) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 148, 150 . Hymns: 524, Anthem: O Quam Gloriosum (Vittoria) , 572 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons Short Service. Readings: Isaiah 65, 17-25 . Hebrews 11,32 - 12,2 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Bermuda (Extra-Provincial to Canterbury) and Bishop Patrick White and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of the USA as they go to the polls on Tuesday, and especially for those suffering as a result of super storm Sandy. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the Coptic Orthodox Community in Egypt as they elect their new spiritual leader today. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Bridgend and Area Dean Canon Edward Evans . We pray for our Schools , especially Marlborough Road and St Teilo’s, for the teachers and pupils, as they return from the half-term break. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli and Beryl Powell . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Harold Paul Treasure, Gwendoline Hopkins, Sylvia Mary Camp, Robert Leighton Walters, Clement Eric George Williams and Leslie Smith , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at UIJT!XFFL! 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Morning Prayer on Saturday at 9am. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday this week. 6ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. NO PARISH SURGERY on Monday this week. Uvftebz 10.00 am Quiet Day. Llangasty Retreat House. QUIET DAY at Llangasty Retreat House 7ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. (Brecon) o n Tuesday: “Biblical Spouses and 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Siblings” led by the Very Revd Geoffrey 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. Marshall, Dean of Brecon. Coffee 10am. Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Commence 10.30am. Cost £27.50. 8ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. WEDNESDAY MORNING EUCHARIST has changed 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. time from 10am to 10.15am until further notice. 7.00 pm Book Launch. City URC. CRAFT FAIR at Eglwys Dewi Sant, St Andrew’s Cres, Friday Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 3pm-7pm and Sat 10 Nov 10am-2pm. Welsh cards, cushions, 9ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. jewellery, pictures, toys, cup cakes, scarves. Mynediad am ddim. CIRCLE DANCING FOR REMEMBRANCE-TIDE at St 3.00 pm Craft Fair. Eglwys Dewi Sant. Gsjebz Michael’s, Gelligaer St, on Saturday, 10am-12pm. Detail s :ui 7.30 pm Martintide Lecture. St Martin’s. from the Ven. Peggy Jackson (01446-750053. Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. SOLEMN FIRST VESPERS of the 21ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Solemnity of St Martin and Benediction 10.00 am Circle Dancing. St Michael’s, Gelligaer St. at St Martin’s on Saturday at 6pm. 10.00 am Craft Fair. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 6.00 pm Solemn First Vespers. St Martin’s. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Catherine’s 7.00 pm Taizé Service. St Catherine’s, Canton. Church, King’s Rd, Canton, on 7.30 pm Gala Concert by Ardwyn Singers. Llandaff Cathedral. Saturday at 7pm. All welcome. Ofyu! Tvoebz is Remembrance Sunday . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s, starting at 10.50am , and the Parish Service of Remembrance will be at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Jonah 3: 1-5, 10; Hebrews 9: 24-28; Mark 1: 14-20. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Leaflets giving details of how to help a disadvantaged child by filling a shoe box with gifts are available in church. The service to receive the boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm on Sun 18 Nov. COPY DATE for Diocesan Newsletter “Croeso” is Tue 13 Nov. PARKMINISTER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (Minister Road) have a Service of Re-dedication at 3pm, Sun 18 Nov. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 19 Nov, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- Nick Webb and Pat Hyett won the skittles on Tuesday [email protected] for details. COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service this morning for a cup of coffee and a chat, & the 100 Club draw. ST MARGARET’S FAYRE on Sat 24 Nov at Roath Church House, 10am-12.30pm. MILE OF POUNDS . If you have not returned your wallets, please return them as soon as possible. COFFEE CONCERTS . The third concert in the series is by the “C’est Bon” Opera Ensemble on Sat 24 Nov at 11am. PARISH QUIZ . Stephen Bailey of St Margaret’s is the winner of the October Quiz with a score of 46. The CHRISTMAS – THE STORY is at Tabernacl Welsh Chapel (The Hayes) 1-21 Dec daily 10am-7pm. Admission free. Each runners up were very close with scores of 45, 44, 36. performance of the Nativity lasts for about 20 minutes. The November Quiz sheet will be the last for this year (available in church today - £1). The grand total of funds CAROL SERVICES . Advent Carols on Sun 2 Dec at raised for the Parish will be announced next month. 7pm. Christmas Carols (with Choir & Orchestra) on Sun 23 Dec at 3.30pm. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Lo, Round the Throne a Glorious Band”, words by Rowland Hill (1744-1833), ADVENT QUIET DAY organised by Llandaff Diocesan to a melody by N. Herman (1560) arranged by Henry George Spirituality Group at Ty Teilo on Tue 4 Dec, 9.30am to Ley. The Introit at Evensong is “Introit for All Saints” by Frank 3.30pm. Cost £10. Bring a packed lunch; tea/coffee Adlam (1858-1929) and the anthem is “O Quam Gloriosum” provided. Details (01656-880532. Places limited. by Tomás Luis da Vittoria (c.1548-1611). FOR YOUR DIARY . CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR and the Mavron String 18 Nov. 3pm. Parkminster Service of Rededication. Quartet present Fauré’s Requiem & Cantique de Jean 18 Nov. 6pm. Samaritan’s Purse Service. St Margaret’s. Racine, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and 24 Nov. 10am. St Margaret’s Fayre. Church House. Saint-Saëns’ Ave Verum Corpus at St German’s Church 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. today at 3pm. Tickets £14 (over-60 £12, student £6). MUSIC DIARY . CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 14 Nov. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. Blake Theatre, Monmouth. Stanford in C. Anthem: O Quam Gloriosum (Vittoria). 16 Nov. 1.15pm. Organ concert: Philip Thomas. St John’s. ORGAN RECITAL at Llandaff Cathedral today at 17 Nov. 7.15pm. Magic Flute (Opera Mint). The Gate. 4.45pm: Jonathan Vaughn (Wells Cathedral). 17 Nov. 7.30pm Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Cathedral. CHRISTMAS EVE . DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm in Room 5pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. 2 Roath Church House. The topic is Celtic Christianity. 6pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 9pm. 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. PRIZE DRAW tickets on sale today from Janice Goble. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University Christmas & Welsh Hampers & lots of other prizes. on Tuesday at 7pm. “Why not torture terrorists?” by Rev Draw takes place Sun 16 Dec. Roy Jenkins, Baptist Minister, Broadcaster and Chair of MAGIC FLUTE . Opera Mint’s performance at St ‘Christians Against Torture’. Edward’s raised £430 for church funds. BOOK LAUNCH at City URC, Windsor Place on SCOUT POST . Please support your local Scouts. Scout Wednesday at 7pm. Book signing, refreshments, book stamps remain good value at 20p from group members stall of Advent resources, plus music by Andrew Wilson- or in church. Last date of posting: 3 Dec. Dickson and friends. The Year of the Lord’s Favor: WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke, by Tom Arthur. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of THE MARTINTIDE LECTURE will be given by Mr the sidesmen if you are new with us. Richard Edwards at St Martin’s on Friday at 7.30pm CONTACT NUMBERS . (preceded at 7pm by Solemn Choral Evening Prayer Rev Stewart Lisk: sung by the Liturgical Choir, and followed by (((20-484808/20-487854. refreshments in the cloister). Parish Office (((20-484808, GALA CONCERT by the Ardwyn Singers with Dennis O’Neill [email protected] at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Elgar’s “Great is Please let the clergy know the Lord”, Mathias’ “I will celebrate”, and music by of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. Mendelssohn, Rossini, Gabriel Jackson, Herbert Howells and To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email others. Licensed bar at Prebendal House in the interval. to [email protected] Tickets £12 (conc. £10) from Garlands of Llandaff or on door.

Sfnfncsbodf!Tvoebz! Weekly Newsletter No.1902 Sunday, 11th November, 2012 10.50 am Sung Eucharist, Act of Remembrance, Sermon & Sunday School. Hymns: 579, 165, 284, 585, Anthem: The Lord is My Shepherd (Rutter) , 584 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . 7.00 pm Parish Service of Remembrance. Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Requiem Aeternam (Bruckner). Anthem: In Paradisum (Fauré). Hymns: 382, 335, Anthem, 165, 584, Welsh National Anthem, 577 (vv 1,3) . On this Remembrance Sunday we remember the fallen of the two World Wars and other conflicts throughout the last hundred years, and especially at this time we remember those who have died in recent years in Iraq and Afghanistan . We pray for those who have lost relatives, friends and loved ones. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Lusitanian Church (Extra-Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Bishop Fernando Soares and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sao Tomé and Principe . We pray for the Bishop of Durham , the Rt Revd Justin Welby, as he prepares for his ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the American people , and President Obama as he begins his second term as US President. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llangeinor & the Garw Valley and Rev Roger Pitman . We pray for the sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rita Waite, Eric Eustace Payne and Jeanne Josephine Louise Rees , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on UIJT!XFFL! Monday and Tuesday at 6pm this week. Npoebz 10.00 am Drop-In Day. Llangasty Retreat House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. 23ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. COPY DATE for Diocesan Newsletter 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. “Croeso” is Tuesday of this week. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Servants of the Sanctuary Requiem Mass. Llandaff Cathedral. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. WEDNESDAY MORNING EUCHARIST has changed time from 10am to 10.15am until further notice. 24ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 7.00 pm Friends of Cathays Cemetery Lecture. Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre. WELSH CAMERATA CONCERT with Welsh Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. Baroque Orchestra at the Blake Theatre, 25ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Monmouth, on Wednesday at 7.30pm. An 7.30 pm Welsh Camerata Concert. Monmouth. evening with Vivaldi: “Dominus, ad adjuvandum me”, “Laudate Pueri”, Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Concert: Philip Thomas. St John’s (town). Magnificat, Concerto for violin & recorder. 27ui 7.30 pm Catrin Finch (harp). Acapela Centre, Pentyrch. Tickets (unreserved) £17.50 (students £5). 7.30 pm Under 30s WNO Concert. St David’s Hall. NO CHOIR PRACTICE this week. 7.30 pm Ignite Event “Reach”. Highfields Church. MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE will be performed by Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Opera Mint at The Gate (Plasnewydd) on 28ui 7.15 pm Mozart’s Magic Flute (Opera Mint). The Gate. Saturday at 7.15pm. Tickets £10 (u17 free with accompanying adult) (01443-217368. 7.30 pm Dream of Gerontius. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of the Kingdom . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, there is a Service of Rededication at Parkminster at 3pm, the Samaritan’s Purse Shoebox Service is at St Margaret’s at 6pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Daniel 12: 1-3; Hebrews 10: 11-14, 19-25; Mark 13: 1-8. DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Monday, 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No need to book. FRIENDS OF CATHAYS CEMETERY Annual Lecture ‘Who put the Stones over the Bones’ by Simon Morgan, Managing Director of Mossfords Monumental Masons, on Tuesday at 7pm in the Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre, Colum Road. Admission £2.50 on the door. ORGAN CONCERT by Philip Thomas (St John’s) on Friday, 1.15pm at St John’s (town). Entrance free. Retiring collection. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Leaflets giving CHRISTMAS EVE . Please note time changes. details of how to help a disadvantaged child by filling a 4pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. shoe box with gifts are available in church. The service 5pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. to receive the boxes will be at St Margaret’s at 6pm next 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. Sunday. COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 29 Nov. MILE OF POUNDS . If you have not returned your wallets, please return them as soon as possible. CHRISTMAS – THE STORY is at Tabernacl Welsh Chapel (The Hayes) 1-21 Dec daily 10am-7pm. PARISH QUIZ . The November Quiz sheet will be the ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is on Sun 2 Dec. There is a letter last for this year (available in church today - £1). The from the Vicar. Please bring your gift in the envelope provided. grand total of funds raised for the Parish will be announced next month. CAROL SERVICES . Advent Carols on Sun 2 Dec at 7pm. Christmas Carols (with Choir & Orchestra) 23 Dec at 3.30pm. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the setting of DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 2 Dec at 7.45pm in Psalm 23 from the Requiem by John Rutter (b.1945). Room 2 Roath Church House. Do come and give it a try – The Introit at the Parish Service of Remembrance is lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee & biscuits “Requiem Aeternam” by Anton Joseph Bruckner (1824- finishing about 9pm. Details from Gill Day (20-495496. 96) and the anthem is “In Paradisum” from the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). FOR YOUR DIARY . 24 Nov. 10am. St Margaret’s Fayre. Church House. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: 24 Nov. 11am. Coffee Concert: Opera Ensemble. Blair in B minor. Anthem: Turn back, O man (Holst). 29 Nov. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. CATRIN FINCH (first harpist to HRH the Prince of Wales) 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. performs the Welsh premieres of works written and arranged 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. for her by John Rutter at Acapela Centre, Pentyrch, on Friday 16-23 Dec. O-Antiphons at Evening Prayer (6.30pm). at 7.30pm. Tickets £18.50/£20 (0844-8700887. 23 Dec. 3.30pm. Christmas Carol Service. UNDER 30S can see WNO Orchestra, Chorus and soloists at MUSIC DIARY . St David’s Hall on Friday at 7.30pm for only £3. Programme 29 Nov. 7.30pm Lovelight Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. includes Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music, movements from 1 Dec. 7.30pm. Welsh Sinfonia: Handel’s Messiah. Cathedral. Henze’s Requiem and Mozart’s Requiem. (20-878444. SUNDAY SCHOOL PROJECT – MATERIAL NEEDED . If IGNITE EVENT “REACH” at Highfields Church on anyone has any scraps of old fabric, buttons, sequins, wool Friday, 7.30-9.30pm with Dai Hankey and Fuse Band. etc, the Sunday School would be pleased to use them in their Price £3. (20-512247 [email protected] next project: a collage for the Nativity Scene. Please let Julie Lewis have anything you can contribute. CHRISTMAS FAYRES on Saturday (1) at St David’s Cathedral, Charles St, 10am-3.30pm; (2) at Llanishen VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help in Llandaff Cathedral Methodist Church, 11am-1pm. shop. Two hours once a fortnight or once a month, on Friday or Saturday. Sessions are 10-12, 12-2, and 2-4. LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY and Details from Pam Barlow (20-652519. Crickhowell Choral Society present Elgar’s Dream of CARDS FOR GOOD CAUSES . A multi-charity Christmas Gerontius with Charles Daniels (tenor) at Llandaff Card shop at Bethany Baptist Church Hall, Heol Llanishen Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £15. Fach until 10 Dec (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-2pm). PARKMINISTER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (Minister CONGRATULATIONS to Kathie Mayer who has been Road) have a Service of Re-dedication at 3pm next Sunday. elected Vice Chairman of the Standing Advisory Council CHRISTIAN AID EVENT at Plas Treoda, Whitchurch, next for Religious Education (SACRE). Sunday at 6pm. Guest speaker: Jeff Williams (Head of Christian Aid Wales). Details from Aled Pickard (20-844646. PRIZE DRAW tickets on sale today from Janice Goble. Christmas & Welsh Hampers & lots of other prizes. RETREAT at Llangasty Retreat House, 19-21 Nov. Draw takes place Sun 16 Dec. ‘Surely the Lord is in this Place – and I did not know it’. A retreat exploring the ways God has spoken through SCOUT POST . Please support your local Scouts. Scout dreams in the Bible, and may continue to speak in the stamps remain good value at 20p from group members language of our dreams today. Led by Canon Val or in church. Last date of posting: 3 Dec. Hamer. £150 – bookings to Llangasty Retreat House. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Mon 19 and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Nov, 7.30-9.30pm in Church House. New members welcome the sidesmen if you are new with us. – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James [email protected] for details. CONTACT NUMBERS . Rev Stewart Lisk: ST MARGARET’S FAYRE on Sat 24 Nov at Roath (((20-484808/20-487854. Church House, 10am-12.30pm. Books, white elephant, Parish Office (((20-484808, Christmas Gifts (new), jewellery, CDs, DVDs & videos, [email protected] toiletries (new), scarves & bags, toys, cakes, bottles, Please let the clergy know jams & marmalades, colour stall (red & silver). of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. COFFEE CONCERTS . The third concert in the series is by To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email the “C’est Bon” Opera Ensemble on Sat 24 Nov at 11am. to [email protected]

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!uif!Ljohepn Weekly Newsletter No.1903 Sunday, 18th November, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 243, 216, 401, Anthem: Ave Verum (Mozart) , 291 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 3.00 pm Service of Rededication. Parkminster URC. 6.00 pm Samaritan’s Purse Service. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Enter not into judgement (Mayer) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 95 . Hymns: 226, Anthem: O come, let us sing (Maunder) , 530 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in B flat. Readings: Daniel 3 . Matthew 13, 24-30 & 36-43 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain (Extra-Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Bishop Carlos López-Lozano and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cameroon, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea . On this Prisoners’ Sunday we pray for prisoners, their children and families, prison workers, ex-offenders, and victims of crime. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria, Gaza and Israel . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the people of China , as new leaders are appointed by the Communist Party. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Penyfai (awaiting the appointment of a Vicar) Reader Penny Williams, Penyfai Church in Wales Primary School, and headteacher Christina Bach, her staff and pupils . We pray for the sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially David Michael Petty, Jonathan Nevin Jones, David Julian Waite and Mona Roseline Selway , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at UIJT!XFFL! 6pm and Thursday at 7pm this week. Morning Prayer on Saturday at 9am. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH SURGERY DATES . No surgery this Monday . 2:ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Future dates: 26 Nov, 3 Dec, 10 Dec, 7 Jan 2013. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Friday this week. Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 31ui 6.30 pm Vigil: Ending Legalised Violence Against Children. Eglwys Dewi Sant. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. WEDNESDAY MORNING EUCHARIST has Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. changed time from 10am to 10.15am until 32tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. further notice. 1.00 pm BSR Festival & Thanksgiving Service. St John’s (town). 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. 7.30 pm Christians Against Torture Freedom Feast. St Dyfrig’s, Treforest.

Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. SCOUT POST . Please support your local Scouts. Scout stamps remain good 33oe 7.30 pm Choir Practice. value at 20p from group members or in church. Last date of posting: 3 Dec. Gsjebz!34se 7.30 pm Preparation for St Margaret’s Fayre. Church House. PRIZE DRAW tickets on sale today from Janice Gobl e. Christmas & Welsh Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. Hampers & lots of other prizes. Draw 35ui 10.00 am St Margaret’s Fayre. Roath Church House. takes place Sun 16 Dec. 11.00 am Coffee Concert : C’est Bon Opera Ensemble. St Edward’s. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of the Kingdom, Christ the King . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14; Revelation 1: 4b-8; John 18: 33-37. MILE OF POUNDS . If you have not returned your wallets, please return them as soon as possible. SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Any shoeboxes brought to St Edward’s this morning will taken to St Margaret’s for the service at 6pm today . They will then be collected from St Margaret’s at 10am on Wednesday. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- [email protected] for details. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] COFFEE CONCERTS . The third concert in the series is by the “C’est Bon” Opera Ensemble on Saturday at 11am: Suzie Smart (Sop), Kristina Bitina (Mezzo Sop), Lukasz Biela (Baritone), Trystan Francis (Bass- baritone), Ben Pinnow (accomp). 10% of the proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Music as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see their website http://www.musicastherapy.org/. There will also be an opportunity to make further donations to the charity. COMPLINE by candlelight. Next service: 29 Nov. Dedication of the Sunday School’s Mosaic CHRISTIAN AID: AN AUCTION THE SIZE OF WALES at THE "SEED AND PASTA" MOZAIC entitled "Sowing Radyr Golf Club on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. An evening with Côr Seeds of Hope" was created by St Edward’s Sunday Caerdydd: Auction/Entertainment/Food. Tickets £12.50 & School, under the artistic direction of Julie Lewis, in information [email protected] or 20-844646. celebration of Christian Aid. It will be dedicated at our CHRISTMAS – THE STORY is at Tabernacl Welsh Eucharist this morning in memory of Fr Ken Martin, and Chapel (The Hayes) 1-21 Dec daily 10am-7pm. there will be coffee and cakes in the schoolroom afterwards. ST ANNE’S SOUP LUNCH on Sat 1 Dec, 11am-2pm in the Church Hall. Various home made soups available at PARISH QUIZ . The November Quiz sheet will be the last for £1.50. Tea/coffee, Raffle/cakestall. this year (available in church today - £1). The grand total of funds raised for the Parish will be announced next month. THE PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS at St David’s Hall with ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the 14 th century Cambrensis Choir and Orchestra and the Promise of Eucharistic hymn “Ave Verum Corpus” by Wolfgang Amadeus Christmas Choir and Youth Choir, on Sat 1 Dec, 3pm & Mozart (1756-91). The Introit at Evensong is “Enter not into 7.30pm. Tickets 20-878444. judgement” by Alan Mayer and the anthem is the chorus “O ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is on Sun 2 Dec. There is a letter Come Let Us Sing” from the cantata “Song of Thanksgiving” from the Vicar. Please bring your gift in the envelope provided. by John Henry Maunder (1858-1920). CAROL SERVICES . Advent Carols on Sun 2 Dec at NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung 7pm. Christmas Carols (with Choir & Orchestra) on Sun Evensong at 3.30pm: Stainer in B flat. Anthem: I give 23 Dec at 3.30pm. you a new commandment (Nardone). Visiting choir: Spectrum Singers. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 2 Dec at 7.45pm in Room 2 Roath Church House. Do come and give it a CHRISTIAN AID EVENT at Plas Treoda, Whitchurch, today at try – lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee 6pm. Guest speaker: Jeff Williams (Head of Christian Aid Wales). Details from Aled Pickard 20-844646. and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY . The World Day of Prayer and Action for Children on Tuesday will be ADVENT QUIET DAY organised by Llandaff Diocesan marked by Archbishop Barry with a Vigil dedicated to Spirituality Group at Ty Teilo on Tue 4 Dec, 9.30am to “Ending Legalised Violence Against Children” at 6.30pm 3.30pm. Cost £10. Bring a packed lunch; tea/coffee at Eglwys Dewi Sant. Details 20-566001. provided. Details 01656-880532. Places limited. WINDOWS TO FREEDOM : Festival & Thanksgiving O-ANTIPHONS will be sung daily at Evening Prayer, 16- Service for the Llandaff Board for Social Responsibility 23 Dec at 6.30pm. at St John’s (town) on Wednesday. 1pm: display stands CHRISTMAS EVE . & short presentations throughout the afternoon. 6pm: 5pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. Thanksgiving Service led by Archbishop Barry. 6pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. CHRISTIANS AGAINST TORTURE Freedom Feast on 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. Wednesday at 7.30pm at the Church Hall of St Dyfrig’s FOR YOUR DIARY . Catholic Church, Treforest. The Reverend Roy Jenkins 29 Nov. 9pm. Compline by candlelight. will speak on “Why still so slow to fight abductions?” 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. Please bring some food to share. 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. ST MARGARET’S FAYRE on Saturday at Roath 12 Dec. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Church House, 10am-12.30pm. Please bring items for 23 Dec. 3.30pm. Christmas Carol Service. stalls to Roath Church House on Friday evening from MUSIC DIARY . 7.30pm. The stalls are books, white elephant, Christmas 1 Dec. 7.30pm. Welsh Sinfonia: Handel’s Messiah. Cathedral. Gifts (new), jewellery, CDs, DVDs & videos, toiletries WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and (new), scarves & bags, toys, cakes, bottles, jams & newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the marmalades, colour stall (red & silver). Information from sidesmen if you are new with us. Gill Day or Pat Hyett. Please can you bring a bottle or CONTACT NUMBERS . two – anything from lemonade, sauce, to the more Rev Stewart Lisk: expensive alcohol! Thank you. 20-484808/20-487854. LOVELIGHT CONCERT at Llandaff Cathedral on Thur 29 Parish Office 20-484808, [email protected] Nov at 7.30pm. Hosted by Carl Edwards (ITV Wales Newsreader) with The Big C Chioir, Treorchy Male Voice Please let the clergy know Choir, Howells Girls School and the Tenovus Sing For Life of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. choir, and poems from the Write With Us group. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to [email protected]

Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!uif!Ljohepn;!Disjtu!uif!Ljoh Weekly Newsletter No.1904 Sunday, 25 th November, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: Jesus is the Name we honour, Crown Him with many crowns, Reign in Me, Anthem: Reverie (Doe) , Jesus is King . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Cast thy burden upon the Lord (Mendelssohn) . Psalm 72 . Hymns: 367, Anthem: Sweet is the work (Robson) , 12(S) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Daniel 5. John 6, 1-15 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Falkland Islands (extra-Provincial to Canterbury) and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria, Israel and Gaza . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for those who are suffering as a result of the flooding around Britain. We pray for the Church of England , and everyone who is disappointed by the Synod decision not to ordain women bishops. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Glyncorrwg & Upper Afan Valley where they await the appointment of a Vicar. We pray for the homeless in our city, and for all who work to help them, in the Paradise Run, Cardiff Action for Single Homeless, the Huggard Centre. We pray for the sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Doreen Lylta Williams and Norman Betty , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Tuesday at UIJT!XFFL! 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Morning Prayer at 9am on Saturday. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH SURGERY will be held on the following 37ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. dates: 26 Nov, 3 Dec, 10 Dec, 7 Jan 2013. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. Uvftebz 1.00 pm Christmas Concert: St John’s College & Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral. St David’s Hall. 38ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PACT MEETING at 7pm on Thursday, at the Howardian Centre. This 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. meeting is organised by the Community Constable, Andy Callard. Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s 39ui 2.00 pm Vestment Fair. St Michael’s College. on Thursday of this week at 9pm. 2.00 pm Age Concern Jumble Sale. Mackintosh Church. Compline is a 15-minute service of 7.30 pm Paradise Run. plainchant - the last of the monastic “hours”, sung by candlelight. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 3:ui 7.00 pm PACT Meeting. Howardian Centre. COUNTY COUNCILLORS’ SURGERY 6pm-7pm 7.30 pm Choir Practice. on Friday in St Edward’s Schoolroom, when local 7.30 pm Lovelight Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. members will be available to discuss any Council related problems with you. 9.00 pm COMPLINE . ST ANNE’S SOUP LUNCH on Saturday, 11am-2pm Gsjebz St Andrew the Apostle in the Church Hall. Various home made soups 41ui 6.00 pm County Councillors’ Surgery. Schoolroom. available at £1.50. Tea/coffee, Raffle/cakestall. 7.30 pm Christian Aid Auction. Radyr Golf Club. MILE OF POUNDS . If you have not returned your wallets, please return them as soon as possible. Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. 2tu 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. VESTMENT FAIR at St Michael’s Col lege on 11.00 am Soup Lunch. St Anne’s Hall. Wednesday, 2pm-7pm. 3.00 pm The Promise of Christmas (Cambrensis). St David’s Hall. 7.30 pm The Promise of Christmas (Cambrensis). St David’s Hall. 7.30 pm Handel’s Messiah (Welsh Sinfonia). Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of Advent and is St Edward’s Gift Day . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am and the 100 Club Draw will take place. The Advent Carol Service will be at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Jeremiah 33: 14-16; 1 Thessalonians 3: 9-13; Luke 21: 25-36. PARISH QUIZ . The November Quiz sheet will be the last for this year (available in church today - £1). The grand total of funds raised for the Parish will be announced next month. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is next Sunday. There is a PARADISE RUN on Wednesday. We need loaves of letter from the Vicar available today. Please bring your sandwiches of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, gift in the envelope provided. ham or corned beef using white medium sliced bread ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Reverie” (My and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also packets of soul, there is a country), words by Henry Vaughan (1622- crisps, biscuits or cakes. A big thank you to everyone for 1695), music by Norman Doe. The Introit at Evensong is “Cast their continued support. Items can be given to Kathie thy burden upon the Lord” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mayer 20-495769 or left at Roath Church House Mendelssohn (1809-47) and the anthem is “Sweet is the either at Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just Work”, words by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), music by Robert before we leave at 7.30pm. For further information or Walker Robson. offers of help please ring Chris Webb 20-455641. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Byrd Second Service. Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Ives). COFFEE CONCERTS . Our thanks to the “C’est Bon” Opera Ensemble for their concert yesterday. The fourth CHRISTMAS CONCERT by the choristers and choral concert in the series is by Viva Voce (Vocal Ensemble) scholars from St John’s College and Cardiff Metropolitan on Sat 15 Dec at 11am. Cathedral on Tuesday at 1pm at St David’s Hall. Tickets £5.50 20-878444. O-ANTIPHONS will be sung daily at Evening Prayer, 16- 23 Dec. AGE CONCERN JUMBLE SALE at Mackintosh Church (The Mack), Mackintosh Place (Albany Road junction) CHRISTMAS EVE . (Please note time changes) on Wednesday, 2pm-5.30pm. Quality 2 nd hand clothes, 4pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. bric-a-brac, toys and a selection of vintage items. 5pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. LOVELIGHT CONCERT at Llandaff Cathedral on Thursday at 7.30pm. Hosted by Carl Edwards (ITV Wales Newsreader) SUNDAY SCHOOL NATIVITY PRESENTATION on with performances from The Big C Chioir, Treorchy Male Christmas Day at 11am. Please support the Sunday School. Voice Choir, Howells Girls School and the Tenovus Sing For FOR YOUR DIARY . Life choir, and poems from the Write With Us group. 2 Dec. St Edward’s Gift Day. CHRISTIAN AID: AN AUCTION THE SIZE OF WALES 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. at Radyr Golf Club on Friday at 7.30pm. An evening with 12 Dec. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Soloists. Côr Caerdydd: Auction/Entertainment/Food. Tickets 17 Dec. 6pm. Scout Carol Service. St Margaret’s. £12.50 [email protected] or 20-844646. 19 Dec. 7pm. St Teilo’s Carol Service. St Margaret’s. CHRISTMAS – THE STORY is at Tabernacl Welsh 23 Dec. 3.30pm. Christmas Carol Service. Chapel (The Hayes) 1-21 Dec daily 10am-7pm. 26 Dec. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. Admission free. Each performance of the Nativity MUSIC DIARY . presentation lasts for about 20 minutes. 8 Dec. 7pm. Taizé Service. Church of the Resurrection, Ely. 8 Dec. 7.30pm. Cardiff Philharmonic Choir. Eglwys Dewi Sant. THE PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS at St David’s Hall with 8 Dec. 7.30pm. Carol Service. Cathedral (Choral Society). Cambrensis Choir and Orchestra and the Promise of 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. St John’s, Canton. Christmas Choir and Youth Choir, on Saturday, 3pm & 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Cantemus. Holy Cross, Cowbridge. 7.30pm. Tickets 20-878444. READ THE BIBLE IN A YEAR . A scheme designed by WELSH SINFONIA perform Handel’s Messiah with The the Centre for Biblical Studies can be downloaded from International Staff Songsters of the Salvation Army at Llandaff St Edward’s website or Llandaff Diocesan website. Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£15/£20. SAMARITAN’S PURSE SHOE BOXES . Thank you very much CAROL SERVICES . Advent Carols on Sun 2 Dec at to all who donated shoe boxes and those who helped load 7pm. Christmas Carols (with Choir & Orchestra) on Sun the van. About 150 boxes were donated this year. 23 Dec at 3.30pm. ST MARGARET’S FAYRE . A big thank you to all who DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 2 Dec at 7.45pm helped in any way with the Fayre. The grand total will be in Room 2 Roath Church House. Do come and give it a announced next week. try – lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee PRIZE DRAW tickets on sale today from Janice Goble. and biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information Christmas & Welsh Hampers & lots of other prizes. from Gill Day 20-495496. Draw takes place Sun 16 Dec. DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 3 Dec. SCOUT POST . Please support your local Scouts. Scout 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause for stamps remain good value at 20p from group members prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the or in church. Last date of posting: 3 Dec. day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No need to book. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Mon 3 Dec, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. the sidesmen if you are new with us. CONCERT OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC by Cardiff Philharmonic CONTACT NUMBERS . Choir at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Sat 8 Dec at 7.30pm. Rev Stewart Lisk: ST JOHN’S COUNCIL for Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan: “A 20-484808/20-487854. Celebration of Carols and Lessons” at 3pm on Sun 9 Dec at Parish Office 20-484808, St Margaret’s with St Margaret’s Choir & Marlborough Primary [email protected] School Junior Choir with Guest Soprano. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. RAINBOW OF HOPE Winter Newsletter is displayed on To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email to our porch noticeboard. [email protected]

Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1905 Sunday, 2nd December, 2012 Look at the fig tree… 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Holy Baptism & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 424, 51, Mine eyes have seen the glory, Anthem: Ride the Chariot (Smith) , Come and see the shining hope . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Service of Advent Music and Readings. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: 49, 47, 358, 235(MP), 52, 50, 51 . Anthems: Mattin Responsory (Palestrina) , Comfort Ye My People (Handel), A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter) , O Dayspring (Stainer), Behold Thou Shalt Conceive (Handl) , And the glory of the Lord (Handel) , Old Irish Blessing (Agay), Amen (Stainer) . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Kebbi in the Province of Kaduna, Nigera, and Bishop Edmund Akanya and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Liberia and Sierra Leone . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for everyone who has been suffering as a result of the recent floods around Britain. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Troedrhiwgarth and Rev Christopher Reaney . We pray for the clergy and all who worship at Llandaff Cathedral , and for the Ven Janet Henderson who has been appointed Dean of Llandaff. We pray for the sick and those who care for them, especially Glyn Osman, Julie Romanelli, Beryl Powell and Maisie Webb . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Esme Catherine Scobie and Robert Woolgar Riddett , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Tuesday at 6pm and on UIJT!XFFL! Thursday at 7pm this week, and Morning Prayer on Saturday at 9am. Npoebz 10.00 am Drop-In Day. Llangasty Retreat House, Brecon. PARISH SURGERY will be held on the 4se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. following dates: 3 Dec, 10 Dec, 7 Jan 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 2013. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. Uvftebz 9.30 am Advent Quiet Day. Ty Teilo, Cowbridge. SCOUT POST . Last date 5ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. of posting is this Monday. 5.00 pm Fairtrade Late Night Christmas Shopping. Fair Do’s, Canton. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP 7.30 pm Meningitis Trust Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New members very welcome Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. – assistance given to learners. Contact Gill 6ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. [email protected] for details. Uivstebz 2.00 pm Mothers’ Union Diocesan Advent Service. St John’s (town). 7ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.00 pm Llandaff & Cardiff Joint Deaneries Meeting. Marion Centre, Bishop of Llandaff High School. 7.30 pm Choir Practice. CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL at St John the Gsjebz!8ui 7.30 pm Christmas by Candlelight. Windsor Place URC. Evangelist, Canton, Thursday 7-9pm (launch £3). Friday 10am-4pm (local schools singing). Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. Saturday 10am-12pm (coffee morning). 9ui 7.00 pm Watch for the Light (Taizé Service). Church of the Resurrection, Ely. 7.30 pm Carol Service by Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm Concert of Christmas Music (Cardiff Philharmonic Choir). Eglwys Dewi Sant. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second Sunday of Advent . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, the St John’s Council Lessons and Carols are at St Margaret’s at 3pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Malachi 3: 1-4; Philippians 1: 3-11; Luke 3: 1-6. CHRISTMAS – THE STORY opened yesterday at Tabernacl Welsh Chapel (The Hayes) and runs until 21 Dec daily 10am-7pm. Admission free. Each performance of the Nativity presentation lasts for about 20 minutes. There are two main sessions, 10am-2pm & 3pm-7pm with performances approximately every 40 minutes. More volunteers are needed – actors, stewards, helpers, financial contributors. Interested in helping? –contact Sally (20-493326. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] ADVENT CAROL SERVICE today at 7pm, followed by NEW DEAN OF LLANDAFF is Ven Janet Henderson, mince pies and mulled wine in the vestry. If you would originally from Neath, who grew up in Llandrindod Wells like to read a lesson, please see Alan. and Aberystwyth and is currently Archdeacon of Richmond. She is a former pupil of Howell’s School, ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY . Thanks to everyone who worked as a nurse before being ordained, and is a keen brought their gifts today. amateur musician. Her installation will take place in COFFEE . Please join us in the vestry after the Service this March. Please pray for her as she prepares for her morning for a cup of coffee & a chat, and the 100 Club draw. ministry in Llandaff. ANTHEM at the Eucharist this morning is the spiritual ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT “Ride the Chariot” arranged by William Henry Smith. on Wed 12 Dec at 7.30pm. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Said A MARIAN CHRISTMAS presented by the Welsh Camerata Evensong at 3.30pm. Advent Procession at 6.30pm. at St John the Evangelist, Canton, on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm. DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm in Room 2 O-ANTIPHONS sung daily at Evening Prayer, 16-23 Dec. Roath Church House, when the topic is “Faith, doubt and SCOUT CAROL SERVICE is at St Margaret’s on Mon certainty”. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about 17 Dec at 6pm. 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. ST TEILO’S HIGH SCHOOL CAROL SERVICE is at St DROP IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Monday. Margaret’s on Wed 19 Dec at 7pm. 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12. An opportunity to pause CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE (with Choir & for prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part Orchestra) is on Sun 23 Dec at 3.30pm. of the day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No need to book. CHRISTMAS EVE . 4pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. ADVENT QUIET DAY organised by Llandaff Diocesan 5pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. Spirituality Group at Ty Teilo on Tuesday, 9.30am to 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. 3.30pm. Cost £10. Bring a packed lunch; tea/coffee SUNDAY SCHOOL NATIVITY PRESENTATION on provided. Details (01656-880532. Places limited. Christmas Day at 11am. Please support the Sunday School. FAIRTRADE LATE NIGHT CHRISTMAS SHOPPING on FOR YOUR DIARY . Tuesday, 5pm-8pm. This one-off event will take place at Fair Do’s, Canton. Fair Trade refreshment provided and a warm 12 Dec. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Soloists. Christmas atmosphere guaranteed. Also Chapter Arts Centre 17 Dec. 6pm. Scout Carol Service. St Margaret’s. will be offering a festive fairtrade treat in their cafe. 19 Dec. 7pm. St Teilo’s Carol Service. St Margaret’s. 23 Dec. 3.30pm. Christmas Carol Service. MENINGITIS TRUST CONCERT at Llandaff Cathedral 26 Dec. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. on Tuesday at 7.30pm. Tickets (01453-768000. MUSIC DIARY . CINDERELLA presented at the YMCA Theatre, The 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Welsh Camerata. St John’s, Canton. Walk, by the Amber Project (a Church Army Project 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Cantemus. Holy Cross, Cowbridge. working with young people who self-harm). 5-8 Dec. 5 th 6.30pm, 6 th 10.30am, 7 th 10.30am & 6.30pm, 8 th CONGRATULATIONS to Ed Doe on his University 2.30pm. Tickets £3.50 (children £2) (20-344776. graduation ceremony this week, and the award of first class honours, and also the Ian Ramsden prize to his MOTHERS’ UNION DIOCESAN ADVENT SERVICE at research project team. St John’s (town) on Thursday at 2pm. RAINBOW OF HOPE Winter Newsletter is displayed on CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT with Affinity & our porch noticeboard. Songbirds Female Voice Choirs at the United Reformed Church, Windsor Place, on Friday at 7.30pm. Admission CARDS FOR GOOD CAUSES . There is a multi-charity £5 (conc. £4) on the door. Christmas Card shop at Bethany Baptist Church Hall, Heol Llanishen Fach until 10 Dec (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, WATCH FOR THE LIGHT! A Taizé Service for Advent at the Sat 10am-2pm). Church of the Resurrection, Ely, on Sat at 7pm. All welcome. PRIZE DRAW tickets on sale today from Janice Goble. CAROL SERVICE by Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society Christmas & Welsh Hampers & lots of other prizes. at the Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Draw takes place Sun 16 Dec. CONCERT OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC by Cardiff Philharmonic Choir at Eglwys Dewi Sant on Saturday at 7.30pm. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of ST JOHN’S COUNCIL for Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan: the sidesmen if you are new with us. “A Celebration of Carols and Lessons” at 3pm next Sunday at St Margaret’s with St Margaret’s Choir & CONTACT NUMBERS . Marlborough Primary School Junior Choir with Guest Rev Stewart Lisk: Soprano. Why not come along and join in the Service. (((20-484808/20-487854. Parish Office (((20-484808, TAIZE FOR ADVENT REFLECTION at St Peter’s next [email protected] Sunday at 7pm. Please let the clergy know COFFEE CONCERTS . The fourth concert in the series of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. is the Oratorio de Noël (Camille Saint-Saëns) by Viva To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email Voce (Vocal Ensemble) on Sat 15 Dec at 11am. to [email protected]

Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1906 Sunday, 9th December, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: 205, 269, 48, Anthem: Ave Verum (Elgar) , 368 . Settings: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 3.00 pm A Celebration of Carols and Lessons (St John’s Council). St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O King and Desire of All Nations (Stainer) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 75, 76 . Hymns: 45, Anthem: This is the Record of John (Gibbons) , 79(MP) . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: Isaiah 40, 1-11 . Luke 1, 1-25 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Kigezi in Uganda and Bishop George Katwesigye and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of Egypt as they struggle to find a way forward in a deeply divided society. We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llansawel, Briton Ferry, and Rev Zoe King . We pray for the clergy who minister in this parish , our Vicar, Rev Stewart Lisk, and the retired clergy who assist him, especially Rev John Woodward and Rev Vernon Hodgson. We pray for the sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially John Keigwin who died this week, also Sarah Lily Henwood and Winifred Haigh , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday & Tuesday at 6pm UIJT!XFFL! and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Morning Prayer on Saturday at 9am. Npoebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH SURGERY will be held on the 21ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. following dates: 10 Dec, 7 Jan 2013. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT Uvftebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. on Wednesday at 7.30pm. 22ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. ST PETER’S PLAYERS present an evening Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. of festive fun at St Peter’s Hall, City Rd , on Thursday at 7.30pm . Tickets £10 (to include 23ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. turkey roll and mince pies) (20-491486. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Soloists Concert . WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. to all visitors and newcomers. Please 24ui 7.30 pm Choir Practice. make yourself known to one of the 7.30 pm Evening of Festive Fun. St Peter’s Hall, City Rd. sidesmen if you are new with us. Gsjebz!25ui 7.00 pm Viva Voce Practice (Coffee Concert). ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY . Thanks to everyone who brought their gifts last week Tbuvsebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. – it’s not too late to add to the total. 26ui 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 11.00 am Coffee Concert: Viva Voce. Oratorio de Noël (Camille Saint-Saëns). 5.30 pm Concert: Pupils of Esther Walker. St Edward’s. 7.00 pm A Cathedral Christmas: Cathedral Choir & RWCMD Brass. Llandaff Cathdral. 7.30 pm A Marian Christmas (Welsh Camerata). St John the Evangelist, Canton. 7.30 pm A Christmas Concert (Cantemus). Holy Cross, Cowbridge. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of Advent . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Zephaniah 3: 14-20; Philippians 4: 4-7; Luke 3: 7-18. ST JOHN’S COUNCIL for Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan: “A Celebration of Carols and Lessons” at 3pm today at St Margaret’s with St Margaret’s Choir & Marlborough Primary School Junior Choir with Guest Soprano. Why not come along and join in the Service. A MARIAN CHRISTMAS presented by the Welsh Camerata at St John the Evangelist, Canton, on Saturday at 7.30pm. The role of Mary in the Christmas Story. Programme includes an 8 part Magnificat by Heinrich Schütz and works by Byrd, Vittoria, Josquin, Eccard, Dering, Praetorius, Morales, Walther, Esterhazy, Guerrero, Mateo & Rachmaninov. Tickets (inc. glass of wine and nibbles) on the door: £10/£8. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] COFFEE CONCERT on Saturday at 11am: the Oratorio de Noël (Camille Saint-Saëns) by Viva Voce (Vocal Ensemble). 10% of the proceeds of this year’s Coffee Concerts will go to Music as Therapy (Project Beit Sahour) – see website http://www.musicastherapy.org/. There will also be an opportunity to make further donations to the charity. THE O ANTIPHONS will be chanted before and after the Magnificat at Evening Prayer during the Octave before Christmas (starting next Sunday). Each antiphon highlights a title for the Messiah: O Sapientia (O Wisdom), O Adonaï (O Lord), O Radix Jesse (O Root of Jesse), O Clavis David (O Key of David), O Oriens (O Rising Sun), O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations), and O Emmanuel . Also, each one refers to the prophecy of Isaiah of the coming of the Messiah. This year, we will Mark and Eve Turner, baptized at St Edward’s last week. also sing Stainer’s settings of the O Antiphons at the PARISH QUIZ . The winner of the November Parish Quiz end of each Service. is Anne James with a score of 45. Well done Anne SCOUT CAROL SERVICE is at St Margaret’s on Mon [again!]. Well done and thank you to everyone who 17 Dec at 6pm. joined in the challenge! And fun. A total of £103.75 has been raised over the six months of the quiz which goes ST TEILO’S HIGH SCHOOL CAROL SERVICE is at St to the Parish Funds. Kathie Mayer. Margaret’s on Wed 19 Dec at 7pm. CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE (with Choir & of the church for people to bring and buy homecraft Orchestra) is on Sun 23 Dec at 3.30pm. produce and other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. CHRISTMAS EVE . (Please note time changes) 4pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is the 14 th 5pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. century Eucharistic hymn “Ave Verum Corpus” by Sir 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. Edward Elgar (1857-1934). The Introit at Evensong is the O Antiphon “O King and Desire of All Nations” by Sir SUNDAY SCHOOL NATIVITY PRESENTATION on John Stainer (1840-1901) and the anthem is “This is the Christmas Day at 11am. Please support the Sunday Record of John” by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). School. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 30 Evensong at 3.30pm. Jan at 7.30pm. TAIZE FOR ADVENT REFLECTION at St Peter’s today FOR YOUR DIARY . at 7pm. 17 Dec. 6pm. Scout Carol Service. St Margaret’s. 19 Dec. 7pm. St Teilo’s Carol Service. St Margaret’s. CHRISTMAS – THE STORY runs at Tabernacl 23 Dec. 3.30pm. Christmas Carol Service. Welsh Chapel (The Hayes) until 21 Dec daily 10am- 26 Dec. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. 7pm. Admission free. Each performance of the 26 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert: Catherine Milledge (Piano). Nativity presentation lasts for about 20 minutes. There 30 Jan. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. are two main sessions, 10am-2pm & 3pm-7pm with MUSIC DIARY . performances approximately every 40 minutes. More 22 Jan. 1pm-2pm. Organ: Andrew Lumsden. St David’s Hall. volunteers are needed – actors, stewards, helpers, financial contributors. If you are interested in helping, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help in Llandaff Cathedral please contact Sally (20-493326. shop. Two hours once a fortnight or once a month, on Friday or Saturday. Sessions are 10-12, 12-2, and 2-4. A CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS . Music from the Details from Pam Barlow (20-652519. choristers and men of Llandaff Cathedral Choir and RWCMD Brass Ensemble at the Cathedral on Saturday PRIZE DRAW tickets on sale today from Janice Goble. at 7pm. Tickets £10 (children £2) on the door. Christmas Christmas & Welsh Hampers & lots of other prizes. punch, mince pies & refreshments from 6pm. Draw takes place next Sunday. A CHRISTMAS CONCERT by Cantemus, with James CONTACT NUMBERS . Bowman (countertenor) at Holy Cross, Cowbridge, on Rev Stewart Lisk: Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £15 (conc. £12, u-18 £6) (((20-484808/20-487854. (01446-773953. Parish Office (((20-484808, [email protected] PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Please let the clergy know Mon 17 Dec, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. members very welcome – assistance given to learners. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- to [email protected] [email protected] for details.

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1907 Sunday, 16 th December, 2012 I baptise you with water… 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk . Hymns: Who can sound the depths of sorrow?, We’ve a story to tell to the nation, Advent Prose, Anthem: Laetentur Coeli (Byrd) , 50 . Settings: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O Wisdom (Stainer) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 50, vv1-6; Psalm 62 . Hymns: 51(S), Anthem: O Sapientia (Ramsey) , 52 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tomkins Tone VI. Readings: Isaiah 35 . Luke 1, 57-80 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Kisangani in the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane Du Congo and Bishop Lambert Botolome and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for the victims of the gun attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, their families and friends. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Cowbridge, Canon Derek Belcher, Rev Martyn Perry and Rev David Boult, and for Llansannor & Llanharry Church in Wales Primary School, Headteacher Paul Fisher , and all his staff and children. We pray for the safety of all who will be travelling this week to join family and friends for the Christmas period. We pray for the sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Gladys Cheshire, Colin Herbert Williams, Margaret Elsie Morgan, Constance Frances Treasure and Donald McGregor , whose anniversaries occur at this time. EVENING PRAYER (with O Antiphons) will be said at St Edward’s UIJT!XFFL! every day this week at 6.30pm, except on Friday when it will be 7pm. !! Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are Ember Days PARISH OFFICE is closed on Npoebz 6.00 pm Scout Carol Service. St Margaret’s. Monday this week. 28ui 6.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Adonaï . PARISH SURGERY will be held 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. next on 7 Jan 2013. 7.00 pm Carols, Poems & Punch. St Faith’s Church, Morris Ave. 7.30 pm Parish Knitting & Crochet Group. Roath Church House. PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP Uvftebz 6.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Radix Jesse . meets on Monday, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church 29ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. House. New members very welcome – Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. assistance given to learners. Contact Gill Day 2:ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- 6.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Clavis David. [email protected] for details. 7.00 pm St Teilo’s High School Carol Service. St Margaret’s. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Llandaff Cathedral (St David’s Chapel). CAROL SINGING at the Penylan Residential Hotel Uivstebz 6.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Oriens . (corner of Sandringham Road and Penylan Hill) on 31ui 7.00 pm Choir Practice. Friday at 6pm. Please let Alan know if you are coming. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Carol Singing. Penylan Residential Hotel. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome 32tu 7.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Rex Gentium . to all visitors and newcomers. Please Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. make yourself known to one of the 33oe 10.30 am Cytûn Carol Singing. Albany Rd. sidesmen if you are new with us. 6.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Emmanuel. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of Advent . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols will be sung (accompanied by St Edward’s Orchestra) at 3.30pm, and Evening Prayer (O Virgo Virginum) will be said at 5pm. Eucharist readings: Micah 5: 2-5a; Hebrews 10: 5-10; Luke 1: 39-55. CHRISTMAS – THE STORY runs at Tabernacl Welsh Chapel (The Hayes) until 21 Dec daily 10am-7pm. Admission free. Each performance of the Nativity presentation lasts for about 20 minutes. There are two main sessions, 10am-2pm & 3pm-7pm with performances approximately every 40 minutes. PRIZE DRAW for the Christmas & Welsh Hampers & lots of other prizes takes place in the vestry this morning. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] THE O ANTIPHONS will be chanted before and after EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of St Edward’s the Magnificat at Evening Prayer during the Octave Committee takes place after the Eucharist this morning before Christmas (starting today). Each antiphon to discuss the redecoration of the church. highlights a title for the Messiah: O Sapientia (O Wisdom), O Adonaï (O Lord), O Radix Jesse (O Root of PRE-LENT READING WEEK at Llangasty Retreat Jesse), O Clavis David (O Key of David), O Oriens (O House, 21-25 Jan. An opportunity for individuals to step Rising Sun), O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations), aside for peace, study, relaxation and re-creation. No set and O Emmanuel . Also, each one refers to the prophecy programme other than meal times. Book for the time you of Isaiah of the coming of the Messiah. This year, we will can make available. Cost from £62 per 24 hrs full board. also sing Stainer’s settings of the O Antiphons at the COFFEE CONCERTS . Our thanks to Viva Voce for their end of each Service. The daily services will be at performance of the Oratorio de Noël (Camille Saint- 6.30pm except for Friday, which will be at 7pm (as we Saëns) yesterday. The fifth concert in the series is by will be singing carols at Penylan Residential Hotel at Catherine Milledge (Piano) on Sat 26 Jan at 11am. 6pm). Future concerts (all Sat 11am): CRAFT BRING AND BUY . There is a table at the back of the 23 Feb Pavane Early Music Consort church for people to bring and buy homecraft produce and 23 Mar APQuick Trio other items. All proceeds go to famine relief in East Africa. 27 Apr Emyr Roberts (piano), Elizabeth May (flute) ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Laetentur 25 May Green Dragon String Quartet Coeli” by William Byrd (1543-1623). The Introit at 22 Jun Nicola Harris (Sop) & Jayne Thomas (accomp) Evensong is the Antiphon “O Wisdom” by Sir John 20 Jul Jazz Duo: Julian Martin (piano) & James Stainer (1840-1901) and the anthem is “O Sapientia” by Chadwick (guitar) Robert Ramsey (c.1590-c.1644). ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 30 CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Jan at 7.30pm. Noble in B minor. Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons). FOR YOUR DIARY . CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT with Cardiff Ardwyn 26 Dec. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. Singers at All Saints Church, Penarth, today at 7.30pm. 7 Jan. 7.30pm. PCC. Roath Church House. Tickets £5 (u16 free). 26 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert: Catherine Milledge (Piano). 30 Jan. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. CAROLS, POEMS AND PUNCH EVENING at St Faith’s Church, Morris Avenue, on Monday at 7pm. A traditional MUSIC DIARY . Christmas Evening of Carols, Poems and Humour with 22 Jan. 1pm-2pm. Organ: Andrew Lumsden. St David’s Hall. Punch and Nibbles. Tickets £2.50. EMBER DAYS . Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this CYTÛN CAROL SINGING in Albany Road on Saturday, week are Ember Days, which have historically been 10.30-11.30am (outside Albany Rd School). Please days of prayer and fasting, and are still observed in come and join us. some form by many Christians. They occur in the weeks CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE (with Choir & following the Third Sunday of Advent, the First Sunday Orchestra) is next Sunday at 3.30pm. If you would like to of Lent, Pentecost, and the week beginning on the read one of the Lessons, please see Alan. Sunday after Holy Cross Day (14 Sept). CHRISTMAS EVE . ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY . Thanks to everyone who 4pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. brought their gifts last week – it’s not too late to add to 5pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. the total. 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. RAINBOW OF HOPE Winter Newsletter is displayed on SUNDAY SCHOOL NATIVITY PRESENTATION on our porch noticeboard. Christmas Day at 11am. Please support the Sunday School. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help in Llandaff Cathedral LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on shop. Two hours once a fortnight or once a month, on Sat 5 Jan at Barbara Beavis’s, 115 Carisbrooke Way. Friday or Saturday. Sessions are 10-12, 12-2, and 2-4. Tickets £1. There will be a raffle, books and cakes on Details from Pam Barlow (20-652519. sale and a bring & buy stall. All proceeds to our new charities for 2013 – the Brecon Mountain Rescue and CARDS FOR GOOD CAUSES . There is a multi-charity the Rainbow of Hope (this is the ‘umbrella’ under which Christmas Card shop at Bethany Baptist Church Hall, the Paradise Run is organised). All very welcome. Heol Llanishen Fach until 10 Dec (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets on Mon 7 Jan Sat 10am-2pm). at 7.30pm at Roath Church House. CONTACT NUMBERS . CINDERELLA will be presented by St Peter’s Players at Rev Stewart Lisk: St Peter’s Hall 9-12 Jan at 7.30pm. £7.50 (conc. £4.50) (((20-484808/20-487854. (07779-088623 [email protected] Parish Office (((20-484808, [email protected] DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 13 Jan at 7.45pm Please let the clergy know in Room 2 Roath Church House, when the topic is of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. “Victorian Religion”. Do come and give it a try – lively To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and to [email protected] biscuits finishing about 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496.

The Fourth Sunday of Advent Weekly Newsletter No.1 90 8 Sun day, 23 rd Dec ember , 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 53, Joy to the world, Anthems: Only a little city (Maunder) , Bethlehem (Gounod) , There’s a sound . Settings: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 3.30 pm Service of Nine Lessons & Carols, led by St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Carols : Once in Royal, Un to us is born a son, The First Nowell, Good King Wenceslas, O Little Town, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, As With Gladness, Hark the Herald. Anthems : Adam Lay Ybounden (Ord) , In the bleak midwinter (Darke) , Übers Gebirg Maria Geht (Eccard) , M ary did you know? (Lowry & Greene) , Christmas Oratorio ( Saints - Saëns ) , The Shepherds’ Farewell (Berlioz) , Hallelujah! (Handel) . 5.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Virgo Virginum . 6.00 pm Nine Lessons and Carols. St Margaret’s . In the world - wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Koforidua in Ghana, West Africa, and Bishop Francis Quashie and in the Ecu menical Prayer Cycle we pray for Ghana and Nigeria . We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the p eople of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of St Nicholas with Bonvilston & St George - super - Ely (East Vale Group), Rev Martyn Davies and Readers Peter Atkins and Geoff Lunn , and for St Nicholas Chu rch in Wales Primary School, Headteacher Robert Williams, his staff and all the children . We pray for t he sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially John Edward Thomas, Vera Gladys Ellis, Henry Welling ton (priest), Bernice James and Ronald James Mayer , whose anniversaries occur at this time. CAROLS AROUND THE TREE on Christmas Eve Christmas Eve at 4pm. In recent years Monday 3.30 pm Nine Lessons and Carols. Llandaff Cathedral. this has become one of the most 24th 4.00 pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s . popular Christmas services. All 5 .00 pm Carols around the crib . St M argaret’s . welcome. 11.45 pm Midnight Mass , Procession and Sermon. Hymns: 59 (Proc.), 66, 67, Anthem: Sans Day Carol (Rutter) , 60 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne).

Christmas Day 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Procession & Sunday School Presentation (no se rmon). Hymns: 59, O Holy Night, Away in a Manger , Anthem: The Holy City (Adam s ) , Ding Dong merrily on high . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk . At this season of Christmas we pray for peace in the world , for all areas where there is conflict and strife. We pray for those who are lonely , those who have no family and friends to share the Christmas celebrations. In the world - wide Church we pray for the Diocese of Kondoa (Tanzania) . In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Caerphilly & Merthyr Tydfil, and Area Dean Robert Donkin . MORNING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Wednesday St Stephen, the First Martyr Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9am this week. 26th 7.30 pm Paradise Run. PARISH OFFICE is closed until Mon 7 Jan. Thursday St John, Apostle & Martyr PARISH SURGERY will be held next on 7 Jan 2013. 27th 9.00 pm Morning Prayer. NO WEDNESDAY EUCHARIST this week. 7.0 0 pm Choir Practice. 8 Newminster Road.

Friday The Hol y Innocents HAPPY CHRISTMAS . Th e Vicar , Rev John Woodward and 28th 9.00 am Morning Prayer. Rev Vernon Hodgson wish everyone a holy, happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. Saturday 29th 9.0 0 am Morning Prayer . Next Sunday is the First Sunday of Christmas . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung a t 7pm. Eucharist readings: 1 Samuel 2: 18 - 20, 26; Colossians 3: 12 - 17; Luke 2: 41 - 52 http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] CHRISTMAS SERVICES . SPONSOR A SQUARE . There is a plan of St Edward’s Christmas Eve : at the back of t he church with the walls and ceiling 4pm Carols around the tree. St Edward’s. marked out in squares. We are inviting everyone to 5pm Crib Service. St Margaret’s. “sponsor a square” at a rate of £10 per square, with a 10pm First Eucharist of Christmas. St Anne’s. target of £2000 towards the redecoration costs. Please 11.30pm Midnight Mass. St Margaret’s. note that these donations can be Gift Aided, and there 11.45pm Midnight Mass. St Edward’s. are envelopes available by the plan. Please write your Christmas Day : name in one of the squares and put your donation in an 8am Said Euc harist. St Margaret’s. envelope and Gift Aid it. Our thanks to Elizabeth Doe for 9.30am Sung Eucharist. St Margaret’s. producing the plan. 11am Holy Eucharist with Sunday School Presentation of the Nativity. St Edward’s. DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 13 Jan at 7.45 pm in Room 2 Roath Church H ouse , when the topic is ANTHEMS at the Eucharist are “Only a little city” from the “Victorian Religion”. Do come and give it a try – lively cantata “Bethlehem” by John Henry Maunder (1858 - 1920) and discussion (take part or just listen) over coffee and the anthem “Bethlehem” by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893). At biscuits finishing about 9 pm . Further information from Midnight Mass, the Sans Day Carol by John Rutter (b.1945) Gill Day  20 - 495496. and Christmas Morning “The Holy City”, words by Frederick E. Weatherly (1848 - 1929), music by Stephen Adams (a WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Cytûn pseudonym of Michael Maybri ck, 1844 - 1913). Ser vice will be held at St Anne’s Church on Tue 22 Jan PRAYER TREE . Please write a prayer on one of the at 7pm. “bauble” cards and hang it on the little Christmas tree at COFFEE CONCERTS . The fifth concert in the series is the back of the church. by Catherine Mill edge ( Piano ) on Sat 26 Jan at 11am. CHRISTMAS TREE will be decorated after the PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on Eucharist this morning. Please stay to help if you can. Mon 28 Jan, 7.30 - 9.30pm in Roath Church House. New CHOR AL E VENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: members very welcome – assistance given to learners . Sumsion in G . Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord always (Purcell) . Contact Gill Day  20 - 495496 or Ann James craftylady - EVENING PRAYER (with the last of the series of O Antiphons ) [email protected] for details. will be said at 5pm (after the Carol Service) today. FOR YOUR DIARY . NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS (with Choir & 26 Dec. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. Orche stra) today at 3.30pm. If you would like to read 7 Jan. 7.30pm. PCC. Roath Church House. one of the Lessons, please see Alan. 23 Jan. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. 26 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert: Catherine Milledge (Piano). SUNDAY SCHOOL NATIVITY PRESENTATION on 30 Jan. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Christmas Day at 11am. Please support the Sunday School. MUSIC DIARY . PARADISE RUN on Wednesday (Boxing Day). We 22 Jan. 1pm - 2pm. Organ: Andrew Lumsden. St David’s Hall. need loaves of sandwiches of ei ther sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned beef using white medium EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of St Edward’s sliced bread and individually wrapped sandwiches. Also Committee last week agreed that the redecoration of the packets of crisps , biscuits or cakes, and warm soc ks, church should begin as soon as possible. The work will hats, scarves and gloves . A big thank you to everyon e proceed much more efficiently if the church is closed for for their conti nued support. Items can be given to Kathie a week or two some time early in the New Year , and we Mayer  20 - 495769 or left at Church House either at are hoping to arrange to worship with St Anne’s on any Wednesday lunchtime or in the evening just before we Sundays that are affected. leave at 7.30pm. For further information or offers of help please ring Chris Webb  20 - 455641. LAPEL MICROPHONE has been purchased for use in St Edward’s, from mone y given by Tricia in memory of LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on her mother (Win Coleman) and by other members of the Sat 5 Jan at Barbara Be avis’s, 115 Carisbrooke Way . church. Tickets £1. There will be a raffle, books and cakes on sale and a bring & buy stall. All proceeds to our new PRIZE D RAW last week raised £300. Our thanks to charities for 2013 – the Brecon Mountain R escue and Janice for organizing it. the Rainbow of Hope ( this is the ‘umbrella’ under which WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors t he Paradi se Run is organised). All very welcome. and newcomers. Please make yourself kn own to one of PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets on Mon 7 Jan the sidesmen if you are new with us. at 7.30pm at Roath Church House. CONTACT NUMBERS . THE CHRISTMAS STORY . There will be a meeting at Rev Stewart Lisk: Tabernacl Welsh Chapel, The Hayes , on Wed 9 Jan at  20 - 484808/20 - 487854. 7.30pm for anyone interested in helping to take the Parish Office  20 - 484808, project forward next year. [email protected] Please let the clergy know CINDERELLA will be presented by St Peter’s Players at of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. St Peter’s Hall 9 - 12 Jan at 7.30pm. £7.50 (conc. £4.50 ) To receive the Parish Group e - newsletter send an email  07779 - 088623 [email protected] to [email protected]

Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Disjtunbt Weekly Newsletter No.1909 Sunday, 30 th December, 2012 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Vernon Hodgson . Hymns: This Child, Carol Sweetly Carol, 72, Anthem: Quem Pastores (Rutter) , 58 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Break forth, O Beauteous (Bach) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 132 . Hymns: 57, Anthem: It came upon the midnight clear (Stainer) , 68 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: S.S.Wesley Chant Service in G. Readings: Isaiah 61 . Galatians 3,27-4,7 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Kuching in the Province of South-East Asia, Archbishop Bolly Lapok and Assistant Bishop Aeries Sumping and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories . We pray for Archbishop Rowan who retires as Archbishop of Canterbury on Monday, and for Bishop Justin Welby , as he prepares for his ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury starting in March. We pray for peace in the world , remembering the people of Afghanistan and Syria . We pray for the people of East Africa , suffering from the severe drought there. We pray for organist Alan Greaves , murdered in Sheffield on his way to play for Midnight Mass. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Eglwysilan and Rev Susan Rees . We pray for the clergy who minister in this parish , our Vicar, Rev Stewart Lisk, and the retired clergy who assist him, especially Canon John Woodward and Rev Vernon Hodgson. We pray for the sick and those who care for them. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially David Vernon Edmunds and Margaret Shepherd , whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL ! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Wednesday at 6.30pm and Thursday at 7pm this week. Uvftebz!2tu!Kbo The Naming of Jesus PARISH SURGERY will be held next on 7 Jan 2013. Xfeoftebz 10.15 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE is closed until Mon 7 Jan. 3oe 6.30 pm Evening Prayer. PRAYER TREE . Please write a prayer on one of the “bauble” cards Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. and hang it on the little Christmas tree at the back of the church. 4se 7.30 pm Choir Practice. WELCOME . We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make Gsjebz!5ui 10.00 am Annual Christmas Peal. Llandaff Cathedral. yourself kn own to one of the sidesmen if you Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. are new with us. 6ui 10.30 am Ladies Circle Epiphany Coffee Morning. 115 Carisbrooke Way. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Epiphany of Our Lord . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Ephesians 3: 1-12; Matthew 2: 1-12. FLOODLIGHTING ST MARGARET’S . The 2013 Flood-lighting Sponsorship Calendar is now on the Notice Board in St Margaret’s Porch. You are cordially invited to remember the anniversaries of loved ones, or occasions you would like to celebrate or commemorate. The suggested amount is £3 per entry, which sponsors the whole week. Many people have admired the floodlighting of St Margaret’s Church – it has proved to be quite a landmark. Please help to keep this asset by sponsoring a week or two for only £3 per week. The collection box can be found by the font or donations can be given directly to Chris Webb, St Margaret’s Treasurer. LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on Saturday 10.30am-12pm at Barbara Beavis’s, 115 Carisbrooke Way. Tickets £1. There will be a raffle, books and cakes on sale and a bring & buy stall. All proceeds to our new charities for 2013 – the Brecon Mountain Rescue and the Rainbow of Hope (this is the ‘umbrella’ under which the Paradise Run is organised). All very welcome. PILGRIMAGE TO GREECE . Tony and Sue Stevens are leading a Pilgrimage to Greece, following in the footsteps of St Paul 6-14 Oct 2013. We will be visiting amongst other places, Kavala (Neapolis), Ancient Philippi, Thessaloniki, Berea, Athens and Ancient Corinth. We will also be visiting the Royal Tombs of Vergina, the amazing monasteries of Meteora, Ancient Delphi, the sites of Athens including the Acropolis and a Dinner and Folklore show in the Plaka area of Athens. Scheduled Flights from Heathrow. 4* and 5* Hotels Half Board Licensed Travel Guide throughout the trip. We are using 'ITS', a well known Manchester Travel agent who organise many pilgrimages. Details, booking forms etc from Rev'ds Sue and Tony Stevens (20-707745, email [email protected] 2 Falcon Grove, Lavernock, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 5FB. http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Facebook: StEdwardRoath [email protected] ARCHBISHOP ROWAN’S CHRISTMAS SERMON urges EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of St Edward’s people to go and ‘join the human race’ this Christmas and Committee agreed that the redecoration of the church become agents of transformation and renewal. He says the should begin as soon as possible. The work will proceed purpose of the Christian message isn’t to defend religion or much more efficiently if the church is closed for a week make the church credible, but to pose a challenge to everyone to reconsider who they are: or two some time early in the New Year, and we are “Here is something so extraordinary that it interrupts our hoping to arrange to worship with St Anne’s on any world; here is something that – like Moses in the story of the Sundays that are affected. Burning Bush – makes you ‘turn aside to see’, that stops you PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets on Mon 7 Jan short. Faith begins in the moment of stopping … the moment when you can’t just walk on as you did before ...” at 7.30pm at Roath Church House. The challenge of the Gospel message, he says, is not about THE CHRISTMAS STORY . There will be a meeting at religious defensiveness but about the possibilities of Tabernacl Welsh Chapel, The Hayes, on Wed 9 Jan at transformation: 7.30pm for anyone interested in helping to take the “Jesus does not come just to answer the questions we think project forward next year. important … he does not come to give us a set of techniques for keeping God happy; and he certainly doesn’t come to CINDERELLA will be presented by St Peter’s Players at create a harmlessly eccentric hobby for speculative minds. He St Peter’s Hall 9-12 Jan at 7.30pm. £7.50 (conc. £4.50) comes to make humanity itself new, to create fresh (07779-088623 [email protected] possibilities for being at peace with God.” And people responding to this invitation and bringing about DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 13 Jan at 7.45pm in incredible transformation had proved inspirational to him in his Room 2 Roath Church House, when the topic is “Victorian time as Archbishop: Religion”. Do come and give it a try – lively discussion (take “When people respond to outrageous cruelty and violence part or just listen) over coffee and biscuits finishing about with a hard-won readiness to understand and be reconciled, 9pm. Further information from Gill Day (20-495496. few if any can bring themselves to say that all this is an DROP-IN DAY at Llangasty Retreat House on Mon 21 Jan, illusion. 10am-4pm with Eucharist at 12pm. An opportunity to pause “The parents who have lost a child to gang violence, the wife for prayer and personal reflection – come for all or part of the who has seen her husband killed in front of her by an anti- day. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea provided. No charge, Christian mob in India, the woman who has struggled for but donations welcome. No need to book. years to comprehend and accept the rape and murder of her sister, the Israeli and Palestinian friends who have been PRE-LENT READING WEEK at Llangasty Retreat brought together by the fact that they have lost family House, 21-25 Jan. An opportunity for individuals to step members in the conflict and injustice that still racks the Holy aside for peace, study, relaxation and re-creation. No set Land – all these are specific people I have had the privilege of programme other than meal times. Book for the time you meeting as Archbishop over these ten years; and in their can make available. Cost from £62 per 24 hrs full board. willingness to explore the new humanity of forgiveness and rebuilding relations, without for a moment making light of their WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Cytûn Service own or other people’s nightmare suffering, or trying to explain will be held at St Anne’s Church on Tue 22 Jan at 7pm. it away, these are the ones who make us see, who oblige us COFFEE CONCERTS . The fifth concert in the series is to turn aside and look, as if at a bush burning but not by Catherine Milledge (Piano) on Sat 26 Jan at 11am. consumed.” The challenge is for everyone, he says; PARISH KNITTING & CROCHET GROUP meets on “Go and join the rest of the human race and acknowledge who Mon 28 Jan, 7.30-9.30pm in Roath Church House. New you are. That’s the truest heroism and the hardest. It’s a members very welcome – assistance given to learners. foreshadowing of the New Testament invitation: repent and Contact Gill Day (20-495496 or Ann James craftylady- believe and be baptised. Turn round and look where you’ve [email protected] for details. never looked before, trust the one who is calling you and drop under the water of his overflowing compassion. Be with him. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 30 Join the new human race, re-created in the Spirit of mutual Jan at 7.30pm. love and delight and service. The full text is on the web at: FOR YOUR DIARY . http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2772/ 7 Jan. 7.30pm. PCC. Roath Church House. 23 Jan. 7.30pm. Paradise Run. SPONSOR A SQUARE . There is a plan of St Edward’s at the 26 Jan. 11am. Coffee Concert: Catherine Milledge (Piano). back of the church with the walls and ceiling marked out in 30 Jan. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. squares. We are inviting everyone to “sponsor a square” at a rate of £10 per square, with a target of £2000 towards the MUSIC DIARY . redecoration costs. Please note that these donations can be 22 Jan. 1pm-2pm. Organ: Andrew Lumsden. St David’s Hall. Gift Aided, and there are envelopes available by the plan. LAPEL MICROPHONE has been purchased for use in St Please write your name in one of the squares and put your Edward’s, from money given by Tricia in memory of her donation in an envelope and Gift Aid it. Our thanks to mother (Win Coleman) and by other members of the church. Elizabeth Doe for producing the plan. CONTACT NUMBERS . ANTHEMS . The anthem at the Eucharist is “Quem Pastores Rev Stewart Lisk: Laudavere” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at Evensong (((20-484808/20-487854. is the chorale “Break forth O beauteous heavenly light” from Parish Office (((20-484808, “Christmas Oratorio” by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) [email protected] and the anthem is “It came upon the midnight clear” by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901). Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. To receive the Parish Group e-newsletter send an email Congregational Evensong at 3.30pm. to [email protected]