]Uif!Fqjqiboz!pg!Pvs!Mpse Weekly Newsletter No.1597 Sunday, 7th January, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 79, We Three Kings, 67, Anthem: Three Kings of Orient (Gardner), Shine Shine. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Preacher: Mr David Hanks. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Hail Gladdening Light (Stainer). Psalms 98, 100. Hymns: 77, Anthem: O Be Joyful (Stanford), 75. & Nunc Dimittis: C. Hylton Stewart. Readings: Isaiah 60, 1-9. John 2, 1-11. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church in , and Archbishop . We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. We pray for the victims of the floods in Brazil. In this we pray for the Parish of Newydd 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 Rev Caroline as she prepares to take up her ministry in this week. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, , Phyl Riddett, Tomos Owen. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at UIJT!XFFL! 7.45pm at 15 Lothian Crescent, (Gill Day’s). We Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. will be discussing the Parables. All welcome. 9ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to the daily office. Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s :ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE is closed from 11.30am on 21ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Monday morning, all Wednesday morning, 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Church House. and from 11am on Friday morning. 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. 7.30 pm Rehearsals: Sapphire Singers (schoolroom) & Clarinet Choir (church). 7.30 pm LICENSING SERVICE FOR REV CAROLINE. SS Andrew & Teilo, Woodville Rd. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated 22ui 9.30 am Funeral of Eileen Whiston. St Margaret’s. aboard Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 6.30 pm Full Choir Practice (Scrooge). 1.15pm. Everyone is welcome. A booklet “Still a 7.30 pm Roath Local History Society. Keppoch St. Guiding Light” has been produced to mark ten 8.00 pm Full Choir Practice (Sunday). years of the lightship in Bay. Price £1.50 inc. postage 20-487609. Gsjebz!23ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second Sunday of . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 62: 1-5; 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11; John 2: 1-11. CARDIFF ADULT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CENTRE (CACEC) courses at City Church (Windsor Place): Spirituality in Music, by Andrew Wilson-Dickson (a composer and keyboard player who has performed and organised many concerts at St Edward’s), Weds 2-4pm for 8 weeks, starting 17 Jan. Fee: £20 (conc. £14 & £5). Pastoral Care & Counselling, by John Weaver, Principal of Baptist College, Weds 7.30-9.30pm for 10 weeks, starting 17 Jan. Presenting a Christian foundation for those interested in understanding human life and relationships, with a view to providing pastoral care, and strengthening family and community. Fee: £61 (conc. £49). FUN EVENING FOR CHARITY at Roath Church House on Sat 3 Feb, inc. a quiz, whisky roll, bingo, raffle and buffet supper. Proceeds to the Marie Curie Holme Tower Hospice () in memory of Meurig Oxenham. Team of 6 tickets £5 including buffet supper. Bar available. PARISH DIARIES are available today, price £1 each. Proceeds to church funds. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] REV CAROLINE’S LICENSING SERVICE is on LUNCHTIME CONCERT with Cardiff Style Barbershop Wednesday at 7.30pm at SS Andrew & Teilo, Woodville Chorus at St John the Evangelist Church, Canton, on Rd. All welcome. Sat 27 Jan at 12pm. Tickets £6 inc. buffet lunch: 20- 700922. COFFEE is served in the vestry after the Eucharist this morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take place. IGNITE EVENT: “Offensive: God’s Mercy Master Plan” Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. at Woodville Christian Centre on Sat 27 Jan, 7-9.30pm, with speaker Dai Hankey and the Ignite Worship Band. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Three Details 20-512247 email: [email protected] Kings of Orient”, a Caribbean Carol by Maurice Gardner. The Introit at Evensong is the third century CAMBRENSIS MINISTERIES offer a chance to hear hymn “Hail gladdening Light” set to music by John John Bell, one of the foremost speakers on worship in Stainer (1840-1901), and the anthem is “O Be Joyful in the UK, at Calvary Baptist, Canton. There will be a 'big the Lord” (Psalm 100) by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford sing' of music from around the world on Fri 2 Feb at (1852-1924). 7.30pm (£5) and a teaching and workshop session on contemporary worship on Sat 3 Feb 2-4.30pm (£5) or £8 NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Weelkes Short Service. Anthem: for both. Email: [email protected] or 20- Videntes Stellam (Lassus). Visiting choir: Sine Nomine. 224628 for tickets. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 7 Feb. the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. 50th J.C. JONES LECTURE is at St Michael’s College SAPPHIRE SINGERS start weekly Weds rehearsals in on Mon 26 Feb at 7.30pm. Lord Carey of the schoolroom this week. Programme includes Clifton will speak on “Two Cultures – One mission (the Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Cost £50 for 22 rehearsals future of the Christian Faith in a Secular Age)”. All and four concerts. welcome. Admission free. Organised by CMS Wales. ROATH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY meets on FOR YOUR DIARY. Thursday in the Mackintosh Residents Centre, Keppoch 3 Feb. Fun Evening. Roath Church House. St, at 7.30pm, when Gwyn Smith will speak on “An 7 Feb. Taizé Service. Introduction to Heraldry”. Cost £2. 20 Feb. Shrove Tuesday Social. Roath Church House. 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. RSCM MEETING at on Saturday, 11am-12.30pm to discuss what we want RSCM to do in ARCHBISHOP ROWAN: NEW YEAR MESSAGE. The our area. Any of our musicians interested in attending, has said that we need to feel please speak to Alan. the same hunger for justice that ended the slave trade if the world is to be changed for the better. He drew on the e-EUCHARIST at St Paul’s Church, Grangetown next example of William Wilberforce to urge people to act to Sunday at 6pm. 20-499876. text 07989 413766 email: change the world: [email protected]. A collection will be taken. “Jesus talks about being hungry and thirsty for CYTÛN MEETING on Mon 15 Jan at 7.30pm at Roath righteousness, for justice. And if we hear that in the way Park URC, Penywain Road. it’s surely meant, we have to conclude that he means PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. The that we should feel there’s something missing in us, PACT meetings give local people the opportunity to something taken away from us, when another person, identify issues they would like the police and partners to near or far away, has to face need and suffering. We get address. Next meeting is at Albany Rd Baptist to be ourselves only when we wake up to them and their Church Hall on Thur 18 Jan at 7pm. needs. A CAROL. Full practice on Thursday at “When we look at the familiar images of other people’s 6.30pm. This musical version of Dickens’ famous suffering, do we feel a void inside ourselves, a yearning Christmas story will be performed on 19/20 Jan. We are for something different and a conviction that it needn’t still pleased to receive any more offers of help be like this? That’s where change begins. And it’s one of backstage. There will be tea and homemade cakes in the differences that faith can make; faith in God and in the Schoolroom after the matinee on the Saturday in aid people.” of the Sunday School sponsorship of Sella in Malawi. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors OF WOMEN IN WALES. Service to mark and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the 10th Anniversary in the Cathedral on Tue 23 Jan at the sidesmen if you are new with us. 7pm. Broadcast by BBC on 28 Jan at 7.30pm. CONTACT NUMBERS. WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. On Wed Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. 24 Jan, at Canton Uniting Church, Road Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. East, Aled Edwards (General Secretary of Cytun) will Email: [email protected] speak on “The Ecumenical Task Today”. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST at St Anne’s on Sat 27 CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Jan, 10am-12pm. Tickets £3 from Joan 20-307256 or Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Jean 20-639233. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Fqjqiboz Weekly Newsletter No.1598 Sunday, 14th January, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 372, 81, 383, Anthem: Ave Verum (Mozart), 119(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: O Praise the Lord (Batten). Psalm 96. Hymns: 155(MP), Anthem: The Radiant Morn (Woodward), 217(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: 1 Samuel 3, 1-20. Ephesians 4, 1-16. In the world-wide Church on Sunday we pray for the Anglican Communion, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the Secretary General and the staff of the Anglican Communion Office. In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity we pray for the World Council of Churches and all institutions and organisations promoting Christian Unity and for the healing of all schisms within the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. We pray for the of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Harper, elected this week to be and Primate of All . We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , Ynysynon & All Saints, and Rev Peter Gale and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rita Walters and Elsie Victoria Mayer, whose anniversaries occur at this time. NO MORNING PRAYER in St Margaret’s this week. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 26ui 6.00 pm No Parish Surgery. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. NO PARISH SURGERY on Monday this week. 7.30 pm Cytûn Meeting. URC. Uvftebz! 1.00 pm Lunchtime Concert: Choir of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. St David’s Hall. 27ui 6.30 pm Rehearsal for Scrooge. CYTÛN MEETING on Monday at 7.30pm at 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Roath Park URC, Penywain Road. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. CHOIR OF ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Cambridge present a lunchtime concert of 28ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. English choral works from the Renaissance 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. to the present at St David’s Hall on Tuesday, 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 1pm-2pm. Tickets £5.50 (conc. £4.50). Uivstebz Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday 29ui 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. this week. 5.30 pm Reception of Doris Young into St Margaret’s. SPECIAL PCC MEETING next Sunday 6.30 pm Dress Rehearsal for Scrooge. at 8pm in Roath Church House, to 7.00 pm PACT Meeting. Albany Rd Baptist Church Hall. discuss St Margaret’s Organ. Gsjebz 1.15 pm Funeral Eucharist for Doris Young. St Margaret’s. 2:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. The PACT 7.30 pm A . meetings give local people the opportunity to identify issues Tbuvsebz!! 2.30 pm . they would like the police and partners to address. Next Penylan meeting is at Albany Rd Baptist Church Hall on 31ui 7.30 pm A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Thursday at 7pm. 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: Nehemiah 8: 1-3, 5-6, 8-10; 1 Corinthians 12: 12-31a; Luke 4: 14-21. THANK YOU FROM THE REV CAROLINE – she has purchased a top of the range lap-top computer and carrying case, together with a manual. She is very pleased with the gift and wishes to thank everyone who contributed towards it. Thank you to all who attended her Licensing Service on Wednesday. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This musical version of WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. On Wed Dickens’ famous Christmas story will be performed on 24 Jan, at Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Road Friday and Saturday this week at 7.30pm (and a East, Aled Edwards (General Secretary of Cytun) will matinee at 2.30pm on Saturday). There will be tea and speak on “The Ecumenical Task Today”. homemade cakes in the Schoolroom after the matinee HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY. Cardiff Council will be on Saturday in aid of the Sunday School sponsorship of holding a National Service at the City Hall on Thur 25 Sella in Malawi. Full practice for the cast on Tuesday at Jan at 1pm. The day will provide a national platform to 6.30pm and dress rehearsal on Thursday at 6.30pm. raise the awareness and understanding of the ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the 14th Holocaust as well as wider issues of tolerance and good century Eucharistic hymn “Ave Verum Corpus Natum” citizenship. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). The Introit at FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST at St Anne’s on Sat 27 Evensong is the motet “O Praise the Lord” by Adrian Jan, 10am-12pm. Tickets £3 from Joan 20-307256 or Batten (1591-1637?), and the anthem is “The Radiant Jean 20-639233. Morn Hath Passed Away” by Rev. Herbert Hall Woodward (1847-1909). TRY GOSPEL at St David’s Hall on Sat 27 Jan at 10.30am. Join Humie Webb, experienced singer and CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: musician for this one-day try session for complete Wood in D. Anthem: down (Warlock). beginners. The whole family can enjoy this fun e-EUCHARIST at St Paul’s Church, Grangetown next introduction to the techniques of gospel singing. Tickets Sunday at 6pm. 20-499876. text 07989 413766 email: £10 (conc. £5). [email protected]. A collection will be taken. MEMORIAL QUIZ in aid of Marie Curie Holme Towers SAPPHIRE SINGERS rehearse in the schoolroom (in memory of Meurig Oxenham) on Sat 3 Feb in Roath every Wed. Programme includes Pergolesi’s Stabat Church House. Quiz, whisky roll, bingo, raffle and buffet Mater. Cost £50 for 22 rehearsals and four concerts. supper. Teams of six at £5 per person (inclusive of finger buffet). Bar available. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm at 9 Waterloo Rd (Gwyneth & Les). We will be TAIZÉ SERVICE. Next service: Wed 7 Feb at 7.30pm. discussing the “Parable of the Prodigal son” – why not COMPLINE. Next service: 15 Feb. come along and try a session. FOR YOUR DIARY. PARISH DIARIES are available today, price £1 each. 3 Feb. Fun Evening. Roath Church House. Proceeds to church funds. 7 Feb. Taizé Service. TEN YEARS OF WOMEN IN WALES. Bishop 20 Feb. Shrove Tuesday Social. Roath Church House. Carl Cooper, formerly one of the most vocal opponents 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. of women priests, writes: CARDIFF ADULT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CENTRE “Ever since the ordination of the first women priests in (CACEC) courses at City Church (Windsor Place): 1997 it has been my privilege to minister with a number Spirituality in Music, by Andrew Wilson-Dickson (a of close, female colleagues. The last 10 years have composer and keyboard player who has performed and demonstrated that our Church has been enriched, organised many concerts at St Edward’s), Weds 2-4pm blessed and made more whole by women’s priestly for 8 weeks, starting 17 Jan. Fee: £20 (conc. £14 & £5). ministry. It now feels as if the Church of the past was Pastoral Care & Counselling, by John Weaver, incomplete. Principal of South Wales Baptist College, Weds 7.30- “What of the future? Despite the decision to ordain 9.30pm for 10 weeks, starting 17 Jan. Presenting a women priests, we still have some way to go before we Christian foundation for those interested in can claim to be a fully representative Church. There are understanding human life and relationships, with a view now women in very senior parochial posts. We have to providing pastoral care, and strengthening family and women serving as Cathedral Canons and Area Deans. community. Fee: £61 (conc. £49). However, the has yet to appoint a OUR THANKS to Gary Mullins for deputising on organ woman or Cathedral , and it still and piano while Norman is away. prevents women from becoming . Later this year we will begin the process of deciding whether or not to WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors allow women to be bishops. I am convinced that this will and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of happen, hopefully sooner rather than later. It will have the sidesmen if you are new with us. my unreserved support.” CONTACT NUMBERS. There will be a Service to mark the 10th Anniversary in Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. the Cathedral on Tue 23 Jan at 7pm, when Bishop Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Christina Odenberg, the first woman bishop in the Church of Sweden, will preside at the Eucharist, and CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Venerable , will Monday. preach. The Service will be broadcast by BBC on 28 Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Jan at 7.30pm. person who is in hospital.

]Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Fqjqiboz Weekly Newsletter No.1599 Sunday, 21st January, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 61(MP), 83(MP), 402, Anthem: O How Amiable (Faning), 201(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Preacher: Mr Geoffrey Smith.. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Introit: Cast Thy Burden (Mendelssohn). Psalm 33. Hymns: 214(MP), Anthem: I will lay me down in peace (Williams), 256 (omit *). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: C. Hylton Stewart. Readings: Numbers 9, 15-23. 1 Corinthians 7, 17-24. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Madhya Kerala, Church of South India (United) and Bishop Thomas Samuel. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. We pray for the victims of the famine and floods in Burundi. We pray for the victims of the storms across Europe this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , St David, and Rev Martyn Davies and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Joan Elliot, whose funeral is at St Edward’s on Thursday, also Ronald Cox () and Rosamund Loder, whose anniversaries occur at this time. SPECIAL PCC MEETING today at 8pm in Roath UIJT!XFFL! Church House, to discuss St Margaret’s Organ. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 33oe 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 9.15am each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to the daily office. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 34se 7.00 pm Service: 10th Anniversary of . Llandaff Cathedral. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 35ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. on Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm Roath Church House Committee. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today Uivstebz Conversion of St Paul at 7.45pm at 9 Waterloo Rd (Gwyneth & Les). We will be discussing the “Parable of 36ui 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. the Prodigal son” – why not come along and 1.00 pm Holocaust Memorial Day Service. City Hall. try a session. 1.15 pm Funeral of Joan Elliot. St Edward’s. 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. ORDINATION OF WOMEN IN WALES. Service to mark 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. the 10th Anniversary in the Cathedral on Tuesday at 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. 7pm, when Bishop Christina Odenberg, the first woman bishop in the Church of Sweden, will preside at the Gsjebz!37ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Eucharist, and Venerable Joy Tetley, Archdeacon of Worcester will preach. The Service will be broadcast by Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Full English Breakfast. St Anne’s. BBC on 28 Jan at 7.30pm. 38ui 10.30 am “Try Gospel”. St David’s Hall. 12.00 pm Lunchtime Concert. St John the Evangelist, Canton. 7.00 pm Ignite Event. Woodville Christian Centre. 7.30 pm Concert: Llandaff Cathedral Choir. Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth 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: Ezekiel 43:27 – 44:4; 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13; Luke 2: 22-40. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY. Cardiff Council will be holding a National Service at the City Hall on Thursday at 1pm. The day will provide a national platform to raise the awareness and understanding of the Holocaust as well as wider issues of tolerance and good citizenship. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Many thanks to all who Photographs: Fiona Berry worked so hard to make the show a success. Well done TRY GOSPEL at St David’s Hall on Saturday at to all our performers. 10.30am. Join Humie Webb, experienced singer and ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “O How musician for this one-day try session for complete Amiable” by Joseph Eaton Faning (1850-1927). The beginners. The whole family can enjoy this fun Introit at Evensong is “Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord” introduction to the techniques of gospel singing. Tickets from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809- £10 (conc. £5). 47), and the anthem is “I Will Lay Me Down in Peace” by LUNCHTIME CONCERT with Cardiff Style Barbershop Charles Lee Williams (1853-1935, organist of Chorus at St John the Evangelist Church, Canton, on Gloucester Cathedral and one of the conductors of the Saturday at 12pm. Tickets £6 inc. buffet lunch: 20- Three Choirs Festival). 700922. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: IGNITE EVENT: “Offensive: God’s Mercy Master Plan” Daniel Purcell in E Minor. Anthem: The Heavens Are at Woodville Christian Centre on Saturday, 7-9.30pm, Telling (Haydn). with speaker Dai Hankey and the Ignite Worship Band. “CELEBRATE THE PAST – IMAGINE THE FUTURE” Details 20-512247 email: [email protected] is the theme of a 3-day conference at St Michael’s CONCERT by Llandaff Cathedral Choir and Welsh College, Llandaff, 22-24 Jan 2007, reflecting on Sinfonia at the Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. women’s ministry 10 years after the first of CANDLEMAS. Sung Holy Eucharist with Procession at women to the priesthood. Open to men and women, lay St Margaret’s on Fri 2 Feb at 7.30pm. and ordained. For details, contact St Michael’s College MEMORIAL QUIZ in aid of Marie Curie Holme Towers 20-563379. Email: [email protected] (in memory of Meurig Oxenham) on Sat 3 Feb in Roath WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. On Church House. Quiz, whisky roll, bingo, raffle and buffet Wednesday, at Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge supper. Teams of six at £5 per person (inc finger buffet). Road East, Aled Edwards (General Secretary of Cytun) Bar available. Tickets from Parish Office, Tony James, will speak on “The Ecumenical Task Today”. Sue Oxenham and Gill Day. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE COMMITTEE meets at e-EUCHARIST at St Fagan’s Church, Trecynon, on Sun 7.30pm on Wednesday. 4 Feb at 6pm. 20-499876. text 07989 413766 email: CONVERSION OF ST PAUL (Thursday). 9am at St [email protected]. Anne’s: Holy Eucharist. 6pm at the Cathedral: Solemn TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every other Eucharist – Wills Short Service. month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: 7 Feb. CHAPLAINCY: VOICES AND VISIONS: A National PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7pm on Consultation on the Future of Chaplaincy in Britain Tue 13 Feb, at St. Anne’s. at St. Michael’s College, 25-27 Jan. This consultation COMPLINE. Next service: 15 Feb. brings together chaplains and others to discuss the contemporary roles which chaplains play – in health- FOR YOUR DIARY. care, the military, prisons, education, and commercial 20 Feb. Shrove Tuesday Social. Roath Church House. and other settings. Further information 20-838001. 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE: “Listening to the OUR THANKS to Gary Mullins for deputising on organ Viewer” by Huw Edwards, Chief Presenter for BBC and piano while Norman is away. News, at 7pm on Friday in the Faraday Lecture Theatre, CONTACT NUMBERS. Swansea University. Admission £5: proceeds to Ward 7, Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Singleton Hospital, for the Care and Rehabilitation of Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Stroke Patients. Email: [email protected] FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST at St Anne’s on Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Saturday, 10am-12pm. Tickets £3 from Joan 20- 307256 or Jean 20-639233. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of person who is in hospital. the sidesmen if you are new with us.

]Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!Fqjqiboz Homelessness Sunday and World Leprosy Day Weekly Newsletter No.1600 Sunday, 28th January, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Hail to the Lord who comes, Jesus is the Name we honour, Great is the Lord, Anthem: For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter), We are Marching. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Thine, O Lord, is the Greatness (). Psalm 34. Hymns: 238(MP), Anthem: O Taste and See (Sullivan), 399. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: William H. Harris in A Minor. Readings: 1 Chronicles 29, 6-19. Acts 7, 44-50. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the of Makurdi in the Province of Abuja, Church of Nigeria, and Bishop Nathan Nyitar Inyom. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine, especially the people of Gaza, where there is now fighting between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah. On World Leprosy Day we pray for the work of the Leprosy Mission, Rev Martin Davies (coordinator for Wales) and people around the world who have been burdened with a diagnosis of leprosy. On this Homelessness Sunday, we pray for the homeless, and those who work with and on behalf of them, remembering in this city CASH and the Paradise Run. On the weekend of Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the six million Jews and other victims of the Nazi death camps; also victims of more recent genocide atrocities, and those who suffer as a of Holocaust denial, which was condemned by a resolution of the UN General Assembly this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cathays and Rev Caroline Downs and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Elizabeth Audrey Williams and Frank Holmes, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am UIJT!XFFL! each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to the daily office. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Npoebz! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 3:ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6pm this 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last 41ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. HEALING at the Cathedral (St Dyfrig Chapel) 42tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. on Wed at 7.30pm. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CANDLEMAS. Sung Holy Eucharist with 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Procession at St Margaret’s Friday, 7.30pm. 7.30 pm Eucharist and Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. OUR THANKS to Gary Mullins for 7.45 pm Paradise Run. deputising on organ and piano while Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Norman is away. 2tu!Gfc 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Gsjebz Candlemas the sidesmen if you are new with us. 3oe 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm SUNG HOLY EUCHARIST. St Margaret’s. PARISH DIARIES are available today, Tbuvsebz!4se 7.30 pm Memorial Quiz. Roath Church House. price £1 each. Proceeds to church funds. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third Sunday Before Lent (Septuagesima) and will be observed as Education Sunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. 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; I Corinthians 15: 1-11; Luke 5: 1-11. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] MEMORIAL QUIZ in aid of Marie Curie Holme Towers SOUP LUNCH 12-2pm on Sat 17 Feb at St Anne’s Hall, (in memory of Meurig Oxenham) on Saturday in Roath in aid of Luke Davies and Cardiff Boys Rugby Tour of Church House. Quiz, whisky roll, bingo, raffle and buffet . Home made soups available. supper. Teams of six at £5 per person (inc finger buffet). 50th J.C. JONES LECTURE is at St Michael’s College Bar available. Tickets from Parish Office, Tony James, Llandaff on Mon 26 Feb at 7.30pm. Lord Carey of Sue Oxenham and Gill Day. Please support this worthy Clifton will speak on “Two Cultures – One mission (the event – all monies raised are for Marie Curie Holme future of the Christian Faith in a Secular Age)”. All Towers. welcome. Admission free. Organised by CMS Wales. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “For the LEPROSY MISSION. There will be a retreat day entitled Beauty of the Earth” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit “Retreat to Advance” for quiet and spiritual reflection at at Evensong is a setting of the Old Testament Lesson (1 Llangasty, on Thur 8 March, 10am-4pm. A unique Chronicles 29:11), “Thine O Lord is the greatness” by opportunity for supporters of the Leprosy Mission to take James Kent (1700-1776), organist of Trinity College, time out in this beautiful location. Cost £15, including Cambridge, 1731-1738, and the anthem is “O Taste and lunch. The retreat house can take a maximum of 30 See How Gracious the Lord Is” by Arthur Sullivan (1842- people, so please book soon. 1900). ST PATRICK’S DAY SUPPER. A Bangers and Mash Dinner at 7.30pm on Sat 17 Mar, at St Anne’s. As St CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Patrick was a Welshman, we are using IRISH sausages. Tomkins Fifth Service. Anthem: I saw the Lord (Stainer). Watch this space for further information. TEN YEARS CELEBRATION. Two bishops danced GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir down the aisle of Llandaff Cathedral last Tuesday at the and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn end of a service to celebrate ten years of women priests Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in D Minor in the in the Church in Wales. A woman bishop, Rt Revd context of a Devotional Service. Christina Odenburg of Lund in Sweden, presided at the FOR YOUR DIARY. service which was attended by some four hundred men 3 Feb. Fun Evening. Roath Church House. and women from all over Wales and places beyond. 7 Feb. Taizé Service. This was an occasion to be thankful for all that women 13 Feb. 7pm. PCC. St Anne’s. priests have brought to ten years of ministry shared with 15 Feb. 9pm. Compline. their male colleagues. The service was broadcast by 20 Feb. Shrove Tuesday Social. Roath Church House. BBC Radio Wales (Celebration) this morning and is 17 Mar. 7.30pm. St Patrick’s Day Supper. St Anne’s. available for a week on the web. 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. CAMBRENSIS MINISTERIES offer a chance to hear St Edward’s Committee: Sun 11 Feb at 4.30pm. John Bell, one of the foremost speakers on worship in 2007 SPONSORSHIP-FLOODLIGHTING. The chart is the UK, at Calvary Baptist, Canton. There will be a 'big now on the noticeboard in St Margaret’s porch. You are sing' of music from around the world on Friday at cordially invited to remember the anniversaries of loved 7.30pm (£5) and a teaching and workshop session on ones, or occasions you would like to celebrate or contemporary worship on Saturday 2-4.30pm (£5) or £8 commemorate. The suggested amount per week is for both. Email: [email protected] or 20- £3.00. The floodlighting of St Margaret’s Church has 224628 for tickets. been admitted by many people – it has proved to be e-EUCHARIST at St Fagan’s Church, Trecynon, next quite a landmark. Please help to keep this asset by Sunday at 6pm. 20-499876. text 07989 413766 email: sponsoring a week or two for only £3 per week. [email protected]. PLEASE CAN YOU HELP by providing a loaf of sandwiches (or loaves) to help the Paradise Run Team PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at feed the homeless people on the streets of Cardiff. The 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Ave. sandwiches are made out of white sliced bread, We will be discussing the Parable of the Unjust Judge individually wrapped in sandwich bags. They can be (Luke 18:1-7) – why not come along and try a session. filled with either sliced cheese, tuna, corned beef or TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every ham. Every time the Paradise Run Team goes out from other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next: 7 Feb. this Parish, they need approximately 16 loaves of sandwiches. Volunteers to go out on the Run are PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7pm on needed urgently – for further information on either item Tue 13 Feb, at St. Anne’s. contact Tricia Burfoot 20-484808 or Kathie Mayer on CARDIFF & VALE OF AREA Scout 20-495769 or Andrew Prankerd 20-492482. Council are holding a coffee morning at the Mansion CONTACT NUMBERS. House at 10.30am on Thur 15 Feb, in aid of Ty Hafan. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Tickets £3 from Pam Phillipou. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at Email: [email protected] St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable “hours”. Next service: 15 Feb. Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!Cfgpsf!Mfou;!Tfquvbhftjnb Weekly Newsletter No.1601 Sunday, 4th February, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Here I am Lord, And Can It Be?, Day by Day, Anthem: I’m Gonna Sing, Make Way. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Psalme 1: The Man is Blest (Morley). Psalms 1, 2. Hymns: 83, 157(MP). Anthem: O Lord Increase My Faith (Gibbons), Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Hosea 1. Colossians 3, 1-22. On this Education Sunday we offer to God the work of education, in schools, in colleges and universities and in the church, remembering especially our own children and students, teachers and lecturers. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Marathwada in the Church of North India (United). We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. We pray for those suffering from natural disasters: severe famine and heavy rains in Burundi, tornadoes in Florida, flooding in Jakarta. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of and Rev Paul Thompson and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Ireland and the . We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Phyl Riddett, Tomos Owen. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Douglas Snelling, Olive Vincent Gatfield and Amelia Bessie Mills, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am UIJT!XFFL! each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 6ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and Tuesday Uvftebz! this week. 7ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated 7.45 pm Ladies Circle. Roath Church House. aboard Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 1.15pm. Everyone is welcome. 8ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Edward’s on Wednesday of this week at 7.30pm (musicians 7.30 pm TAIZÉ SERVICE. practise 7pm). Next service: 21 March. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. THANK YOU. Barbara and Vernon Hodgson Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. would like to express their gratitude to their 9ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. many friends in this Parish for all the cards, 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. gifts and good wishes during Vernon’s recent 7.30 pm Roath Local History Society. Mackintosh. spell in hospital and his recuperation at home. Thank you and God bless you all. Gsjebz!:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 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: Genesis 2: 4b-9, 15-25; Revelation 4; Luke 8: 22-25. INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or dates in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a draw will take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid out. All proceeds to Roath Church House. Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. 2007 SPONSORSHIP-FLOODLIGHTING. The chart is now on the noticeboard 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 per week is £3.00. The floodlighting of St Margaret’s Church has been admired by many people – 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist ST DAVID’S DAY. The Junior Choir are planning a this morning, and the 100 Club draw will take place. special service in place of Junior Choir Practice at St Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. Edward’s on St David’s Day. All welcome. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual LENTEN DAY OF REFLECTION on Sat 3 Mar at Mill- “I’m Gonna Sing”. The Introit at Evensong is “Psalme 1: Leat, Llanfrynach. “Meeting Jesus again for the First The man is blest” by Thomas Morley (1557-1602), and Time: in the Wilderness”. Information/reservations: the anthem is “O Lord Increase My Faith” by Orlando [email protected] Gibbons (1583-1625). CLEARANCE SALE. 2.30-4.00pm on Sat 3 March at CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Roath Church House. White elephant, cake stall, book Walmisley in D Minor. Anthem: And I saw a new heaven stall, greeting cards & teas. Proceeds to Church House. (Bainton). ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA will give a concert in e-EUCHARIST at St Fagan’s Church, Trecynon, today church on Fri 9 March at 7.30pm. at 6pm. 20-499876. text 07989 413766 email: ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH. A Bangers and Mash [email protected]. Lunch will be held from noon to 2pm on Sat 17 Mar, at PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm St Anne’s. As St Patrick was a Welshman, we are using at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Ave. We will IRISH sausages. be discussing the Parable of the Unjust Judge (Luke DREAMS AND VISIONS. Calling all young people aged 18:1-7) – why not come along and try a session. 16-23 years to the Wales Millennium Centre on Sat 24 IGNITE EVENT today, 8pm-10pm at the Great Hall, Mar, 10am-4pm. A chance for young people in the Cardiff Students Union with Nigel James, who will Church to speak their mind, to play their part in the explore the urgency of our mission and the impact that Church today and help to shape its future. Organised by taking Jesus seriously will have on our lives. Featuring the Youth Department, together with The Ignite Band. Suggested donation £3 on the door. Archbishop Barry. Details: 20-499867. Email: 20-512247 email: [email protected] [email protected] EPIPHANY STUDY SERIES “Christians in a multi-faith GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir society” at Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Road and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn East (Canton and Riverside Churches Together). This Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in D Minor in the Wed at 7.30pm: Rev Graeme Smith (St Michael’s context of a Devotional Service. College) will speak on “Witness and Dialogue”. SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church ROATH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY meets on House. We need pledges or donations of good quality Thursday in the Mackintosh Residents Centre, Keppoch items for sale. St, at 7.30pm, when John Kenyon (Librarian, National FOR YOUR DIARY. Museum of Wales) will speak on “Welsh Castles”. £2. 23 Mar. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets next Sunday at St Edward’s Committee: Sun 11 Feb at 4.30pm. 4.30pm in the vestry. THE BISHOP OF BOTSWANA, Rt Rev Musonda PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7pm on Mwamba, gave the keynote address to senior judges, Tue 13 Feb, at St. Anne’s. lawyers, bishops, and clergy at the Ecclesiastical Law PASTORAL STUDIES DAY on Thur 15 Feb, 9.45am- Society conference “The Anglican Communion: Crisis 4pm at St Michael’s College. “Communication in a and Opportunity”, in Liverpool last weekend. He said Postmodern World” by Nick Mercer. £10 inc light lunch. that “loud voices” from Africa, aided by the “almighty COMPLINE. Next service: 15 Feb at 9pm. dollar” and internet lobbyists, are distorting the true picture of what Africa’s 37 million Anglicans really think SOUP LUNCH 12-2pm on Sat 17 Feb at St Anne’s Hall, about sexuality and the future of the Anglican in aid of Luke Davies and Cardiff Boys Rugby Tour of Communion. He concluded that the minority of Africans South Africa. Home made soups available. who had “the luxury to think about the issue” did not PARISH SHROVE TUESDAY SOCIAL (20 Feb), want to see the Communion disintegrate. They valued 7.30pm at Roath Church House. Musical entertainment the bonds of affection, and would prefer to follow the by Unknown Theatre. Tickets £5 inc refreshments. process recommended by the Windsor report. Proceeds to be divided equally between Unknown Theatre and Roath Church House. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of DAY RETREAT FOR ASH WEDNESDAY (21 Feb) at the sidesmen if you are new with us. Llangasty Retreat House, 10am-4pm. Led by Bishop David Thomas, Provincial Assistant Bishop. Cost £13. CONTACT NUMBERS. Booking essential. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. WOMEN’S CONFERENCE presented by Women of Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Wales in Christ. Fri 23 Feb, 7-10pm & Sat 24 Feb, Email: [email protected] 10am-4pm at Duckpool Road Baptist Church, Maindee, Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Newport. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable RESIDENTIAL LENT RETREAT at Llangasty, 23-25 Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Feb. Led by Bishop Assistant Bishop of Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Llandaff. Cost: £105. Booking essential. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!Cfgpsf!Mfou;! Tfybhftjnb!-!Dsfbujpo!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1602 Sunday, 11th February, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Great is the Darkness, When I Was Lost, Fierce Raged the Tempest, Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter), This is the Day. Setting: Agutter in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: In the Beginning (Haydn). Psalm 147. Hymns: 266, Anthem: Achieved is the Glorious Work (Haydn), 201(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: C. Hylton Stewart. Readings: Genesis 1,1 – 2,3. Matthew 6, 25-34. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Masindi-Kitara in the Church of the Province of Uganda, and Bishop Stanley Ntagali. We pray for peace in the world, remembering Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for the victims of natural disasters, remembering the floods in Mozambique and Jakarta. We pray for the Primates of the world-wide Anglican Communion meeting this week at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. In this diocese we pray for the Conventional District of , St Philip’s Church, and Rev Robert Capper and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands. We pray for the sick, especially Margaret Payne. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Dorothy M. Brothers, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am UIJT!XFFL! each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to the daily office. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 23ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 6.00 pm Ash Wednesday Service Planning. St Anne’s. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. today at 4.30pm in the vestry. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship Uvftebz! 2.30 pm Kneeler Repair. Roath Church House. nd 2000 on the 2 Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. 24ui 2.30 pm Funeral of Emily Davies. St Margaret’s. 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets after 7.30 pm Parochial Church Council. St Anne’s. the 7pm Eucharist on Tuesday, at St. Anne’s. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. CARDIFF & AREA Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Scout Council are holding a coffee morning at 25ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. the Mansion House at 10.30am on Thursday, 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. in aid of the setting up of a Scout Unit at Ty 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Hafan. Tickets £3 from Pam Phillipou. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on 26ui 10.30 am Charity Coffee Morning. Mansion House. Thursday of this week at 9pm. Compline is a 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of the 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. monastic “hours”. 7.30 pm Opera Mint Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PEAL by the Ancient Society of College 7.30 pm City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra. The Gate. Youths at the Cathedral on Sat at 10am. 9.00 pm COMPLINE. Gsjebz!27ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. SOUP LUNCH 12-2pm on Saturday at St Anne’s Hall, in aid of Luke Davies and Cardiff Boys Rugby Tour of Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Peal of Bells. Llandaff Cathedral. South Africa. Home made soups available. 28ui 12.00 pm Soup Lunch. St Anne’s. 7.30 pm Opera Mint. The Market Theatre, Cowbridge. 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: Exodus 34: 29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12 – 4:2; Luke 9: 28-36. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST DAVID’S DAY. There will be a short service (45 ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH. A Bangers and Mash minutes) on Thur 1 March at 6pm in St Edward’s, Lunch will be held from noon to 2pm on Sat 17 Mar, at organised by the children, designed for the children, but St Anne’s. As St Patrick was a Welshman, we are using everyone welcome to attend. Welsh costumes (or team IRISH sausages. Watch this space for further colours!) welcome but not essential. Welsh cakes, information. squash etc afterwards (offers of help to Charlotte COME AND SING Choruses from Messiah at St David’s please). This will be a very special service – please put Church, Merthyr Tydfil, on Sat 17 March, 2pm rehearsal it in your diary now! and 5pm performance. £3 if booked through Alan. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “A Gaelic TAIZÉ SERVICE. We were pleased to welcome several Blessing” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at new worshippers at the Taizé Service last week. Our Evensong is “In the Beginning” from the oratorio thanks to James Downs, Rachel Rose and Liz Haigh for “Creation” by Josef Haydn (1732-1809), and the anthem leading the music. The next service is on Wed 21 March “Achieved is the Glorious Work”, also from “Creation”. at 7.30pm. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be sung by St Edward’s Wood in E Flat No.2. Anthem: O where shall wisdom be Choir as a devotional service for Passiontide on Palm found? (Boyce). Sunday (1 Apr) in place of Evensong (7pm). PASTORAL STUDIES DAY on Thur, 9.45am-4pm at St GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir Michael’s College. “Communication in a Postmodern and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn World” by Nick Mercer. Fee £10 inc light lunch. Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in D Minor in the CITY OF CARDIFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 25th context of a Devotional Service. year concert on Thursday at 7.30pm at The Gate, PROPOSED BUS TRIP to Clark’s Village in Street, on Keppoch Street. Programme includes Bliss Cello Thur 12 Apr, leaving Roath Church House at 9.30am. Concerto and Brahms 2nd Symphony. Cost approx £8.50. Contact Fenella Clapham 20- OPERA MINT present an evening of opera choruses, 212931. arias, ensembles and songs at The Market Theatre, SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church Cowbridge, on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £5. House. We need pledges or donations of good quality PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at items for sale: glass and china, unwanted gifts, small 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Cres. Topic: “The Good items of furniture. Samaritan”, Luke 10 25-37. Everybody welcome. DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF PILGRIMAGE to Jordan and PARISH SHROVE TUESDAY SOCIAL (20 Feb), Sinai, 26 Sept-6 Oct 2007. Led by Bishop David 7.30pm at Roath Church House. Musical entertainment Yeoman. A few places left. 20-562400. by Unknown Theatre. Tickets £5 inc refreshments. FOR YOUR DIARY. Proceeds to be divided equally between Unknown 9 Mar. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Theatre and Roath Church House. 10 Mar. Tenovus Quiz. Roath Church House. CALLING ALL THOSE UNDER 21! If you would like to 23 Mar. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. take part in the Ash Wednesday Service at St Anne’s ST MARGARET’S tapestry kneelers are now 20 years (5pm on Feb 21) please come to St Anne’s this old and some of them need attention. Why not come Monday evening at 6pm to arrange who is doing what! along on Tuesday to room 2 Roath Church House, at If you can’t make it please ring Rev Sue 20-493940 to 2.30pm to help. Everything provided, inc refreshments let me know that you want to take part. There will be and chat. Feel free to come just for the chat if you feel lots to do in the Service, so please come. I hope there’ll unable to sew. be enough room for us. Rev Sue. A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to everybody who FAIRTRADE COFFEE MORNING on Sat 3 Mar at supported and helped in any way with the quiz in 11am at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Road. This is part memory of Meurig Oxenham. £1,100.70p was raised in of the ActionAid 24 Hour Tea & Coffee Break, helping to aid of Marie Curie Holme Towers. support the work of ActionAid with small scale farmers, INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or dates and taking action against the global injustices that keep in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a draw will them poor. Contact Rev Caroline Downs 20-495699. take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid out. CLEARANCE SALE. 2.30-4.00pm on Sat 3 March at All proceeds to Roath Church House. Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. Roath Church House. White elephant, cake stall, book stall, greeting cards and teas. Proceeds to Roath WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and Church House. newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. GOD’S HOUSEKEEPING: A Beginner’s Guide to CONTACT NUMBERS. Caring for your Church. A session for anyone with Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. responsibility for or interest in looking after their church, Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. on Sat 10 March, 10am-1pm, at the Church Hall, All Email: [email protected] Saints Church, Penarth. Covers basic church Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] maintenance, Quinquennial reports, faculties etc. Email CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. [email protected] Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tvoebz!Cfgpsf!Mfou;!Rvjorvbhftjnb! Weekly Newsletter No.1603 Sunday, 18th February, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Preacher: Mr Brian Shapcott. Hymns: 559, 205, Be Still, Anthem: Sicut Cervus (Palestrina), Shine Jesus Shine. Setting: Agutter in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: And As Moses (Stainer). Psalm 89, vv 1-18. Hymns: 80, Anthem: God So Loved the World (Stainer), 359. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Exodus 3, 1-6. John 12, 27-36a. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Mbaise, the Province of Owerri, in the Church of Nigeria, and Bishop Bright Joseph Egemasi Ogu. We pray for the Primates of the world-wide Anglican Communion meeting at Dar Es Salaam. We pray for Rt Rev Paul Kwong, Bishop of Hong Kong Island, who has been elected Archbishop of Hong Kong. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine We pray for the 200,000 Darfur refugees in Chad, now being targeted in the genocide there, and we remember the 200,000 who have already died, and the 2.5 million displaced persons. We pray for the victims of the shootings in London, remembering the families of the young people, and those who now live in fear there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , and Rev Thomas Cooper and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Portugal, Spain, Italy and Malta. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to Npoebz! 1.15 pm Funeral of Gordon Steer. St Margaret’s. the daily office. 2:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. PARISH SHROVE TUESDAY SOCIAL Uvftebz! 10.15 am Funeral of Robert Gumbrell. St Margaret’s. 7.30pm at Roath Church House. Musical 21ui 3.00 pm Funeral of Eileen Austin. St Margaret’s. entertainment by Unknown Theatre. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Tickets £5 inc refreshments. Proceeds to 7.30 pm Parish Shrove Tuesday Social. Church House. be divided equally between Unknown 7.30 pm Jayne Thomas Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Theatre and Roath Church House. Xfeoftebz Ash Wednesday 32tu 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST & IMPOSITION OF ASHES. Followed by coffee. 10.00 am Day Retreat. Llangasty Retreat House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 5.00 pm EUCHARIST & IMPOSITION OF ASHES: CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE. St Anne’s. 7.30 pm SUNG EUCHARIST & IMPOSITION OF ASHES. St Margaret’s. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm Clarinet Choir Rehearsal. St Edward’s. CONGRATULATIONS to Richard Mayer and Claire Poulton who announced their engagement Uivstebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. St Anne's. this week. 33oe 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. USPG LENT BOXES are available in church today – please take one. Gsjebz!34se 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Tbuvsebz!! 11.00 am Velindre Hospital Service of Thanksgiving. Llandaff Cathedral. 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: Deuteronomy 26: 1-11; Romans 10: 8b-13; Luke 4: 1-13. MAN’S DARK COLOURED KNITTED JACKET left behind in Roath Church House after the charity quiz on 3 Feb. If not claimed from the parish office by the end of March it will be donated to the Paradise Run for a homeless person. ST MARGARET’S TAPESTRY KNEELERS are now repaired. Many thanks to those who repaired them. 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ASH WEDNESDAY. Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes FAIRTRADE COFFEE MORNING on Sat 3 Mar at at 10am at St Edward’s, 5pm at St Anne’s (for children 11am at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Road. This is part and young people) and 7.30pm at St Margaret’s. of the ActionAid 24 Hour Tea & Coffee Break, helping to support the work of ActionAid with small scale farmers, ANTHEMS. At the Eucharist “Sicut Cervus” by Giovanni and taking action against the global injustices that keep Pierluigi Palestrina (1525-1594). Introit at Evensong is them poor. Contact Rev Caroline Downs 20-495699. the Recitative “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness” from the cantata “The Crucifixion” by John CLEARANCE SALE. 2.30-4.00pm on Sat 3 March at Stainer (1840-1901), and the anthem “God So Love the Roath Church House. White elephant, cake stall, book World”, also from “The Crucifixion”. stall, greeting cards and teas. Proceeds to Roath CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Church House. Collegium Regale (Wood). Anthem: Insanae et vanae COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at curae (Haydn). Sung by the Consort. St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Cres. Topic: “The Good “hours”. Next services: 8 March, 26 Apr, 24 May. Samaritan”, Luke 10 25-37. Everybody welcome. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA will give a concert in DAY RETREAT FOR ASH WEDNESDAY at Llangasty church on Fri 9 March at 7.30pm. Programme: Mozart D Retreat House, 10am-4pm. Led by Bishop David Minor piano concerto K466 (soloist Alison Dite), Mozart Thomas, Provincial Assistant Bishop. Cost £13. Booking Horn Concerto in Eb K447 (Soloist Ann Davies), and essential. Haydn Symphony No.92 in G "Oxford". SOUL SURVIVOR at Woodlands Community Church, ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH. A Bangers and Mash Clifton, Bristol on Wednesday: a time of worship, Lunch will be held 12-2pm on Sat 17 Mar, at St Anne’s. teaching and space for the Holy Spirit, with Andy As St Patrick was a Welshman, we are using IRISH Hawthorne (The Message) and Roy Crowne (YFC). sausages. NO JUNIOR CHOIR PRACTICE this week. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every WOMEN’S CONFERENCE presented by Women of other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next services: Wales in Christ. Friday 7-10pm & Saturday 10am-4pm 21 March, 9 May. at Duckpool Road Baptist Church, Maindee, Newport. RESIDENTIAL LENT RETREAT at Llangasty, 23-25 STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be sung by St Edward’s Feb. Led by Bishop David Yeoman Assistant Bishop of Choir as a devotional service for Passiontide on Palm Llandaff. Cost: £105. Booking essential. Sunday (1 Apr) in place of Evensong (7pm). VELINDRE HOSPITAL Service of Thanksgiving at GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 11am. and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn 50th J.C. JONES LECTURE is at St Michael’s College Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in D Minor in the Llandaff on Mon 26 Feb at 7.30pm. Lord Carey of context of a Devotional Service. Clifton will speak on “Two Cultures – One mission (the PROPOSED BUS TRIP to Clark’s Village in Street, on future of the Christian Faith in a Secular Age)”. All Thur 12 Apr, leaving Church House at 9.30am. Cost welcome. Admission free. Organised by CMS Wales. approx £8.50. Contact Fenella Clapham 20-212931. LENT COURSE commences Wednesdays at 7.30pm in SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church Roath Church House for 5 weeks beginning on 28 Feb. House. We need pledges or donations of good quality ST DAVID’S DAY. There will be a short service (30 items for sale. minutes) on Thur 1 March at 6pm in St Edward’s, organised by the children, designed for the children, but FOR YOUR DIARY. everyone welcome to attend. Welsh costumes (or team 10 Mar. Tenovus Quiz. Roath Church House. colours!) welcome but not essential. Welsh cakes, 23 Mar. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. squash etc afterwards (offers of help to Charlotte INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or please). This will be a very special service – please put dates in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a it in your diary now! draw will take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 ST TEILO’S HIGH SCHOOL holds “The Big Welsh will be paid out. All proceeds to Roath Church House. Quiz” at 7.30pm on Thur 1 March, for parents, staff and Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. friends. All proceeds to the Friends of St Teilo’s (FOST) CONTACT NUMBERS. – adults only event. Would be great to see as many Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. people as possible. Maximum of 6 per team; bar and Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. refreshments on sale. Email: [email protected] LENTEN DAY OF REFLECTION on Sat 3 Mar at Mill- Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Leat, Llanfrynach. “Meeting Jesus again for the First Time: in the Wilderness”. Information/reservations: CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable [email protected] Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Mon 5 March: person who is in hospital. ‘Introduction to Meditation’ by Rev Colin Sutton at St Peter’s, Fairwater, at 7.30pm (after 7pm Eucharist).

]!Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou Weekly Newsletter No.1604 Sunday, 25th February, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Forty days and forty nights, What a friend we have in Jesus, I Watch the sunrise, Anthem: Call to Remembrance (Farrant), Seek Ye First. Setting: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Let thy merciful ears (Mudd). Psalm 119, vv 73-88. Hymns: 95, Anthem: Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake (Farrant), 91. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Jonah 3. Luke 18, 9-14. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Mexican Episcopal Church, La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico, and Presiding Bishop Carlos Touche-Porter. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine and Darfur, and for the victims of the train bombing in India. We pray for the victims of the train crash in Cumbria. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Penarth and Barry, and Area Dean Robert Donkin, and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Germany and France. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Walter George Shepherd, Joan Riddett and Lilian Martin, whose anniversaries occur at this time.

UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at Npoebz! 1.00 pm Funeral of Gerald Jones. St Margaret’s. 9.15am each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to 37ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. the daily office. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm 50th J.C.Jones Memorial Lecture. St Michael’s College. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 38ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 50th J.C. JONES LECTURE is at St Michael’s College Llandaff on Monday at 7.30pm. Lord 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz Carey of Clifton will speak on “Two Cultures – 39ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. One mission (the future of the Christian Faith in 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. a Secular Age)”. All welcome. Admission free. 7.30 pm Lent Course. Roath Church House. Organised by CMS Wales. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE is closed on 7.30 pm Clarinet Choir Rehearsal (in church). Thursday this week. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. LENT COURSE commences Wednesdays at Uivstebz St David, Patron Saint of Wales 7.30pm in Roath Church House for five weeks 2tu!Nbsdi 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. beginning this week. 11.00 am Civic Service. St John’s, town. 6.00 pm ST DAVID’S DAY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. St Edward’s.! 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. LENT LECTURE at St John the 7.30 pm ST DAVID’S DAY EUCHARIST. St Margaret’s. Baptist Church on Friday at 1pm: 7.30 pm Big Welsh Quiz. St Teilo’s High School. “Health, Healing and Spirituality” by Gsjebz 1.00 pm Lent Lecture: Bishop David Yeoman. St John’s, town. Bishop David Yeoman. 3oe 2.30 pm Women’s World Day of Prayer. St Martin’s. ST DAVID’S DAY PARISH EUCHARIST 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. at 7.30pm on Thursday in St Margaret’s. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Spring Coffee Morning. Albany Rd Baptist Hall. 4se 11.00 am Fairtrade Coffee Morning. St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Rd. 2.30 pm Clearance Sale. Roath Church House. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second Sunday of Lent. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am, the Sunday School and the Youth Group will meet 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 15: 1-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17 – 4:1; Luke 13: 31-35. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST DAVID’S DAY. There will be a short service (30 THE CRUCIFIXION OF GOD. 3 talks on the Passion of minutes) on Thursday at 6pm in St Edward’s, organised Christ by Fr John Owen at The University Chaplaincy, by the children, designed for the children, but everyone 62 Park Place. Mondays 5/12/19 March at 7.30pm. welcome to attend. Welsh costumes (or team colours!) LEPROSY MISSION retreat day entitled “Retreat to welcome but not essential. Welsh cakes, squash etc Advance” at Llangasty, on Thur 8 March, 10am- afterwards (offers of help to Charlotte please). 4pm. Cost £15, including lunch. ANTHEMS. At the Eucharist: “Call to Remembrance” by COMPLINE. Next services: 8 March, 26 Apr, 24 May. Richard Farrant (d.1581). The Introit at Evensong is the TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next services: 21 March, 9 May. Collect “Let Thy Merciful Ears” variously attributed to th ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA will give a concert in Thomas Weelkes, William Mudd or John Mudd (all 17 church on Fri 9 March at 7.30pm. century), and the anthem is “Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake”, also by Richard Farrant. TENOVUS QUIZ at 7.30pm on Sat 10 March at Roath Church House. Buffet supper, raffle - tickets £7.50. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Contact Pam Phillipou 20-752809. Watson in E. Anthem: Thou Knowest Lord (Purcell). JOSEPH & AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT LENTEN DISCUSSIONS. Churches Together in , by Class Act Youth Theatre at St Peter’s Hall 13-15 Tremorfa, and Roath hold a series of March. Tickets: £5 (conc. £3, family 2/2 £14. Contact discussions on five consecutive Mondays starting this Steve Woods 20-259201. week at Splott Methodist Church, 7pm-8pm. Theme: “Can we build a better world?” ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH. A Bangers and Mash Lunch at 12-2pm on Sat 17 Mar, at St Anne’s. As St FR IRVING HAMER will be admitted to the Society of Patrick was a Welshman, we are using IRISH sausages. the Holy Cross at a Eucharist at 10am on Tuesday at SS Dyfrig & Samson, Grangetown. TAIZÉ SERVICE led by St Peter’s Music Group at St Peter’s Church on Sun 25 March at 7pm. A Lenten HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last Tuesday reflection through the music of Taizé and scripture. of the month, 12.30-2pm. GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir ST CHURCH. Half an hour of and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn meditative worship and reflection on the Word. Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in D Minor in the Tuesdays at 1pm (27 Feb, 6/13/20/27 Mar) and Fridays context of a Devotional Service. at 1pm with musical accompaniment (9/16/23 March). PROPOSED BUS TRIP to Clark’s Village in Street, on HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING Thur 12 Apr, leaving Roath Church House at 9.30am. and hymns and Lenten Address at Llandaff Cathedral Cost approx £8.50. Contact Fenella Clapham 20- (Lady Chapel) on Wednesday at 7.30pm. 212931. CIVIC SERVICE FOR ST DAVID’S DAY at 11am on SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church Thursday at St John’s, Town. All are welcome to attend. House. We need pledges or donations of good quality THE BIG WELSH QUIZ at St Teilo’s High School at items for sale: glass and china, unwanted gifts, small 7.30pm on Thursday. Proceeds to the Friends of St items of furniture. Teilo’s (FOST) – adults only event. Maximum of 6 per FOR YOUR DIARY. team; bar and refreshments. 23 Mar. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER on Friday at 1 Apr. 7pm. Stainer’s Crucifixion. St Edward’s. 2.30pm at St Martin’s (led by Rev Pauline Williams of St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. ) and at 7.30pm in Trinity Methodist Church. Speaker: Tamsin Llwyd Graves. All welcome. EVA SHEPHERD would like to say thank you to everyone who has sent her cards and flowers over the SPRING COFFEE MORNING at Albany Rd Baptist past months whilst she has been hospitalised. An Church Lower Hall on Saturday, 10am-12pm. Hot welsh appointment with her Consultant last Monday confirmed cakes and daffodils on sale. Proceeds to the Multiple that she can now start physiotherapy, so she is hoping Sclerosis Unit at UHW. to be on her feet and walking in the not too distant FAIRTRADE COFFEE MORNING on Saturday at 11am future. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Road. This is part of the WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors ActionAid 24 Hour Tea & Coffee Break, helping to and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of support the work of ActionAid with small scale farmers, the sidesmen if you are new with us. and taking action against the global injustices that keep them poor. Contact Rev Caroline Downs 20-495699. CONTACT NUMBERS. LIVE SIMPLY 4 PEACE. A day of talks, reflections and Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. workshops at Llantarnam Abbey, Cwmbran, 10.30-4pm Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. on Saturday. Organised by CAFOD Wales and JPIC Email: [email protected] Network. Speakers include Bruce Kent and Tina Beattie. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] £5 suggested donation. 20-453360. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable CLEARANCE SALE. 2.30-4.00pm on Saturday at Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Roath Church House. White elephant, cakes, books, Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any greeting cards, teas. Proceeds to Roath Church House. person who is in hospital.

Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou Weekly Newsletter No.1605 Sunday, 4th March, 2007 …the city that kills the prophets 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Light’s abode celestial Salem, O Happy Day, Wait for the Lord (Taizé), Anthem: Tydi a Roddaist (Arwel Hughes), You shall go out with joy. Setting: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Deliver Us O Lord Our God (Batten). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: C. Hylton Stewart. Psalm 135. Hymns: 99(S), Anthem: Ye that stand in the house of the Lord (Spinney), 333. Readings: Jeremiah 22, 1-9 & 13-17. Luke 14, 27-33. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Missouri (ECUSA) and Bishop George Wayne Smith, and we pray especially for the victims of tornadoes in Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and other states this week. We pray for Bishop Julio Murray, Anglican Bishop of Panama, who has been elected of the Latin American Council of Churches. We pray for Archbishop Rowan, visiting South Africa and Angola this week, and for the work of the TEAM conference at Johannesburg, remembering those who suffer there from poverty and the HIV virus. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of with and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Henry Bruce Grant, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am UIJT!XFFL! each day, Mon-Thur. No Morning Prayer on Fridays Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. for the next 2 weeks. All welcome to the daily office. 6ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Diocesan Spirituality Group. St Peter’s, Fairwater. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 7ui 8.00 pm Jayne Thomas Rehearsal. Schoolroom. on Thursday at 6pm this week. All welcome. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz Thursday of this week at 9pm. Compline is a 8ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of the 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. monastic “hours”. Future: 26 Apr, 24 May. 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. 7.30 pm Lent Course. Roath Church House. WELCOME. We extend a warm 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. welcome to all visitors and new- 7.30 pm Counting the Cost of Gold. Temple of Peace. comers. Please make yourself 8.00 pm Pavane Early Music Consort. Chapter Arts Centre. known to one of the sidesmen if you Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. are new with us. 9ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA will give a concert in church on 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. Friday at 7.30pm. Programme: Mozart D Minor piano concerto 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. K466 (soloist Alison Dite), Mozart Horn Concerto in Eb K447 9.00 pm COMPLINE. (Soloist Ann Davies), and Haydn Symphony No.92 in G "Oxford". Gsjebz 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. TENOVUS QUIZ at 7.30pm on Saturday at :ui 7.30 pm Public Lecture on Slavery. City Church. Roath Church House. Buffet supper, raffle - Tbuvsebz 10.00 am “God’s Housekeeping”. All Saints Penarth. tickets £7.50. Contact Pam Phillipou 20- 21ui 7.30 pm Tenovus Quiz. Roath Church House. 752809. 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: Isaiah 55: 1-9; I Corinthians 10: 1-13; Luke 13: 1-9. ST DAVID’S DAY SERVICE. Our thanks to everyone who helped to make the Service successful, especially to all the musicians, readers and soloists. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] WATER DISCHARGE FROM THE CELLAR. We are PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at experimenting with new methods of carrying the water 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Ave. away, to avoid discharging it over the pavement. If we The text of our discussion is the parable “The least of are successful, a permanent pipe will be installed (not these. Do everything as if you were doing it for our as obtrusive as the present system!) – our thanks to Bill Lord.” – Matthew 25 v 31 – 40. Do come and join us. Berry for this work. JOSEPH & AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist by Class Act Youth Theatre at St Peter’s Hall 13-15 this morning, and the 100 Club draw will take place. March. Tickets: £5 (conc. £3, family 2/2 £14. Contact Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. Steve Woods 20-259201. PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. The ANTHEMS. At the Eucharist today: “Tydi a Roddaist” PACT meetings give local people the opportunity to composed by Arwel Hughes (1909-1988) to the words identify issues they would like the police and partners to of T.Rowland Hughes (1937-1973). The Introit at address. Next Penylan meeting is at Albany Rd Baptist Evensong is “Deliver us O Lord our God” by Adrian Church Hall on Thur 15 March at 7pm. Batten (1591-1637?), and the anthem is “Ye that stand in the house of the Lord” by Walter Spinney (1853-94). ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH. A Bangers and Mash Lunch 12-2pm on Sat 17 Mar, at St Anne’s. As St DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Monday: Patrick was a Welshman, we are using IRISH sausages. ‘Introduction to Meditation’ by Rev Colin Sutton at St Peter’s, Fairwater, at 7.30pm (after 7pm Eucharist). TAIZÉ SERVICES Weds 7.30pm. Next: 21 Mar, 9 May. ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Half an hour of ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS will give a meditative worship and reflection on the Word. Tues at concert in church on Fri 23 March at 7.30pm. 1pm and Fridays at 1pm with musical accompaniment. GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in D Minor in the LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated aboard context of a Devotional Service. Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 1.15pm. Everyone PROPOSED BUS TRIP to Clark’s Village in Street, on Thur 12 is welcome. Apr, leaving Roath Church House at 9.30am. Cost approx LENT COURSE on Wednesdays at 7.30pm in Roath £8.50. Contact Fenella Clapham 20-212931. Church House. All welcome. ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur COUNTING THE COST OF GOLD. What is the true 2nd - Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions price of Gold? A chance to look at the impact that the will be intensive rehearsals from 11-4pm, with coffee gold mining industry has on the poorest communities. At breaks and an hour for lunch. On the Sat we will run the Temple of Peace, Council Chamber, Wednesday through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a 7.30pm. Guest Speaker: Rashmi Minstry. Entrance free. concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are welcome to take part. Please contact Alison Dite 20- PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (who rehearse at 400975 or email [email protected] St Edward’s) are guests at Everyman Theatre Company Club Night, on Wednesday at 8pm at the Everyman FOR YOUR DIARY. Club Room in Chapter Arts Centre and will perform a 17 Mar. 7.30pm. St Patrick’s Day Supper. St Anne’s. selection from Canterbury Tales in music and words. 23 Mar. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. Admission free, but space limited, so come early. 25 Mar. 7pm. Taizé Service at St Peter’s. 1 Apr. 7pm. Stainer’s Cruficixion. LEPROSY MISSION retreat day at Llangasty, on 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. Thursday, 10am-4pm. Cost £15, including lunch. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. ROATH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY meets on ARCHBISHOP ROWAN will visit South Africa and Thursday in the Mackintosh Residents Centre, Keppoch Angola this week, attending the TEAM conference St, at 7.30pm, when Jeff Childs will speak on “The (Towards Effective Anglican Mission) at Johannesburg, Landowners of Roath”. Cost £2. which brings together those working from the Anglican PUBLIC LECTURE at City Church on Friday at 7.30pm. Church to end the scandal of extreme poverty, stop the “Slavery – the Unfinished Business” by Richard Reddie, spread of HIV and ensure proper care and treatment of project director of Set All Free, a Churches Together in those affected by the virus. initiative established to commemorate the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in CONTACT NUMBERS. 2007. The speaker will be introduced by Rev Aled Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Edwards, General Secretary of Cytûn, Churches Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Together in Wales. A collection will be taken. Email: [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] GOD’S HOUSEKEEPING: A Beginner’s Guide to Caring for your Church. A session for anyone with CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is on jury responsibility for or interest in looking after their church, service for approximately 2 weeks. He can be contacted on Saturday, 10am-1pm, at the Church Hall, All Saints in the evenings or by leaving messages on his answer Church, Penarth. Covers basic church maintenance, machine. Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. Quinquennial reports, faculties etc. Email Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any [email protected] person who is in hospital.

Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou th Weekly Newsletter No.1606 Sunday, 11 March, 2007 A man had a fig tree… Luke 13:6 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, O Lord the clouds are gathering, Come to the waters, Anthem, As the deer pants for the water. Anthem: O Come Everyone that Thirsteth (Mendelssohn). Setting: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Purge Me O Lord (Tallis). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 12, 13. Hymns: Jacob’s Ladder, Anthem: O Quam Metuendus (Vittoria), 184. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Genesis 28, 10-19a. John 1, 35-51. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Moray, Ross & Caithness (Scotland) and Primus Idris Jones and the Electoral Synod who have the responsibility to elect a new bishop for the diocese. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, and the International Peace Conference there. We pray for all victims of natural disasters, especially the people of Indonesia, who have experienced landslides, an earthquake and a plane crash this week. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of with Nolton, and Rev and Rev Chrys Tremththanmore and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Myanmar and Thailand. We pray for the sick, especially Julie Romanelli and Freda Salway. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Kenneth Stanley Griffiths and Cecil Martin, whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am each day, Mon-Thur. No Morning Prayer on Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Friday this week. All are welcome to the daily office. 23ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 24ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. JOSEPH & the Amazing Technicolor Dream- Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. coat by Class Act Youth Theatre at St Peter’s 25ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Hall 13-15 March. Tickets: £5 (conc. £3, family 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 2/2 £14. Contact Steve Woods 20-259201. 7.30 pm Lent Course. Roath Church House. CHOIR PRACTICES FOR GOOD FRIDAY. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. From 8pm this week we will work on the Good Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Friday music – those wishing to sing in the 26ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. Devotional Service are welcome to join us. 7.00 pm PACT Meeting. Albany Rd Baptist Church. There will be joint practices with the Orchestra 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. on Mon 26 Mar, Thur 29 Mar, Mon 2 Apr and 8.00 pm Choir Practice: Good Friday music. Good Friday afternoon. LENT COURSE on Weds at 7.30pm in Church House. All welcome. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 27ui 8.00 pm Jayne Thomas Rehearsal. Schoolroom. ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH. A Bangers and Mash Lunch will be held 12-2pm on Saturday, Tbuvsebz 12.00 pm St Patrick’s Day Lunch. St Anne’s Hall. at St Anne’s. As St Patrick was a Welshman, 28ui 7.00 pm Ignite Event. Woodville Christian Centre. we are using IRISH sausages. Price £3. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Mothering Sunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Joshua 5: 9-12; 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21; Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32. CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CONGREGATIONAL MEETING after the morning ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS will give a service on Passion Sunday (25 March). Nomination concert in church on Fri 23 March at 7.30pm. forms for People’s Sub-warden, PCC and Church DREAMS AND VISIONS. Calling all young people aged Committee Members are available in Church today. 16-23 years to the Wales Millennium Centre on Sat 24 ANTHEMS. At the Eucharist is “O Come Everyone that Mar, 10am-4pm. A chance for young people in the Thisteth” from “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47). Church to speak their mind, to play their part in the The Introit at Evensong is “Purge me O Lord” by Church today and help to shape its future. Organised by Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), and the anthem is “O the Diocese of Llandaff Youth Department, together with Quam Metuendus” by Tomás Luis da Vittoria (c.1548- Archbishop Barry. Details: 20-499867. Email: 1611), the words of Jacob in the Old Testament lesson: [email protected] “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the TAIZÉ SERVICE led by St Peter’s Music Group at St house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” Peter’s Church on Sun 25 March at 7pm. A Lenten reflection through the music of Taizé and scripture. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Sumsion in G. Anthem: Like as the hart (Howells). STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be sung by St Edward’s Choir as a devotional service for Passiontide on Palm AN EVENING OF FAURÉ today at 8pm at Sunday (1 Apr) in place of Evensong (7pm). Canton Uniting Church. Tickets £6/£4 on the door. GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. The Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor in the text of our discussion is the parable “The least of these. context of a Devotional Service. Do everything as if you were doing it for our Lord.” – SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church Matthew 25 v 31 – 40. Do come and join us. House. We need pledges or donations of good quality LENTEN DISCUSSIONS. Churches Together in Splott, items for sale: glass and china, unwanted gifts, small Tremorfa, Adamsdown and Roath hold a series of items of furniture. discussions on Mondays at Splott Methodist Church, COMPLINE. Next services: 26 Apr, 24 May. 7pm-8pm. Theme: “Can we build a better world?” ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Half an hour of 2nd – Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions meditative worship and reflection on the Word. Tues at will be intensive rehearsals from 11-4pm, with coffee 1pm and Fri at 1pm (with musical accompaniment). breaks and an hour for lunch. On the Sat we will run through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. welcome to take part. Please contact Alison Dite 20- THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE "The St David of the 400975 or email [email protected] Eleventh Century" by the Very Reverend Wyn Evans DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF PILGRIMAGE to Jordan and (Dean of St Davids) at 7pm on Tuesday in the James Sinai, 26 Sept-6 Oct 2007. Led by Bishop David Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University. This Yeoman. A few places left. 20-562400. lecture will be delivered in English All welcome. Admission free. FOR YOUR DIARY. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. MAN’S DARK COLOURED KNITTED JACKET left PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. The behind in Roath Church House after the charity quiz on PACT meetings give local people the opportunity to 3 Feb. If not claimed from the parish office by the end of identify issues they would like the police and partners to March it will be donated to the Paradise Run for a address. Next Penylan meeting is at Albany Rd Baptist homeless person. Church Hall on Thursday at 7pm. INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or COME AND SING Choruses from Messiah at St David’s dates in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a Church, Merthyr Tydfil, on Saturday, 2pm rehearsal and draw will take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 5pm performance. £3 if booked through Alan. will be paid out. All proceeds to Roath Church House. Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on Sat, 7pm-9.30pm at Woodville Christian Centre. Speaker: Nigel CONTACT NUMBERS. James. email: [email protected] 20-512247. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL'S COLLEGE Lecture at St Email: [email protected] Michael's College on Mon 19 Mar at 7pm. Guest Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Speaker: Rev Prof Leslie J Francis, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Wales, Bangor CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is on jury speaking on “Young People and Spirituality”. Admission service for approximately 2 weeks. He can be contacted free, refreshments provided. RSVP 20-563379. in the evenings or by leaving messages on his answer machine. Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next services: Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any 21 March, 9 May. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!Mfou;!Npuifsjoh!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1607 Sunday, 18th March, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: All things bright and beautiful, Tell out my soul, Alleluia, Anthem: Hail Holy Queen (Sister Act), We are marching in the light of God. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne), Gloria: Anderson. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Hide not Thou Thy face from us (Farrant). Psalms 30. Hymns: 41(MP), Anthem: Be Not Afraid (Mendelssohn), 267. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 40,27 – 41,13. 2 Timothy 4, 1-18. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Mpwapwa (Tanzania), Bishop Simon E Chiwanga and Bishop Coadjutor of Tanzania, Jacob Erasto Chimeledya. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of with , Rev Geraldine Blyth and Rev Joyce Harman and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for China, Hong Kong and Macao. On this Mothering Sunday we pray for our Mother Church and all who care for us. We pray for the sick, especially Julie Romanelli and Freda Salway. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rev Paul Bennett, remembering also his family and parishioners at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am each day, Mon-Thur. No Morning Prayer on Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Friday this week. All are welcome to the daily office. 2:ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 31ui 7.30 pm Bring & Play. St Peter’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Edward’s on Wednesday 32tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. of this week at 7.30pm. Musicians rehearse from 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 7pm. Next service: 9 May. 7.30 pm Lent Course. Roath Church House. LENT COURSE on Wednesdays at 7.30pm in 7.30 pm TAIZÉ SERVICE. Roath Church House. All welcome. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS will 33oe 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. give a concert in church on Friday at 7.30pm. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice.

Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CLOCKS GO FORWARD 34se 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Soloists Concert. next weekend. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Dreams & Visions. Wales Millennium Centre. 35ui 10.00 am Lenten Seminar. City Church. 7.30 pm Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. Llandaff Cathedral. 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: Isaiah 43: 16-21; Philippians 3: 4b-14; John 12: 1-8. DREAMS AND VISIONS. Calling all young people aged 16-23 years to the Wales Millennium Centre on Saturday, 10am-4pm. A chance for young people in the Church to speak their mind, to play their part in the Church today and help to shape its future. Organised by the Diocese of Llandaff Youth Department, together with Archbishop Barry. Details: 20-499867. Email: [email protected] CONGREGATIONAL MEETING after the morning service next Sunday. Nomination forms for People’s Sub-warden, PCC members and Church Committee Members are available in Church today. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. The topic is “making the Bible make sense”. All are welcome. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] REV PAUL BENNETT Vicar of , Trecynon, CONGRATULATIONS to Lizzie Doe, who celebrates was murdered in the grounds of his vicarage this week. her 18th birthday on Monday. Also on her recent Archbishop Barry is leading this morning’s service at the success in passing Grade 7 drums with merit. parish. Prayers will be said for the repose of Father GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir Paul, for his family in their great sadness and for the and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn community in which Father Paul ministered which has Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor in the responded so caringly to the news of his death. The context of a Devotional Service. service will also express our hope and trust in the love of God to which Father Paul witnessed so faithfully SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church throughout his ministry. Please remember them in your House. We need pledges or donations of good quality prayers this week. items for sale: glass and china, unwanted gifts, small items of furniture. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Hail Holy Queen” from Sister Act. The Introit at Evensong is “Hide COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at not Thou Thy face from us O Lord” by Richard Farrant St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- (d.1581), and the anthem is “Be Not Afraid” from the minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47). “hours”. Next services: 26 Apr, 24 May. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, Rubbra in A flat. Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercy’s (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St sake (Farrant). Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL'S COLLEGE Lecture at St Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. Michael's College on Monday at 7pm. Guest Speaker: Rev Prof Leslie J Francis, Professor of Practical ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur Theology, University of Wales, Bangor speaking on 2nd - Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions “Young People and Spirituality”. Admission free, will be intensive rehearsals from 11-4pm, with coffee refreshments provided. RSVP 20-563379. breaks and an hour for lunch. On the Sat we will run through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a SE WALES ORGANISTS’ ASSOCIATION ‘Bring and concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are Play’ at St Peter’s on Tuesday, 7.30-9.30pm. All welcome to take part. Please contact Alison Dite 20- welcome. Free entry. 400975 or email [email protected] LENTEN SEMINAR at City Church on Saturday, 10am- FOR YOUR DIARY. 4pm. “Christian Spiritualities in Cardiff” by Rev Stephen St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. Wigley (Methodist Church), Fr Tony Nolan (Roman ) and Pastor Christopher Cartwright NETWORK. Copies of the Ecumenical Newsletter are (Elim Pentecostal Church). Fee £5. ready for delivery at the back of the church. If you can deliver a street, please take them. CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR with the Welsh Chamber Players (conductor Neil Ferris) concert at YOUTUBE REFLECTION. The Archbishops of Canter- Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Mass No 2 in bury and York have published an innovative online E minor (Bruckner); Wind Serenade in D minor reflection on the nature of the Slave Trade in readiness (Dvořák); Welsh Premiere of "The Deciduous Cross" a for the ’s Walk of Witness to take setting of the poetry of R S Thomas (Spicer). Tickets: place in London on Saturday. It can be viewed at £8, £12 and £16 (conc. for over 60s and wheelchair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBTErUDIcz8 users) 08700-131812. MAN’S DARK COLOURED KNITTED JACKET left TAIZÉ SERVICE led by St Peter’s Music Group at St behind in Roath Church House after the charity quiz on Peter’s Church next Sunday at 7pm. A Lenten reflection 3 Feb. If not claimed from the parish office by the end of through the music of Taizé and scripture. March it will be donated to the Paradise Run for a homeless person. IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on Fri 30 March, 8pm-10pm at All Nations Centre. Speaker: INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or Mike Pilivachi. An offering will be taken. 20-512247 dates in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a email: [email protected] draw will take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid out. All proceeds to Roath Church House. CHARITY CONCERT in aid of Lesotho. Cardiff Ardwyn Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. Singers at Albany Rd Baptist Church on Sat 31 Mar at 7.30pm. Programme includes Madrigals & Partsongs, CONTACT NUMBERS. Choral classics (Parry “I Was Glad” & Fauré “Cantique Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. de Jean Racine”). Tickets £5. 20-549061. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Email: [email protected] STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be sung by St Edward’s Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Choir as a devotional service for Passiontide on Palm Sunday (1 Apr) in place of Evensong (7pm). CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any the sidesmen if you are new with us. person who is in hospital.

]!Qbttjpo!Tvoebz! Weekly Newsletter No.1608 Sunday, 25th March, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 108, 175(MP), 10(MP), Anthem: Agnus Dei (Karl Jenkins), 248(MP). Setting: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Were You There? Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 35. Hymns: 76(S), Anthem: Miserere (Allegri), 102. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: 2 Chronicles 35, 1-6 & 10-16. Luke 22, 1-13. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Muyinga in Burundi, and Bishop Eraste Bigirimana. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine, and the British servicemen held in Iran. We remember the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, and pray for all who still suffer from its legacies, including human trafficking and oppression across the globe. We pray for the victims of the Siberian mining disaster last week. In this diocese we pray for the Vale of Glamorgan Deanery, and Rev Peter Leonard (Area Dean) and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for China, Hong Kong and Macao. We continue to pray for the family of Rev Paul Bennett and the people of Trecynon. We pray for the sick, especially Julie Romanelli and Freda Salway. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rev Frank Begley, whose funeral is at St Peter’s on Friday at 10am, and we pray for his family, Edwin and Sue. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am each day, Mon-Fri. All are welcome to Npoebz! Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary the daily office. 37ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. on Monday (6pm), Tuesday (6.30pm) and 7.00 pm Choir & Orchestra Practice. Friday (6pm) this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. 38ui 1.00 pm Lunchtime Concert: Metropolitan Cathedral Choir. St David’s Hall. 6.30 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. LENT COURSE. The last session is at 7.30pm Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. on Wednesday in Church House. All welcome. 39ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. CHARITY CONCERT in aid of Lesotho. 7.30 pm Lent Course. Roath Church House. Cardiff Ardwyn Singers at Albany Rd 7.30 pm Jayne Thomas Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Baptist Church on Saturday at 7.30pm. 7.30 pm Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Programme includes Madrigals & 7.45 pm Paradise Run. Partsongs, Choral classics (Parry “I Was Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Glad” & Fauré “Cantique de Jean Racine”). 3:ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. Tickets £5. 20-549061. 7.30 pm Choir & Orchestra Practice. Gsjebz 10.00 am Funeral of Rev Frank Begley. St Peter’s. STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be sung by 41ui 1.15 pm Organ Recital. St John the Baptist Church. St Edward’s Choir as a devotional service for 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Passiontide next Sunday (Palm Sunday) in 8.00 pm Ignite Event. All Nations Centre. place of Evensong at 7pm. Tbuvsebz 7.30 pm Charity Concert. Albany Rd Baptist Church. 42tu 7.30 pm Fauré’s Requiem & Schubert’s Mass in A Flat. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm Canterbury Tales. Norwegian Church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Palm Sunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, with the Blessing of Palms and the Palm Procession through the park. Coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. Stainer’s Crucifixion will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 50: 4-9a; Philippians 2: 5-11; Luke 23: 1-49. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CONGREGATIONAL MEETING after the morning COMPLINE. Next services: 26 Apr, 24 May. service today. Nomination forms for People’s Sub- TAIZÉ. Next service: Wed 9 May at 7.30pm. warden, PCC members and Church Committee CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, Members are available in Church today. (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St FLOWERS FOR EASTER. Mrs Megan Martin will be Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. pleased to receive donations towards the cost of Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, providing flowers for Easter in St Edward’s. Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Agnus Dei” ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur from “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” by Karl 2nd - Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions Jenkins (b.1944). The Introit at Evensong is “Were you will be intensive rehearsals from 11-4pm, with coffee there when they crucified my Lord?”, and the anthem is breaks and an hour for lunch. On the Sat we will run “Miserere” by Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652). through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Stanford in A. Anthem: Lie welcome to take part. Please contact Alison Dite 20- Still (J.S.Bach). Choir: The Consort. 400975 or email [email protected] TAIZÉ SERVICE led by St Peter’s Music Group at St DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF PILGRIMAGE to Jordan and Peter’s Church today at 7pm. A Lenten reflection Sinai, 26 Sept-6 Oct 2007. Led by Bishop David through the music of Taizé and scripture. Yeoman. A few places left. 20-562400. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm FOR YOUR DIARY. at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. We 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. shall be watching and discussing a video of The Cross St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. in Christian Art. All are welcome. THE BILL TO ABOLISH THE SLAVE TRADE was ANNUNCIATION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY passed 200 years ago today. Archbishop Barry writes: on Monday: 6pm Solemn Eucharist at the Cathedral: “I am amazed it took until the 19th Century for the Mathias in C. Anthem: Tota Pulchra Es (Duruflé). church to speak out against the slave trade. While we HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last Tuesday applaud the dedication of William Wilberforce in fighting of the month, 12.30-2pm. against the transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago, we must not turn a blind eye to abuses of human rights LUNCHTIME CONCERT: Music for Holy Week and throughout society today. Discrimination against people Easter with Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir at St because of the colour of their skin is directly linked to David’s Hall, 1pm on Tues. Tickets £5.50 (conc. £4.50). the trade of black people as slaves. It also set a HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at precedent for the trafficking of people - as labourers, the Cathedral (Lady Chapel) on Wednesday at 7.30pm. sex workers and soldiers – still widely prevalent. It is up ORGAN RECITAL by Huw Tregelles-Williams at St to our generation to continue Wilberforce’s work and John the Baptist Church on Friday at 1.15pm. campaign against all abuses of human rights.” IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on PLEASE CAN YOU HELP by providing a loaf of Friday, 8pm-10pm at All Nations Centre. Speaker: Mike sandwiches (or loaves) to help the Paradise Run Team Pilivachi. An offering will be taken. 20-512247 email: feed the homeless people on the streets of Cardiff. The [email protected] sandwiches are made out of white sliced bread, individually wrapped in sandwich bags. They can be LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY present filled with either sliced cheese, tuna, corned beef or Fauré’s Requiem and Schubert’s Mass in A Flat at the ham. Every time the Paradise Run Team goes out from Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. this Parish, they need approximately 16 loaves of PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (who rehearse at sandwiches. Volunteers to go out on the Run are St Edward’s) give their final Cardiff performance of needed urgently – for further information on either item Canterbury Tales in music and words on Saturday at contact Tricia Burfoot 20-484808 or Kathie Mayer on 7.30pm at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre. 20-495769 or Andrew Prankerd 20-492482. PALM SUNDAY WALK OF WITNESS. Starting outside WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Sainsbury’s in Queen St at 3pm next Sunday, walking to St and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of John’s Church for a short open-air service at 3.30pm. the sidesmen if you are new with us. GOOD FRIDAY (6 Apr) at 7.30pm, St Edward’s Choir CONTACT NUMBERS. and Chamber Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Solemn Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Vespers and Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor in the Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. context of a Devotional Service. Email: [email protected] SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] House at 7pm. Admission £1. Coffee & bar available throughout the evening. Donation forms to be returned CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable to Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20-736455 Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. asap. Items to be brought to Roath Church House on Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Fri 13 Apr, between 10.30am-12pm or 7.30-8.30pm or person who is in hospital. Sat 14 Apr, 10.30am-12pm.

]!Qbmn!Tvoebz! Weekly Newsletter No.1609 Sunday, 1st April, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Blessing of Palms and Procession through the park. Hymns: 597 (Proc), 99, 214, Anthem: All in the April Evening (Roberton), Hosanna! Setting: Nicholson in G and Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Stainer’s Crucifixion. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Jerusalem (the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East) and Bishop Coadjutor Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Israel-Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the British Service personnel held in Iran. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of with Welsh St Donat’s and Rev Edwin Counsell and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. We continue to pray for the family of Rev Paul Bennett whose funeral is on Tuesday. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli and Freda Salway. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Robert Henry Woolgar Riddett, Vernon Trevor Evans and William John Coleman, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at IPMZ!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at 3oe 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. St Edward’s each day this week, Mon-Fri 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Address. St Margaret’s. at 6pm. All welcome. Uvftebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. NO PARISH SURGERY this week or next week. 4se 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist with Address. St Anne’s. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. COFFEE will be served in the vestry 5ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. after the Eucharist this morning, and 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. the final draw for this year’s 100 Club 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. will take place. Newcomers in 7.30 pm HOLY EUCHARIST WITH ADDRESS. St Edward’s. particular are welcome to join us. Uivstebz Maundy Thursday WELCOME. We extend a warm 6ui 9.00 am Morning Prayer. St Anne's. welcome to all visitors and 11.00 am Diocesan Chrism Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. newcomers. Please make yourself 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! known to one of the sidesmen if 7.00 pm SUNG EUCHARIST & STRIPPING OF THE ALTAR. you are new with us. 8.15 pm Choir Practice. Vigil until midnight. St Anne’s. FLOWERS FOR EASTER. Mrs Megan Martin will 11.30 pm Tenebrae. Llandaff Cathedral. be pleased to receive donations towards the cost of providing flowers for Easter in St Edward’s. Gsjebz Good Friday 7ui 9.30 am Good Friday Liturgy. St Anne’s. Blessed is he that comes 12.00 pm Three Hours Devotions. St Margaret’s. in the name of the Lord: 2.45 pm Choir & Orchestra Practice. Hosanna in the highest. 4.00 pm Children’s Stations of the Cross. St Anne’s. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm DEVOTIONAL SERVICE: MOZART’S SOLEMN VESPERS & CHERUBINI’S REQUIEM. Tbuvsebz Holy Saturday: World Health Day 8ui 7.30 pm Easter Vigil. St Margaret’s. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Easter Day. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, Festal Evensong will be sung at St Margaret’s at 6pm, and the traditional Service of Lessons and Carols for Easter will be sung at St Edward’s at 7pm. There is also a 6.30am Sunrise Service at Lightship 2000. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 65: 17-25; Acts 10: 34-43; Luke 24: 1-12. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] STAINER’S CRUCIFIXION will be sung by the choir at DEANERY CONFIRMATION is at St Margaret’s on Tue 7pm this evening. This sacred cantata gives a simple 9 Oct at 7.30pm. Anyone interested in being confirmed, but moving portrayal of the Passion. It was first sung at please have a word with Rev Sue or the Vicar. There St Edward’s on 2 April 1974, and has been sung every are also application forms available in church. The few years since then. Two members of the present choir group for young people will meet in Roath Church sang in the 1974 Service, and the choir would like to House on Weds, 4pm-5pm, from 16 May, and the adult dedicate this evening’s rendering of the work to the group will meet at a separate time by arrangement. memory of Rev Frank Begley, who officiated as priest in There will be an inaugural service on Tue 8 May at St charge at the 1974 Service. Anne’s, when parents and supporters are welcome. CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, ONE HUNDRED CLUB. Today is the final draw for (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St 2006-7. Contributions for 2007-8 are now due: £12 or by Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. installments. Cheques/cash to Cynthia, (payable to the Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, Principality Building Society) please. The 100 Club Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. makes a substantial contribution to Church Funds each year, but the number taking part is smaller than it has ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur been in the past. If you are not currently a member, 2nd - Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions please consider joining this year – have a word with will be intensive rehearsals from 11-4pm, with coffee Cynthia. breaks and an hour for lunch. On the Sat we will run through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a PALM SUNDAY WALK OF WITNESS. Starting outside concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are Sainsbury’s in Queen St at 3pm today, walking to St welcome to take part. Please contact Alison Dite 20- John’s Church for a short open-air service at 3.30pm. 400975 or email [email protected] CHORAL EVENSONG with solemn Litany sung in DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF PILGRIMAGE to Jordan and procession at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Moore Sinai, 26 Sept-6 Oct 2007. Led by Bishop David Second Service. Anthem: Ierusalem, convertere ad Yeoman. A few places left. 20-562400. Dominum (Palestrina). FOR YOUR DIARY. COUPERIN: TENEBRAE LESSONS. A meditation for 14 Apr. Silent Auction. Roath Church House. Holy Week. Two sopranos, bass viol and organ. On St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. Wednesday, 7.30pm at St Mary’s Church, Canton. CONGRATULATIONS TO MADGE BETHELL, who is Admission Free, refreshments in the Church Hall after 98 years of age on Wednesday. the service. INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or CHERUBINI’S REQUIEM. The C-Minor Requiem which dates in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a is chosen by the choir and orchestra for the devotional draw will take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 service on Good Friday, was commissioned by King will be paid out. All proceeds to Roath Church House. Louis XVIII of France for a memorial service for King Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. Louis XVI who was beheaded during the Revolution. It MEMORIAL FUND FOR REV PAUL BENNETT has was admired by Beethoven and performed at his been set up by Archbishop Barry, who writes ”Many of funeral. Schumann praised it as being “without equal in Father Paul’s colleagues in the church have asked how the world”. The service starts at 7.30pm with Mozart’s they can help Georgina and the family and we think this Solemn Vespers. is an appropriate way. Collections from services will be HANDEL’S MESSIAH with Cambrensis Choir and taken or plates placed at the back of churches for Orchestra on Holy Saturday 7.30pm at Highfields Free parishioners to contribute as they wish and all the Church, Monthermer Rd. Tickets £6 (conc. £5) money will be given to the family.” Contributions, made 01656-784376. payable to the Fr Paul Bennett Memorial Fund, may be sent to the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, SILENT AUCTION on Sat 14 Apr, at Roath Church 39 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9XF. The funeral will House at 7pm. Admission £1. Coffee & bar available be a Requiem Mass on Tuesday at 12pm at St Fagans throughout the evening. Donation forms to be returned Church Trecynon. It will be followed by a cremation at to Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20-736455 Crematorium at 2pm. Archbishop Barry will asap. Items to be brought to Roath Church House on preside at the service while Bishop David Yeoman will Fri 13 Apr, between 10.30am-12pm or 7.30-8.30pm or preach. Also present will be the former Bishop of Sat 14 Apr, 10.30am-12pm. Llandaff, Rt Rev Roy Davies and Provincial Assistant PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 15 Apr Bishop David Thomas. at 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester CONTACT NUMBERS. Avenue. New Topic “Making the Bible make sense.” Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Everyone welcome. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Email: [email protected] COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable “hours”. Next services: 26 Apr, 24 May. Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any TAIZÉ on Wed at 7.30pm. Next service: 9 May. person who is in hospital.

]!Fbtufs!Ebz Weekly Newsletter No.1610 Sunday, 8th April, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Thine be the glory, Light has dawned, He Lives!, Anthem: King of Kings (Simper), Jesus Christ is Risen Today. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Service of Lessons and Carols for Easter. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 134, 128, 140, 390, 137, 135. Anthems by Roberton, Handel, Gounod, Karl Jenkins, Simper and Agay. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Natal in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Bishop Rubin Philip and for the Central and Northern areas of Natal, Funginkosi Niclaus Mbhele. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the soldiers who died this week in Iraq, and giving thanks for the safe return of the hostages from Iran. We pray for the victims of the Tsunami in the Solomon Islands, remembering Bishop Rowlington Zappo and members of his congregation of the United Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, who died when a wave hit their church. We pray for the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, meeting at Swansea University this week, and debating the ordination of women as bishops. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Baglan and Canon David Lewis and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for East Timor, Indonesia and the Philippines. We pray for the sick, especially Julie Romanelli and Freda Salway. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Uvftebz 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. on Thursday (7pm) and Friday (6pm) this week. 21ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. All welcome. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this 22ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. week. 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. NO PARISH SURGERY this week. Uivstebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. St Anne's. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets 23ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! next Sunday at 7.45pm at Mal and 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester 7.30 pm Roath Local History Society. Mackintosh Centre. Avenue. New Topic “Making the Bible make sense.” Everyone welcome. Gsjebz!24ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Tbuvsebz!25ui 7.00 pm Silent Auction. Roath Church House. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second 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: Exodus 14: 10-31, 15: 20,21; Acts 5: 27-32; John 20: 19-31. THE CLERGY wish everyone a holy, happy and peaceful Easter. God bless you all. THE GOVERNING BODY of the Church in Wales meets at Swansea University on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The ordination of women as bishops will be one of the topics discussed. Representatives of both those who oppose appointing women to the episcopate and those in favour will outline their views in opening statements and the 200 strong body, with members representing all six dioceses of the Church in Wales, will be encouraged to give their views. The discussion will take place on Thursday morning. No decision will be made, but a vote on the issue is expected to take place in April 2008. MEMORIAL FUND FOR REV PAUL BENNETT has been set up by Archbishop Barry. Collections from services will be taken and plates placed at the back of the churches. Contributions, payable to the Fr Paul Bennett Memorial Fund, may be sent to the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, 39 Cathedral Rd, Cardiff, CF11 9XF. 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP BARRY’S EASTER MESSAGE: ROATH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY meets on It is not enough for the Church of Jesus Christ to shout Thursday in the Mackintosh Residents Centre, Keppoch on Easter morning that Christ is risen, it needs to show St, at 7.30pm, when Peter Gillard will speak on “People that it tries to live by the values of His Gospel. and Places (Part Two): Stories behind Cardiff’s Statues What are those values? Jesus preached about the and Memorials”. Cost £2. forgiveness and graciousness of God and sought to free SILENT AUCTION on Saturday, at Roath Church people from everything that enslaved and oppressed House at 7pm. Admission £1. Coffee & bar available them. For him there were no prior conditions for being throughout the evening. Donation forms to be returned accepted by God, whatever your sex, status or position. to Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20-736455 You were a child of God made in his image. His asap. Items to be brought to Roath Church House on resurrection was a triumph over the forces of evil – the Friday, 10.30am-12pm or 7.30-8.30pm, or Saturday, forces of racism, militarism, nationalism, sexism and 10.30am-12pm. poverty. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Andrew’s URC To be ‘in Christ’ then is an invitation to join in that Church on Sun 29 Apr at 3pm. Hymn request sheets are struggle, to take part in Christ’s mission and to fight available in church today, and should be returned to against everything that enslaves and dehumanises Alan or the Parish Office by Wed 18 Apr. human beings and, of course, to do so non-violently. There are enough issues in our world, country and TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every church that show clearly that men and women are still other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next: 9 May. being oppressed and treated as slaves. Not just child LEPROSY MISSION. Sat 12 May Forest of Dean soldiers in Angola or Korea, sweat labour in Thailand Sponsored Walk. You can choose the distance you and China, and the oppressive regime of Mugabe in want to walk (3, 5 or 10 miles). Contact Rev Martin Zimbabwe. But also here in Wales where in 2005 there Davies 20-198720. Email: [email protected] were 20,000 homeless people, 7,000 of whom were CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, children. Sexual trafficking in young people and women (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St is still rife in this country, and foreign nationals are often Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. forced to live on the poverty line because their Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, employers take back for their keep the little they pay Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. them in wages. CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County Hall And we still live in a church where it is not possible for Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by Tricia Osman women to be bishops and in a church too where most (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. worshippers are women but all the committees FOR YOUR DIARY. and councils of most dioceses and province are run by St Edward’s Committee: Sun 22 April at 4.30pm. men and in a Communion where gay people feel increasingly isolated and marginalised and even ONE HUNDRED CLUB. Contributions for 2007-8 are persecuted. now due: £12 or by installments. Cheques/cash to In the end it is not enough to believe in the resurrection Cynthia, (payable to the Principality Building Society) as a proposition or as an article of faith, because please. The 100 Club makes a substantial contribution resurrection is not just about a dead Jesus coming to life to Church Funds each year, but the number taking part again, it is about us allowing God’s spirit to work afresh is smaller than it has been in the past. If you are not in us as he worked in Jesus. Resurrection means currently a member, please consider joining this year – joining in God’s recreation of his world as and when and have a word with Cynthia. where, we can. DEANERY CONFIRMATION is at St Margaret’s on Tue 9 Oct at 7.30pm. Anyone interested in being confirmed, ANTHEM at the Eucharist is “King of Kings” by Caleb please have a word with Rev Sue or the Vicar. Simper (1857-1942). Anthems at the Carol Service Application forms are available in church. The group for include “All in the April Evening” by Sir Hugh S. young people will meet in Roath Church House on Roberton (1874-1952), “O Death, Where is Thy Sting?” Weds, 4pm-5pm, from 16 May, and the adult group will by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), “There is a meet at a separate time by arrangement. There will be green hill far away” by Charles Gounod (1818-1893), an inaugural service at 7pm on Tue 8 May at St Anne’s, “Sanctus” by Karl Jenkins (b.1944), “Alleluia! Christ is when parents and supporters are welcome. Risen” (also by Caleb Simper), and “Old Irish Blessing” by Denes Agay (1911-2007 – died 24 Jan, aged 95). INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or dates in the year for £1 each. When all dates are sold a draw will SOLEMN EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid out. Dyson in D. Anthem: Hallelujah Chorus (Handel). All proceeds to Roath Church House. Please see Lindsey “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on Warren or Gill Armitage. the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. CONTACT NUMBERS. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated aboard Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 1.15pm. Everyone Email: [email protected] is welcome. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person “hours”. Next services: 26 Apr, 24 May. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1611 Sunday, 15th April, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 132, 400, 358, Anthem: The Peace of God (Rutter), 239(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Cast Thy Burden (Mendelssohn). Psalm 16. Hymns: 129, Anthem: They have taken away my Lord (Stainer), 282(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: 2 Chronicles 35, 1-6 & 10-16. Luke 22, 1-13. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of New Hampshire of the Episcopal Church in the USA, and Bishop Gene Robinson. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Newton , , Canon Philip Masson and John Durley, CA, and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. We pray for the sick, especially Julie Romanelli, Freda Salway and Fr Ken Martin. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Tony Goble, who died this week, also Harold Stark and Hilda Winifred Thomas, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed all this week. 27ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Uvftebz!28ui! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz NO ORCHESTRA PRACTICES this week. 29ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Chamber orchestra resumes Mon 23 Apr. 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. String orchestra resumes Wed 2 May. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.00 pm Clarinet Choir rehearsal in church. LENT BOXES should be returned to church 7.30 pm Lent Group Follow-up Meeting. Church House. as soon as possible, please. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. READERS’ TRAINING DAY at Llandaff Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Cathedral on Saturday at 10am. 2:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets next Sunday 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. at 4.30pm in the vestry. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Readers’ Training Day. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Third 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: Zephaniah 3: 14-20; Acts 9: 1-20; John 21: 1-19. ONE HUNDRED CLUB. Contributions for 2007-8 are now due: £12 or by installments. Cheques/cash to Cynthia, (payable to the Principality Building Society) please. The 100 Club makes a substantial contribution to Church Funds each year, but the number taking part is smaller than it has been in the past. If you are not currently a member, please consider joining this year – have a word with Cynthia. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP today at 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. New Topic “Making the Bible make sense.” Everyone welcome. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR by Class Act Youth Theatre at St Peter’s Hall 24-26 Apr. Doors open at 7pm, curtain up 7.30pm. Admission £6 (conc. £4, family £15). Contact Steve Woods 20-259201. COMPLINE. Next services: 26 Apr, 24 May. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 9 May. COUNCIL SURGERY at Marlborough Junior School on Fri 27 Apr, 6pm-7pm. MEMORIAL FUND FOR REV PAUL BENNETT has been set up by Archbishop Barry. Collections from services will be taken and plates placed at the back of the churches. Contributions, payable to the Fr Paul Bennett Memorial Fund, may be sent to the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, 39 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9XF. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP ROWAN’S EASTER SERMON. In his LENT GROUP FOLLOW-UP MEETING in Roath sermon at Canterbury Cathedral on Easter Day, Church House on Wednesday at 7.30.pm. Archbishop Rowan said that the whole weight human NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral this week. failure cannot extinguish the creative love of God; that Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Noble in B Minor. Anthem: conflict and failure are part of the human condition, but Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Wesley). Visiting that Jesus' Death and Resurrection turn that on its choir: St Bartholomew, Dublin. head: CATHAYS CEMETERY HERITAGE WALKS Sun 22 "We share one human story in which we are all caught Apr and Sun 8 July at 2pm. Meet at the main cemetery up in one sad tangle of selfishness and fear and so on. entrance in Fairoak Road. Discover the history of one But God has entered that human story; he has lived a of the largest Victorian Cemeteries in Britain. Easy walk life of divine and unconditional life in a human life of about one and half hours. flesh and blood." He recalls a visit to the Solomon Islands in 2004 when CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Andrew’s URC one of the leaders caught up in the islands' recent civil Church on Sun 29 Apr at 3pm. Hymn request sheets are war took public responsibility for failure: available in church today, and should be returned to "He said 'I want you to bless us; I need to say in public Alan or the Parish Office by Wed 18 Apr. that we were responsible as well as the people on the A DUCK RACE is being held on Sun 6 May, starting at islands…' Here was a politician representing a the second bridge from the bottom of the weir, Roath community that had suffered greatly and inflicted great Park Lake, at 2.30pm. The cost per duck is £1. Further suffering as well saying 'We were all wrong. We needed information and application forms from Pam Phillipou or healing and forgiveness…' And it was as if for the first Gill Day. All proceeds to Roath Church House. time you could see the bare bones of what reconciliation VARIETY CONCERT at Roath Church House on Sat 12 means." May at 7.30pm. If you would like to take part please The lesson, he says, can be learnt in other conflicts contact Mary John 20-734640 asap. when people learn to listen to stories other than their own: CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, "…going forward requires us all to learn a measure of (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St openness to discovering things about ourselves we did Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. not know, seeing ourselves through the eyes of another. Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, What they see may be fair or unfair, but it is a reality Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. that has been driving someone's reactions and CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County decisions. We'd better listen, hateful and humiliating Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by though it may be for some of us." Tricia Osman (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. In , he said, progress towards CONFIRMATION CLASSES start in May. Please take reconciliation had made it possible for people to start to a yellow form from the back of the church, and return it hear each other's histories; this meant that they needn't to the clergy. The young peoples’ group meets at Roath be bound by the past: Church House on Weds 4-5pm from 16 May. The adult "Everyone in this history made decisions, some group meets at a separate time by arrangement. An shockingly evil, some tragic, some foolish [but] those inaugural service is at 7pm on Tue 8 May at St Anne’s decisions and the sufferings that came from them don't when parents and supporters are welcome. have the power to tell you what decisions you have to INTRODUCING THE 365 CLUB. Purchase any date or make today." dates in the year for £1 each. We have now sold over The Easter story, he says, provides comfort and 200 dates, the sooner we sell the dates, the sooner the encouragement: lucky date will be drawn. How about picking an "If we can accept the unwelcome picture of us and our anniversary, parents birthday, the suggestions are world that Good Friday offers, we are in the strangest endless. When all dates are sold a draw will take place way, set free to hear what Easter says. Give up the and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid. All struggle to be innocent and the hope that God will proceeds to Roath Church House. Please see Lindsey proclaim that you were right and everyone else wrong. Warren or Gill Armitage. Simply ask for whatever healing it is that you need, whatever grace and hope you need to be free, then step SILENT AUCTION. Thank you to everyone who helped towards your neighbour; Easter reveals a God who is in any way and to those who came and bought items. ready to give you that grace and to walk with you." WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors "When in our world we are faced with the terrible and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of deadlocks of mutual hatred and suspicion, with rival the sidesmen if you are new with us. stories of suffering and atrocity, we have to pray for this CONTACT NUMBERS. resurrection message to be heard." Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Peace Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. of God” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at Email: [email protected] Evensong is “”Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord” from the Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), and CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable the anthem is “They Have Taken Away My Lord” by Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. John Stainer (1840-1901). Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1612 Sunday, 22nd April, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: We sing the glorious conquest, And He shall reign for ever, Day by Day, Majesty!. Anthem: Lo, Round the Throne (Ley). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Since by man came death (Handel). Psalm 86. Hymns: 80(MP), Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Williams), 141. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 38, 9-20. John 11, 17-44. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Niagara in the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop David Ralph Spence. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Israel-Palestine. We pray for the victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech University, their families and all the students and staff there. We pray for the seven Christian construction and factory workers beheaded by a Muslim rebel group in the Philippines this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of and Rev Martin Perry and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Djibouti and Somalia. We pray for the sick, especially Julie Romanelli and Freda Salway. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Tony Goble, whose funeral is on Friday; also Win Wray, whose anniversary occurs at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 34se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.30 pm Cytûn Meeting. Roath Park URC. LENT BOXES should be returned to church as soon as possible, please. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. 35ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. CYTUN MEETING on Monday at 7.30pm, at Roath 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Park URC, Penywain Road. 7.30 pm Jayne Thomas Opera Group (in church). HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last Xfeoftebz St Mark the Evangelist Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. 36ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR by Class Act Youth Theatre Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. at St Peter’s Hall Tuesday-Thursday this week. Doors open 37ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. at 7pm, curtain up 7.30pm. Admission £6 (conc. £4, family 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. £15). Contact Steve Woods 20-259201. 9.00 pm COMPLINE. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Gsjebz 1.15 pm Organ Recital. St John’s, Town. Thursday of this week at 9pm. Compline is a 38ui 2.30 pm Funeral of Tony Goble. Llandaff Cathedral. 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. the monastic “hours”. Next service: 24 May. 6.00 pm Council Surgery. Marlborough School. 7.30 pm Cardiff & Vale Symphonic Brass. St John the Evangelist, Canton. Tbuvsebz 10.30 am Diocesan Spirituality Group. Ty Teilo. COUNCIL SURGERY at Marlborough 39ui 7.00 pm Ignite Event. Woodville Christian Centre. Junior School on Friday, 6pm-7pm. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, Cytûn Songs of Praise at St Andrew’s URC at 3pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13; Acts 9: 36-43; John 10: 22-30. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Andrew’s URC Church next Sunday at 3pm. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CONFIRMATION CLASSES start in May. Please fill in a LEPROSY MISSION. Sat 12 May Forest of Dean yellow form from the back of the church, and return it to Sponsored Walk. You can choose the distance you the clergy. The young peoples’ group meets at Roath want to walk (3, 5 or 10 miles). Contact Rev Martin Church House on Weds 4-5pm from 16 May. The adult Davies 20-198720. Email: [email protected] group meets at a separate time by arrangement. An CHRISTIAN AID FUND-RAISING EVENT. Variety inaugural service is at 7pm on Tue 8 May at St Anne’s Concert at Roath Church House on Sat 12 May at when parents and supporters are welcome. 7.30pm. If you would like to take part please contact ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Lo, Round the Mary John 20-734640 asap. Throne a Glorious Band”, words by Rowland Hill (1744-1833), RESIDENTIAL RETREAT 13-18 May at Mill-Leat, to a melody by N. Herman (1560) arranged by Henry George Llanfrynach. “Rediscovering Church as a Community of Ley. The Introit at Evensong is “Since By Man Came Death” Equals”, at Dyffryn Farm, mid-Wales, with Jenny Joice & from the oratorio “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel (1685- 1759), and the anthem is “Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Geoff Hooper. £275. Information: [email protected] Peace” by Charles Lee Williams (1853-1935, organist of ROATH CHURCH HOUSE FAYRE on Sat 19 May. Gloucester Cathedral and one of the conductors of the Three Please start saving items for the stalls. If you have an Choirs Festival). idea for a stall or are able to help please contact Gill CATHAYS CEMETERY HERITAGE WALK today at Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20-736455. 2pm. Meet at the main cemetery entrance in Fairoak THREE COURSE DINNER, entertainment by Niall Allen, bar Road. Discover the history of one of the largest and dancing, on Fri 8 June at 7.30pm at The Village Hotel, Victorian Cemeteries in Britain. Easy walk about one Coryton to raise funds and enhance awareness of a new and half hours. charity – Bishop Home Trust, a local charity seeking to facilitate the provision of high quality accommodation for young NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral this week. adults with profound and multiple disabilities in Cardiff. Price Congregational Evensong at 3.30pm. Visiting choir: The £30. Please contact Rev Sue Brown, 20-862736. Merbecke Choir. CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St the Cathedral (St Dyfrig Chapel) Wednesday at 7.30pm. Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. ORGAN RECITAL by Gerard Brooks at St John the Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, Baptist Church on Friday at 1.15pm. Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. CONCERT by Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Symphonic FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wed 27 June Brass at St John the Evangelist Church, Canton, on includes Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Friday at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 (conc. £3) 20-700922. (with Diana Painter and Philip Heyman from DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP on Saturday, WNO), and Vivaldi’s Gloria. 10.30am-2.30pm: ‘Praying the Divine Office’ by Rev CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County Edward Dowland-Owen at Ty Teilo. Cost £10. Places at Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by Ty Teilo are limited, and events may change so please Tricia Osman (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. check before coming 01656-890205. MEMORIAL FUND FOR REV PAUL BENNETT. IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on Collections from services will be taken and plates Saturday, 7pm-9.30pm at Woodville Christian Centre. placed at the back of the churches. Contributions, made Speaker: Carl Brettle. [email protected] 20-512247 payable to the Fr Paul Bennett Memorial Fund, may be e-EUCHARIST at Princess Royal Theatre, , sent to the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, next Sunday at 6pm. Celebrant: Archbishop Barry 39 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9XF. Morgan. 20-499876. email: [email protected]. PLEASE CAN YOU HELP by providing a loaf of PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP next Sunday at 7.45pm sandwiches (or loaves) to help the Paradise Run Team at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. feed the homeless people on the streets of Cardiff. The Topic: “Making the Bible make sense.” All welcome. sandwiches are made out of white sliced bread, individually wrapped in sandwich bags. They can be CHRISTIAN AID FUND-RAISING EVENT. Gospel & filled with either sliced cheese, tuna, corned beef or Christian Music with Bethesda Community Gospel ham. Volunteers to go out on the Run are needed Choir, , at Llandaff Cathedral, on Sat 5 urgently – for further information on either item contact May at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from Mary John 20- Tricia 20-484808 or Kathie 20-495769. 734640 (children £3 at the door on the night). WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors DUCK RACE on Sun 6 May, starting at the second and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of bridge from the bottom of the weir, Roath Park Lake, at the sidesmen if you are new with us. 2.30pm. The cost per duck is £1. Further information and application forms from Pam Phillipou or Gill Day. CONTACT NUMBERS. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. All proceeds to Roath Church House. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every Email: [email protected] other month on Wed at 7.30pm. Next service: 9 May. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER. The 75th CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. anniversary of the first service held in England will be Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person held at Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol, on Sat 12 who is in hospital. May. Tickets £5 01672-512845.

]!Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1613 Sunday, 29th April, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Jerusalem the Golden, My Jesus My Saviour, I Believe in Jesus, Anthem: Psalm 23 (Rutter), Jesus is Lord. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Agnus Dei: Karl Jenkins. 3.00 pm Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Andrew’s URC. Officiant: Rev Des Kitto. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Hide Me Under the Shadow (West). Psalms 113, 114. Hymns: 125(MP), Anthem: Lacrymosa (Mozart), 61(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 63, 7-14. Luke 24, 36-49. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Nnewi (Niger, Nigeria) and Bishop Godwin Izundu Nmezinwa Okpala. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel- Palestine. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent in Gaza, Alan Johnston. The Bill to abolish slavery came into force 200 years ago on Tuesday of this week: we pray for all areas of the world where slavery still exists. We pray for the electorate of Wales and all the candidates as they go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new National Assembly for Wales. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Tonna, Rev Norman Lea and Rev Colin Galsworthy and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Eritrea and Ethiopia. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. UIJT!XFFL! CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Andrew’s URC Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. (Marlborough Rd / Wellfield Rd) today at 3pm. 41ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. 7.30 pm PARISH VESTRY. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Uvftebz!! ! SS Philip & James, Apostles! on Monday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 2tu!! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH VESTRY is at 7.30pm on Monday, in Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Church House. All members of the Parish 3oe 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. whose names are on the Parish Electoral Roll 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. are entitled to vote at this important Parish 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Meeting. Please make every effort to attend . 7.30 pm Cardiff Symphony Orchestra Concert. St Augustine’s, Penarth. Uivstebz 9.00 am No Service at St Anne’s. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all 4se 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. Tbuvsebz 7.30 pm Gospel and Christian Music for Christian Aid. Llandaff Cathedral. 6ui 7.30 pm Annual Fair Trade Fashion Show. The Gate. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fifth Sunday of Easter. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. 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 11: 1-18; John 13: 31-35. CITY OF CARDIFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA concert on Wednesday at St Augustine’s Church, Penarth at 7.30pm. Programme includes Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 and Schubert’s 3rd Symphony. CHRISTIAN AID FUND-RAISING EVENT. Gospel & Christian Music with Bethesda Community Gospel Choir, Dinas Powys, at Llandaff Cathedral, on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from Mary John 20-734640 (children £3 at the door on the night). ANNUAL FAIR TRADE FASHION SHOW at The Gate (Plasnewydd) on Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets (inc. a glass of Fair Trade wine or fruit juice) £5 (u-16 £3) must be bought in advance from Fair Do's, 10 Llandaff Road, Canton. 20-222066, email [email protected] Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PLEASE THINK ABOUT YOUR GIVING: CONFIRMATION CLASSES INAUGURAL SERVICE At the meeting of St Edwards Committee on 22nd April at 7pm on Tue 8 May at St Anne’s for candidates, the difficult financial situation facing St Edwards Church parents and supporters. was discussed. In the first three months of this year the TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 9 May. Church had spent something like £2,500 more than it COMPLINE. Next service: 24 May. had received in income, and the reserves which we FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST on Sat 12 May, 10am-12.30pm once had to cover such a shortfall are now gone. We at St Anne’s Hall. Price £3. A warm welcome to all. have to pay about £1,700 every month as our quota CHRISTIAN AID FUND-RAISING EVENT. Variety contribution (most of which goes to the Diocese to cover Concert at Roath Church House on Sat 12 May at the costs of running the Church in Wales) and that’s 7.30pm. If you would like to take part please contact before we start paying any bills. Our last gas bill alone Mary John 20-734640 asap. was £815. Monthly income from collections, envelopes and standing orders at the moment is less than £1,000 - JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES on Wednesdays, about £20/£25 from each adult communicant - monthly 4-5pm at Roath Church House beginning 16 May. expenditure on things we simply cannot avoid is more ASCENSION DAY SERVICES on Thur 17 May: Holy than twice this. Eucharist at 9am at St Anne’s and Sung Eucharist at We appreciate people giving whatever they can but 7.30pm at St Edward’s. please think about your level of giving. If you don’t ROATH CHURCH HOUSE FAYRE on Sat 19 May at 11am. already do so you may like to consider using the Please leave items for the stalls in the boxes at church. We envelope scheme or a standing order for regular giving, especially need bottles (from sauce to Champagne!), Bric-a- and if you are a taxpayer and complete a Gift Aid Form brac, books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys, cakes and plants on the the Church can claim back an extra 28% of what you day. Items can also be brought to Roath Church House on Fri give from the taxman at no extra cost to you! Please see 19 May, 7.30-9.30pm and on the Saturday from 9am. If you Megan Martin if you would like to start using envelopes can help in any way please contact Gill Day 20-495496 or or our treasurer Geoff Smith if you would like to set up a Brian Shapcott 20-736455. standing order or sign a Gift Aid Form. CYTÛN OPEN-AIR PENTECOST SERVICE on Sun 27 Nobody likes having to ask for money but the Church May at 3pm in Waterloo Gardens. has only the generosity of its members to rely on if it is ROATH CHURCH HOUSE SUMMER LUNCH on Sun 3 to keep going financially. June, 12.30 for 1pm. 3 course lunch £8 per person. NOMINATIONS for People’s Parish Warden are needed Excellent food & good company – book early for this for the PARISH VESTRY MEETING tomorrow at Roath very popular event. Contact Gill Day 20-495496 or Church House. Forms are available in church – you Brian Shapcott 20-736455. need the agreement of the person nominated as well as ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is on Sat 9 June. a proposer and seconder, and the person nominated CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, (an anti- must be on the Parish Electoral Roll. bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St Edward’s at 9am, CHRISTIAN AID WEEK is 13-19 May. Volunteers are leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. Contact Tricia Osman (Parish needed for the door-to-door collection. Please see Mrs Office 20-484808, Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray Martin if you are able to help. 20-491524. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the setting of LADIES CIRCLE COFFEE MORNING on Sat 9 June, Psalm 23 by John Rutter (b.1945). The choir will also sing the 10.30am-noon at Dawn Jones (110 Carisbrooke Way) in aid of Agnus Dei from “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” by Karl Childline and The Princes Royal Trust for Carers. Tickets £1 Jenkins (b.1944). The Introit at Evensong is “Hide Me Under from Barbara Beavis, Dawn Jones, Gill Day. Bring and buy, the Shadow of Thy Wings” by John Ebenezer West (1863- plants, book stall, cake sales, raffle. 1929), and the anthem is “Lacrymosa” from the Requiem by CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County Hall Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by Tricia Osman CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. Walmisley in D Minor. Anthem: Blessed be the God and FOR YOUR DIARY. Father (Wesley). Sun 27 May. 3pm. Pentecost Service. Waterloo Gdns. Sat 9 June. St Edward’s Gift Day. e-EUCHARIST at Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot, Wed 27 June. Fred Waite Memorial Concert. today at 6pm. Celebrant: Archbishop Barry Morgan. Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. 20-499876. email: [email protected]. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. Topic “Making the Bible make sense.” All welcome. CHAIRS FOR SALE. Wooden chairs, ex-Roath Church House for sale, £5 each. Contact Gill Day 20-495496. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed & Thurs this week. CONTACT NUMBERS. DUCK RACE next Sunday, starting at the second Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. bridge from the bottom of the weir, Roath Park Lake, at Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. 2.30pm. The cost per duck is £1. Further information Email: [email protected] and application forms from Pam Phillipou or Gill Day. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] All proceeds to Roath Church House. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. MARY TRAYNOR has an exhibition of original paintings Rev Sue is unavailable Monday to Sat this week. of Penarth and Cardiff at the Washington Gallery in Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person Stanwell Road, Penarth, opening next Sunday (3-5pm) who is in hospital. and continuing until 28 May, 10am-5pm daily.

]!Uif!Gjgui!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs Weekly Newsletter No.1614 Sunday, 6th May, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Let there be love shared among us, The Servant King, A New Commandment, Anthem: Old Irish Blessing (Agay), Soon and very soon. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne), Gloria: Anderson. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Compline Hymn. Psalm 98. Hymns: 310, Anthem: This Joyful Eastertide, 142. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Daniel 6, 1-23. Mark 15,46 - 16,8. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of North Kerala in the Church of South India (United) and Bishop George Isaac. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel- Palestine, and giving thanks for further progress towards peace in Northern Ireland with the declaration by the Ulster Volunteer Force renouncing violence. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent in Gaza, Alan Johnston. We pray for all the newly elected members of the National Assembly for Wales. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of and Rev David Waters and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Sudan and Uganda. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz!8ui! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Uvftebz! 1.00 pm Organ Recital. St David’s Hall. on Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All 9ui 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. welcome. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist (Confirmation Classes Inaugural Service). St Anne's. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm Opera Group Rehearsal. Church. INAUGURAL SERVICE for Confirmation 8.00 pm Ignite Event. Students’ Union. Classes at 7pm on Tuesday at St Anne’s for candidates, parents and supporters. 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. :ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 12.00 pm Anniversary Service. Tintern Abbey. TAIZÉ SERVICES on Wednesday of this 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. week at 7.30pm. Instrumental rehearsal at 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. 7pm. All welcome. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST on Saturday, 7.30 pm TAIZÉ SERVICE. 10am-12.30pm at St Anne’s Hall. Price £3. A warm welcome to all. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. LEPROSY MISSION. Forest of Dean Sponsored 21ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. Walk on Saturday. You can choose the distance you 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. want to walk (3, 5 or 10 miles). Contact Rev Martin Gsjebz!22ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Davies 20-198720. Email: [email protected] Tbuvsebz Leprosy Mission Sponsored Walk. Forest of Dean. ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is on 23ui 10.00 am Full English Breakfast. St Anne’s Hall. Sat 9 June. 3.15 pm RSCM Celebration Day. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm Christian Aid Variety Concert. Roath Church House. 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 37: 1-14; Acts 16: 9-15; John 14: 23-29. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE FAYRE on Sat 19 May at 11.30am. Please leave items for the stalls in the boxes at church. We especially need bottles (from sauce to Champagne!), Bric-a-brac, books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys, cakes and plants on the day. Items can also be brought to Roath Church House on Fri 19 May, 7.30-9.30pm and on the Saturday from 9am. If you can help in any way please contact Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20-736455. Posters and flyers are available for distribution around the neighbourhood; please help if you can. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CHRISTIAN AID WEEK is 13-19 May. Volunteers are ASCENSION DAY SERVICES on Thur 17 May: Holy needed for the door-to-door collection. Please see Mrs Eucharist at 9am at St Anne’s and Sung Eucharist at Martin if you are able to help. 7.30pm at St Edward’s. COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist 2007 WILLIAM HODGKINS LECTURE at City Church this morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take on Fri 18 May at 7.30pm. “Women’s Ordination: the place. Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?” by us. Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. This is a free annual lecture to commemorate the founder of the Cardiff Adult Christian DUCK RACE today, starting at the second bridge from Education Centre. Refreshments will be served. the bottom of the weir, Roath Park Lake, at 2.30pm. Cost £1 per duck. All proceeds to Roath Church House. COMPLINE. Next service: 24 May. GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY under the National CHORAL EVENSONG will be sung at St Teilo’s Church Garden Scheme (main charity MacMillan Cancer Relief) (Woodville Rd) by St Edward’s Choir and singers from today 2pm-6pm: 6 Alma Road (Melvyn Rees), 7 St Teilo’s on Sat 26 May at 4.30pm (joint rehearsal at Cressey Road (Vicki & Jane Thornton) and 102 3.30pm). Marlborough Rd (Judith Griffiths). Admission £4 SING OUT! A Bank Holiday celebration with combined ticket. Details from Melvyn Rees 20-482200 Cambrensis and the St David’s Praise Choir & [email protected] Orchestra at St David’s Hall on Sat 26 May at 7.30pm. MARY TRAYNOR has an exhibition of original paintings Tickets £10/£9 on sale now. 20-878444. of Penarth and Cardiff at the Washington Gallery in CYTÛN OPEN-AIR PENTECOST SERVICE on Sun 27 Stanwell Road, Penarth, opening today (3-5pm) and May at 3pm in Waterloo Gardens. continuing until 28 May, 10am-5pm daily. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE SUMMER LUNCH on Sun 3 LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL at St David’s Hall on June, 12.30 for 1pm. 3 course lunch £8 per person. Tuesday at 1pm, by Thomas Trotter, organist at St Excellent food & good company – book early for this Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, performing a very popular event. Contact Gill Day 20-495496 or programme to include works by J Alain, J S Bach and Brian Shapcott 20-736455. Elgar's Sonata in G. CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. IGNITE EVENT featuring internationally acclaimed Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, Christian Band “Third Day” on Tuesday, 8pm-10pm at Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. Solus, Cardiff Students Union. 20-512247 email: FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wed 27 June [email protected] including Vivaldi’s Gloria. SERVICE OF PRAYER at Tintern Abbey on CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County Wednesday at 12pm to mark the anniversary of the Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by foundation of the abbey on 9 May 1131. Most Revd Tricia Osman (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. Peter Smith, Archbishop of Cardiff, and Bishop Dominic FOR YOUR DIARY. Walker, Bishop of , will be present and it will Wed 23 May. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. be possible to see the new statue of Our Lady and Child Sun 27 May. 3pm. Pentecost Service. Waterloo Gdns. as it nears completion. Sat 9 June. St Edward’s Gift Day. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated aboard Wed 27 June. Fred Waite Memorial Concert. Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 1.15pm. Everyone Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. is welcome. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. ORGAN RECITAL at St Anne’s Church, Talygarn on Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. Friday at 7pm in celebration and Blessing of the new St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. New Organ. Tickets £5. 01443-207877. CONGRATULATIONS to our organist, Professor WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER. The 75th Norman Doe, who graduated this weekend with a anniversary of the first service held in England will be Masters in Theology from Oxford. held at Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol, on Saturday. CHAIRS FOR SALE. Wooden chairs, ex-Roath Church Tickets £5 01672-512845. House for sale, £5 each. Contact Gill Day 20-495496. RSCM CELEBRATION DAY with presentation of WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors honorary awards at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of 3.15pm, with a massed choir. All welcome to join the the sidesmen if you are new with us. congregation. CONTACT NUMBERS. CHRISTIAN AID FUND-RAISING EVENT. Variety Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Concert at Roath Church House on Saturday at 7.30pm. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. If you would like to take part please contact Mary John Email: [email protected] 20-734640 asap. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES on Wednesdays, Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. 4-5pm at Roath Church House beginning 16 May. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tjyui!Tvoebz!pg!Fbtufs;!Sphbujpo!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1615 Sunday, 13th May, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 607, At your feet we fall, 236, Anthem, You shall go out with joy. Anthem: Psalm 67: God Be Merciful Unto Us (Doe) Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Creation’s Hymn (Beethoven). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Psalms 126, 127. Hymns: 144, Anthem: When it began to dawn (Peace), 166. Readings: Zephaniah 3, 14-20. Matthew 28, 1-10 & 16-20. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Northern Indiana (ECUSA) and Bishop Edward Stuart Little. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel- Palestine. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. We pray for the new Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland and the power- sharing executive led by Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Abercynon and Rev Pauline Williams and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Kenya and Tanzania. We pray for the sick, especially Pam Richards. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Addie Briers, whose funeral is on Monday, also Emrys Lewis Davies and Francis Digby Riddett whose anniversaries occur at this time. DISJTUJBO!BJE!XFFL! Npoebz! St Matthias the Apostle 25ui 3.15 pm Funeral of Addie Briers. St Edward’s. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist. Cathedral. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz!26ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES on Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Wednesdays, 4-5pm at Roath Church House 27ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. beginning this week. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Class. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. ASCENSION DAY SERVICES on Thursday: Uivstebz Ascension Day Holy Eucharist at 9am at St Anne’s and Sung 28ui 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Eucharist at 7.30pm at St Edward’s. 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.30 pm SUNG EUCHARIST. St Edward’s. 7.45pm at Chris Webb’s, 87 Llanedeyrn Rd. All 8.30 pm Full Choir Practice. welcome. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 29ui 7.30 pm Christian Aid: Music & Song. St Augustine’s, Rumney. 7.30 pm William Hodgkins Lecture. City Church. JANICE GOBLE & FAMILY would Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Prayer Ministry Training Day. St Denys, Lisvane. like to thank everyone for all their 2:ui 10.00 am Ecumenical Day Retreat. Cathays Methodist Church. help and support, prayers and kind 11.30 am Spring Fayre. Roath Church House. thoughts during the last month. 12.00 pm Penrhys Pilgrimage. 7.30 pm Cardiff Bach Choir & Orchestra. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday After Ascension Day). 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 16: 16-34; John 17: 20-26. 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] THIS WEEK IS CHRISTIAN AID WEEK. Volunteers are CARDIFF BACH CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA concert needed for the door-to-door collection. Please see Mrs on Saturday at 7.30pm in Llandaff Cathedral. Works by Martin if you are able to help. Bach, Handel and Buxtehude. Tickets £12 & £10. NAVE LIGHTS. These have now been replaced by COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at energy-saving bulbs. Our thanks to those who donated St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- the bulbs, built the scaffolding, and especially those who minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic did the climbing! There were a few problems, leaving a “hours”. Next service: 24 May. few missing bulbs, which we hope to rectify in the near LEARN ABOUT THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1607 on the future. 400th anniversary, at Redwick, Goldcliff & Nash ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the setting churches, 25-28 May, 10.30am-5pm each day. Video of Psalm 67 “God Be Merciful Unto Us” by Norman Doe. room, brass rubbing, children’s activities etc. Website: The Introit at Evensong is “Creation’s Hymn” by Ludwig www.flood400.org.uk van Beethoven (1770-1827), and the anthem is “When it CHORAL EVENSONG will be sung at St Teilo’s Church began to dawn” from the Cantata “Darkness and Dawn” (Woodville Rd) by St Edward’s Choir and singers from by Fred W. Peace. The anthem for Ascension Day is St Teilo’s on Sat 26 May at 4.30pm (joint rehearsal at “The Lord is Exalted” by John Ebenezer West (1863- 3.30pm). 1929). CYTÛN OPEN-AIR PENTECOST SERVICE on Sun 27 MARY TRAYNOR has an exhibition of original paintings May at 3pm in Waterloo Gardens. of Penarth and Cardiff at the Washington Gallery in ROATH CHURCH HOUSE SUMMER LUNCH on Sun 3 Stanwell Road, Penarth, until 28 May, 10am-5pm daily. June, 12.30 for 1pm. 3 course lunch £8 per person. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Excellent food & good company – book early for this Dyson in F. Anthem: My beloved spake (Hadley). very popular event. Contact Gill Day 20-495496 or ST MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE. Solemn Eucharist at Brian Shapcott 20-736455. the Cathedral on Monday at 6pm: Jackson in G. CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, Anthem: Let all mortal flesh (Bairstow). (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St CHRISTIAN AID: an evening of music and song starring Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. Lorraine King (singer/songwriter) on Friday at 7.30pm at Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, St Augustine’s Church, Rumney. Tickets £5 on the door. Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. All proceeds to Christian Aid. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 11 July. 2007 WILLIAM HODGKINS LECTURE at City Church on CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY is planned for Sat 14 July. Friday at 7.30pm. “Women’s Ordination: the beginning of the Please speak to Heather if you would like to come. end or the end of the beginning?” by Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. This is a free annual lecture to commemorate the founder of ADVANCE NOTICE. Cardiff County and Vale of the Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre. Refreshments will Glamorgan Symphonic Brass will give a concert at St be served. Edward’s Festival this year, on Wed 17 Oct at 7.45pm. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE FAYRE on Saturday at 11.30am. FOR YOUR DIARY. Please leave items for the stalls in the boxes at church. We Wed 23 May. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. especially need bottles (from sauce to Champagne!), Bric-a- Sun 27 May. 3pm. Pentecost Service. Waterloo Gdns. brac, books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys, jewellery – cakes and Sat 9 June. St Edward’s Gift Day. plants on the day. Items can also be brought to Roath Church Wed 27 June. Fred Waite Memorial Concert. House on Friday, 7.30-9.30pm and on Saturday from 9am. If Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. you can help in any way please contact Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20-736455. Posters and flyers are Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. available for distribution around the neighbourhood; please Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. help if you can. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. SYCHED/THIRST is a new venture designed to help you DUCK RACE. Thanks to all who helped last Sunday. Duck deepen your relationship with God. Whether you are familiar No. 130 was the winner; Vic Coombes the lucky owner. with the language of Christianity or not, Thirst’s worship and Approximately £150 was raised for Roath Church House retreats will guide and support you as you encounter God’s funds. mystery in silence, sound and prayer. Cytûn’s website provides ST MARGARET’S ORGAN. Help needed: does anyone have news and resources – www.cytun.org.uk – and Gareth access to a van, which we can use to transport an organ for Williams will lead a day retreat (10am-4pm) on Saturday at our use, whilst our own is being re-furbished. Would you like Cathays Methodist Church, entitled “The Spirituality of to help in forming a small committee to raise money for this re- Kindness and Hospitality”. Cost £5 including a simple lunch. furbishment. Do you have any fund raising ideas, if so please Email [email protected] or 20-464371. let me know. Pam Phillipou. PRAYER MINISTRY TRAINING DAY on Saturday, 9.30am- CONTACT NUMBERS. 1pm at St Denys Church, Lisvane. Details from Rev Paul Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Thompson 20-753338. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. PILGRIMAGE to the Shrine of Our Lady of Penrhys on Email: [email protected] Saturday. 12pm Concelebrated Sung Mass at Rhondda Fach Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Sports Centre (Principal Celebrant: Bishop David Thomas). CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. 3pm Benediction & Prayers at the Shrine. 20-499867. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. CHAIRS FOR SALE. Wooden chairs, ex-Roath Church House Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person for sale, £5 each. Contact Gill Day 20-495496. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Btdfotjpo!Ebz Weekly Newsletter No.1616 Sunday, 20th May, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Thou Art Gone Up on High, Great is the Darkness, Reign in Me, Anthem: Come Holy Ghost (Attwood), Majesty. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Sue Rees. Preacher: Mr Geoffrey Smith. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Fanfare (Martin Shaw). Psalm 68. Hymns: 145, Anthem: The Lord Gave the Word (Handel), 218. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: W.H.Harris in A Minor. Readings: Isaiah 44, 1-8. Ephesians 4, 7-16. On this Anglican Communion Sunday we pray for the 38 Provinces of the Anglican Communion, for the Anglican Consultative Council and for the Secretary General, Canon Kenneth Kearon. We pray for peace in the world, for an end to the violence in Gaza, and remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , Matthewstown & , and Rev Andrew Holmes and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Malawi and Zambia. We pray for the sick, especially Pam Richards. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially William (Bill) Everitt Scobie and Morgan William Rees Morgan, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 32tu 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Adult Confirmation Group. 3 Snipe St. ADULT CONFIRMATION. The First Meeting of the Adult Group preparing for Confirmation will Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. be on Monday, 7.30-9pm at 3 Snipe Street. It is 33oe 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. not too late to be part of this Group. Please see Rev Sue if you want to know more Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. (especially if you want to get confirmed and 34se 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. can’t make this first meeting.) 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Class. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on 6.30 pm Clarinet Choir Rehearsal in Church. Wednesday this week. 6.30 pm St Teilo’s Leavers’ Service. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Mothers’ Union Deanery Festival. St Isan’s, . 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. ST TEILO’S LEAVERS SERVICE at 6.30pm on Wednesday in St Margaret’s. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. MOTHER’S UNION DEANERY SERVICE at 35ui 10.15 am Funeral of Michael Coles. St Margaret’s. 7pm on Wednesday, at St. Isan’s Church, 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. Llanishen. Mrs. Bolt, of St. Martin’s Church is 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. the Presiding Member. 9.00 pm COMPLINE. COMPLINE will be sung at Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. St Edward’s on Thursday of this week 36ui 6.00 pm. Councillors’ Surgery. Marlborough School. at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute Tbuvsebz 3.30 pm Choir Practice for Choral Evensong. St Teilo’s. service of plainchant - the last of the 37ui 4.30 pm CHORAL EVENSONG. St Teilo’s, Woodville Rd. monastic “hours”. 5.00 pm Free Concert: Rutgers University Chorus. St John’s, Town. 7.00 pm Ignite Event. Woodville Christian Centre. 7.30 pm St David’s Praise. St David’s Hall. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Day of Pentecost, Whitsunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, there is a Cytûn Open-Air Service at Waterloo Gardens at 3pm and Choral Evensong will be sung at St Edward’s at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 11: 1-9; Romans 8: 14-17; John 14: 8-17. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church CHRISTIAN AID REPORT “Human Tide: The real migration House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches crisis” says that the number of people forced to flee their or joining the Run itself. We need loaves of sandwiches homes within their own country because of conflict or natural of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned disaster is growing so rapidly that a migration crisis is almost inevitable. Climate change will only make this worse. An beef using white thin sliced bread and individually estimated 155 million people in the developing world have wrapped sandwiches. The sandwiches can be given to already left their homes to escape war or ethnic persecution, Kathie Mayer 20-495769 or left at Church House prior or have had their homes destroyed by natural disasters or to departure. If you are interested in coming out on the development projects. The report says that the number of Run – more volunteers are urgently needed – please Internally Displaced Persons is expected to rise to one billion contact Kathie Mayer. by 2050 – more than the number of people displaced after the Second World War. Christian Aid has called on the ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Come Holy international community to redouble efforts to help displaced Ghost” by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838). The Introit at people all over the world, using force if necessary. “Armed Evensong is “Fanfare” by Martin Shaw (1876-1958), and the force, when properly mandated by the international community, anthem is “The Lord Gave the Word” from the oratorio is sometimes essential to protect people from rape, torture and “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). murder,” the report says. MARY TRAYNOR has an exhibition of original paintings of Penarth and Cardiff at the Washington Gallery in CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, (an anti- Stanwell Road, Penarth, until 28 May, 10am-5pm daily. bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. There are still some seats CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: available. Contact Tricia Osman (Parish Office 20-484808, Stanford in B Flat. Anthem: Above all praise and Home 20-488796) or Sue Mowbray 20-491524. majesty (Mendelssohn). GARDENING DAY at Roath Church House on Sat 16 “CHRISTIANITY & OTHER RELIGIONS” – a lecture by Gavin June, 9.30am-12pm. Please can you come and help D’Costa on Tuesday, 9.45am-4pm in the School of Religious & with some tidying up, weeding etc. Please bring any Theological Studies, Colum Drive. This is the bi-annual Dr tools you may need to use. Coffee provided. Williams’s Lecture. Fee £8. Bring lunch or purchase refreshments from the refectory. 20-874240. FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wed 27 June including Telemann’s Concerto in B Flat, Schubert’s 8th THE ENDURING SIN: SLAVERY PAST & PRESENT is the series of short lectures, two of which have a local flavour, Symphony and Vivaldi’s Gloria. starting at 7.15pm on Wednesday in Cardiff University Centre TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 11 July. for Lifelong Learning, Senghennydd Road. The event is open CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY is planned for Sat 14 July. to all, admission £3 on the door, all proceeds to Anti-Slavery International. For information 20-870000. Please speak to Heather if you would like to come. LEARN ABOUT THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1607 on the FOR YOUR DIARY. 400th anniversary, at Redwick, Goldcliff & Nash Wed 23 May. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. churches, 25-28 May, 10.30am-5pm each day. Video Sun 27 May. 3pm. Pentecost Service. Waterloo Gdns. room, brass rubbing, children’s activities etc. Website: Sat 9 June. St Edward’s Gift Day. www.flood400.org.uk Wed 27 June. Fred Waite Memorial Concert. Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. DAY OF REFLECTION on Saturday at Mill-Leat, Llanfrynach: Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Basket Making in the contemporary tradition of the Desert Father. Day of Reflection making willow baskets with Martin Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. Hazell & Jenny Joice. Further information: [email protected] St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. CHORAL EVENSONG will be sung at St Teilo’s Church ROATH CHURCH HOUSE FAYRE. Thank you to (Woodville Rd) by St Edward’s Choir and singers from everybody who helped in anyway, yesterday. St Teilo’s on Saturday at 4.30pm (joint rehearsal at ST MARGARET’S ORGAN. No major work has been done on 3.30pm). the organ since 1952 and it now needs refurbishing. This FREE CONCERT by Rutgers University Chorus from work is being done during June at an estimated cost of New Jersey USA at 5pm on Saturday at St John the approximately £12,000. Would you like to help in forming a Baptist Church in town. small committee to raise money for this refurbishment? Do you have any fund raising ideas? If so please contact Pam IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on Phillipou 20-752809 or Gill Day 20-495496. Saturday, 7pm-9.30pm at at Woodville Christian Centre. Speaker: Dai Hankey. email: [email protected] 20-512247 WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors SING OUT! A Bank Holiday celebration with and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Cambrensis and the St David’s Praise Choir & the sidesmen if you are new with us. Orchestra at St David’s Hall on Saturday at 7.30pm. CONTACT NUMBERS. Tickets £10/£9 on sale now. 20-878444. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE SUMMER LUNCH on Sun 3 Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. June, 12.30 for 1pm. 3 course lunch £8 per person. Email: [email protected] Excellent food & good company – book early for this Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] very popular event. Contact Gill Day 20-495496 or CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Brian Shapcott 20-736455. Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 3 June at Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any 7.45pm at Les & Gwyneth’s, 9 Waterloo Rd. All welcome to person who is in hospital. join us for interesting debate.

]!Uif!Ebz!pg!Qfoufdptu;!Xijutvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1617 Sunday, 27th May, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Lord may we see, There’s a sound, Come Holy Ghost, Anthem: The Room Upstairs (Owens), All over the world, We are Marching. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 3.00 pm Cytûn Open Air Service at Waterloo Gardens. Preacher: Rev Alison Dummer. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: If Ye Love Me (Tallis). Psalms 36, 5-10 & 150. Hymns: 154, Anthem: I Will Pray the Father (Torrance), 233. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Exodus 33, 7-20. 2 Corinthians 3, 4-18. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island in the Province of Canada, Bishop Frederick J Hiltz and Suffragan Bishop Susan Elizabeth Moxley. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine. We pray for the people of Darfur, many suffering from malnutrition, and now facing the start of the rainy season, with high risk of diseases such as malaria. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , St Matthew & Cilfynydd with Llanwynno and Rev Paul Boyle and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Botswana and Zimbabwe. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Alf Richards, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. UIJT!XFFL! All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz!39ui 11.30 am Annual Fete. Nazareth House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Wednesday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. 3:ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. NO PARISH SURGERY this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE is closed until Thursday 41ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. this week. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. There is no Junior class this week. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Uivstebz 9.00 am Morning Prayer. St Anne's. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE SUMMER LUNCH next Sunday, 42tu 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. 12.30 for 1pm. 3 course lunch £7 per person. Excellent food & 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. good company – book early for this very popular event. Contact Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott 20- Gsjebz!2tu 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 736455. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Trinity Sunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. 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: Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31; Romans 5: 1-5; John 16: 12-15. MARY TRAYNOR has an exhibition of original paintings of Penarth and Cardiff at the Washington Gallery in Stanwell Road, Penarth, until 28 May, 10am-5pm daily. LEARN ABOUT THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1607 on the 400th anniversary, at Redwick, Goldcliff & Nash churches, today and tomorrow, 10.30am-5pm each day. Video room, brass rubbing, children’s activities etc. Website: www.flood400.org.uk NAZARETH HOUSE ANNUAL FETE at Colum Road on Monday at 11.30am. Admission £1. HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the Cathedral (St Dyfrig Chapel) on Wednesday at 7.30pm. GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND host Charity Table Top Sale, Saturday, 10.30am-3pm at St Augustine’s Church Hall, Rumney. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CYTÛN OPEN-AIR PENTECOST SERVICE today at STRAWBERRY CREAM TEAS on Sat 16 June, 3-5pm at St 3pm in Waterloo Gardens. Come and celebrate the Anne’s Hall. Cost £3. Home made cake stall and raffle. Feast of Pentecost, the birth of the Christian Church, ELIN MANHAN THOMAS, known as John Rutter's with fellow Christians from the Roath area of Cardiff. favourite soprano, will give a free 15-20 minute recital, a The address will be given by Rev Alison Dummer of tranquil, contemplative, meditative period, at St Teilo’s, Minster and Roath Park URC. If the weather is bad the Woodville Road on Sun 17 June at 12.30pm. service will be in St Margaret’s. FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wed 27 June th ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Room including Telemann’s Concerto in B Flat, Schubert’s 8 Upstairs” from “The Witness” by Jimmy & Carol Owens. Symphony and Vivaldi’s Gloria. The Introit at Evensong is “If Ye Love Me” by Thomas COMPLINE. Next service: 28 June. Tallis (c.1505-1585), and the anthem is “I Will Pray the TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 11 July. Father” by Rev George William Torrance (1835-1907). CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by Harwood in A Flat. Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord (Elgar). Tricia Osman (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. RESIDENTIAL RETREAT ”Mawr CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY is planned for Sat 14 July. yn marw ar Galfaria, mawr yn maeddu angau’i hun” at Please speak to Heather if you would like to come. Llangasty Retreat Centre on Friday, led by Ainsley Griffiths. Email [email protected] or 20-464371. FOR YOUR DIARY. Wed 20 June. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY under the National Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. Garden Scheme (main charity MacMillan Cancer Relief) Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. next Sunday, 2-6pm and Tue 5 June, 5-9pm (inc. a Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. glass of wine): 6 Alma Road (Melvyn Rees), 7 Cressy St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. Road (Vicki & Jane Thornton) and 102 Marlborough Rd (Judith Griffiths). Admission £4 combined ticket. Details CONGRATULATIONS to Mrs Megan Martin on from Melvyn Rees 20-482200 [email protected] obtaining her Certificate in Computing this week. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at ROATH CHURCH HOUSE FAYRE. Thank you to 7.45pm at Les & Gwyneth’s, 9 Waterloo Rd. All everybody who helped in anyway. The magnificent sum welcome to join us for interesting debate. of £1256 was raised. THREE COURSE DINNER, entertainment by Niall ST MARGARET’S ORGAN. No major work has been Allen, bar and dancing, on Fri 8 June at 7.30pm at The done on the organ since 1952 and it now needs Village Hotel, Coryton to raise funds and enhance refurbishing. This work is being done during June at an awareness of a new charity – Bishop Home Trust, a estimated cost of approximately £12,000. Would you local charity seeking to facilitate the provision of high like to help in forming a small committee to raise money quality accommodation for young adults with profound for this refurbishment? Do you have any fund raising and multiple disabilities in Cardiff. Price £30. Please ideas? If so please contact Pam Phillipou 20-752809 contact Rev Sue Brown, 20-862736. or Gill Day 20-495496. ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is on Sat 9 June. THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ended 80 years of schism last week in an Act of Canonical Communion BYRD’S MASS FOR FIVE VOICES accompanied by in Moscow, attended by Vladimir Putin and members of period instruments (viols and recorders) in the context of the Romanov family. The Russian Orthodox Church a Celebration of the Holy Eucharist at St Edward’s on Outside Russia (ROCOR) had separated because it Sat 9 June at 6pm. believed the Moscow Patriarchate was compromised by CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, accepting Soviet control. (an anti-bullying charity) on Sat 9 June, leaving St 365 CLUB. Buy a date for £1 and a chance to win £50!! Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. There We have now sold over 200 dates. How about picking are still some seats available. Contact Tricia Osman an anniversary, parents birthday, the suggestions are (Parish Office 20-484808, Home 20-488796) or endless. When all dates are sold a draw will take place Sue Mowbray 20-491524. and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid. All LADIES CIRCLE COFFEE MORNING on Sat 9 June, proceeds to Roath Church House. Please see Lindsey 10.30am-noon at Dawn Jones (110 Carisbrooke Way) Warren or Gill Armitage. in aid of Childline and The Princes Royal Trust for WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Carers. Tickets £1 from Barbara Beavis, Dawn Jones, and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Gill Day. Bring and buy, plants, book stall, cake sales, the sidesmen if you are new with us. raffle. CONTACT NUMBERS. CHILDREN’S FUN DAY organized by the Church in Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Wales Children’s Network at the Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Showground, Builth Wells, on Sat 9 June, 11am- Email: [email protected] 3.30pm. 01639-842874. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] GARDENING DAY at Roath Church House on Sat 16 CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. June, 9.30am-12pm. Please can you come and help Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. with some tidying up, weeding etc. Please bring any Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person tools you may need to use. Coffee provided. who is in hospital.

]!Usjojuz!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1618 Sunday, 3rd June, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Shine Jesus Shine, St Patrick’s Breastplate, We Believe, Anthem: Deep River (Jonathan Hellyer Jones), There is a Redeemer. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne), Gloria: Anderson. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Hail Gladdening Light (Stainer). Athanasian Creed (Quicumque vult). Psalms 73, vv 1-3 & 16-28. Hymns: 158, Anthem: Sanctus (Byrd), 160. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Exodus 3, 1-15. John 3, 1-17. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Oji River, in the Province of Niger, Nigeria, and Bishop Amos Amankechinelo Madu. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. Tuesday is World Environment Day and we pray for all who are suffering from the effects of climate change, and for a greater awareness of the seriousness of the problem throughout the world. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , St Peter, and Rev Haydn England-Simon and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli, Pam Richards. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Joyce Davies, whose anniversary occurs at this time. UIJT!XFFL! ROATH CHURCH HOUSE SUMMER LUNCH today, 12.30 for 1pm. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 5ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 7.45pm at Les & Gwyneth’s, 9 Waterloo Rd. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at Uvftebz! World Environment Day 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. 6ui 5.00 pm Gardens open for charity. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 7ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. CORPUS CHRISTI. Solemn Eucharist at the 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Cathedral at 6pm on Thursday: Darke in E. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Class. Roath Church House. WELCOME. We extend a warm 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. welcome to all visitors and newcomers. 7.30 pm Organ Recital: Martin Baker. St Peter’s. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. Uivstebz Corpus Christi 8ui 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist. Cathedral. RICHARD WILLIAMS will participate on Tue 19 June in the 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. British 3 Peaks Challenge, climbing the three highest 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. mountain peaks in Scotland, England and Wales: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon all within 24 hours! Gsjebz!9ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Sponsorship or any donations in aid of Ty Hafan would be most welcome. Tbuvsebz St Edward’s Gift Day :ui 9.00 am Bus Trip to Bath leaves St Edward’s. 10.00 am MATTINS. Church open until 12pm. 10.30 am Ladies Circle Coffee Morning. 110 Carisbrooke Way. 11.00 am Children’s Fun Day. Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells. 6.00 pm HOLY EUCHARIST (Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices). St Edward’s. 7.30 pm Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society Concert. Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second 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: 1 Kings 17: 17-24; Galatians 1: 11-24; Luke 7: 11-17. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected]

Last week Gwen Smith retired as head choirgirl, Alice Vera Morgan Choirgirl prize was awarded to Alice Berry Berry was appointed head choirgirl, and Harriet Evans- and Harriet and Maddie Evans-Webb. Photo: Fiona Berry Webb second choirgirl. Photo: Fiona Berry LADIES CIRCLE COFFEE MORNING on Saturday, ST EDWARD’S GIFT DAY is on Saturday, starting with 10.30am-noon at Dawn Jones (110 Carisbrooke Way) Mattins at 10am, after which the church will be open in aid of Childline and The Princes Royal Trust for until 12pm to receive your gifts. Envelopes are available Carers. Tickets £1 from Barbara Beavis, Dawn Jones, in church this morning. Gift Day ends with… Gill Day. Bring and buy, plants, book stall, cake sales, BYRD’S MASS FOR FIVE VOICES accompanied by raffle. period instruments (viols and recorders) in the context of CHILDREN’S FUN DAY organized by the Church in Wales a Celebration of the Holy Eucharist at St Edward’s on Children’s Network at the Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Saturday at 6pm. Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Wells, on Saturday, 11am-3.30pm. 01639-842874. LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY and COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist this orchestra present Duruflé’s Requiem, Elgar’s Te Deum morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take place. and Bach’s Wachet Auf at the Cathedral on Saturday at Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. 7.30pm. Tickets: nave £12, aisles £6 (conc. 50%). ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual GARDENING DAY at Roath Church House on Sat 16 “Deep River” arranged by Jonathan Hellyer Jones. The June, 9.30am-12pm. Please can you come and help Introit at Evensong is the third century hymn “Hail with some tidying up, weeding etc. Please bring any gladdening Light” set to music by John Stainer (1840- tools you may need to use. Coffee provided. 1901), and the anthem is “Sanctus” from the Mass for Five Voices by William Byrd (1543-1623). STRAWBERRY CREAM TEAS on Sat 16 June, 3-5pm at St Anne’s Hall. Cost £3. Homemade cakestall, raffle. GARDENS OPEN FOR CHARITY under the National Garden Scheme (main charity MacMillan Cancer Relief) ELIN MANHAN THOMAS, known as John Rutter's today, 2-6pm and Tuesday, 5-9pm (inc. a glass of wine): favourite soprano, will give a free 15-20 minute recital, a 6 Alma Road (Melvyn Rees), 7 Cressy Road (Vicki & tranquil, contemplative, meditative period, at St Teilo’s, Jane Thornton) and 102 Marlborough Rd (Judith Woodville Road on Sun 17 June at 12.30pm. Griffiths). Admission £4 combined ticket. Details from CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County Melvyn Rees 20-482200 [email protected] Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out” organised by NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Tricia Osman (Parish Office) and Sue Mowbray. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Stanford in A. Anthem: Faire FOR YOUR DIARY. is the heaven (Harris). Wed 20 June. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE: “The Two Rivers of Wed 27 June. Fred Waite Memorial Concert. Forgiveness” by His Eminence Cardinal James Francis Thur 28 June. 9pm. Compline. Stafford (a senior figure at the Vatican and Archbishop Sun 8 July. 3pm. Sapphire Singers Concert. Emeritus of Denver, Colorado, USA) on Monday at 7pm Wed 11 July. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. in the Faraday Lecture Theatre, Swansea University. All Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. welcome. Admission free. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. ORGAN RECITAL at St Peter’s on Wednesday at 7.30pm by Martin Baker, organist of Westminster St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. Cathedral. Programme includes music by Bach, CONTACT NUMBERS. Beethoven and Borodin. Tickets £8 (conc. £5) on the Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. door. Doors open 6.45pm. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. CHARITY BUS TRIP TO BATH in aid of Bullies Out, Email: [email protected] (an anti-bullying charity) on Saturday, leaving St Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Edward’s at 9am, leaving Bath at 5pm. Cost £12. There CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable are still some seats available. Contact Tricia Osman Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. (Parish Office 20-484808, Home 20-488796) or Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Sue Mowbray 20-491524. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1619 Sunday, 10th June, 2007 Son of the widow of Nain 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 80(MP), 168(MP), 10(MP), Anthem, 131(MP), 63(MP). Anthem: The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Rutter). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Introit: Now We are Ambassadors (Mendelssohn). Psalm 44. Hymns: 62(MP), Anthem: O Saviour of the World (Goss), 486. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: W.H.Harris in A Minor. Readings: Genesis 8,15 - 9,17. Mark 4, 1-20. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Oleh in the Province of Bendel, Nigeria, and Bishop Jonathan Francis Ekokotu Edewor. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon. We pray for the victims of Cyclone Gonu in Oman and the major storms in eastern Australia. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of and Rev Paul Bigmore and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Angola and Mozambique. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 22ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm St Margaret’s Organ Fund Meeting. Three Brewers. Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday from 23ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 11am and all of Wednesday this week. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 2000 on the Second Tuesday of the month, 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 24ui 5pm-7pm. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Class. Roath Church House. 7.00 pm Clarinet Choir Rehearsal (in church). JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES on 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Wednesdays, 4-5pm at Roath Church House. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Saturday, 10.30am- 25ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. 2.30pm: ‘Spirituality of Sacred Space’ at Ty Teilo. Cost £10. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Places at Ty Teilo are limited, and events may change so please check before coming 01656-890205. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 26ui 7.30 pm Arts Festival Concert. . GARDENING DAY at Roath Church House on Saturday, 9.30am-12pm. Please can Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Gardening Day. Roath Church House. you come and help with some tidying up, 27ui 10.30 am Diocesan Spirituality Group. Ty Teilo. weeding etc. Please bring any tools you 5.00 pm Strawberry Cream Teas. St Anne’s. may need to use. Coffee provided. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Third 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: 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12: 10, 13-15; Galatians 2: 15-21; Luke 7:36 - 8:3. EVENSONG AT ST MARGARET’S today celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Ladies Circle (6pm). ST BARNABAS THE APOSTLE Solemn Eucharist at the Cathedral on Monday at 6pm. Setting: Howells Collegium Regale. Anthem: “And I saw a new heaven” (Bainton). EWENNY ARTS FESTIVAL. Concert by Quintillian Ensemble, members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales, at Ewenny Priory on Friday at 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 (conc. £5). 01656-667047. STRAWBERRY CREAM TEAS on Saturday, 3-5pm at St Anne’s Hall. Cost £3. Home made cake stall and raffle. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES & CONGREGATIONS. A Conference to explore the community use of church buildings on Mon 2 July, 10.30-4pm at The Gate, Keppoch St. Chaired by Archbishop Barry. This first national conference seeks to help develop a vision of the wider use of church buildings, explore opportunities and advantages of greater use of church buildings in the Church in Wales, and to set all of this within the wider context of church growth, links with local communities and UK/WAG faith community initiatives. Cost £10 inc. lunch. Please book asap – Alan has a booking form. FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wed 27 June including Telemann’s Concerto in B Flat, Schubert’s 8th Symphony and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Joint rehearsals are

Norman introduces Pope Benedict to Mark Hill, Chancellor scheduled for Thur 14 June & Mon 25 June. to Europe (Church of England), and Gareth Powell ADULT CONFIRMATION CLASS are on Thursdays: 28 (Methodist Chaplain to Cardiff University) at the Eighth June and 12 July, at 7.30pm at 3 Snipe Street. Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers LEPROSY MISSION. Sat 30 June. A sponsored climb MANY THANKS to everyone who supported the Gift up Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons to raise money for Day yesterday. If you were unable to come, it is not too Low Cost Housing in India. Contact Rev Martin Davies late to bring your gift. 20-198720. Email: [email protected] ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Lord CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County Bless You and Keep You” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out”. Come along and Introit at Evensong is the duet “Now we are have a evening out and help raise money for this worthy ambassadors” from the oratorio “St Paul” by Felix charity. Tickets £5 from Tricia Osman ( Parish Office). Mendelssohn (1809-47), and the anthem is the Collect RACHMANINOV’S VESPERS will be performed by BBC for the Visitation of the Sick, “O Saviour of the world” by National Chorus of Wales on Sat 30 June at 8pm at St Peter’s John Goss (1800-1880). Church. Tickets £6 (conc. £5) 0800-0521812. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: FOR YOUR DIARY. Daniel Purcell in E Minor. Anthem: O Sacrum Convivium Wed 20 June. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. (Tallis). Sun 8 July. 3pm. Sapphire Singers Concert. CORPUS CHRISTI CELEBRATION and Homily at 8pm Fri 13 July. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. today at St Martin’s. Preacher: Fr Christopher Pearson Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. (Superior General of the of the Confraternity of the Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Blessed Sacrament). Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. ELIN MANHAN THOMAS, known as John Rutter's St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. favourite soprano, will give a free 15-20 minute recital, ST MARGARET’S ORGAN. There will be a meeting accompanied by lute: a tranquil, contemplative, Monday at 7.30pm for anyone interested in raising meditative period, at St Teilo’s, Woodville Road next money towards the organ refurbishment. Please come Sunday at 12.30pm. to The Three Brewers at 7.30pm. We are hoping that RICHARD WILLIAMS will participate on Tue 19 June in you will become involved. Pam Phillipou 20-752809. the British 3 Peaks Challenge, climbing the three highest mountain peaks in Scotland, England and 365 CLUB. Buy a date for £1 and a chance to win £50!! We Wales: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon all within have now sold over 200 dates. How about picking an 24 hours! Sponsorship or any donations in aid of Ty anniversary, parents birthday, the suggestions are endless. When all dates are sold a draw will take place and three prizes Hafan would be most welcome. of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid. All proceeds to Roath Church FOCOLARE DAY MEETING on Sat 23 June, 10am-4.30pm at House. Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. the Pastoral Resources Centre (St Illtyd’s High School grounds), 910 Newport Rd, Rumney. Focolare works for unity WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors among Christians, with people of all religions. Meeting open to and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of all who are inspired by the call to unity. Separate programme the sidesmen if you are new with us. for children. £5 adults, children free. Drinks provided. Bring CONTACT NUMBERS. packed lunch. Details 01452-627253 Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. [email protected] Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 24 June Email: [email protected] at 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent, when we Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] will be discussing “The Prophets”. Everybody welcome. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets on Mon 25 Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. June at 7.30pm in St. Edward’s Schoolroom. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any COMPLINE. Next service: 28 June. person who is in hospital. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 11 July.

]!Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!Bgufs!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1620 Sunday, 17th June, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday Club. Hymns: Awake my soul and with the sun, Beauty for Brokenness, This is my body, Anthem: Domine Fili (Vivaldi), Freely freely. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Lead Me Lord (S.S.Wesley). Psalms 52, 53. Hymns: 299, Anthem: Ave Verum (Elgar), 313. Readings: Genesis 13. Mark 4, 21-41. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Osaka in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Japan) and Bishop James Toru Uno. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Gaza. We pray for the victims of the flooding around England and Wales. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil Christ Church, Canon Stephen Morgan and Rev John Parkin and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Brazil. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed.

UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz!29ui! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on Thursday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 2:ui 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES on 31ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Wednesdays, 4-5pm at Roath Church House. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Class. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY is on Sat 14 July and Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. is now fully booked. The price is £7.50, payable to 32tu 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Heather as soon as possible please. 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. MANY THANKS to everyone who has supported 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Gift Day. It is still not too late to bring your gift. Gsjebz!33oe 5.30 pm Piano Concert: pupils of Meow Chew. St Edward’s. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Focolare Day Meeting. St Illtyd’s High School. MARLBOROUGH SCHOOLS FAYRE 34se 11.00 am Marlborough Schools Fayre. at 11am on Saturday. 7.30 pm Pavane Early Music Consort. Canton Uniting Church. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (Gŵyl 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. ELIN MANHAN THOMAS, known as John Rutter's favourite soprano, will give a free 15-20 minute recital, accompanied by lute: a tranquil, contemplative, meditative period, at St Teilo’s, Woodville Road today at 12.30pm. PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT (one of the groups that rehearse at St Edward’s) present a concert on Saturday at 7.30pm at Canton Uniting Church and at The Market Theatre, Cowbridge next Sunday at 7.30pm. These concerts launch their new programme of English Renaissance music and readings entitled “If Musicke and sweet Poetrie agree…” with music by Byrd, Campion, Dowland, Gibbons, Holborne & Morley. RICHARD WILLIAMS will participate on Tuesday in the British 3 Peaks Challenge, climbing the three highest mountain peaks in Scotland, England and Wales: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon all within 24 hours! Sponsorship or any donations in aid of Ty Hafan would be most welcome. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES & CONGREGATIONS. A House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches Conference to explore the community use of church or joining the Run itself. We need loaves of sandwiches buildings on Mon 2 July, 10.30-4pm at The Gate, of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned Keppoch St. Chaired by Archbishop Barry. This first beef using white medium sliced bread and individually national conference seeks to help develop a vision of wrapped sandwiches. The sandwiches can be given to the wider use of church buildings, explore opportunities Kathie Mayer 20-495769 or left at Church House prior and advantages of greater use of church buildings in the to departure. If you are interested in coming out on the Church in Wales, and to set all of this within the wider Run – more volunteers are urgently needed – please context of church growth, links with local communities contact Kathie Mayer. and UK/WAG faith community initiatives. Cost £10 inc. lunch. Please book asap – Alan has a booking form. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets in the vestry at 4.30pm today. SAPPHIRE SINGERS CONCERT at St Edward’s on Sun 8 July at 3pm. ANTHEMS. At the Eucharist: “Domine Fili” from Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741). The Introit at Evensong TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every is “Lead Me, Lord”, from “Praise the Lord, O My Soul” by other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76), and the anthem is 11 July. the 14th century Eucharistic hymn “Ave Verum Corpus” ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT by Edward Elgar (1857-1934). on Fri 13 July at 7.30pm. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur Wood in E flat No.2. Anthem: Beati quorum via 2nd - Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions (Stanford). will be intensive rehearsals from 11-4pm, with coffee FOCOLARE DAY MEETING on Saturday, 10am-4.30pm at breaks and an hour for lunch. On the Sat we will run the Pastoral Resources Centre (St Illtyd’s High School through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a grounds), 910 Newport Rd, Rumney. Focolare works for unity concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are among Christians, with people of all religions. Meeting open to welcome to take part. Please contact Alison Dite 20- all who are inspired by the call to unity. Separate programme 400975 or email [email protected] for children. £5 adults, children free. Drinks provided. Bring packed lunch. Details 01452-627253 FOR YOUR DIARY. [email protected] Wed 20 June. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Wed 27 June. Fred Waite Memorial Concert. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at Fri 13 July. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent, when we will Wed 18 July. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. be discussing “The Prophets”. Everybody welcome. Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets on Mon 25 Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. June at 7.30pm in St. Edward’s Schoolroom. Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wed 27 June St Edward’s Committee: Sun 17 June at 4.30pm. including Telemann’s Concerto in B Flat, Schubert’s 8th PCC. Mon 25 June. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Schoolroom. Symphony and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Joint rehearsals are ROATH MINIS. A small and very friendly toddler group scheduled for Thur 14 June & Mon 25 June. meets on Tuesday in termtime (1.30-3pm) in the hall at ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP will meet on Thurs: St Anne’s School. Painting, cutting, sticking, messy 28 June and 12 July, at 7.30pm at 3 Snipe Street. play, toys, stories, songs and a snack. Please join us. COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at CARDIFF WALKING FOR HEALTH. A regular led St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- community walk every Thursday at 2pm from the Roath minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic Community Hall. The walk lasts 45 minutes. “hours”. Next service: 28 June. 365 CLUB. Buy a date for £1 and a chance to win £50!! We LEPROSY MISSION. Sat 30 June. A sponsored climb have now sold over 200 dates. How about picking an up Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons to raise money for anniversary, parents birthday, the suggestions are endless. Low Cost Housing in India. Contact Rev Martin Davies When all dates are sold a draw will take place and three prizes of £50, £10 and £5 will be paid. All proceeds to Roath Church 20-198720. Email: [email protected] House. Please see Lindsey Warren or Gill Armitage. CHARITY SKITTLE MATCH on Sat 30 June at County WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Hall Skittle Alley in aid of “Bullies Out”. Come along and and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of have a evening out and help raise money for this worthy the sidesmen if you are new with us. charity. Tickets £5 from Tricia Osman ( Parish Office). CONTACT NUMBERS. RESIDENTIAL RETREAT 1-6 July at Holland House, Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Worcestershire with Jenny Joice & Nicholas Colloff: Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. “Rediscovering Church as a Community of Equals”. Email: [email protected] Cost: £275. Further information: [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Sat 7 July, CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable 10.30am-3.30pm. Rev Chris Coles: ‘Art and Prayer – a Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. hands on workshop’ at Ty Teilo, . Cost £10. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Places at Ty Teilo are limited, and events may change person who is in hospital. so please check before coming 01656-890205.

]!Uif!Obujwjuz!pg!Tu!Kpio!uif!Cbqujtu Weekly Newsletter No.1621 Sunday, 24th June, 2007 “ His Name is John” 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday Club. Hymns: On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry, Here I Am Lord, Purify My Heart, Anthem: Hark the Glad Sound (Walford Davies), Make Way. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Preacher: Mr Brian Shapcott. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Behold God Hath Sent Elijah the Prophet (Mendelssohn). Psalms 80, 82. Hymns: 51(S), Anthem: This is the Record of John (Gibbons), 196. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Malachi 4. Matthew 11, 2-19. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Oyo in the Province of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Bishop Jacob Fasipe. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We pray for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Canton, Rev Mark Preece, Rev Martin Colton and Rev Christopher Cole. In the Ecumenical Cycle we pray for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. We pray for those being ordained at Llandaff this week. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Peter Stanton (flautist in St Edward’s Orchestra) who died recently; also Fred Waite and Elizabeth Mary Osbourne, whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Mon, Thurs and Fri at 6pm this week. All welcome. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 36ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. 7.30 pm Parochial Church Council. Schoolroom. PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets on Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. Monday at 7.30pm in St Edward’s Schoolroom. 37ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF 38ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. HEALING at the Cathedral (St Dyfrig 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Chapel) on Wed at 7.30pm. 1.30 pm Chapter Meeting. Room 2, Roath Church House. ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP this 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Class. Roath Church House. Thursday, and on Thur 12 July at 7.30 pm Fred Waite Memorial Concert. 7.30pm at 3 Snipe Street. 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 39ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! COMPLINE will be sung on Thursday of this week at 9pm. 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. CHARITY SKITTLES MATCH on Saturday, 7.30 pm Adult Confirmation Group. 3 Snipe Street. 7.30pm at County Hall Skittle Alley in aid of 9.00 pm COMPLINE. “Bullies Out”. Come along and have a evening out and help raise money for this worthy Gsjebz St Peter the Apostle charity. Tickets £5 from Tricia Osman. 3:ui 11.00 am Solemn Capitular Eucharist. Cathedral. 4.00 pm Big Fair Trade Picnic. Roath Park Pleasure Gardens. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CONGRATULATIONS to Ed Doe on being Tbuvsebz 9.30 am Roath Church House Gardening. selected for Cardiff Blues Rugby Trial. 4pui 10.00 am Choral Eucharist with Ordination. Cathedral. 7.30 pm Charity Skittles Match. County Hall. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fifth Sunday of Pentecost. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. 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: 1 Kings 19: 15-16, 19-21; Galatians 5: 1, 13-25; Luke 9: 51-62. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] FRED WAITE MEMORIAL CONCERT on Wednesday at 7.30pm, including Telemann’s Concerto in B Flat, Schubert’s 8th Symphony and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Joint rehearsal on Monday. TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES & CONGREGATIONS conference is fully booked. RACHMANINOV’S VESPERS will be performed by BBC National Chorus of Wales on Saturday at 8pm at St Peter’s Church. Tickets £6 (conc. £5) 0800-0521812. NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH VOLUNTEER MEETING to recruit volunteers for Neighbourhood Watch schemes in Penylan at 7pm on Mon 9 July, in St Edward’s Schoolroom. Volunteers urgently needed: hardly any of The reredos that may come to St Edward’s. Please take a your time is needed, but your support will help your area look at the photographs and information in the porch. to be a safer & better place to live. Contact Community ANTHEMS. At the Eucharist: “Hark the Glad Sound” by Police Support Laura Moore 20-527445. Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941). The Introit at CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY is on Sat 14 July and is now fully Evensong is “Behold God hath sent Elijah the Prophet”, booked. The price is £7.50, payable to Heather please. from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809- LADIES CIRCLE GARDEN PARTY at Roath Church 47), and the anthem is the verse anthem “This is the House on Sat 14 July, 11am-3pm. Admission £1. Record of John” by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). Proceeds to Childline and the Princess Royal Trust for MUSIC FOR A MIDSUMMER’S AFTERNOON with Cardiff Carers. The Ladies would be grateful for help and Polyphonic Choir, inc. the setting of 4 Welsh folk songs written support from church members – items for the stalls: for the choir by William Mathias, Vaughan Williams’ “Three bottles, plants, white elephant, jewellery etc (see lists at Shakespeare Songs” and Rutter’s arrangements of spirituals. church) and help to set up marquees, gazebos and At Temple of Peace, Cathays Park, today at 3pm. tables from 8.15am Sat morning. Contact Gill Day for CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: further information. Leighton’s Magdalen College Oxon. Anthem: This is the PARISH CHARITY BARBECUE in aid of Bullies Out at Record of John (Gibbons). 1pm on Sun 15 July at Roath Church House. Bring your PAVANE EARLY MUSIC CONSORT present a concert own food, liquid refreshment/glasses and something to at The Market Theatre, Cowbridge today at 7.30pm. sit on. Tickets £1 per person to include salads and rolls. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm Contact Sue Mowbray/Sue Gaskell/Tricia Osman. at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent, when we will be HEREFORD CATHEDRAL is holding a flower festival discussing “The Prophets”. Everybody welcome. entitled “From darkness into light” 6-8 Sept. If anyone is "BIG FAIR TRADE PICNIC" with Cardiff Oxfam Group on interested in a coach trip to visit the festival on Sat 8 Friday 4pm-5.30pm in Roath Park Pleasure Gardens. Basic Sept 12pm- 6.30pm (cost approx £20) please enter your fair trade food and drink provided: you are invited to bring your name on the list in St Margaret’s Porch. own donations. Proceeds to the Fair Trade Convention. Raffle. FOR YOUR DIARY. Picnic near the stone bridge, across the river from the bowling Sun 8 July. 3pm. Sapphire Singers Concert. pavilion. Information from [email protected] Wed 11 July. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. EWENNY ARTS FESTIVAL “Festival of Youth” at Ewenny Fri 13 July. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. Priory Church. An evening with Youth Music: “Harps! Wed 18 July. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Harps! Harps!”, “Strings Plus” and the Jazz Orchestra on Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. Friday at 7pm. Tickets £5 01656-653020. Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE GARDENING. It was too St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. wet last Saturday. We have arranged another gardening THE CONCERT on Friday raised £60 for NSPCC, session for this Saturday (30 June) 9.30am-12pm. Tree thanks to the efforts of Meow Chew and her pupils. & shrub pruning, weeding, tidying up (no digging 365 CLUB. All dates have been sold! Draw after today’s required). Please bring necessary tools – tea/coffee Eucharist at St Margaret’s. Prize winners will be listed provided. If weather looks “dodgy” on Sat morning, in next week’s newsletter. Thank you all for supporting please ring Gill Day 20-495496 or Brian Shapcott Roath Church House. 20-736455 9am-9.15am to check arrangements. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and LEPROSY MISSION. Saturday: A sponsored climb up newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons to raise money for sidesmen if you are new with us. Low Cost Housing in India. Contact Rev Martin Davies CONTACT NUMBERS. 20-198720. Email: [email protected] Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. EWENNY ARTS FESTIVAL “Magical Music” featuring Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. local young talent at Ewenny Priory Church on Saturday Email: [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] at 7pm. Tickets £5 01656-653020. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. CONGRATULATIONS to Richard Williams, who Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. successfully completed the British 3 Peaks Challenge in Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person 23 hours and 45 minutes. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gjgui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1622 Sunday, 1st July, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Holy Baptism & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 371, The Servant King, 425, Anthem: Lift Thine Eyes (Mendelssohn), Give Me Oil in My Lamp. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Mr Brian Shapcott. Introit: Locus Iste. Psalm 59, vv 1-5 & 16-17, Psalm 60. Hymns: 44, Anthem: Saviour Thy Children Keep (Sullivan), I Give You All the Honour. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Genesis 27, 1-40. Mark 6, 1-6. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church of Canada and Primate Andrew Sandford Hutchinson. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family and for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. We pray for all who are suffering as a result of the floods throughout the country. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , Rev Robert Capper, Rev Melanie Priest and Rev Rosemary Aldis and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Bolivia, Chile and Peru. We pray for those who were ordained at Llandaff Cathedral yesterday. We pray for Grace Emily Cole, to be baptised at our Eucharist this morning. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli, Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 3oe 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Monday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION GROUP. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. There is no group meeting this week. 4se 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. SAPPHIRE SINGERS CONCERT at Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. the Tesco Stage (Wales Millennium 5ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Centre) on Wednesday at 6.15pm, and 6.15 pm Sapphire Singers Concert. Tesco Stage. at St Edward’s next Sunday at 3pm. 7.30 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal (in church). Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. RICHARD WILLIAMS writes: I would like to thank everybody 6ui 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. for their support in sponsorship for the Three Peaks 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. challenge. I raised over £400 for Ty Hafan including a generous £85 from St Edwards. Thank you very much. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7ui 7.30 pm Sapphire Singers Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE is closed from Thur 5 to Tue 10 July. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Festival of Creativity. Park End Church. 8ui 10.30 am Art and Prayer. Ty Teilo, Llandow. 7.00 pm Support for Romania Concert. Ararat Baptist Church. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Sixth Sunday of Pentecost, and is celebrated as Sea Sunday (with the Blessing of the Sea and an Ecumenical Service at Lightship 2000 at 3pm). The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, the Sapphire Singers Concert is at 3pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 66: 10-14; Galatians 6: 1-16; Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20. 365 CLUB WINNERS: 1st Rev Sue Rees (30 June), 2nd Jeff Hall (23 Apr), 3rd Linda Evans (6 Nov). Thank you to everybody who supported us. £300 was raised for Roath Church House. WEST SIDE STORY at St Illtyd’s High School Hall. Wed-Fri this week at 7.30pm. Tickets £6, (conc. £4) from the school office 20-778174. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Saturday, 10.30am-3.30pm. Rev Chris Coles: ‘Art and Prayer – a hands on workshop’ at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Cost £10. Places at Ty Teilo are limited, and events may change so please check before coming 01656-890205. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PARADISE RUN. A big thank you to everyone who CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY Sat 14 July. A few places provides sandwiches, clothing, blankets and sweets. have become available this week. Price £7.50. Please The dates of our commitment are below, so please feel have a word with Heather if you would like to come. free to join us or make a loaf of sandwiches. Plain ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP meets on Thur 12 cheese, tuna, ham or corned beef in a medium white July at 7.30pm at 3 Snipe Street. sliced loaf, put in a sandwich bag and the whole lot goes THE BIG EVENT at Llandaff Cathedral on Sat 14 July back into the bread bag (and marked what it contains), 10am-2pm. Organised by Diocese of Llandaff Children’s then drop off at Roath Church House for Tricia or to Committee. An all age event – bring a packed lunch. Kathie at 8 Newminster Road or ring 20-495769. Details from Rev Pauline Williams, 01443-740207. Twenty eight pairs of warm socks were given out last month, thanks to the donations the team received. List LADIES CIRCLE GARDEN PARTY at Roath Church of dates for Roath Paradise Run (7.30pm at Roath House on Sat 14 July, 11am-3pm. Lunches, white Church House, depart 7.50pm for town, return 9pm to elephant, cakes, jewellery, plants, books, games, clear up. 18 July, 15 Aug, 12 Sept, 10 Oct, 7 Nov, 5 raffles. Admission £1. Proceeds to Childline and the Dec. Princess Royal Trust for Carers. PARISH CHARITY BARBECUE in aid of Bullies Out at 1pm COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist this on Sun 15 July at Roath Church House. Bring your own food, morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take place. liquid refreshment/glasses and something to sit on. Tickets £1 Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. per person to include salads and rolls. Soft drinks and ices will ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the trio “Lift Thine be available at reasonable prices. There will be some stalls Eyes” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809- and a raffle. Contact Sue Mowbray/Sue Gaskell/Tricia Osman. 47). The Introit at Evensong is the gradual “Locus Iste” by Anton Joseph Bruckner (1824-96), and the anthem is ST ANNE’S BREAKFAST: a full English Breakfast will “Saviour, Thy Children Keep” by Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). be served 10am-12pm on Sat 21 July St Anne’s Hall. Cost £4 per person. WELSH CAMERATA, a small choir specialising in early music, performs a selection of French and English madrigals today at ST ANNE’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL EUCHARIST at 3pm in Plasturton Gardens, (if wet, the event will 7pm on Sat 28 July. Preacher: Rev David Treharne. move to St Mary’s Church Hall, King’s Road, Pontcanna). Refreshments available – all are welcome. Entrance free, donations welcome. Strawberries and cream on HEREFORD CATHEDRAL is holding a flower festival entitled sale. All profits from this event will go to Cancer Research. “From darkness into light” 6-8 Sept. If anyone is interested in FESTIVAL OF CREATIVITY at Park End Church on a coach trip to visit the festival on Sat 8 Sept 12pm- 6.30pm Saturday, 10am-4pm. Photography, painting, flower (cost approx £20) please enter your name on the list in St arranging, embroidery, Tradecraft… Admission free. Margaret’s Porch. The £20 includes coach hire, entrance fee Donations to Sierra Leone appeal. into the flower festival (£7.50) and also the Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibitions. Choral Evensong will be sung at CAMBRENSIS CONCERT BAND AND CAMBRATS 5.30pm after which we will journey home. The list will remain (Children's Choir) in conjunction with “Support for until 21 July: we will then make a decision as to whether there Romania” in aid of Emanuel Hospice, Oradea, Romania are enough names to make it a viable proposition. at Ararat Baptist Church, Whitchurch on Sat 7 July at ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. 7pm. Admission Free; retiring collection. Events booked so far include: PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. at Mal & Steve’s, 56 Colchester Ave, continuing with the Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance discussion on “The Prophets”. Everybody welcome. Each talk of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). stands on its own; no need to come every time. Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of CATHAYS CEMETERY HERITAGE WALK at 2pm next Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. Sunday. Meet at the main cemetery entrance in Fairoak Road. Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music Concert. Discover the history of one of the largest Victorian Cemeteries in Britain. Easy walk about one and half hours. FOR YOUR DIARY. SEA SUNDAY. Blessing of the Sea and Ecumenical Sun 8 July. 3pm. Sapphire Singers Concert. Service at Lightship 2000 next Sunday at 3pm. Wed 11 July. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. Fri 13 July. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. e-EUCHARIST at St Martin’s Church next Sunday at Wed 18 July. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. 6pm. Celebrant: Bishop David Thomas. 20-499876. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. email: [email protected]. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH VOLUNTEER MEETING newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the to recruit volunteers for Neighbourhood Watch schemes sidesmen if you are new with us. in Penylan at 7pm on Mon 9 July, in St Edward’s CONTACT NUMBERS. Schoolroom. Volunteers urgently needed: hardly any of Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. your time is needed, but your support will help your area Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. to be a safer & better place to live. Contact Community Email: [email protected] Police Support Officer Laura Moore 20-527445. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] ST MARGARET’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL: Eucharist CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. at 7.30pm on Fri 13 July. Preacher: Rev Canon Graham Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person Holcombe. The service is followed by refreshments in who is in hospital. church. All are welcome.

]!Uif!Tjyui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1623 Sunday, 8th July, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 149(MP), 61(MP), 197(MP), Anthem: All Things Bright and Beautiful (Rutter), 201(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward. 3.00 pm Sapphire Singers Concert. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O Saviour of the World (Wills). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 65, 70. Hymns: 226, Anthem: Thou Visitest the Earth (Greene), 267. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Genesis 29, 1-20. Mark 6, 7-29. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia, and Primate William Brown Turei. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, giving thanks for the safe release of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. We pray for missing toddler Madeleine McCann and her family. We remember the victims of the terrorist attack in July 2005, and pray for all who work to keep our cities and airports safe. We pray for those who are suffering as a result of the floods across the country. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llanishen and Rev Michael Whitcombe and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday this week. :ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.00 pm Neighbourhood Watch Volunteer Meeting. Schoolroom. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. Thursday and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 21ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Xfeoftebz JUNIOR CONFIRMATION GROUP on 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 22ui Wednesdays, 4-5pm at Roath Church House. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Church House. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Edward’s on Wed of 7.30 pm TAIZÉ SERVICE. this week at 7.30pm. Next service: 8 Aug. ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP meets on Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Thursday at 7.30pm at 3 Snipe Street. 23ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. ST MARGARET’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL: 7.00 pm PACT Meeting. Albany Rd Baptist Church Hall. Eucharist at 7.30pm on Friday. Preacher: 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Rev Canon Graham Holcombe. The service 7.30 pm Adult Confirmation Group. 3 Snipe St. is followed by refreshments in church. All 8.00 pm City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra. Cathedral. are welcome. CHOIR OUTING TO TENBY is on Saturday. Gsjebz 1.00 pm Adult Education Pupils Concert. Meet at Park End Church (Rhydypenau 24ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Cross Roads) at 8.30am. A few places are 7.00 pm Christian Aid Evening. Beulah URC. still available, price £7.50. Contact Heather 7.30 pm ST MARGARET’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL. 20-214063 if you are interested. 7.30 pm Orchestra Soloists Concert. St Edward’s. OUR THANKS to Gary Mullins for Tbuvsebz 8.30 am Choir Outing to Tenby leaves Park End Church. deputising on the organ and piano in 25ui 10.00 am The Big Event. Llandaff Cathedral. Norman’s absence today. 10.00 am Day Retreat. St Michael’s College. 11.00 am Ladies Circle Garden Party. Roath Church House. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Seventh 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: Deuteronomy 30: 9-14; Colossians 1: 1-14; Luke 10: 25-37. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] SAPPHIRE SINGERS CHARITY CONCERT at 3pm LADIES CIRCLE GARDEN PARTY at Roath Church today at St Edward’s: “It’s All Latin to Me”. Including House on Saturday, 11am-3pm. Lunches, white Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, “A Little Jazz Mass” by Bob elephant, cakes, jewellery, plants, books, games, Chilcott, and new works by Ruth Bradshaw and Iolo raffles. Admission £1. Proceeds to Childline and the Jones. Tickets £6 (conc. £4). Proceeds to LATCH. Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The Ladies would be grateful for help and support from church members – ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “All Things items for the stalls: bottles, plants, white elephant, Bright and Beautiful” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit jewellery etc (see lists at church) and help to set up at Evensong is the Collect for the Visitation of the Sick marquees, gazebos and tables from 8.15am Saturday “O Saviour of the World” by Arthur Wills (b.1926), and morning. Contact Gill Day for further information. the anthem is “Thou Visitest the Earth” by Maurice Greene (1695-1755). PARISH CHARITY BARBECUE in aid of Bullies Out at 1pm next Sunday at Roath Church House. Bring your CATHAYS CEMETERY HERITAGE WALK at 2pm today. Meet at the main cemetery entrance in Fairoak Road. own food, liquid refreshment/glasses and something to Discover the history of one of the largest Victorian Cemeteries sit on. Tickets £1 per person to include salads and rolls. in Britain. Easy walk about one and half hours. Soft drinks and ices will be available at reasonable SEA SUNDAY. Blessing of the Sea and Ecumenical prices. There will be some stalls and a raffle. Contact Service at Lightship 2000 today at 3pm. Also, Holy Sue Mowbray/Sue Gaskell/Tricia Osman. Eucharist is celebrated aboard Lightship 2000 every ST ANNE’S BREAKFAST: a full English Breakfast will Wednesday at 1.15pm. Everyone is welcome. be served 10am-12pm on Sat 21 July St Anne’s Hall. e-EUCHARIST at St Martin’s Church today at 6pm. Cost £4 per person. Celebrant: Bishop David Thomas. 20-499876. email: ST ANNE’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL EUCHARIST at [email protected]. 7pm on Sat 28 July. Preacher: Rev David Treharne. DEVOTIONAL IONA SERVICE with Elliott King and Liz Haigh Refreshments available – all are welcome. at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Rd, today at 7.30pm. COMPLINE. Next service: 2 Aug. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT is on Fri at Mal & Steve’s, 56 Colchester Ave, continuing with the 24 Aug at 7.30pm. discussion on “The Prophets”. All welcome. Each talk SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s on Sun 26 Aug at stands on its own; no need to come every time. 6pm – part of the Waterloo Festival. NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH VOLUNTEER MEETING THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney to recruit volunteers for Neighbourhood Watch schemes Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large in Penylan at 7pm on Monday, in St Edward’s tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book Schoolroom. Volunteers urgently needed: hardly any of by 31 Aug. your time is needed, but your support will help your area to be a safer & better place to live. Contact Community FOR YOUR DIARY. Police Support Officer Laura Moore 20-527445. Wed 18 July. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Fri 24 Aug. 7.30pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITIES TOGETHER. The Sun 26 Aug. 6pm. Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. PACT meetings give local people the opportunity to Sat 8 Sept. 2-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. identify issues they would like the police and partners to Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. address. Next Penylan meeting is at Albany Rd Baptist Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. Church Hall on Thursday at 7pm. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. CITY OF CARDIFF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA give a LEPROSY MISSION VACANCY. Rev Martin Davies is concert at Llandaff Cathedral on Thursday at 8pm, inc. taking up an Area Coordinator post in London & Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”, Sibelius and the Leprosy Mission is seeking a new Area Co- “Symphonic Fantasia” & Krommer’s Concerto for Oboe ordinator for Wales. An information pack is available & Orchestra in F. Tickets £8 (conc. £5) at the door. from www.leprosymission.org.uk CHRISTIAN AID EVENING with Martin John Nicholls - PETERTIDE ORDINATIONS. Over 500 men and singer, songwriter, storyteller - in Harvest of Hope. At women were ordained in the Church of England Beulah URC, Beulah Road, on Friday at 7pm. A taste of and the Church in Wales this Petertide; the highest West Africa: Delicious meal, good company, beautiful number since 2000. songs, inspiring stories, powerful images reflecting the struggles and hope of Christian Aid partners in Senegal. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Admission £6 (conc. £4) available from Christian Aid and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Office 20-844646. the sidesmen if you are new with us. THE BIG EVENT at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday CONTACT NUMBERS. 10am-2pm. Organised by Diocese of Llandaff Children’s Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Committee. An all age event – bring a packed lunch. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Details from Rev Pauline Williams, 01443-740207. Email: [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] DAY RETREAT (10am-4pm) at St Michael’s College on Saturday entitled “The Spirituality of Ordinary Things” led by CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Sue Brown and Mike Lewis. Cost £5 including a simple lunch. Monday. Email [email protected] or 20-464371. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tfwfoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1624 Sunday, 15th July, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 223, 208, Taizé: Ubi Caritas, Anthem: Call to Remembrance (Farrant), 248(MP). Taizé: Ubi caritas et amor, ubi caritas Deus ibi est. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. PARISH CHARITY BARBECUE planned for this afternoon has been cancelled due to the weather. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Cast Thy Burden (Mendelssohn). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 77. Hymns: 318, Anthem: If Ye Love Me (Simper), 343. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Genesis 32, 9-30. Mark 7, 1-23. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, Prime Bishop Ignacio Capuyan Soliba, and National Evangelism Officer Rt Rev Miguel Paredes Yamoyam. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Glan Ely and Rev Jan Gould and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Muriel Alice Munday, Annette Osman and Frederick Frank Loder, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 27ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Church House. Monday and Thursday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra. Llandaff Cathedral. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. CONCERT at the Cathedral on Monday at 7.30pm by Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra. 28ui 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE will close on Wednesday Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. at 11.30am. 29ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION GROUP on 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Church House. Wednesdays, 4-5pm at Church House. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. DAY RETREAT at Llangasty Retreat House on Friday, 10am-4pm. Subject: Mary Magdalene. Led by Ruth Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Moverly. Cost £14. Booking essential. 2:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! 6.30 pm Junior Choir Practice. ST ANNE’S BREAKFAST: a full English Breakfast will be served 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. 10am-12pm on Saturday St Anne’s Hall. Cost £4 per person. Gsjebz 10.00 am Day Retreat. Llangasty Retreat House. 31ui 7.30 pm Robin & Bina Williamson in Concert. St John’s, Canton. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Full English Breakfast. St Anne’s. 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. ST AUGUSTINE’S PENARTH concert this evening at 8pm: International organ virtuoso Thomas Trotter joins Cantemus Chamber Choir Wales for a magnificent evening of Choral and Organ music by Elgar, Parry, Stanford and including choral masterpieces by lesser known composers of their generation. £10 (conc. £8). THE VATICAN issued a document this week, which describes Protestant Churches as only “ecclesial communities”, and not real Churches. In a text approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reiterates the line it set out in Dominus Iesus in 2000, when it was headed by Benedict, then Cardinal Ratzinger. The response from Lambeth Palace was guarded: “This is a serious document … of significance to the Churches’ commitment to the full, visible unity to the one Church of Jesus Christ.” Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST ANNE’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL EUCHARIST at 7pm on Sat 28 July. Preacher: Rev David Treharne. Refreshments available – all are welcome. COMPLINE. Next service: 2 Aug. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 8 Aug. RESIDENTIAL RETREAT at Llangasty, 10-12 Aug. “St Clare of Assisi, Beacon of Hope” led by Rev George and Rev Mary Bolt. Come and join two Franciscan Third Order Tertiaries and discover the spirituality and joy of St. Francis and Clare as you investigate the alleys and pathways of Assisi. At almost every step you will encounter a new spirit of joy, simplicity and peace and hopefully be nourished and renewed as we enter into the life and time of these two unique Saints. Cost: £105.00. Booking essential.

The Sapphire Singers sang to a packed St Edward’s ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT is on Fri (every seat taken) last Sunday, raising money for LATCH. 24 Aug at 7.30pm. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the motet SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s on Sun 26 Aug at “Call to Remembrance” by Richard Farrant (d.1581). 6pm – part of the Waterloo Festival. The Introit at Evensong is “Cast Thy Burden Upon the HEREFORD CATHEDRAL is holding a flower festival entitled Lord” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn “From darkness into light” 6-8 Sept. If anyone is interested in (1809-47), and the anthem is “If Ye Love Me” by Caleb a coach trip to visit the festival on Sat 8 Sept 12pm- 6.30pm Simper (1857-1942). (cost approx £20) please enter your name on the list in St Margaret’s Porch. The £20 includes coach hire, entrance fee CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: into the flower festival (£7.50) and also the Mappa Mundi and Dyson in D. Anthem: I Was Glad (Parry). Chained Library exhibitions. Choral Evensong will be sung at PARADISE RUN this Wednesday leaves Roath Church 5.30pm after which we will journey home. The list will remain House at 7.45pm. A big thank you to everyone who until Friday: we will then make a decision as to whether there are enough names to make it a viable proposition. provides sandwiches, clothing, blankets and sweets. Please feel free to join us or make a loaf of sandwiches. ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY. This was planned for 8 Sept, Plain cheese, tuna, ham or corned beef in a medium but will now probably be put back. A new date will be white sliced loaf, put in a sandwich bag and the whole announced shortly. lot goes back into the bread bag (and marked what it THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney contains), then drop off at Roath Church House for Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large Tricia or to Kathie at 8 Newminster Road or ring 20- tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book 495769. 28 pairs of warm socks were given out last by 31 Aug. month, thanks to the donations the team received. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. CLASS ACT YOUTH THEATRE GROUP ‘ACT 2’ hold Events booked so far include: auditions for their forthcoming production of Little Shop Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. of Horrors at St Peter’s Scout Hall on Thursday from Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance 7.30pm. Auditions are open to youngsters 15-21 years. of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). Details from Steve Woods 20-259201. Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of ROBIN & BINA WILLIAMSON give a concert at St John’s, Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. Canton on Friday at 7.30pm. Admission £10 (conc. £6). Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music Concert. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at FOR YOUR DIARY. 7.45pm at Mal & Steve’s, 56 Colchester Ave, continuing Wed 18 July. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. the discussion on “The Prophets”. All welcome. Each Fri 24 Aug. 7.30pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert talk stands on its own; no need to come every time. Sun 26 Aug. 2pm. Waterloo Festival. Waterloo Gardens COUNCILLOR SURGERY is on Fri 27 July, 6pm-7pm Sun 26 Aug. 6pm. Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. at St Edward’s School Room. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR OF WALES give a concert St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. including Fauré’s Requiem at St Peter’s at 7.30pm on Fri 27 July. Conductor Islwyn Evans. Tickets £7, (conc. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors £5; family £20) from Rowlands Music 20-221199. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. CANTREF WALK TO WORSHIP. A special service to celebrate the life of the Brecon Beacons will take place CONTACT NUMBERS. at the top of Pen-y-Fan on Sat 28 July at 12.30pm, led Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. by the Ven. , . Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. This service will celebrate the life and work of the hill Email: [email protected] farmers, the Army, Mountain Rescue, the National Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Park’s 50th birthday this year, the National Trust and all CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable the many visitors who love this beautiful and challenging Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. place. Details from Susan Brook 01874-610010 email Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any [email protected] person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gfbtu!pg!Tu!Nbsz!Nbhebmfof Weekly Newsletter No.1625 Sunday, 22nd July, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 86(MP), 282(MP), 124(MP), Anthem, As the deer pants. Anthem: They have taken away my Lord (Stainer). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: He Is Not Here (Peace). Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Psalm 63. Hymns: 556, Anthem: Magdalen Cease from sobs and sighs, 141. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Zephaniah 3, 14-20. Mark 15,40 - 16,7. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Raiwind in the United Church of Pakistan, and Bishop Samuel Azariah, remembering also those who died this week in the storms and landslides in the north of the country. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for the young Christians from South Korea captured on Thursday and held hostage in Afghanistan. We pray for the victims of the plane crash in Brazil, and those who are suffering as a result of the flooding across the country. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of and Rev John Payne and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Olive Boswell and Albert Edward Williams whose funerals are on Wednesday, also Alice Susan Lyon Riddett and John Satchel, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 34se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz!35ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH OFFICE will only be open Thursday Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. and Friday of this coming week. 36ui 10.30 am Funeral of Albert Edward Williams. St Margaret’s. HOLY EUCHARIST with ministry of 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. healing at the Cathedral (St Dyfrig 2.45 pm Funeral of Olive Boswell. Thornhill Crematorium. Chapel) on Wednesday at 7.30pm. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. COUNCILLOR SURGERY is on Friday, 6pm-7pm at St 37ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. ! Edward’s School Room. The next Councillor Surgery is 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. in Marlborough Junior School at 6pm on Fri 28 Sept. ST ANNE’S PATRONAL FESTIVAL 6.00 pm Councillor Surgery. St Edward’s Schoolroom. Gsjebz Eucharist at 7pm on Saturday. Preacher: 38ui 7.30 pm National Youth Choir of Wales. St Peter’s. Rev David Treharne. Refreshments Tbuvsebz 12.30 pm Brecon Beacons Service. Pen-y-Fan. available – all are welcome. 39ui 7.00 pm Patronal Festival Eucharist. St Anne’s. 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. Eucharist readings: Genesis 18: 20-32; Colossians 2: 6-15; Luke 11: 1-13. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm at Mal & Steve’s, 56 Colchester Ave, continuing the discussion on “The Prophets”. All welcome. Each talk stands on its own; no need to come every time. NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR OF WALES concert inc. Fauré’s Requiem at St Peter’s at 7.30pm on Friday. Conductor Islwyn Evans. Tickets £7, (conc. £5; family £20) from Rowlands Music 20-221199 & on the door. CANTREF WALK TO WORSHIP. A special service to celebrate the life of the Brecon Beacons will take place at the top of Pen-y-Fan on Saturday at 12.30pm, led by the Ven. Randolph Thomas, Archdeacon of Brecon. This service will celebrate the life and work of the hill farmers, the Army, Mountain Rescue, the National Park’s 50th birthday this year, the National Trust and all the many visitors who love this beautiful and challenging place. Details from Susan Brook 01874-610010 email [email protected] Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] STRING ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St Edward’s Thur 2nd - Sat 4th Aug. The Thursday and Friday Sessions will be intensive rehearsals from 11- 4pm (lunch 1-2pm). On the Saturday we will run through rehearsed material from 2.30pm to give a concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque string works. All are welcome to take part. Cost is £10 (cheques to St Edward’s Church). Please contact Alison Dite 20-400975 or email [email protected] ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT is on Fri 24 Aug at 7.30pm. SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s on Sun 26 Aug at

Outing to Tenby with Park End Church: we had good 6pm – part of the Waterloo Festival. weather & a warm welcome from our friends at Park End. CHRISTIAN AID “CUT THE CARBON” MARCH on Sat ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “They Have 8 Sept. Meet on the Taff Trail at 2.30pm to walk to the Taken Away My Lord” by John Stainer (1840-1901). The rally in Cooper's Field (subject to licence). 20-844646 Introit at Evensong is “He is Not Here” from the cantata for more details. Register online: “Darkness and Dawn” by Fred W. Peace, and the http://www.pressureworks.org/signup/140607_rally.html anthem is the Easter carol “Magdalen Cease from Sobs THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney and Sighs” (melody of "Nicht ruhen Magdalena Kundt", Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large Cologne, 1623; words from "Pone luctum, Magdalena". tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung by 31 Aug. Evensong at 3.30pm: Wood in G. Anthem: Lord, I trust thee (Handel). Visiting Choir: Lisvane Parish Church. ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY has been postponed to Sat 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. DISCUSSION: “Faith & Occupational Therapy” led by Liz Haigh at St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Rd, today at 7.30pm. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. Events booked so far include: CHOIR PHOTOGRAPH. We are planning to have a Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. new photograph taken after the Eucharist next Sunday. Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance WMC CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES. of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of Sherpa-led workshops: Mon 30 July – Fri 3 Aug. Create Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. a comic book hero or discover through drama. Different Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Concert. workshops in craft, drama, music and storytelling each Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. day 10.30am. – 12.30pm. Age 4-7. £3 per child. Joseph art & craft: 6-10 Aug. Making set, props and FOR YOUR DIARY. costume for Joseph in a Jiffy the following week. Each 2-4 Aug. Orchestra Course. day 10.30am – 12.30pm Age 7-14 yrs. £3 per child. A Thur 2 Aug. 9pm. Compline. free ticket for every participant for the film showing of Sat 4 Aug. 5pm. Orchestral Concert. Joseph on Sat 18 at 2pm if accompanied by a full Wed 8 Aug. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. paying adult (£13.50). 08700-402000. Wed 15 Aug. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Fri 24 Aug. 7.30pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA give Sun 26 Aug. 2pm. Waterloo Festival. Waterloo Gardens a concert at Llandaff Cathedral on Thur 2 Aug at 8pm. Sun 26 Aug. 6pm. Songs of Praise. St Margaret’s. COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. “hours”. Next service: 2 Aug. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. RODOLFO BENUCCI accompanied by Dorothy Singh ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT presents a mixed program of Violin solo and Violin with last week raised £36.17 for church funds. Piano including Vitali Chaconne and Tartini Devil's Trill WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors at Ewenny Priory Church on Fri 3 Aug at 7.30pm. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Tickets £7.50 & £5 01656-653020. the sidesmen if you are new with us. TRANSFIGURATION EUCHARIST at Llangasty CONTACT NUMBERS. Retreat House on Mon 6 Aug at 12 noon. Celebrant: Fr Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Martin Williams, Chairman of the House Trustees. All Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. welcome. Email: [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Next service: 8 Aug. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Ojoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1626 Sunday, 29th July, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 293, Jesus is the Name we honour, Anthems, What a friend we have in Jesus. Anthems: Panis Angelicus (Franck), The Lord’s Prayer (Doe). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Verily, Verily (Tallis). Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Psalm 88. Hymns: 296, Anthem: The Day is Past and Over (Marks), 210. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Genesis 42, 1-25. 1 Corinthians 10, 1-24. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Rhode Island (Province I of ECUSA) and Bishop Geralyn Wolf. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for the South Korean aid workers held hostage in Afghanistan, whose leader was killed by the Taleban this week. We pray for all who are suffering as a result of the floods across the country. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Penarth & Llandough, Canon Robert Donkin and Rev David Sheen and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the Church in the Caribbean. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Sarah Eunice Price and Phyllis Smith, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 41ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Monday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the 42tu 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. last Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. NO 9AM SERVICE IN ST ANNE’S on Thursday. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC 2tu!Bvhvtu 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. ORCHESTRA give a concert at 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Roath Church House. Llandaff Cathedral, Thursday at 8pm. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal in church. Uivstebz 11.00 am Orchestra Summer Course. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Thursday of 3oe 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. this week at 9pm. Compline is a 15-minute service of 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. plainchant - the last of the monastic “hours”. 8.00 pm Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra. Llandaff Cathedral. 9.00 pm COMPLINE. RODOLFO BENUCCI accompanied by Gsjebz 11.00 am Orchestra Summer Course. Dorothy Singh presents a mixed program of 4se 7.30 pm Rodolpho Benucci. Ewenny Priory Church. Violin solo and Violin with Piano including Vitali Chaconne and Tartini Devil's Trill at Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Orchestra Summer Course. Ewenny Priory Church on Friday at 7.30pm. 5ui 5.00 pm Orchestral Concert. Tickets £7.50 & £5 01656-653020. 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: Ecclesiastes 1: 2, 12-14; 2: 18-23; Colossians 3: 1-11; Luke 12: 13-21. ANTHEMS. The anthems at the Eucharist are “Panis Angelicus” by César Franck (1822-90) and a setting of The Lord’s Prayer by Norman Doe. The Introit at Evensong is “Verily, verily” by Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), and the anthem is “The Day is Past and Over” by J.Christopher Marks, Jun. CHOIR PHOTOGRAPH. We are planning to have a new photograph taken after the Eucharist today. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm. Introit: “Prayer of Henry VI” (Ley). Anthem: Ex ore innocentium (Ireland). Visiting Choir: St Mary, Abergavenny. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: 8 Aug. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] STRING ORCHESTRA SUMMER COURSE at St THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney Edward’s Thursday-Saturday this week. The Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large Thursday and Friday Sessions will be intensive tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book rehearsals from 11-4pm (lunch 1-2pm). On the by 31 Aug. Saturday we will run through rehearsed material from DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Sat 15 Sept, 2.30pm to give a concert at 5pm. Mainly Baroque 10.30am-2.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Archbishop string works. All are welcome to take part. Cost is Barry will speak on R.S.Thomas. Cost £10. Places at Ty £10 (cheques to St Edward’s Church). Please Teilo are limited, and events may change so please contact Alison Dite 20-400975 or email check before coming 01656-890205. [email protected] ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Sat 15 PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 12 Aug Sept, 12pm-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sept 2pm-5.30pm. at 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent (20- Guided tours, visit the mausoleum, climb the tower. 495496), for the final discussion on “The Prophets”. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. Everybody welcome. Please come and join us and help Events booked so far include: us decide topics for the autumn. Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY has been postponed to Sat Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of RESIDENTIAL RETREAT at Llangasty, 10-12 Aug. “St Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. Clare of Assisi, Beacon of Hope” led by Rev George Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: and Rev Mary Bolt. Come and join two Franciscan Third Lute/Guitar/voice - music from Elizabethan to Gershwin. Order Tertiaries and discover the spirituality and joy of Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Concert. St. Francis and Clare as you investigate the alleys and Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. pathways of Assisi. At almost every step you will encounter a new spirit of joy, simplicity and peace and 8-DAY PILGRIMAGE TO ROME & ASSISI 23 May hopefully be nourished and renewed as we enter into 2009. Organised by Dorothy DeRoy-Jones & Fr Tony the life and time of these two unique Saints. Cost: DeRoy-Jones SSC. Cost about £700. 01685-841322. £105.00. Booking essential. PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 30 May – 2 June 2008. TRANSFIGURATION EUCHARIST at Llangasty Organised by Dorothy DeRoy-Jones & Fr Tony DeRoy- Retreat House on Mon 6 Aug at 12 noon. Celebrant: Fr Jones SSC. Cost £450. 01685-841322. Martin Williams, Chairman of the House Trustees. All welcome. FOR YOUR DIARY. Wed 8 Aug. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT is on Fri Wed 15 Aug. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. 24 Aug at 7.30pm. Fri 24 Aug. 7.30pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. WATERLOO FEST on Sun 26 Aug starting at 2pm in Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Waterloo Gardens. The Parish is running a Children’s Oct 9. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s. Tombola Stall and Books and White Elephant. If you can provide items for these stalls or help on the St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. afternoon for an hour or two, please contact Gill Day or WMC CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES. Tricia Burfoot (Parish Office). Sherpa-led workshops: Mon-Fri this week. Create a SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s on Sun 26 Aug at comic book hero or discover through drama. Different 6pm – part of the Waterloo Festival. workshops in craft, drama, music and storytelling each day 10.30am. – 12.30pm. Age 4-7. £3 per child. MEDIAEVAL FAYRE at Cosmeston Mediaeval Village on Sun 26 and Mon 27 Aug. Pavane Early Music Joseph art & craft: 6-10 Aug. Making set, props and Consort (one of the groups that rehearse at St costume for Joseph in a Jiffy the following week. Each Edward’s) will play outside their red and blue mediaeval day 10.30am – 12.30pm Age 7-14 yrs. £3 per child. A pavilion tent, transporting us back to medieval free ticket for every participant for the film showing of Cosmeston: battles, sideshows, medieval refreshments Joseph on Sat 18 at 2pm if accompanied by a full and artefacts, archery .... and music. paying adult (£13.50). 08700-402000. DAY OF REFLECTION on Sat 8 Sept at Mill-Leat, WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Llanfrynach: “Meeting Jesus again for the First Time: in and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the Garden”. Information: [email protected] the sidesmen if you are new with us. CONTACT NUMBERS. RESIDENTIAL RETREAT at Llangasty, 10-12 Sept. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. “The Holy Eucharist, Celebration of Hope” led by Fr Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Martin Williams. “...as my Father appointed a kingdom Email: [email protected] for me, so do I appoint one for you, that you may eat Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] and drink at my table in my kingdom” (Luke 22.29-30). Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. We shall be meditating on the Eucharist as the Church’s ascent to the kingdom and her proclamation of hope for Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person the world. Cost: £99. Booking essential. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Ufoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1627 Sunday, 5th August, 2007 Transfiguration 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon. Hymns: Jesus lives, And can it be, Purify my heart, Siya Hamba (we are marching). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Preces & Responses: William Smith of Durham. Officiant: Mr Brian Shapcott. Introit: I am the Resurrection (Tomkins). Psalms 99, 110. Hymns: 560, Anthem: Justorum Animae (Byrd), 559. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tallis Short Evening Service (Dorian Mode). Readings: Exodus 24, 12-18. John 12, 27-36a. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the in Province II of ECUSA, and Bishop Jack Marston McKelvey. We pray for peace in the world. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of & St Lythan and Canon Adrian Berry and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Canada and USA. We pray for all who are still suffering as a result of the floods, and for the farmers now facing difficulties because of the foot-and- mouth outbreak. We pray for Rev Chris Smith, licensed at the parish of today. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli, Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Rubina Eccles, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! The Feast of the Transfiguration EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 7ui 12.00 pm Transfiguration Eucharist. Llangasty. Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. this week. All welcome. 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. TRANSFIGURATION EUCHARIST at Llangasty Uvftebz!8ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Retreat House on Monday at 12 noon. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Celebrant: Fr Martin Williams, Chairman of the 9ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. House Trustees. All welcome. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Edward’s on Wednesday of :ui 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. this week at 7.30pm. All welcome. Gsjebz!21ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. NO 9AM SERVICE IN ST ANNE’S on Thursday. 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: Genesis 15: 1-6; Hebrews 11: 1-3, 8-16; Luke 12: 32-40. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and THE BISHOP OF SWANSEA AND BRECON, the Rt Rev Wednesday of this week. Anthony Pierce, will retire on 16 Jan 2008 after 42 years in ministry. Bishop Anthony served the whole of his ministry in POLISH BIBLE NEEDED. One of the “street people” the diocese of Swansea and Brecon and was elected bishop we visit on the Paradise Run has had his Polish Bible in 1999. A new bishop will be elected following his stolen. If anyone knows how we can get hold of one, retirement. please speak to Kathie Mayer. PATRIARCH TEOCTIST, leader of the Romanian Orthodox PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at Church since 1986, died on Monday, after surgery. He was 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent ( 20-495496), for 92. After the Romanian revolution in 1989, Patriarch Teoctist the final discussion on “The Prophets”. All welcome. Come stood down, as an act of contrition for his co-operation with and join us and help us decide topics for the autumn. the tyranny of the previous years. His resignation was, WATERLOO FEST on Sun 26 Aug starting at 2pm in however, not accepted by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Waterloo Gardens. The Parish is running a Children’s Orthodox Church, and he returned to the leadership of the Church. Tombola Stall and Books and White Elephant. If you can provide items for these stalls or help on the WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors afternoon for an hour or two, please contact Gill Day and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one or Tricia Burfoot (Parish Office). of the sidesmen if you are new with us. ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT is on Fri 24 Aug at 7.30pm. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected]

ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA COURSE took place last week. Our thanks to Alison for all her hard work. The NEW REREDOS installed behind the altar. course subscriptions amounted to £130 which was Gift Aided, and the collection at the concert raised £54. COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist this morning, and the 100 Club draw will take place. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. Events booked so far include: Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Beati Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance Quorum Via” by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852- of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). 1924). The Introit at Evensong is “I am the Resurrection” Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of by Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656), and the anthem is Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. the motet “Justorum Animae” by William Byrd (1543- Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: 1623). Lute/Guitar/voice - music from Elizabethan to Gershwin. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Concert. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm. Dyson in C Minor. Anthem: Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. The Heavens Are Telling (Haydn). Visiting Choir: St FOR YOUR DIARY. Peter, Peterston-super-Ely. Wed 15 Aug. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Fri 24 Aug. 7.30pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Oct 9. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. WMC CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES. Joseph art & craft: Mon-Fri this week. Making set, props and costume for Joseph in a Jiffy the following week. Each day 10.30am – 12.30pm Age 7-14 yrs. £3 per child. A free ticket for every participant for the film showing of Joseph on Sat 18 at 2pm if accompanied by a full paying adult (£13.50). 08700-402000. Joseph in a Jiffy: 13-18 Aug. Directed by WMC Choir photograph 2007 Education Manager and guided by the Sherpa team, participants will create, rehearse and perform a SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s on Sun 26 Aug at shortened version of Joseph and his Amazing 6pm – part of the Waterloo Festival. Technicolour Dreamcoat in just a week! Performance to MASSIVE SECONDHAND BOOK SALE on Sat 1 Sept, take place at 12.30pm Sat 18 Aug on the Tesco stage. 11am-3pm at Roath Church House. FREE ADMISSION Mon-Fri 1pm-4pm & Sat 10am-1.30pm. Age 7-14 yrs. – coffee and tea on sale. Books for all the family. Come £25 per child (children must be able to commit to the 6 and browse before you buy. days). A free ticket for every participant for the film showing of Joseph on Sat 18 at 2pm if accompanied by ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Sat 15 a full paying adult (£13.50). 08700-402000. Sept, 12pm-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sept 2pm-5.30pm. Guided tours, visit the mausoleum, climb the tower. CONTACT NUMBERS. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. SAUSAGE & MASH LUNCH on Sat 15 Sept, 12pm- Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. 2pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Main course & sweet, £4 pp. Email: [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] OUR THANKS to the Sapphire Singers for their generous contribution of £200 to church funds. Their Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. three concerts for LATCH (one of which produced a Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person very full church at St Edward’s) raised a total of £800. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Fmfwfoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1628 Sunday, 12th August, 2007 “ Have your lamps lit…” 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward. Hymns: 296, 257, 286, Anthem: Old Irish Blessing (Agay), 375. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Tanquam Agnus (Vittoria). Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Psalm 108. Hymns: 368, Anthem: Confitemini Domino (Costantini), 371. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Isaiah 11,10 - 12,6. 2 Corinthians 1, 1-22. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Ruwenzori in the Province of Uganda, and Bishop Benezeri Kisembo, remembering especially those who suffer as a result of the rebellion in the north: the 1.6 million displaced people, and the 20,000 abducted children. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine. We pray for the victims of floods in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. We pray those suffering as a result of the floods in Britain, and for farmers and others affected by the foot- and-mouth outbreak. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of with & , Rev Edward Evans and Rev Michael Lewis and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Philip Burfoot, who died in the helicopter crash at Catterick this week, also Hubert Carlyon Riddett and John Henry Eccles whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 24ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. 25ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. on the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. Xfeoftebz Feast of the Assumption LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated 26ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. aboard Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 1.15pm. Everyone is welcome. 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Church House. NO 9AM SERVICE IN ST ANNE’S Thursday. 7.30 pm Solemn Eucharist. Cathedral. FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION. Solemn Eucharist 7.45 pm Paradise Run. at the Cathedral on Wednesday at 7.30pm. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all 27ui 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. Gsjebz!28ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Twelfth 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: Jeremiah 23: 23-29; Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2; Luke 12: 49-56. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent ( 20-495496), for the final discussion on “The Prophets”. Everybody welcome. Please come and help us decide topics for the autumn. ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT is on Fri 24 Aug at 7.30pm. WATERLOO FEST on Sun 26 Aug starting at 2pm in Waterloo Gardens. The Parish is running a Children’s Tombola Stall and Books and White Elephant. If you can provide items for these stalls or help on the afternoon for an hour or two, please contact Gill Day or Tricia Burfoot (Parish Office). SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s on Sun 26 Aug at 6pm – part of the Waterloo Festival. MASSIVE SECONDHAND BOOK SALE on Sat 1 Sept, 11am-3pm at Roath Church House. FREE ADMISSION – coffee and tea on sale. Books for all the family. Come and browse before you buy. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church CARDIFF WALKING FOR HEALTH. A regular led House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches community walk every Thursday at 2pm from the Roath or joining the Run itself. We need loaves of sandwiches Community Hall. The walk lasts 45 minutes. of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. beef using white medium sliced bread and individually Events booked so far include: wrapped sandwiches. The sandwiches can be left at Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. Church House prior to departure. Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Old Irish Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of Blessing” by Denes Agay (1911-2007). The Introit at Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. Evensong is “Tanquam Agnus” by Tomás Luis da Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: Vittoria (c.1548-1611), and the anthem is “Confitemini Lute/Guitar/voice - music from Elizabethan to Gershwin. Domino” by Alessandro Costantini (1581-1657). Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. Congregational Evensong at 3.30pm.. Visiting Choir: FOR YOUR DIARY. The Merbecke Choir. Wed 15 Aug. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. CAPEL-Y-FFIN PILGRIMAGE on Sat 25 Aug. Fri 24 Aug. 7.30pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert 12pm Solemn Eucharist. St David’s Church, Llanthony. Wed 12 Sept. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. 1.30pm. Assemble at St David’s for Pilgrimage walk. 15-16 Sept. Heritage Weekend. St Margaret’s. 3.30pm. Ecumenical Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. at St Mary’s Church, Capel-y-ffin, followed by the Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. Procession to the and Abbey Church. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s MEDIAEVAL FAYRE at Cosmeston Mediaeval Village Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. on Sun 26 and Mon 27 Aug. Pavane Early Music Wed 24 Oct. Taizé Service. Consort (one of the groups that rehearse at St St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. Edward’s) will play outside their red and blue mediaeval pavilion tent, transporting us back to medieval WMC CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES. Cosmeston: battles, sideshows, medieval refreshments Joseph in a Jiffy: Mon-Fri this week. Directed by WMC and artefacts, archery .... and music. Education Manager and guided by the Sherpa team, IRANIAN CHRISTIAN SARA AFSHARI will speak at All participants will create, rehearse and perform a Saints Church, Porthcawl, on Tue 4 Sept. Sara is shortened version of Joseph and his Amazing Executive Director of SAT-7 Pars (SAT-7’s Persian Technicolour Dreamcoat in just a week! Performance to language channel broadcasting in Farsi and Turkish). take place at 12.30pm Sat 18 Aug on the Tesco stage. Accompanying Sara is Christian broadcaster Nick Page. Mon-Fri 1pm-4pm & Sat 10am-1.30pm. Age 7-14 yrs. There will be two opportunities to see the event: at 2pm £25 per child (children must be able to commit to the 6 in the Church Hall for a meeting hosted by the Newton days). A free ticket for every participant for the film Nottage Ladies, or at 7pm, when hosts from Churches showing of Joseph on Sat 18 at 2pm if accompanied by Together will welcome visitors in the Church. a full paying adult (£13.50). 08700-402000. CHRISTIAN AID “CUT THE CARBON” MARCH on Sat Scooby-Dive with Scooby-Doo: 21-24 Aug. Follow the 8 Sept. Meet on the Taff Trail at 2.30pm to walk to the trail and solve the clues, spot the red herrings and look rally in Cooper's Field (subject to licence). 20-844646 out for twists and turns on this Scooby-Doo underwater for more details. Register online: themed adventure. Tues 2-4pm with performance at http://www.pressureworks.org/signup/140607_rally.html 5pm & Wed-Fri 3.30-5.30pm with performance at 6.30pm. Age 8-12 yrs. £20 per child (inc. ticket to the ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Sat 15 show in DGT – accompanying adults must pay for full Sept, 12pm-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sept 2pm-5.30pm. price tickets to see show). Guided tours, visit the mausoleum, climb the tower. REV CAROLINE DOWNS is looking for contributions to SAUSAGE & MASH LUNCH on Sat 15 Sept, 12pm- the diocesan newspaper Croeso. Articles of about 500 2pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Main course and sweet, £4 per words are welcome, about any special events that have person. taken place, preferably word processed, particularly with ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY has been postponed to Sat photos (jpegs). Copy date for the next issue is 23 Oct. 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. CONTACT NUMBERS. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. At the service Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. last week, £27.30 was collected for Christian Aid. Next Email: [email protected] service: 24 Oct. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Uxfmgui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1629 Sunday, 19th August, 2007 I came to bring fire… 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon. Hymns: Who can sound the depths of sorrow, O Lord the clouds are gathering, Such Love, Anthem: Teach Me O Lord (Attwood), The head that once was crowned with thorns. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: O Lord, Increase My Faith (Gibbons). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalm 119, vv 17-32. Hymns: 260, Anthem: Exsultate Deo (Scarlatti), Give Thanks. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 28, 9-22. 2 Corinthians 8, 1-9. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Santiago in the Episcopal Church of the Philippines, and Bishop Alexander Wandag. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel and Palestine. We pray for the victims of the earthquake in Peru, and Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean; also the miners in Utah and China, and the victims of flooding in North India. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llansantffraid, Bettws and , Rev Stephen Pare, Rev Gaynor Daniel and Rev Olwen Parry and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for The Pacific Islands. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones, whose funeral took place yesterday, also Margaret Millicent Martin and Winifred Coleman whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 31ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz!32tu 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wed this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 33oe 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. NO 9AM SERVICE IN ST ANNE’S on 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir Rehearsal. Vestry. Thursday. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. CONGRATULATIONS to Lizzie Doe on her successful 34se 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. A-level results, gaining a place at Liverpool University. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 35ui 7.30 pm St Edward’s Choir Summer Concert: “From Abba to Rutter”. Tbuvsebz! 12.00 pm Capel-y-ffin Pilgrimage. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, Songs of Praise at St Margaret’s at 6pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at St Edward’s at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 58: 9b-14; Hebrews 12: 18-29; Luke 13: 10-17. THE FAMILY OF PHILIP BURFOOT, who died in a helicopter crash in Yorkshire, wish to thank all those who sent them cards and condolences. All are greatly appreciated. Thank you and God Bless you all. ARCHBISHOP BARRY will take part in a debate at Dempsey’s club (Castle St) tonight. The debate, titled, “Is Religion Bad?” will question whether religion causes more problems in the world than it solves. The event is organised by Solace, Cardiff’s first “church in a bar” which opened in April. Meetings are held every Sunday night at either Dempsey’s or Clwb Ifor Bach. It aims to interest young people in Christianity in a relaxed, friendly environment. The debate begins at 9pm. WATERLOO FEST next Sunday starting at 2pm in Waterloo Gardens. The Parish is running a Children’s Tombola Stall and Books and White Elephant. If you can provide items for these stalls or help on the afternoon for an hour or two, please contact Gill Day or Tricia Burfoot (Parish Office). All proceeds to Marie Curie Holm Towers and Velindre Hospital. As part of Waterloo Fest, there will be Songs of Praise at St Margaret’s at 6pm next Sunday. MEDIAEVAL FAYRE at Cosmeston Mediaeval Village next Sunday and Mon 27 Aug. Pavane Early Music Consort (one of the groups that rehearse at St Edward’s) will play outside their red and blue mediaeval pavilion tent, transporting us back to medieval Cosmeston: battles, sideshows, medieval refreshments and artefacts, archery .... and music. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST EDWARD’S CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT “From ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Sat 15 Abba to Rutter” is on Friday at 7.30pm. Sept, 12pm-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sept 2pm-5.30pm. Guided tours, visit the mausoleum, climb the tower. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Teach Us O Lord” by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838). The Introit at SAUSAGE & MASH LUNCH on Sat 15 Sept, 12pm- Evensong is the motet“O Lord, Increase My Faith” by 2pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Main course and sweet, £4 pp. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), and the anthem is ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY has been postponed to Sat “Exsultate Deo” by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725). 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY & Flower Festival: Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Bairstow in D. Anthem: Fri 28 Sept 7pm Sung Mass, preacher: Archdeacon Bill Save us O Lord (Bairstow). Visiting Choir: The Thomas. Sat 29 Sept 10am-4pm and Sun 30 Sept Westbourne Singers. 2pm-5pm Open Day and Flower Festival. Also at 3pm CAPEL-Y-FFIN PILGRIMAGE on Saturday. on the Sunday, Cytûn Songs of Praise. Please support 12pm Solemn Eucharist. St David’s Church, Llanthony. St Anne’s on this special weekend. 1.30pm. Assemble at St David’s for Pilgrimage walk. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. 3.30pm. Ecumenical Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary Events booked so far include: at St Mary’s Church, Capel-y-ffin with address by the Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. Very Rev. L.A.Black SSC, followed by the Procession to Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance the Monastery and Abbey Church with stations at the of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). Wayside Calvary and at the Statue of Our Lady of Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of Llanthony. Car parking: Llanthony Priory for St David’s Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. and at Chapel Farm for Capel-y-ffin. Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: THE CALDICOT LEVELS – A PORTRAIT. Exhibition of Lute/Guitar/voice - music from Elizabethan to Gershwin. photographs at St Thomas’ Church, Redwick, 25-27 Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. Aug, 10am-5pm. No charge, but donations to charities Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. welcome. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every MASSIVE SECONDHAND BOOK SALE on Sat 1 Sept, other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. At the service 11am-3pm at Roath Church House. FREE ADMISSION last week, £27.30 was collected for Christian Aid. Next – coffee and tea on sale. Books for all the family. Come service: 24 Oct. and browse before you buy. FOR YOUR DIARY. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 2 Sept at Wed 12 Sept. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester 15-16 Sept. Heritage Weekend. St Margaret’s. Avenue. Please come and join us at the start of our Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. new session. Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. DAY OF REFLECTION on Sat 8 Sept at Mill-Leat, Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s Llanfrynach: “Meeting Jesus again for the First Time: in Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. the Garden”. Information: [email protected] Wed 24 Oct. Taizé Service. SERVICE OF SUNG VESPERS at Tintern Abbey on St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. Sun 9 Sept at 3pm, followed by the consecration of the WMC CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES. new statue of Our Lady and Child. Scooby-Dive with Scooby-Doo: Tue-Fri this week. RESIDENTIAL RETREAT at Llangasty, 10-12 Sept. Follow the trail and solve the clues, spot the red “The Holy Eucharist, Celebration of Hope” led by Fr herrings and look out for twists and turns on this Martin Williams. “...as my Father appointed a kingdom Scooby-Doo underwater themed adventure. Tues 2- for me, so do I appoint one for you, that you may eat 4pm with performance at 5pm & Wed-Fri 3.30-5.30pm and drink at my table in my kingdom” (Luke 22.29-30). with performance at 6.30pm. Age 8-12 yrs. £20 per child We shall be meditating on the Eucharist as the Church’s (inc. ticket to the show in DGT – accompanying adults ascent to the kingdom and her proclamation of hope for must pay for full price tickets to see show). the world. Cost: £99. Booking essential. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large the sidesmen if you are new with us. tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book CONTACT NUMBERS. by 31 Aug. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Sat 15 Sept, Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. 10.30am-2.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Archbishop Email: [email protected] Barry will speak on R.S.Thomas. Cost £10. Places at Ty Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Teilo are limited, and events may change so please CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable check before coming 01656-890205. Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Uijsuffoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1630 Sunday, 26th August, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward. Hymns: 216, 478, 107, Anthem: All Things Bright & Beautiful (Rutter), 221. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 6.00 pm Songs of Praise for Waterloo Fest. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Compline Hymn. Officiant: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Psalm 119, vv 49-56. Hymns: 200, Anthem: A Prayer (Lloyd), 60(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Isaiah 30, 8-21. 2 Corinthians 9. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Anglican Church of Korea, and Presiding Bishop Francis Kyung Jo Park. We also pray for the Anglican Diocese of Peru which has been feeding up to 6000 people a day since a massive earthquake hit the region last week, claiming more than 500 lives. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of with and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. 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. UIJT!XFFL! Npoebz! Medieval Fayre. Cosmeston Medieval Village. 38ui 10.00 am “The Caldicot Levels – A Portrait”. St Thomas’ Church, Redwick. Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 39ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Thursday at 7pm this week. All welcome. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 3:ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. NO PARISH SURGERY this week. 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. PARISH OFFICE is open Tuesday, 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist with Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Wednesday & Thursday of this week. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. NO 9AM SERVICE IN ST ANNE’S on Thursday. 41ui 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Tbuvsebz!2tu 11.00 am Massive Secondhand Book Sale. Roath Church House. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourteenth 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: Proverbs 25: 6-7; Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15, 16; Luke 14: 1, 7-14. CONGRATULATIONS to Vicky Williams and Stella Lyons on their successful A-level results. Vicky has a place at UWIC, Cardiff, and Stella has a place at Bristol University. MEDIEVAL FAYRE at Cosmeston Medieval Village today and tomorrow. Pavane Early Music Consort (one of the groups that rehearse at St Edward’s) will play outside their red and blue mediaeval pavilion tent, transporting us back to medieval Cosmeston: battles, sideshows, medieval refreshments and artefacts, archery .... and music. THE CALDICOT LEVELS – A PORTRAIT. Exhibition of photographs at St Thomas’ Church, Redwick, today and tomorrow, 10am-5pm. No charge, but donations to charities welcome. HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated aboard Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 1.15pm. Everyone is welcome. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the Cathedral (St Dyfrig Chapel) on Wed at 7.30pm. MASSIVE SECONDHAND BOOK SALE on Saturday, 11am-3pm at Roath Church House. FREE ADMISSION – coffee and tea on sale. Books for all the family. Come and browse before you buy. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] WATERLOO FEST today starting at 2pm in Waterloo ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY has been postponed to Sat Gardens. The Parish is running a Children’s Tombola 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. Stall and Books and White Elephant. All proceeds to ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY & Flower Festival: Marie Curie Holm Towers and Velindre Hospital. Fri 28 Sept 7pm Sung Mass, preacher: Archdeacon Bill SONGS OF PRAISE at St Margaret’s today at 6pm – Thomas. Sat 29 Sept 10am-4pm and Sun 30 Sept part of the Waterloo Festival. 2pm-5pm Open Day and Flower Festival. Also at 3pm on the Sunday, Cytûn Songs of Praise. Please support ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “All Things St Anne’s on this special weekend. Bright and Beautiful” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at Evensong is the plainsong Compline Hymn “Before CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Anne’s Church on the Ending of the Day”, and the anthem is “A Prayer”, Sun 30 Sept at 3pm. Hymn request sheets are available music by Richard Lloyd, words by Irene Cavenaugh. in church today, and should be returned to Alan or the Parish Office by Wed 19 Sept. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Jackson Truro Service. ALL NIGHT PRAYER VIGIL following Compline at the Anthem: Totus tuus (Gorecki). Visiting Choir: St Michael Cathedral at 6.30pm on Sun 30 Sept. & All Angels, Bassett. SERVICE OF RE-DEDICATION & COMMITMENT at PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at the Cathedral on Mon 1 Oct at 7.30pm. All attending 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester should bring with them a small stone (no bigger than a Avenue. Please come and join us at the start of our thumbnail). new session. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. THE ARDETON STRING QUARTET give a concert at Events booked so far include: St John’s, Canton on Fri 7 Sept at 7.30pm. Tickets £7 Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. (conc. £5) pay at the door. Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). CHRISTIAN AID “CUT THE CARBON” MARCH on Sat Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of 8 Sept. Meet on the Taff Trail at 2.30pm to walk to the Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. rally in Cooper's Field (subject to licence). 20-844646 Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: for more details. Register online: Lute/Guitar/voice - music from Elizabethan to Gershwin. http://www.pressureworks.org/signup/140607_rally.html Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. SERVICE OF SUNG VESPERS at Tintern Abbey on Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. Sun 9 Sept at 3pm, followed by the consecration of the TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every new statue of Our Lady and Child. other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: DEVOTIONAL CELTIC EVENING LITURGY SERVICE 24 Oct. with Rev Caroline Downs at St Teilo’s Church, FOR YOUR DIARY. Woodville Rd on Sun 9 Sept at 7.30pm. Wed 12 Sept. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney 15-16 Sept. Heritage Weekend. St Margaret’s. Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. by 31 Aug. Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Sat 15 Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. Sept, 12pm-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sept 2pm-5.30pm. Wed 24 Oct. Taizé Service. Guided tours, visit the mausoleum, climb the tower. If St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. you can help in any way, please see the notice in St Margaret’s Porch and indicate your preference. Fruit CARDIFF WALKING FOR HEALTH. A regular led tarts will be on sale, if you wish to pre-order please see community walk every Thursday at 2pm from the Roath list in St Margaret’s Porch. Please be aware the tarts Community Hall. The walk lasts 45 minutes. will be from the freezer. Home made chutneys will also WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors be on sale – all proceeds from the tarts and chutneys and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of will be for St Margaret’s Organ Fund. the sidesmen if you are new with us. SAUSAGE & MASH LUNCH on Sat 15 Sept, 12pm- CONTACT NUMBERS. 2pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Main course and sweet, £4 per Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. person. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Email: [email protected] IGNITE EVENT “Igniting a Passion for HOPE” featuring Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] The Ignite Worship Band on Sun 16 Sept, 8pm-10pm at The Great Hall, Cardiff Students Union. Speaker: Dai CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Hankey. email: [email protected] 20-512247. An Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. offering will be taken. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

Keep your lives free from the love of ]!Uif!Gpvsuffoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu money (Heb.13:5) Weekly Newsletter No.1631 Sunday, 2nd September, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist and Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 365, Beauty for Brokenness, 401, Anthem: For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter), Tell Out My Soul. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Hide Me Under the Shadow (West). Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Psalm 119, vv 81-96. Hymns: 282, Anthem: The Lord is Exalted (West), 220. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Isaiah 33, 13-22. John 3, 22-36. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Sodor & Man in the , and Bishop Graeme Knowles. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel- Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of St Nicholas with Bonvilston and St George-Super-Ely and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli, Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Tom Moore, Winifred Paxton, Mollie Clarissa Morgan and Evelyn Holmes, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at 4se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. St Edward’s on Monday and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm this week. Uvftebz! 2.00 pm Sara Afshari. All Saints Church Hall, Porthcawl. All welcome. 5ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 7.00 pm Sara Afshari. All Saints Church, Porthcawl. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 6ui 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is celebrated 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. aboard Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 1.15pm. Everyone is welcome. Uivstebz 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7ui 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. THE ARDETON STRING QUARTET give a concert at St John’s, Canton on Friday at 7.30pm. Tickets £7 (conc. £5) pay at the door. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 8ui 7.30 pm Ardeton String Quartet. St John’s, Canton. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Tbuvsebz Day of Reflection. Mill Leat, Llanfrynach. Please make yourself known to one of 9ui 2.30 pm Christian Aid “Cut the Carbon” March. Taff Trail. the sidesmen if you are new with us. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Fifteenth 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: Deuteronomy 30: 15-20; Philemon 1-21; Luke 14: 25-33. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. Please come and join us at the start of our new session. IRANIAN CHRISTIAN SARA AFSHARI will speak at All Saints Church, Porthcawl, on Tuesday. Sara is Executive Director of SAT-7 Pars (SAT-7’s Persian language channel broadcasting in Farsi and Turkish). Accompanying Sara is Christian broadcaster Nick Page. There will be two opportunities to see the event: at 2pm in the Church Hall for a meeting hosted by the Newton Nottage Ladies, or at 7pm, when hosts from Churches Together will welcome visitors in the Church. DAY OF REFLECTION on Saturday at Mill-Leat, Llanfrynach: “Meeting Jesus again for the First Time: in the Garden”. Information: [email protected] CHRISTIAN AID “CUT THE CARBON” MARCH on Saturday. Meet on the Taff Trail at 2.30pm to walk to the rally in Cooper's Field (subject to licence). 20-844646 for more details. Register online: http://www.pressureworks.org/signup/140607_rally.html SERVICE OF SUNG VESPERS at Tintern Abbey next Sunday at 3pm, followed by the consecration of the new statue of Our Lady and Child. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Sat 15 ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY has been postponed to Sat Sept, 12pm-5.30pm and Sun 16 Sept 2pm-5.30pm. 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. Guided tours, visit the mausoleum, climb the tower. If ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY & Flower Festival: you can help in any way, please see the notice in St Fri 28 Sept 7pm Sung Mass, preacher: Archdeacon Bill Margaret’s Porch and indicate your preference. Fruit Thomas. Sat 29 Sept 10am-4pm and Sun 30 Sept tarts will be on sale, if you wish to pre-order please see 2pm-5pm Open Day and Flower Festival. Also at 3pm list in St Margaret’s Porch. Please be aware the tarts on the Sunday, Cytûn Songs of Praise. Please support will be from the freezer. Home made chutneys will also St Anne’s on this special weekend. be on sale – all proceeds from the tarts and chutneys will be for St Margaret’s Organ Fund. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Anne’s Church on Sun 30 Sept at 3pm. Hymn request sheets are available COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist in church today, and should be returned to Alan or the this morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take Parish Office by Wed 19 Sept. place. Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. Events booked so far include: ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “For the Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist. Beauty of the Earth” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Art Exhibition, and performance at Evensong is the Compline prayer “Hide Me Under the of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). Shadow of Thy Wings” by John Ebenezer West (1863- Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of 1929), and the anthem is “The Lord is Exalted”, also by Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. West. Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Lute/Guitar/voice - music from Elizabethan to Gershwin. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Byrd Short Service. Anthem: Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. Have mercy upon me, O God (Tomkins). Visiting Choir: Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. Cantorion Iesu. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every DEVOTIONAL CELTIC EVENING LITURGY SERVICE other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: with Rev Caroline Downs at St Teilo’s Church, 24 Oct. Woodville Rd next Sunday at 7.30pm. OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at RESIDENTIAL RETREAT at Llangasty, 10-12 Sept. St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- “The Holy Eucharist, Celebration of Hope” led by Fr Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. Martin Williams. “...as my Father appointed a kingdom 8-DAY PILGRIMAGE TO ROME & ASSISI 23 May for me, so do I appoint one for you, that you may eat 2009. Organised by Dorothy DeRoy-Jones & Fr Tony and drink at my table in my kingdom” (Luke 22.29-30). DeRoy-Jones SSC. Cost about £700. 01685-841322. We shall be meditating on the Eucharist as the Church’s ascent to the kingdom and her proclamation of hope for PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 30 May – 2 June 2008. the world. Cost: £99. Booking essential. Organised by Dorothy DeRoy-Jones & Fr Tony DeRoy- Jones SSC. Cost £450. 01685-841322. THE GREAT ESCAPE WEEKEND for 11-17’s at Viney Hill Christian Adventure Centre (accommodation in large FOR YOUR DIARY. tents), 14-16 Sep. Cost £40. Details 20-499867. Book Wed 12 Sept. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. by 31 Aug. 15-16 Sept. Heritage Weekend. St Margaret’s. Sat 22 Sept. 2pm-4pm. St Edward’s Fun Day. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Sat 15 Sept, Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. 10.30am-2.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Archbishop Sun 30 Sept. 3pm. Songs of Praise at St Anne’s. Barry will speak on R.S.Thomas. Cost £10. Places at Ty Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s Teilo are limited, and events may change so please Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. check before coming 01656-890205. Wed 24 Oct. Taizé Service. SAUSAGE & MASH LUNCH on Sat 15 Sept, 12pm- St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. 2pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Main course and sweet, £4 per CARDIFF WALKING FOR HEALTH. A regular led person. community walk every Thursday at 2pm from the Roath IGNITE EVENT “Igniting a Passion for HOPE” featuring Community Hall. The walk lasts 45 minutes. The Ignite Worship Band on Sun 16 Sept, 8pm-10pm at CONTACT NUMBERS. The Great Hall, Cardiff Students Union. Speaker: Dai Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Hankey. email: [email protected] 20-512247. An Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. offering will be taken. Email: [email protected] WHAT CAUSED THE FLOOD? At Redwick Village Hall Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] (Gwent Levels) on Mon 17 Sept at 7.30pm. Dr Kevin CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Horsburgh of the National Tidal Sea Level Facility will Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. speak on recent research and computer modelling of Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any the causes of the 1607 flood. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gjguffoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu But his delight is in the law (Ps 1) Weekly Newsletter No.1632 Sunday, 9th September, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 167, 179(MP), Anthems, 169(MP). Anthems: God Be in My Head (Walford Davies), “Psalme 1” (Morley). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Lift Thine Eyes (Mendelssohn). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 120, 121. Hymns: 373, Anthem: He watching over Israel (Mendelssohn), 24. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 43,14 - 44,5. John 5, 30-47. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of South West Tanganyika in the Anglican Church of Tanzania and the people there, who are awaiting the appointment of a new Bishop. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and the troops serving there. We pray for the victims of Hurricane Felix, and all who live under the constant threat of tropical storms. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of & Upper Afan Valley and Rev Cyril Laskey and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Percy Morgan Martin, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 21ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday at 6pm, and on Thursday at 7pm 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. this week. All welcome. 7.30 pm St Margaret’s Committee. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and Thursday of this week. 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. Uvftebz! “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 22ui 6.30 pm FAN Group. Schoolroom. 2000 on the Second Tuesday of the month, 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 5pm-7pm. 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASSES restart 7.45 pm Ladies’ Circle. Roath Church House. on Weds, 4pm-5pm at Roath Church House. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP is 23ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. at 7.30pm on Thursday. Note change 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. of venue: St Margaret’s Church. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Roath Church House. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir Rehearsal. Vestry. SAUSAGE & MASH LUNCH on Saturday, 7.45 pm Paradise Run. 12pm-2pm at St. Anne’s Hall. Main course and sweet, £4 per person. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 24ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. HARVEST THANKSGIVING will be 7.00 pm PACT Meeting. Albany Road Baptist Church Hall. celebrated on Sun 7 Oct. At 11am the 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. guest preacher at St Edward’s is 7.30 pm Adult Confirmation Group. St Margaret’s. , the Diocesan Parish 7.30 pm An Evening with Adrian Plass. The Gate. Resources Adviser. At 7pm in place of Tbuvsebz 10.30 am Diocesan Spirituality Group. Ty Teilo. Choral Evensong we will have our 26ui 12.00 pm Heritage Open Day. St Margaret’s. Service of Harvest Music and 12.00 pm Sausage & Mash Lunch. St Anne’s Hall. Readings. 7.30 pm Concert in aid of LATCH. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Sixteenth 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: Exodus 32: 7-14; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17; Luke 15: 1-10. CONGRATULATIONS to Gwen Smith, India Williams and Ed Doe on their GCSE successes. 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Saturday, MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING. Mrs Megan Martin 12pm-5.30pm and next Sunday 2pm-5.30pm. Guided will hold her annual Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan tours of the church and Bute Mausoleum by Diane Cancer Relief on Sat 29 Sept at 10am in St Edward’s Walker and Jean Rose. Climb the Tower (weather Schoolroom. permitting). If you can help in any way, please see the ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY & Flower Festival: notice in St Margaret’s Porch and indicate your Fri 28 Sept 7pm Sung Mass, preacher: Archdeacon Bill preference. Fruit tarts will be on sale, if you wish to pre- Thomas. Sat 29 Sept 10am-4pm and Sun 30 Sept order please see list in St Margaret’s Porch. Please be 2pm-5pm Open Day and Flower Festival. Also at 3pm aware the tarts will be from the freezer. Home made on the Sunday, Cytûn Songs of Praise. Please support chutneys will also be on sale – all proceeds from the St Anne’s on this special weekend. tarts and chutneys will be for St Margaret’s Organ Fund. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St Anne’s Church on ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Psalme 1” Sun 30 Sept at 3pm. Hymn request sheets are available by Thomas Morley (1557-1602). The Introit at Evensong in church today, and should be returned to Alan or the is the trio “Lift Thine Eyes” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Parish Office by Wed 19 Sept. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), and the anthem is “He THE PENTATEUCH. Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre, watching over Israel”, also from “Elijah”. City Church, Windsor Place, are running an 8 week course on ECUMENICAL SERVICE OF SUNG VESPERS at Tintern Wednesday afternoons, 2pm-4pm, starting 3 Oct, fee £20 Abbey today at 3pm, followed by the consecration of the new (conc. £14). The course will be led by Rev Dr Jason Bray, statue of Our Lady and Child. Speaker: Rt Rev Fr Stuart Burns Vicar of Blaenavon, who aims to take participants on a whistle OSB, Abbot of Burford. Please bring folding chairs. Tea/coffee stop tour of The Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Bible). afterwards in the Village Hall. Further details from Gill Day 20-495496. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Noble LEPROSY MISSION’S Annual Supporters’ Meeting is at in B Minor. Anthem: O Lorde, the maker of al thing (Joubert). Llandaff Cathedral on Sat 6 Oct at 2pm. The Service will DEVOTIONAL CELTIC EVENING LITURGY SERVICE be led by St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra. with Rev Caroline Downs at St Teilo’s Church, ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. Woodville Rd today at 7.30pm. This year’s exhibition: studies and variations in pencil PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church on an Ethiopian Icon theme, by Tony Goble. House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist and or joining the Run itself. We need loaves of sandwiches Dedication of the new Reredos. of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned Sat 13 Oct. Opening of Exhibition, with a poetry reading beef using white medium sliced bread and individually by Paul Henry and a performance of Fauré’s Requiem wrapped sandwiches. The sandwiches can be given to (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra) at 7.30pm. Kathie Mayer 20-495769 or left at Church House prior Tue 16 Oct. 7.30pm. Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, to departure. If you are interested in coming out on the Iolo Jones and Arthur Parkes. Run, please contact Kathie Mayer. Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. AN EVENING WITH ADRIAN PLASS at The Gate, Keppoch St, on Thursday at 7.30pm. A fun, entertaining and challenging Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: evening with writer and speaker Adrian Plass, including the Lute/Guitar/voice – from Elizabethan to Gershwin. launch of an exciting new training programme for performers 9.45pm. Compline by Candlelight. and artists within ministry and the community. Tickets £6 20- Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. 483344. Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Organ & Classical Guitar. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Saturday, COMPLINE. Next services: 18 Oct (9.45pm), 15 Nov 10.30am-2.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Archbishop (9pm), 6 Dec (9pm). Barry will speak on R.S.Thomas. Cost £10. Places at Ty TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every other Teilo are limited, and events may change so please month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: 24 Oct. check before coming 01656-890205. FOR YOUR DIARY. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s Avenue. Topic: “The 39 articles. What are they??” Do Wed 10 Oct. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. come along and find out. Oct 12-21. St Edward’s Music & Arts Festival. IGNITE EVENT “Igniting a Passion for HOPE” featuring The Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Ignite Worship Band next Sunday, 8pm-10pm at The Great Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Carol Service. Hall, Cardiff Students Union. Speaker: Dai Hankey. email: Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. [email protected] 20-512247. An offering will be taken. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. IGNITE: THE FURNACE. After the Ignite event next Sunday CONTACT NUMBERS. will be a cafe style meeting for over 18s in the Student's Union Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Cafe Bar, 10pm-11.30pm. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY is on Sat 22 Sept, 2pm-4pm. Email: [email protected] MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING. Barbara & Vernon Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Hodgson hold their annual Macmillan Coffee Morning at CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. 114 Carisbrooke Way on Fri 28 Sept, from 10am. Usual Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. stalls: bring & buy, cakes, plants, raffle. All welcome. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person Proceeds to Macmillan Cancer Relief. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tjyuffoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1633 Sunday, 16th September, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Praise my soul the King of Heaven, When I Was Lost, Amazing Grace, Anthem: O How Amiable (Eaton Faning), This is the Day. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Preacher: Mr Geoffrey Smith. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Verily Verily (Tallis). Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Psalms 124, 125. Hymns: 220, Anthem: All people that on earth do dwell (Tallis), 80(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Isaiah 60. John 6, 51-69. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Southern Malawi (Upper Shire) in the Province of Central Africa, and Archbishop Bernard Amos Malango. As we prepare for the UN Day of Peace on Friday, we pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for the Primates Standing Committee, meeting at New Orleans this week and for the Governing Body of the Church in Wales, meeting at Lampeter on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Troedrhiwgarth and Rev Dennis Morris and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Philip Hugh Williams, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on 28ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6pm this week. Uvftebz!29ui! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and Wednesday of this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 2:ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASS is on 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Wednesday, 4pm-5pm at Roath Church House. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Roath Church House. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. NETWORK. The ecumenical news sheet is out this week. 31ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. There are a few bundles left at the back of the church 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. requiring delivery. If you can help, please take one of them. 8.00 pm Fauré’s Requiem rehearsal. Gsjebz St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist / UN Day of Peace 32tu 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH DIARIES are available at the Tbuvsebz 10.30 am Diocesan Spirituality Group. Ty Teilo, Llandow. back of the church, price £1 for church 33oe 10.30 am CMS Coffee Morning. St Mark’s Church Hall. funds. If you can sell them to your friends, 2.00 pm St Edward’s Fun Day. please do so. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Seventeenth 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: Amos 8: 4-7; 1 Timothy 2: 1-7; Luke 16: 1-13. ST MARGARET’S HERITAGE OPEN DAY: 2pm-5.30pm today. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. Topic: “The 39 articles. What are they??” Do come along and find out. FAURÉ’S REQUIEM. This Thursday and next we will be looking at the Requiem in Choir Practice from 8pm to 8.30pm to learn notes etc. Those who would like to sing the Requiem on 13 Oct, please join us at that time. The main joint practices for orchestra and choir are the Mondays (7pm) and Thursdays (7.30pm) in October prior to the performance. NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE. The project to produce a digital archive of the newsletters is now complete, thanks to the efforts of Richard Mayer. A CD of annual PDFs (not searchable) of all the newsletters from June 1976 to December 2006 is available, price £2 for church funds. Please speak to Alan if you would like one. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST EDWARD’S FUN DAY is on ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY Saturday, 2pm-4pm. Bouncy Castle, & Flower Festival: Fri 28 Sept Mrs Rainbow’s puppet show, toy & 7pm Sung Mass, preacher: book stall, games, refreshments Archdeacon . Sat 29 (teas/cakes/hotdogs), raffle. Proc- Sept 10am-4pm and Sun 30 Sept eeds to the Sunday School project 2pm-5pm Open Day and Flower to sponsor a child in Africa. All Festival. Also at 3pm on the offers of help gratefully accepted. Sunday, Cytûn Songs of Praise. Please come to the Fun Day and Please support St Anne’s on this bring all your friends! special weekend. CYTÛN SONGS OF PRAISE is at St ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist Anne’s Church on Sun 30 Sept at is “O How Amiable” by Joseph Eaton 3pm. Hymn request sheets are Faning (1850-1927). The Introit at available in church today, and should Evensong is “Verily verily” by Thomas be returned to Alan or the Parish Tallis (c.1505-1585), and the anthem is Office by Wed 19 Sept. “All People that on Earth do Dwell”, also by Tallis. HARVEST THANKSGIVING on Sun 7 Oct. At 11am the guest preacher at CHORAL EVENSONG at the St Edward’s is Richard Jones, the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Byrd Diocesan Parish Resources Adviser. Second Service. Anthem: O pray for At 7pm in place of Choral Evensong the peace of Jerusalem (Howells) Congratulations to Ed Doe who repre- we will have our Service of Harvest IGNITE EVENT “Igniting a Passion for sented Wales in the Aussie Rules Music and Readings. HOPE” featuring The Ignite Worship tournament at Manchester Saturday. GARY MULLINS & FRIENDS will Band today, 8pm-10pm at The Great give a concert at St Edward’s in aid Hall, Cardiff Students Union. Speaker: Dai Hankey. email: of “Bullies Out” on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. [email protected] 20-512247. An offering will be taken. ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. WHAT CAUSED THE FLOOD? At Redwick Village Hall This year’s exhibition: studies and variations in pencil on an (Gwent Levels) on Monday at 7.30pm. Dr Kevin Horsburgh of Ethiopian Icon theme, by Tony Goble. the National Tidal Sea Level Facility will speak on recent Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist and Dedication research & computer modelling of causes of the 1607 flood. of the new Reredos. Preacher: Ven. Christopher Smith, PLANTING POTS FOR AUTUMN: talk and demon- Archdeacon of Morgannwg. stration given by Chris Neale ( College) at Sat 13 Oct. 6pm. Opening of Exhibition, with a poetry reading Christ the King Parish Centre, Newborough Avenue, on by Paul Henry and a performance of Fauré’s Requiem (St Wednesday at 8.15pm. £3 (inc. coffee and biscuits). Edward’s Choir & Orchestra) at 7.30pm. Tue 16 Oct. 7.30pm. Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, Iolo UN DAY OF PEACE on Friday, 12-2.30 & 6.45-9.30, at Jones and Arthur Parkes. the Temple of Peace. Speakers include Bruce Kent, Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Norman Kembler, Milan Rai. Refreshments, exhibitions, Symphonic Brass. music. Information 20-889514. Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: Lute/Guitar/voice – from Elizabethan to Gershwin. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Saturday, 9.45pm. Compline by Candlelight. 10.30am-2.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Fr Colin Sutton Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. will speak on “Icons”. Cost £10. Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Thomas & Rossi (Organ & CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY Coffee Morning & Sale at Classical Guitar). St Mark’s Church Hall, North Road, on Saturday from FOR YOUR DIARY. 10.30am.Tickets £1 at the door (inc refreshments). Join Fri 28 Sept. 6pm. Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Sch. us in Opening Prayers at 10.15am. Sat 6 Oct. 2pm. Leprosy Mission Meeting. Cathedral. MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING. Mrs Megan Martin Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s holds her annual Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Wed 10 Oct. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Relief on Sat 29 Sept, 10am in the Schoolroom. Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. THE THIRD EUROPEAN ECUMENICAL ASSEMBLY met in Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. Romania last week. More than 2500 people from all the main Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. Churches of Europe worshipped together each day. Andrea St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. Riccardi from the Roman Catholic S Egidio Community, WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and mindful of more discouraging recent papal distinctions newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the between “Churches” and “ecclesial communities”, reintroduced sidesmen if you are new with us. the language of Pope Paul VI and the concept of “sister CONTACT NUMBERS. Churches” living in unity without uniformity. The final assembly Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. statement calls for a common Christian voice on matters of Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. world concern, and a wider implementation of the Charta Email: [email protected] Oecumenica, a commitment to working more closely together Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] signed by all the main European Churches in Strasbourg in 2001. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. COMPLINE. Next service: 18 Oct (9.45pm). Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 24 Oct. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

A hundred jugs of olive oil… (Luke 16:6) ]!Uif!Tfwfouffoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1634 Sunday, 23rd September, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 175, 274(MP), 54(MP), Anthem: From a Distance (Gold), 281(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: By the Waters of Babylon. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Psalms 128, 129. Hymns: 281, Anthem: “Matthew, Mark, Luke & John” (Rutter), 199. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Ezra 1. John 7, 14-36. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Southwest Florida (Province IV of ECUSA) and Bishop John Bailey Lipscomb. We pray for peace in the world. On Child Poverty Day (Friday) we pray for children whose lives are blighted, those who have lost their parents to AIDS, those who are forced to work or fight in wars. We pray for the Primates Standing Committee, meeting at New Orleans. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llansawel, , and Rev Gary Powell, formerly a priest in Roath, and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. We pray for the Diocesan Conference meeting on Saturday. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed. UIJT!XFFL! ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets in the vestry this afternoon at 4.30pm. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and 35ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Wednesday of this week. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Roath Church House Committee. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Uvftebz! 10.30 am USPG Regional Day. . 36ui 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on Monday and Friday at 6pm and on 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Thursday at 7pm this week. All welcome. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the 37ui 10.30 am St Teilo’s School Dedication Service. St Margaret’s. last Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. MEETING to discuss forming a Book 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Club at 19 Axminister Rd (Fenella 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. St Margaret’s. Clapham’s) on Wed, at 7.45pm. 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. Vestry. MEMORIAL SERVICE for Archbishop 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist & Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Alwyn Rice-Jones on Thursday at 7pm 7.45 pm Book Club Meeting. 19 Axminster Rd. at Brecon Cathedral. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. COUNCILLOR’S SURGERY on Friday, 6pm- 7pm at Marlborough Junior School. 38ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.00 pm Memorial Service for Archbishop Alwyn. Brecon Cathedral. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING. Mrs 8.00 pm Fauré’s Requiem rehearsal. Megan Martin will hold her annual Coffee Gsjebz 10.00 am Macmillan Coffee Morning. 114 Carisbrooke Way. Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief 39ui 10.30 am Macmillan Coffee Morning. 19 Axminster Rd. on Saturday at 10am in St Edward’s 6.00 pm Councillors’ Surgery. Marlborough Junior School. Schoolroom. There is a box for contri- butions at the back of the church today. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.00 pm DEDICATION FESTIVAL EUCHARIST. St Anne’s. FAURÉ’S REQUIEM. Practice for Tbuvsebz St Michael & All Angels anyone who would like to join us, Thursday from 8pm to 8.30pm. The 3:ui 10.00 am Macmillan Coffee Morning. St Edward’s Schoolroom. main joint practices for orchestra and 10.00 am Flower Festival. St Anne’s. choir are the Mondays (7pm) and 7.30 pm Mal Pope in Concert. The Gate. Thursdays (7.30pm) in October prior 7.30 pm Cambrensis Concert. Park End Church. to the performance. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, Cytûn Songs of Praise is at St Anne’s at 3pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Amos 6: 1a, 4-7; 1 Timothy 6: 6-19; Luke 16: 19-31. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] FUN DAY. Thanks to everyone who helped, and every-one ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. who supported. This year’s exhibition: studies and variations in pencil ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY & Flower Festival: on an Ethiopian Icon theme, by Tony Goble. Friday 7pm Sung Mass, preacher: Archdeacon Bill Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist and Thomas. Saturday 10am-4pm and next Sunday 2pm- Dedication of the new Reredos. Preacher: Ven. 5pm Open Day and Flower Festival. Also at 3pm next Christopher Smith, Archdeacon of Morgannwg. Sunday, Cytûn Songs of Praise. Please support St Sat 13 Oct. 6pm. Opening of Exhibition, with a poetry Anne’s on this special weekend. reading by Paul Henry and a performance of Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra) at 7.30pm. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “From a Mon 15 Oct. 7.30pm. South Wales Clarinet Choir. Distance” by Julie Gold. The Introit at Evensong is “By Tue 16 Oct. 7.30pm. Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, the Waters of Babylon”, and the anthem is “Matthew, Iolo Jones and Arthur Parkes. Mark, Luke and John”, by John Rutter (b.1945). Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. Purcell in G Minor. Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: perfect peace (Wesley). Lute/Guitar/voice – from Elizabethan to Gershwin. DR WHO EVENING at St Paul’s Church, Grangetown: a time 9.45pm. Compline by Candlelight. of worship on a Dr Who theme for young people today at Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. 6.30pm. St Paul’s was used as a location for an episode of Dr Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Thomas Morgan (Organ) & Who starring Christopher Ecclestone. The evening will use Rossini Bartolotti-Hayward (Classical Guitar). themes from the series to explore the Christian Faith and to help young people worship in a way that’s right for them. HARVEST THANKSGIVING will be celebrated on Sun 7 Oct. At 11am the guest preacher at St Edward’s is Richard Jones, DISCUSSION: “Faith & the Defence Industry” with Peter the Diocesan Parish Resources Adviser. At 7pm in place of Swinbank at St Teilo’s, Woodville Rd today at 7.30pm. Choral Evensong we will have our Service of Harvest Music USPG REGIONAL DAY at Brecon Cathedral on and Readings. If you would like to bring offerings we will share Tuesday, 10.30am-3.30pm. Guest speaker: Rt Revd them with homeless people in the City living at the Huggard Bishop Michael Westall, formerly USPG Mission partner Centre or on the Paradise Run. Please bring tinned/dried goods “in date”, so they be used when needed. Many thanks in SW Tanganyika. Enquiries: [email protected] in advance for your generosity. MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNINGS. Barbara & Vernon TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 24 Oct. Hodgson 114 Carisbrooke Way on Friday from 10am. Also Fenella Clapham at 10.30am on Friday at 19 Axminster Rd. FOR YOUR DIARY. MAL POPE IN CONCERT at The Gate, Keppoch St on Tue 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Confirmation Service. St Margaret’s Saturday at 7.30pm. Tickets £8 (conc. £6). 20-483344. Wed 10 Oct. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. CAMBRENSIS CONCERT at Park End Church on Fri 30 Nov. 7.30pm. Gary Mullins & Friends Concert. Saturday at 7.30pm. Admission free, with retiring Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. collection for the Sierra Leone Appeal. PCC. Mon 1 Oct, 7.30pm in Roath Church House. ALL NIGHT PRAYER VIGIL following Compline at the St Edward’s Committee: Sun 23 Sept at 4.30pm. Cathedral at 6.30pm next Sunday. THE GOVERNING BODY of the Church in Wales voted last ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP meets at 7.15pm week not to approve the draft version of the Anglican next Sunday in St. Margaret’s. Covenant. Archbishop Barry said that while he supported the PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at principle of an Anglican Covenant, he could not endorse the 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester proposed version currently on the table. He warned it was in danger of becoming a contract designed to cut off those who Avenue, continuing the discussion on the 39 articles. did not conform to a uniform view on human sexuality. SERVICE OF RE-DEDICATION & COMMITMENT at the WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and Cathedral on Mon 1 Oct at 7.30pm. All attending should bring newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the with them a small stone (no bigger than a thumbnail). sidesmen if you are new with us. LEPROSY MISSION’S Annual Supporters’ Meeting is at CONTACT NUMBERS. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. Llandaff Cathedral on Sat 6 Oct at 2pm. The Service will Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. be led by St Edward’s Choir and Orchestra. Email: [email protected] NOTICE FROM CHURCH HOUSE COMMITTEE. Please do Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] not put any posters on the inside or outside noticeboards CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. without checking with Parish Office first. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person COMPLINE. Dates: 18 Oct, 15 Nov, 6 Dec. who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Fjhiuffoui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1635 Sunday, 30th September, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 372, 224, Taizé: Wait for the Lord, Anthem: Give Almes of Thy Goods (Tye), 137(MP). Taizé: Wait for the Lord; His day is near. Wait for the Lord; keep watch, take heart. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 3.00 pm Cytûn Songs of Praise. St Anne’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Ave Verum (Byrd). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 134, 135. Hymns: 258, Anthem: Ye that stand in the house (Spinney), 363. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Nehemiah 2. John 8, 31-38 & 48-59. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of St David’s, and Bishop Carl Norman Cooper. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for those who are suffering as a result of the floods now affecting almost half of African countries, and for the victims of the Ebola virus in the Congo. We pray for the monks and other pro-democracy demonstrators in Burma. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of and Area Dean Anthony Stevens and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. We pray for those who are preparing for Confirmation a week Tuesday. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles. 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. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday UIJT!XFFL! and Wednesday of this week. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. MORNING PRAYER is said in St 2tu 7.00 pm St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra Practice. Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are 7.30 pm Parochial Church Council. Roath Church House. welcome to the daily office. 7.30 pm Service of Rededication & Commitment. Cathedral. EVENING PRAYER will be said at Uvftebz!3oe 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. St Edward’s on Thursday at 7pm and Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. 4se 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. FAURÉ’S REQUIEM. Joint practices for 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. orchestra and choir Monday (7pm) and 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. Thursday (7.30pm) this week. PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Uivstebz Roath Church House on Monday at 7.30pm. 5ui 2.00 pm National Poetry Day. Penylan Library. 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. LEPROSY MISSION’S Annual Supporters’ 7.30 pm Full Choir & Orchestra Practice. Meeting is at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 2pm. The Service will be led by St Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Edward’s Choir and Orchestra. 6ui 7.00 pm “Icons & the Christian Church. St Martin’s. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Local History Society Coffee Morning. Roath Library, Newport Rd. 7ui 2.00 pm Leprosy Mission Annual Supporters’ Service. Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is Harvest Thanksgiving. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. Coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. The Service of Music and Readings for Harvest will take place at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Joel 2: 21-27; 1 Timothy 2: 1-7; Matthew 6: 25-33. ALL NIGHT PRAYER VIGIL following Compline at the Cathedral at 6.30pm tonight. ADULT CONFIRMATION GROUP meets at 7.15pm today in St Margaret’s. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Avenue, continuing the discussion on the 39 articles. Everyone welcome. Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. 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. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] HARVEST THANKSGIVING will be celebrated next ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. 12-21 October. Sunday. At 11am the guest preacher at St Edward’s is This year’s exhibition: studies and variations in pencil Richard Jones, the Diocesan Parish Resources Adviser. on an Ethiopian Icon theme, by Tony Goble. At 7pm in place of Choral Evensong we will have our Fri 12 Oct. 7.30pm. Patronal Sung Eucharist and Service of Harvest Music and Readings. If you would Dedication of the new Reredos. Preacher: Ven. like to bring offerings we will share them with homeless Christopher Smith, Archdeacon of Morgannwg. people in the City living at the Huggard Centre or on the Sat 13 Oct. 6pm. Opening of Exhibition, with a poetry Paradise Run. Please bring tinned/dried goods “in date”, reading by Paul Henry and a performance of Fauré’s so that they be used when needed. Many thanks in Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra) at 7.30pm. advance for your generosity. Mon 15 Oct. 7.30pm. South Wales Clarinet Choir. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Give Almes Tue 16 Oct. 7.30pm. Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, of Thy Goods” by Christopher Tye (1500-1573). The Iolo Jones and Arthur Parkes. Introit at Evensong is the 14th century eucharist hymn Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of “Ave Verum” by William Byrd (1543-1623), and the Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. anthem is “Ye that stand in the house of the Lord”, by Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: Walter Spinney (1853-94). Lute/Guitar/voice – from Elizabethan to Gershwin. 9.45pm. Compline by Candlelight. ST ANNE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY. There was a full Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. church (with extra chairs) for the Anniversary Eucharist Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Thomas Morgan (Organ) & on Friday. Last chance to see the Flower Festival today Rossini Bartolotti-Hayward (Classical Guitar). 2pm-5pm. At 3pm Cytûn Songs of Praise is also hosted by St Anne’s. Please come and welcome people COMPLINE. Next service: 18 Oct (9.45pm). from all the churches at this special service. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 24 Oct. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: LORD MAYOR’S MULTI-FAITH SERVICE at the City Wood in E. Anthem: Behold now praise the Lord Hall on Wed 24 Oct at 11am. If you are interested in (Harris). Men’s voices only. attending, please speak to Alan. SERVICE OF RE-DEDICATION & COMMITMENT at the ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR is on Sat 10 Nov, 11am-2pm Cathedral on Monday at 7.30pm. All attending should bring in Roath Church House. We are looking for ideas/offers with them a small stone (no bigger than a thumbnail). for stalls and attractions. HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE 2008. There will be a GARY MULLINS & FRIENDS concert at St Edward’s in presentation on the Pilgrimage (Nov 5-12, 2008) on aid of “Bullies Out” on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. Monday at 7.30pm at Coity Church Hall. Details from FOR YOUR DIARY. Chrys 01656-659749 or [email protected] Wed 10 Oct. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. THE PENTATEUCH. Cardiff Adult Christian Education Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Centre, City Church, Windsor Place, are running an 8 Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. week course on Wednesday afternoons, 2pm-4pm, Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. starting this week, fee £20 (conc. £14). The course will St Edward’s Committee: Sun 28 Oct at 4.30pm. be led by Rev Dr Jason Bray, Vicar of Blaenavon, who PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the aims to take participants on a whistle stop tour of The church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Bible). Further your friends, please do so. details from Gill Day 20-495496. REV CAROLINE DOWNS is looking for contributions to NATIONAL POETRY DAY at Penylan Library on the diocesan newspaper Croeso. Articles of about 500 Thursday at 2pm. Bring a poem you have written, or words are welcome, about any special events that have your favourite poem. Led by Margaret Reeves. taken place, preferably word processed, particularly with ARCATA ENSEMBLE CONCERT at Tabernacle Welsh photos (jpegs). Copy date for the next issue is 23 Oct. Baptist Church, The Hayes, on Thursday at 7.30pm. NOTICE FROM CHURCH HOUSE COMMITTEE. Programme includes music by Bach, Arwel Hughes, Please do not put any posters on the inside or outside Karl Jenkins, Elgar. Tickets £7.50/£4. noticeboards without checking with Parish Office first. AIDAN HART, Iconographer, will give a talk on “Icons and the NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE. The project to produce a digital Christian Church” at St Martin’s on Friday at 7pm. archive of the newsletters is now complete, thanks to the ROATH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY invites you to a coffee efforts of Richard Mayer. A CD of annual PDFs (not morning in Roath Library, Newport Road on Saturday, 10am- searchable) of all the newsletters from June 1976 to December 1pm. A chance to meet members of the Society and to see the 2006 is available, price £2 for church funds. Please speak to Roath Local History Computer Project. Bring anything you Alan if you would like one. have on the history or area of Roath, Splott and Adamsdown. CONTACT NUMBERS. For details 20-464909. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808. SINE NOMINE CHOIR give a concert at St Mary’s, Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. Coity, on Saturday at 7.30pm. Includes Allegri’s Email: [email protected] Miserere, a Haydn Mass, Zadok the Priest (Handel). Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Entrance free. Retiring collection. 01656-667690. CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable DEANERY CONFIRMATION is at St Margaret’s on Tue Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. 9 Oct at 7.30pm. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]Uibolthjwjoh!gps!uif!Ibswftu Weekly Newsletter No.1636 Sunday, 7th October, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Preacher: Richard Jones, Diocesan Parish Resources Officer. Hymns: Thank you Lord for this fine day, Blessed be the Name of the Lord, For the fruits of His Creation, Anthem: Thou Visitest the Earth (Greene), We plough the fields and scatter. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Gloria: Anderson. 7.00 pm Service of Harvest Music and Readings. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Hymns: 482 (Proc.), 167, 173(MP), 38(MP), 486, 481, 80(MP), Rec.: 483. Anthems: Creation’s Hymn (Beethoven), Ye shall dwell in the land (Stainer), Summer Ended (Wood), O give thanks unto the Lord (Sydenham), The Heavens Are Telling (Haydn), An Evening Pastorale (Shaw). In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Accra (Ghana) in the Province of West Africa, and Archbishop Justice Ofei Akrofi. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine, and we remember the ten African Union peacekeeping soldiers who were killed in Darfur last week. We pray for the people of Burma, especially the monks and others who were arrested and have now disappeared. At this time of Harvest Thanksgiving, we pray for farmers and all who work on the land, especially those facing stress and financial difficulties because of foot-and-mouth and Bluetongue. We pray for people throughout the world who are starving, especially in many parts of Africa, and we remember the millions across Africa suffering as a result of the floods. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Pontlottyn with and Rev Tony Deroy-Jones and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In this parish we pray for those who are being confirmed on Tuesday. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli and Ken Eccles. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Eddie Askew, also Jean Dolores Taylor and Mildred Edna Mary Hudd whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 9ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 7.00 pm Choir & Orchestra Practice. on Monday and Friday at 6pm, and on Thursday Uvftebz! 10.30 am Coffee Morning. Penylan Library. at 7pm this week. All welcome. :ui 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Tuesday and 5.00 pm Vespers. St David’s Metropolitan Cathedral. Wednesday of this week. 7.30 pm DEANERY CONFIRMATION. St Margaret's. ST EDWARD’S PATRONAL EUCHARIST 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. is on Friday at 7.30pm, with guest preacher Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. the Venerable Christopher Smith, 21ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Archdeacon of Morgannwg. The new 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. reredos will be dedicated at this Service. 4.00 pm Junior Confirmation Group. St Margaret’s. ART EXHIBITION. “Studies and variations 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir Rehearsal. Vestry. in pencil on an Ethiopian Icon theme” by 7.45 pm Paradise Run. Tony Goble. The exhibition opens at 6pm on Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Saturday, with a poetry reading by Paul 22ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. Henry, refreshments & raffle for the Tony 7.30 pm Choir & Orchestra Practice. Goble Memorial Fund and a performance at 7.30pm of Fauré’s Requiem by St 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Gsjebz Edward’s Choir & Orchestra. 23ui 7.30 pm ST EDWARD’S PATRONAL EUCHARIST. Tbuvsebz The Translation of St Edward, King and Confessor PARISH DIARIES are available at 24ui 11.00 am Seafarers’ Service. Llandaff Cathedral. the back of the church, price £1 for 6.00 pm Open of Festival Art Exhibition & Poetry Reading. church funds. If you can sell them 7.30 pm Fauré’s Requiem (St Edward’s Choir & Orchestra). to your friends, please do so. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Twentieth 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: 2 Kings 5: 1-3, 7-15c; 2 Timothy 2: 8-15; Luke 17: 11-19. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] HARVEST THANKSGIVING is celebrated throughout the parish today. At 11am at St Edward’s we welcome our guest preacher, Richard Jones, the Diocesan Parish Resources Adviser. Harvest offerings of tinned/dried goods will be shared with homeless people in the City living at the Huggard Centre or on the Paradise Run. At 7pm in place of Choral Evensong we will have our Service of Harvest Music and Readings. If you would like to read one of the lessons, please see Alan this morning. DEANERY CONFIRMATION is at St Margaret’s on Tuesday at 7.30pm. Please pray for those who have been preparing themselves for confirmation: Jane Bailey, Lucy Bettinson, Chloe Brock, Daniel Brock, Thomas Brown, Don Corris, Leysha Davison, Robert Day, Connor Edgete, Madeleine Evans Webb, Tonisha Feneck, Jade Gregerson, Jennifer Harden, Karen Heeley, Kate Hessey, Sarah Holliday, David Jewell, Holly Jewell, Harriet Jones, Mikaela Kendall, Victoria Kendall, Amarah Maddar, Eirys Morley Jones, Crystal Opoku-Addo, Omar Opoku-Addo, Christine Patten, Alex Perry, Luke Prentice, Hugo Sbrana-Thomas, Daniel Thomas, Dominic Wallace, Claire Wilson, Brandon Wheeler, Sean Whelan, Thomas Worth.

CONGRATULATIONS to Gary Mullins who has won the Dorothy Grace St Edward’s Crown: flower display at Atkinson Prize for piano forte grade 6 – the highest result in the county. St Anne’s by Mrs Megan Martin. LLANDAFF MUSICAL SOCIETY present a Concert of ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. “Musical Memories – Past & Present” at 2.30pm on Sat Mon 15 Oct. 7.30pm. South Wales Clarinet Choir. 27 Oct, at Roath Church House. Tickets £5 from the Tue 16 Oct. 7.30pm. Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, Parish Office and Brian Shapcott.. Iolo Jones and Arthur Parkes. Wed 17 Oct. 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of SPLOTT OPERATIC SOCIETY are staging a version of Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. “The Mikado” at St Teilo’s High School 31 Oct to 2 Nov Thurs 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: at 7.15pm (matinee 2.30pm 3 Nov). Contact Fenella Lute/Guitar/voice – from Elizabethan to Gershwin. Clapham 20-212931. 9.45pm. Compline by Candlelight. Fri 19 Oct. 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR is on Sat 10 Nov, 11am-2pm Sat 20 Oct 7.30pm. Recital: Thomas Morgan (Organ) & in Roath Church House. We are looking for ideas/offers Rossini Bartolotti-Hayward (Classical Guitar). for stalls and attractions.

COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist this SHOE BOX SUNDAY. Once again we are supporting morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take place. the Samaritan’s Purse and asking you to fill shoe boxes Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. with gifts to help spread laughter and hope to children living in poverty. Leaflets will be available giving further ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Thou details. Please bring your boxes to our “Shoe Box visitest the earth” by Maurice Greene (1695-1755). Service” at St Margaret’s on Sun 18 Nov at 6pm. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Dyson Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. in F. Anthem: Let all the world (Vaughan Williams). GARY MULLINS & FRIENDS will give a concert at St FAURÉ’S REQUIEM. Joint practices for orchestra and Edward’s in aid of “Bullies Out” on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. choir Monday (7pm) and Thursday (7.30pm) this week. FOR YOUR DIARY. COFFEE MORNING at Penylan library on Tuesday, 10.30am- Wed 24 Oct. Taizé Service. 12.30pm. A chance to see a display of the opening of Roath Wed 7 Nov. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Park Library (now Penylan). Details 20-484897. Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on Fri 30 Nov. 7.30pm. Gary Mullins & Friends Concert. the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. VESPERS at St David’s Metropolitan Cathedral on Tuesday, PCC. Mon 1 Oct, 7.30pm in Roath Church House. 5pm-5.30pm. A spiritual and tranquil choral service. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 28 Oct at 4.30pm. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at REV CAROLINE DOWNS is looking for contributions to 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent, continuing the diocesan newspaper Croeso. Articles of about 500 the discussion on the 39 articles. Everyone welcome. words are welcome, about any special events that have Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. taken place, preferably word processed, particularly with COMPLINE. Next service: 18 Oct (9.45pm). photos (jpegs). Copy date for the next issue is 23 Oct. LORD MAYOR’S MULTI-FAITH SERVICE at the City WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Hall on Wed 24 Oct at 11am. If you are interested in and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of attending, please speak to Alan. the sidesmen if you are new with us. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every CLERGY AVAILABILITY: Rev Sue Rees 20- other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: 493940. Rev Sue is unavailable on Fridays. 24 Oct.

]!Uif!Uxfoujfui!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1637 Sunday, 14th October, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Jesu lover of my soul, My Jesus My Saviour, There is a Redeemer, Anthem: Deep River (arr. Jonathan Hellyer Jones), To God be the glory. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Preces & Responses: William Smith of Durham. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: A New Commandment (Shephard). Psalms 144. Hymns: 257, Anthem: O Magnum Mysterium (Vittoria), 262(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Tallis Short Evening Service. Readings: Nehemiah 6, 1-16. John 15, 12-27. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Tanga in the Anglican Church of Tanzania, and Bishop Phillip D. Baji. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and the troops serving there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , St Fagan and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles, also our Vicar, Rev Stewart Lisk, now recovering from an operation. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially David Stanley Griffiths and Alec Munday, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at 26ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. St Edward’s on Monday and Friday at 7.30 pm St Edward’s Festival: South Wales Clarinet Choir. 6pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist with address by Richard Jones. St Anne's. 27ui 7.30 pm St Edward’s Festival: Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, Iolo Jones, Arthur Parkes.

Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE is closed on 28ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Wednesday this week. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Festival: Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Symphonic Brass. Uivstebz St Luke the Evangelist WE WELCOME those who were confirmed on 29ui 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Tuesday and are making their communion with us 6.00 pm Solemn Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. for the first time this morning. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Festival: Scott Baker & Janet Powell: Lute/Guitar/Voice. 9.45 pm COMPLINE BY CANDLELIGHT. ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR is Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. on Sat 10 Nov, 11am-2pm in 2:ui 7.30 pm St Edward’s Festival: Early Music: The Cathays Consort. Roath Church House. We are looking for ideas/offers Tbuvsebz 11.00 am Access All Areas Youth Event. Rhondda Fach Sports Centre. for stalls and attractions. 31ui 5.00 pm RSCM Area Festival. Llandaff Cathedral. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Festival: Organ/Classical Guitar: Thomas Morgan & Rossini Hayward. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Twenty-First 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: Genesis 32: 22-31; 2 Timothy 3:14 – 4:5; Luke 18: 1-8. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Wood in D. Anthem: Exsultate justi (Viadana). PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm at Gill Day’s, 15 Lothian Crescent, continuing the discussion on the 39 articles. Everyone welcome. Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. HOLY EUCHARIST at St Anne’s on Tuesday at 7pm. Address by Richard Jones, Diocesan Stewardship Advisor. Followed by a meeting of St Anne’s Committee which is open to all members of the parish for a discussion with Richard Jones. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL 2007. LLANDAFF MUSICAL SOCIETY present a Concert of “Musical Memories – Past & Art Exhibition: studies and variations in pencil on an Ethiopian Icon Present” at 2.30pm on Sat 27 Oct, at Roath theme, by Tony Goble. Church House. Tickets £5 from the Parish Monday 7.30pm. South Wales Clarinet Choir. Office and Brian Shapcott. Tuesday 7.30pm. Piano/Violin Trio: Jayne Thomas, Iolo Jones and Arthur Parkes. SPLOTT OPERATIC SOCIETY are staging Wednesday 7.45pm. Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan a version of “The Mikado” at St Teilo’s High Symphonic Brass. School 31 Oct to 2 Nov at 7.15pm (matinee Thursday 7.30pm. Scott Baker & Janet Powell: Lute/Guitar/voice – 2.30pm 3 Nov). Contact Fenella Clapham from Elizabethan to Gershwin. 20-212931. 9.45pm. Compline by Candlelight. Friday 7.30pm. Early Music: The Cathays Consort. SHOE BOXES SUNDAY. Once again we Saturday 7.30pm. Recital: Thomas Morgan (Organ) & Rossini are supporting the Samaritan’s Purse and Bartolotti-Hayward (Classical Guitar). asking you to fill shoe boxes with gifts to help spread laughter and hope to children ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the spiritual living in poverty. Leaflets will be available giving further “Deep River” arranged by Jonathan Hellyer Jones. The details. Please bring your boxes to our “Shoe Box Introit at Evensong is “A New Commandment” by Service” at St Margaret’s on Sun 18 Nov at 6pm. Richard Shephard (b.1949), and the anthem is “O Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. Magnum Mysterium”, by Tomás Luis da Vittoria (c.1548- ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 28 1611). Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Sinfonia ARCHBISHOP ROWAN will be at St Fagans National Concertante. History Museum this afternoon to open a medieval GARY MULLINS & FRIENDS will give a concert at St church that has been moved from Pontarddulais and Edward’s in aid of “Bullies Out” on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. rebuilt over the last ten years. It has been reconstructed Tickets £5 available soon. to look as it would have done in 1520, before the . OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST. Solemn Eucharist at the St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- Cathedral on Thursday at 6pm. Vittoria “Missa O Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. Magnum Mysterium”. Visiting choir: St Bavo Cathedral, FOR YOUR DIARY. Haalem, Holland. Wed 24 Oct. Taizé Service. COMPLINE will be sung at St Edward’s on Thursday of Wed 7 Nov. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. this week at 9.45pm (after the Festival Concert). Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - the last Fri 30 Nov. 7.30pm. Gary Mullins & Friends Concert. of the monastic “hours”. All welcome. Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. ACCESS ALL AREAS Youth Event (11 years and over) Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. 11am-7pm on Saturday at Rhondda Fach sports centre, St Edward’s Committee: Sun 28 Oct at 4.30pm. . Indoor skatepark, graffiti artist, live comedy HARVEST THANKSGIVING. Thanks to everyone for and music, street theatre and circus skills, workshops their offerings last week. On behalf of the parish, Kathie and activities for young people, clergy and youth delivered two car loads of food to the Huggard Centre. leaders, streetlife cafe, vibrant market place, rock- monkeys climbing wall. Further details on CONFIRMATION. A big thank you to all who helped in www.enterthemystery.com any way with the Service, the rehearsal and the RSCM AREA FESTIVAL at Llandaff Cathedral on reception. God Bless you all. From Rev Stewart and Saturday. Rehearsal 2pm; Service 5pm. Rev Sue. OXJAM CARDIFF CHILL: THE ACOUSTIC SHOW is PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the at Chapter Arts Centre on Tue 23 Oct at 8pm. Price £4 church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to on the door. Local Cardiff bands will be playing including your friends, please do so. Winter & Williams Band, Lucky Delucci and The Dirty REV CAROLINE DOWNS is looking for contributions to Looks. Proceeds to Oxfam. Details: the diocesan newspaper Croeso. Articles of about 500 www.myspace.com/oxjamcardiff words are welcome, about any special events that have LORD MAYOR’S MULTI-FAITH SERVICE at the City taken place, preferably word processed, particularly with Hall on Wed 24 Oct at 11am. If you are interested in photos (jpegs). Copy date for the next issue is 23 Oct. attending, please speak to Alan. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every other and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: 24 Oct. the sidesmen if you are new with us. IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on Fri 26 Oct, 8pm-10pm at The Welsh Institute. Speaker: CLERGY AVAILABILITY: Rev Sue Rees 20- Mike Pilivachi (speaking as part of Hope 08). email: 493940. Email: [email protected]. Rev Sue is [email protected] 20-512247. An offering will be unavailable on Fridays. taken.

]!Uif!Uxfouz.Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu Weekly Newsletter No.1638 Sunday, 21st October, 2007 Jacob wrestling with the Angel 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 359, Jesus is the Name we honour, 343, Anthem: Gloria (Vivaldi), We are marching. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Hail Gladdening Light (Stainer). Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Psalms 146, 149. Hymns: 17, Anthem: If Ye Love Me (Tallis), Great is the Darkness. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Nehemiah 8, 9-18. John 16, 1-11. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, an extra-provincial diocese under the metropolitical authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop Carlos López-Lozano. We pray for peace in the world, remembering Iraq and Afghanistan. We pray for the victims of the assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto, and for all the people of Pakistan. We pray for those suffering as a result of the floods in Africa. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Glyntaff and Rev Keith Lerry and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We pray for the family of Rev Paul Bennett, murdered last March. We pray for the sick, especially Ken Eccles and Jean Gough. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Norman Briers, Arthur Thomson and Elizabeth Jane Harries, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 33oe 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. at 7pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. 34se 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. 7.30 pm Reformation (Concert). St Mary’s, Pontcanna. LORD MAYOR’S MULTI-FAITH SERVICE 8.00 pm Oxjam Cardiff Chill. Chapter Arts Centre. at the City Hall on Wednesday at 11am. If Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. you are interested in attending, please 35ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. speak to Alan. 11.00 am Lord Mayor’s Multi-Faith Service. City Hall. TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Edward’s on 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Wednesday of this week at 7.30pm 7.30 pm TAIZÉ SERVICE. (musicians practise from 7pm). Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. PARISH DIARIES are available at the 36ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. back of the church, price £1 for church 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. funds. If you can sell them to your friends, Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. please do so. 37ui 6.00 pm Councillor Surgery. Marlborough Junior School. 8.00 pm Ignite Event. The Welsh Institute. Tbuvsebz 2.30 pm Musical Memories, Past & Present. Roath Church House. 38ui 7.30 pm Cardiff Polyphonic Choir. St Peter’s. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Last Sunday of Pentecost (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 45: 22-25; Romans 15: 1-6; Luke 4: 16-24. REFORMATION. A concert tracing the effect of the English Reformation on vocal music of the time. Welsh Camerata conducted by Andrew Wilson-Dickson. Works by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Robert White, John Sheppard. At St Mary’s, Pontcanna, Tuesday at 7.30pm. Tickets £6/£4 01446-419294. OXJAM CARDIFF CHILL: THE ACOUSTIC SHOW is at Chapter Arts Centre on Tuesday at 8pm. Price £4 on the door. Local Cardiff bands will be playing including Winter & Williams Band, Lucky Delucci and The Dirty Looks. Proceeds to Oxfam. Details: www.myspace.com/oxjamcardiff LLANDAFF MUSICAL SOCIETY present a Concert of “Musical Memories – Past & Present” at 2.30pm on Saturday, at Roath Church House. Tickets £5 from the Parish Office and Brian Shapcott. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] South Wales Clarinet Choir Mabon Piano Trio The Cathays Consort ST EDWARD’S FESTIVAL. Our thanks to everyone who performed in all the concerts last week. With a concert every evening it has been very busy. Thanks also to everyone who supported the events.

ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the first FOR YOUR DIARY. chorus of “Gloria” by Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741). The Wed 7 Nov. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Introit at Evensong is the third century hymn “Hail Sat 10 Nov. 7pm Scout Wine & Wisdom. Church House gladdening Light” set to music by John Stainer (1840- Sat 24 Nov. 11am-2pm. St Margaret’s Fayre. 1901), and the anthem is the motet “If Ye Love Me”, by Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). Sun 2 Dec. 1pm. Advent Lunch. St Anne’s Hall. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. Lloyd’s Hereford Service. Anthem: Like as the hart Sun 9 Dec. Christmas Lunch. Roath Church House. (Howells). Visiting choir: The Consort. Wed 12 Dec. Taizé Service. Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band on Friday, 8pm-10pm at The Welsh Institute. Speaker: Mike Pilivachi St Edward’s Committee: Sun 28 Oct at 4.30pm. (speaking as part of Hope 08). email: [email protected] 20- ARCHBISHOP BARRY WRITES: “The brutal death of Father 512247. An offering will be taken. Paul Bennett was a tragedy for the church and the community CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR AUTUMN CONCERT of Trecynon but, above all, for his family, who will never at St Peter’s on Saturday at 7.30pm. Works by Handel, recover from his loss. He was a generous and loving family Mozart, Brahms, Mathias & Parry. man and a committed and faithful priest, who is greatly missed. We pray that now Geraint Evans has been detained, CYTUN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at 7.30pm on that with God's help and the comfort and support of those Mon 29 Oct at Roath Park URC, Penywain Road. around them, Father Paul's family and the community of SPLOTT OPERATIC SOCIETY are staging a version of Trecynon may be able to start looking to the future and begin “The Mikado” at St Teilo’s High School 31 Oct to 2 Nov the long, difficult process of healing. We pray, too, that in a secure hospital Evans will understand the grief he has caused at 7.15pm (matinee 2.30pm 3 Nov). Contact Fenella and will seek reconciliation with God. As a result of Father Clapham 20-212931. Paul's death, we have re-emphasised personal safety advice ALL SOULS DAY. There will be a Eucharist at St for clergy and are reviewing security at parsonages. At the Margaret’s Fri 2 Nov at 7.30pm, for the Commem- same time, we recognize that clergy have an important public oration of the Faithful Departed. If you wish names of role to fulfil and need to be accessible to everyone, so that loved ones to be remembered at this service please ultimately they cannot always protect themselves from such vicious assaults.” print their names on the sheets in church. ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR is on Sat 10 Nov, 11am-2pm TEARFUND launched an emergency appeal this week to help churches in Zimbabwe provide for the most desperate families in Roath Church House. We are looking for ideas/offers in what is now generally acknowledged to be a humanitarian for stalls and attractions. disaster. Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans are running OUTSIDE THE BOX. A Conference for Church out of food. The World Food Programme reports that soon Children’s Workers on Sat 10 Nov at Archdeacon John millions more will be reliant on humanitarian assistance. It Lewis School, , Bridgend. £5 per person. Must predicts that numbers will rise from the 300,000 it currently be booked by 29 Oct. feeds to an estimated 3.3 million from November. COMPLINE. Next services: 15 Nov, 6 Dec. ANNE, LINDSAY AND THEIR FAMILIES would like to thank everyone for their kind messages, cards and SHOE BOXES SUNDAY. Once again we are flowers, following the recent death of their Mum, Betty supporting the Samaritan’s Purse and asking you to fill Johnson. They were greatly appreciated and gave shoe boxes with gifts to help spread laughter and hope much comfort. Lindsay. to children living in poverty. Leaflets will be available giving further details. Please bring your boxes to our REV CAROLINE DOWNS is looking for contributions to “Shoe Box Service” at St Margaret’s on Sun 18 Nov at the diocesan newspaper Croeso. Articles of about 500 6pm. Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. words are welcome, about any special events that have GARY MULLINS & FRIENDS will give a concert at St taken place, preferably word processed, particularly with Edward’s in aid of “Bullies Out” on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. photos (jpegs). Copy date for the next issue is 23 Oct. Tickets £5 available soon. CLERGY AVAILABILITY: Rev Sue Rees 20- WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors 493940. Email: [email protected]. Rev Sue is and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of unavailable on Fridays. the sidesmen if you are new with us.

]!Uif!Mbtu!Tvoebz!pg!Qfoufdptu;!Cjcmf!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1639 Sunday, 28th October, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Celebrant: Rev. Stewart Lisk. Hymns: There is a Book, O for a thousand tongues, Lord for the Years. Anthems: Give Rest O Christ, O How Amiable (Eaton Faning). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Preacher: Rev John Woodward. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Now we are ambassadors (Mendelssohn). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 124, 125, 126. Hymns: 568, Anthem: Lo Round the Throne (Ley), 272. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: Deuteronomy 32, 1-4. John 14, 15-26. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Toronto in the Anglican Church of Canada, and Area Bishops Philip Poole (York), Michael Hugh Harold Bedford-Jones (Trent-Durham), Canon Patrick Yu (York- Scarborough) and George Elliott (York-Simcoe). We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially this week the border area between Turkey and Iraq, and those involved in the peace talks to end four years of war in Darfur. We pray for those suffering as a result of floods in Africa, especially in Kinshasa in the Congo, and as a result of the fires in California. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Rhydfelin with Graig St John and Rev Michael Gable and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for The Indian Ocean islands: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Maldives. We pray for the sick, especially Jean Gough. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Ken Eccles, whose funeral is tomorrow in St Margaret’s, also Elizabeth Lily Ronicle, whose anniversary occurs at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 12.00 pm Funeral of Ken Eccles. St Margaret’s. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 3:ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. at 7pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. ST EDWARD’S COMMITTEE meets in 7.30 pm Cytûn Annual General Meeting. Roath Park URC. the vestry at 4.30pm today.

Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. 41ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. HEALING TIME at Lightship 2000 on the last Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. Tuesday of the month, 12.30-2pm. 42tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist and Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Uivstebz All Saints Day SPLOTT OPERATIC SOCIETY are staging a version 2tu!Opwfncfs 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. of “The Mikado” at St Teilo’s High School 31 Oct to 2 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. Nov at 7.15pm (matinee 2.30pm 3 Nov). Contact 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Fenella Clapham 20-212931. 7.30 pm Solemn Eucharist. Cathedral. ALL SOULS DAY. Eucharist at St Margaret’s on Friday at 7.30pm, for the Commemoration of the All Souls Day Gsjebz Faithful Departed. If you wish names of loved 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 3oe ones to be remembered at this service please 7.30 pm PARISH EUCHARIST. St Margaret’s. print their names on the sheets in church. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Fair Trade Sale. Park End Church Hall. 4se 10.00 am Autumn Seminar: Rt Rev Richard Harries. Windsor Place URC. 6.30 pm FAN Group. Schoolroom. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of the Kingdom. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. 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 1: 10-18; 2 Thessalonians 1: 1-12; Luke 19: 1-10. THE FAN GROUP is for anyone to come and meet in friendship – we sit and listen to each other in turn – it never lasts more than an hour. We welcome occasional or regular visitors. Penylan Group meets on 1st Saturday of the month in the schoolroom at 6.30pm. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] THE FUNERAL OF KEN ECCLES, who died last ORIOL PIANO TRIO concert at St Margaret’s on Fri 16 Monday, is at 12pm on Monday in St Margaret’s, when Nov at 7.30pm. Rolette de Montet (violin), Arthur Parkes St Edward’s Choir will sing the service. His body will be (cello) and Steven Burges (piano) present music by received into St Margaret’s after Evensong today. Brahms, Fauré, Martinü and Beethoven. £5 at the door in aid of the organ restoration fund. ANTHEMS. The anthems at the Eucharist are “Give Rest O Christ”, the Contakion of the Faithful Departed SHOE BOXES SUNDAY. Once again we are (Kieff Melody) as sung in the Pannykhida (dirge) of the supporting the Samaritan’s Purse and asking you to fill Orthodox Eastern Church of Russia, words translated shoe boxes with gifts to help spread laughter and hope by W.J.Birkbeck, music edited by Walter Parratt and “O to children living in poverty. Leaflets will be available How Amiable” by Joseph Eaton Faning (1850-1927). giving further details. Please bring your boxes to our These anthems are dedicated to the memory of Ken “Shoe Box Service” at St Margaret’s on Sun 18 Nov at Eccles. The Introit at Evensong is the duet “Now we are 6pm. Don’t forget you need the envelope with £2 for ambassadors” from the oratorio “St Paul” by Felix each box. Further information from Gill Day 20- Mendelssohn (1809-47), and the anthem is “Lo, Round 495496. the Throne a Glorious Band”, words by Rowland Hill DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Wed 21 Nov, (1744-1833), to a melody by N. Herman (1560) 7.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Rev Huw Rhydderch will arranged by Henry George Ley. speak on “St Clare”. Free entry. Places at Ty Teilo are NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. limited, and events may change so please check before Sung Evensong at 3.30pm today: Dyson in F. Anthem: coming 01656-890205. And I saw a new heaven (Bainton). Visiting choir: Holy ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 28 Trinity, Coventry. Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Sinfonia PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 15 Concertante. Lothian Crescent, (Gill Day’s) at 7.45pm, continuing discussion of “The 39 articles”. All are welcome. GARY MULLINS & FRIENDS will give a concert at St Edward’s in aid of “Bullies Out” on Fri 30 Nov at 7.30pm. DISCUSSION: “Faith & Excluded Children” at St Teilo’s Tickets £5 available soon. Church, Woodville Rd today at 7.30pm. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every PARISH SURGERY is on Mondays, 6pm-7pm in the other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: Parish Office, for bookings of weddings and baptisms. 12 Dec. HOLY EUCHARIST WITH MINISTRY OF HEALING at the Cathedral (St Dyfrig Chapel) on Wed at 7.30pm. OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- ALL SAINTS DAY. Solemn Eucharist at the Cathedral Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. at 7.30pm: Darke in F. Visiting Choir: Merbecke Choir. FOR YOUR DIARY. FAIR TRADE SALE on Saturday, 10am-4pm at Park Wed 7 Nov. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. End Church Hall, Rhydypenau Crossroads. Sat 10 Nov. 11am-2pm. St Edward’s Bazaar. AUTUMN SEMINAR “Sex, Money, Power and Fame” by Sat 10 Nov. 7pm Scout Wine & Wisdom. Church House the Rt Revd Richard Harries, at Windsor Place URC, on Sat 24 Nov. 11am-2pm. St Margaret’s Fayre. Saturday, 10am-4pm. Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. CARDIFF MALE CHOIR give a concert at Llandaff Fri 30 Nov. 7.30pm. Gary Mullins & Friends Concert. Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Sun 2 Dec. 1pm. Advent Lunch. St Anne’s Hall. Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. THEOLOGY DAY at St Michael’s College on Tue 6 Sun 9 Dec. Christmas Lunch. Roath Church House. Nov, 11am-5pm. Promoting theology across Wales. Wed 12 Dec. Taizé Service. Keynote lecture entitled ‘Millennial Misconceptions: Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. Prophets as Prognosticators’ by Professor Gareth Lloyd St Edward’s Committee: Sun 28 Oct at 4.30pm. Jones. £5 for the day; £5 for lunch. DAY FOR REFLECTION at Llangasty on Thur 8 Nov, PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the 10am-4pm, with prayer at 12 noon. All Saints of Wales church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to Eucharist to be held in the Crypt Chapel. An opportunity your friends, please do so. to pause for prayer and personal reflection - come for all WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors or part of the day. Bring your own lunch; coffee and tea and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No need the sidesmen if you are new with us. to book. CONTACT NUMBERS. ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR is on Sat 10 Nov, 11am-2pm Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. in Roath Church House. We are looking for ideas/offers Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. for stalls and attractions. Email: [email protected] COMPLINE. Next services: 15 Nov, 6 Dec. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] CARDIFF WALKING FOR HEALTH. A regular led CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable community walk every Thursday at 2pm from the Roath Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Community Hall. The walk lasts 45 minutes. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!uif!Ljohepn Weekly Newsletter No.1640 Sunday, 4th November, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Shine Jesus Shine, Here I am Lord, Amazing Grace, Anthem: Steal Away (Tippett), This is the Day. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Gloria: Anderson. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: I am the Resurrection (Tomkins). Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Psalm 145. Hymns: 229(MP), Anthem: Justorum Animae (Byrd), 69(S). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Lamentations 3, 22-33. John 11, 1-44. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Umuahia in the Province of the Niger Delta, Church of Nigeria, and Bishop Kelechi Eze. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Porth Newydd, incorporating St John Baptist (Cymmer), St Luke (Llwyncelin) and St Paul (Porth), Rev Christopher Coles and Rev Beverley Reaney and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, all of which are suffering from disastrous flooding. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli, Jean Gough. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Harold Paul Treasure, Gwendoline Hopkins, Sylvia Mary Camp, Colin James Hayman, Robert Leighton Walters, Clement Eric George Williams and Leslie Smith, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. 6ui 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6pm this Uvftebz! 11.00 am Theology Day. St Michael’s College. week. All welcome. 7ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. CHURCH SHOP selling Cards For Good 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. Causes (cards from registered charities who Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. receive 87p in the £1 for cards sold) at St 8ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Andrew's URC Penylan Road, 5 Nov to 8 Dec, 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm. 7.30 pm Classical Guitar Concert. St John’s, Canton. LIGHTSHIP 2000. Holy Eucharist is 7.45 pm Paradise Run. celebrated aboard Lightship 2000 every Wednesday at 1.15pm. All welcome. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 9ui 10.00 am Day for Reflection. Llangasty. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. FIRST SOLEMN VESPERS for the Feast of St Martin on Saturday Gsjebz!:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. at 6pm at St Martin’s. Sung by St Martin’s Schola Cantorum. Tbuvsebz 10.30 am Readers’ Service. Llandaff Cathedral. SCOUT WINE AND WISDOM at 7.30pm on 21ui 11.00 am St Edward’s Bazaar. Roath Church House. Saturday in Roath Church House. Contact 4.00 pm Organ Recital. Llandaff Cathedral. Julie Smith 20-620335 to reserve a table. 6.00 pm Solemn Vespers. St Martin’s. £5 per person, refreshments provided. 7.30 pm Scout Wine and Wisdom. Roath Church House. FLOWER FESTIVAL St Martin’s, 9-11 Nov. 7.30 pm Priory Singers Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu! Tvoebz is Remembrance Sunday. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s starting at 10.50am, with the Act of Remembrance at 11am, and the Parish Service of Remembrance will be at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Job 19: 23-27a; 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-5, 13-17; Luke 20: 27-38. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm at 9 Waterloo Road (Gwyneth & Les), continuing discussion of “The 39 articles”. All are welcome. ORGAN RECITAL by David Geoffrey Thomas at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday at 4pm. Admission Free. Retiring Collection. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR is on Saturday, 11am-2pm in SHOE BOX SUNDAY. Once again we are supporting Roath Church House. Usual stalls etc. Offers of help to the Samaritan’s Purse and asking you to fill shoe boxes Mrs Megan Martin please. with gifts to help spread laughter and hope to children living in poverty. Leaflets will be available giving further COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist details. Please bring your boxes to our “Shoe Box this morning, and the 100 Club draw will take place. Service” at St Margaret’s on Sun 18 Nov at 6pm. Don’t Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. forget you need the envelope with £2 for each box. POPPIES for Remembrance Sunday are on sale in Further information from Gill Day 20-495496. church today. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Wed 21 Nov, PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the 7.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Rev Huw Rhydderch will church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to speak on “St Clare”. Free entry. Places at Ty Teilo are your friends, please do so. limited, and events may change so please check before coming 01656-890205. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is the first chorus of “Gloria” by Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741). The LLANDAFF DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP: Introit at Evensong is the third century hymn “Hail “R.S.Thomas, Priest & Poet” with Archbishop Barry at gladdening Light” set to music by John Stainer (1840- Ty Teilo Retreat House on Sat 24 Nov, 10.30am- 1901), and the anthem is the motet “If Ye Love Me”, by 2.30pm. Book: 01656-890205. Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 28 NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Sinfonia Sung Evensong at 3.30pm today: Dyson in F. Anthem: Concertante. And I saw a new heaven (Bainton). Visiting choir: Holy MOODS INDIGO is the title of a concert in aid of “Bullies Trinity, Coventry. Out” by Gary Mullins & friends at St Edward’s on Fri 30 THEOLOGY DAY at St Michael’s College on Tuesday, Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes music from the 11am-5pm. Promoting theology across Wales. Keynote shows & light opera. Tickets £5 available from Gill Day, lecture entitled ‘Millennial Misconceptions: Prophets as Sue Mowbray, Gary Mullins and the Parish Office. Prognosticators’ by Professor Gareth Lloyd Jones. £5 Further information from the Parish Office. for the day; £5 for lunch. TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every AN EVENING WITH TIMOTHY TATE, Classical other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: Guitarist, at St John's Church, Canton on Wednesday at 12 Dec. 7.30pm. Music from Spain, Italy, Brazil and Britain. OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at Mixing Drama, Beauty, Dance and Romance. Entrance St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- £5 (conc. £4). Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church FOR YOUR DIARY. House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches Wed 7 Nov. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. or joining the Run itself. We need loaves of sandwiches Sat 24 Nov. 11am-2pm. St Margaret’s Fayre. of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. beef using white medium sliced bread and individually Fri 30 Nov. 7.30pm. Gary Mullins & Friends Concert. wrapped sandwiches. The sandwiches can be given to Sun 2 Dec. 1pm. Advent Lunch. St Anne’s Hall. Kathie Mayer 20-495769 or left at Church House prior Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. to departure. Blankets, warm clothing and tinned dog Wed 5 Dec. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. food (with ring pulls) are also always needed. If you are Sun 9 Dec. Christmas Lunch. Roath Church House. interested in coming out on the Run – more volunteers Wed 12 Dec. Taizé Service. are urgently needed – please contact Kathie Mayer. Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. DAY FOR REFLECTION at Llangasty on Thursday, Sat 22 Dec. 10.30am. Cytûn Carol singing in Albany Rd 10am-4pm, with prayer at 12 noon. All Saints of Wales Sun 23 Dec. 4pm. Christmas Carol Service. Eucharist to be held in the Crypt Chapel. An opportunity St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. to pause for prayer and personal reflection - come for all WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors or part of the day. Bring your own lunch; coffee and tea and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of provided. No charge, but donations welcome. No need the sidesmen if you are new with us. to book. PARISH SURGERY is on Mondays, 6pm-7pm in the COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at Parish Office, for bookings of weddings and baptisms. St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- CONTACT NUMBERS. minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. “hours”. Next services: 15 Nov, 6 Dec. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. ORIOL PIANO TRIO concert at St Margaret’s on Fri 16 Email: [email protected] Nov at 7.30pm. Rolette de Montet (violin), Arthur Parkes Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] (cello) and Steven Burges (piano) present music by CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Brahms, Fauré, Martinü and Beethoven. £5 at the door Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. in aid of the organ restoration fund. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

Sfnfncsbodf!Tvoebz Weekly Newsletter No.1641 Sunday, 11th November, 2007 10.50 am Sung Eucharist, Act of Remembrance, Sermon, Youth Group & Sunday School. Hymns: 579, 165, 284, 585, Anthem: Earth Does Not Hold (Thiman), 584. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward. 7.00 pm Parish Service of Remembrance. Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Introit: Contakion of the Faithful Departed. Anthem: Lacrymosa (Mozart). 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 century, and especially at this time we remember those who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. We pray for those who have lost friends and loved ones. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the Anglican Peace Conference “Towards Peace in Korea” meeting in South Korea this week. We pray for the people of Pakistan, now living with a state of emergency and civil unrest. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the diocese of Vanuatu in the Province of Melanesia, and Bishop James Marvin Ligo. We pray for the victims of the school shooting in Finland and the family of student Meredith Kercher, murdered in Italy. We pray for the families and colleagues of the four fire fighters who died this week. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sao Tomé and Principe. We pray for the sick, especially Maria O’Brien. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Bishop Graham Chadwick, who died last week, also Harold John Henwood, Eric Payne and Jeanne Rees, whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING9.15am. All PRAYER are welcome will be to saidthe daily at St office. Edward’s 23ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. on Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6pm and 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. on Thursday at 7pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. Wednesday this week. 24ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. 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 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. 15-minute service of plainchant - the last of 7.00 pm South Wales Clarinet Choir rehearsal. Vestry. the monastic “hours”. ORIOL PIANO TRIO concert at St Margaret’s on Friday at Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 7.30pm. Rolette de Montet (violin), Arthur Parkes (cello) and 26ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. Steven Burges (piano) present music by Brahms, Fauré, 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Martinü and Beethoven. £5 at the door in aid of the organ 9.00 pm COMPLINE. restoration fund. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 27ui 7.30 pm Concert: Oriol Piano Trio. St Margaret’s. Tbuvsebz 12.00 pm Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary. St Woolos Cathedral, Newport. 28ui 7.30 pm Mendelssohn’s Elijah. University Concert Hall, Corbett Road. Ofyu! Tvoebz is the Third Sunday of the Kingdom. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, the Shoe Box Service is at St Margaret’s at 6pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at St Edward’s at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Malachi 4: 1, 2a; 2 Thessalonians 3: 6-13; Luke 21: 5-19. SHOE BOX SUNDAY. We will be holding our Shoe Box Service at 6pm next Sunday at St Margaret’s. Please bring your shoe boxes, and don’t forget your envelope with £2 for each box. The boxes will be collected from St Margaret’s on Tue 20 Nov (time to be advised). If you are able to come and load the boxes onto the van please ring Gill Day 20-495496. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ST EDWARD’S BAZAAR. Our thanks to everyone who MOODS INDIGO is the title of a concert in aid of “Bullies helped or supported. About £450 was raised for church Out” by Gary Mullins & friends at St Edward’s on Fri 30 funds. Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes music from the shows & light opera. Tickets £5 available from Gill Day, ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Earth Does Sue Mowbray, Gary Mullins and the Parish Office. Not Hold” by Eric Harding Thiman (1900-1975). The Further information from the Parish Office. Introit at the Service of Remembrance is “Give Rest O Christ”, the Contakion of the Faithful Departed (Kieff ROATH CHURCH HOUSE CHRISTMAS LUNCH on Melody) as sung in the Pannykhida (dirge) of the Sun 9 Dec, 12.30 for 1pm. Tickets £8 from Megan Orthodox Eastern Church of Russia, and the anthem is Martin and the Parish Office. “Lacrymosa” from the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 12 Dec. Mozart (1756-91). OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- Stanford in C. Anthem: Turn back, O man (Holst). Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT at 9 Waterloo Road (Gwyneth & Les), continuing on Mon 17 Dec at 7.30pm. discussion of “The 39 articles”. All are welcome. ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at St THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at the Faraday Lecture Woolos Cathedral, Newport on Sun 30 Dec at 6.30pm. Theatre, Swansea University, on Monday at 7pm. Mr FOR YOUR DIARY. Saif Ahmad (Chief Executive Officer of Muslim Aid U.K.) Sat 24 Nov. 11am-2pm. St Margaret’s Fayre. will speak on “For a Common Human Agenda: Muslim Wed 28 Nov. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Aid’s Vision and Work towards a World which Makes Fri 30 Nov. 7.30pm. Gary Mullins & Friends Concert. Sense”. Everybody Welcome. Admission Free. Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. CHURCH SHOP selling Cards For Good Causes (cards Wed 5 Dec. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. from registered charities who receive 87p in the £1 for Wed 12 Dec. Taizé Service. cards sold) at St Andrew's URC Penylan Road, 5 Nov to Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. 8 Dec, Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm. Mon 17 Dec. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. Sat 22 Dec. 10.30am. Cytûn Carol singing in Albany Rd GUILD OF SERVANTS OF THE SANCTUARY Autumn Sun 23 Dec. 4pm. Christmas Carol Service. Festival at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport, on Saturday: 12pm High Mass, 3.30pm Guild Office, Address, St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. Procession & Benediction. Preacher: The Dean of ARCHBISHOP ROWAN has sent a message of Monmouth The Very Revd. Dr Richard Fenwick. greeting to the Hindu community for their celebration of MENDELSSOHN’S ELIJAH will be performed at the festival of Diwali. He praised the Hindu Community 7.30pm on Saturday by Cardiff Bach Choir & Orchestra, for their contribution to so many areas of life in this at the University Concert Hall, Corbett Rd. Tickets £10 country, and also expressed the hope that Christians (students £5). 20-766589. and Hindus "should renew and further develop the local and national frameworks within which we can explore CANTEMUS CHAMBER CHOIR & St Augustine’s and appreciate our common and our distinctive Chamber Orchestra Concert at St Augustine’s, Penarth characteristics". next Sunday at 7.30pm. Handel’s “The ways of Zion do CONGRATULATIONS to Janice Goble on the birth of mourn” and Four Coronation Anthems. Tickets £12 th (conc. £10) at the door. grand-daughter Poppy Rose on 5 November. DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On Wed 21 Nov, PEACE INITIATIVES and reconciliation on the Korean 7.30pm at Ty Teilo, Llandow. Rev Huw Rhydderch will Peninsula will be the foci of a worldwide Anglican peace speak on “St Clare”. Free entry. Places at Ty Teilo are conference gathering on Wednesday when more than limited, and events may change so please check before 150 Anglican leaders, ecumenical guests and other coming 01656-890205. participants will travel to South Korea for TOPIK (Towards Peace in Korea). LLANDAFF DIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY GROUP: “R.S.Thomas, Priest & Poet” with Archbishop Barry at PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the Ty Teilo Retreat House on Sat 24 Nov, 10.30am- church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to 2.30pm. Book: 01656-890205. your friends, please do so. ST MARGARET’S CHRISTMAS FAYRE is on Sat 24 WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Nov, 11am-2pm at Roath Church House. Christmas and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of gifts, Christmas wrapping paper/decorations, toys, the sidesmen if you are new with us. jewellery, cakes, books, greeting cards, bottles, bric-a- CONTACT NUMBERS. brac, DVDs, CDs, Videos, Tapes, Games and a surprise Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. Pink, Silver and Gold stall! Coffee from 11am. Light Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. lunches from 12 noon. Email: [email protected]

ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 28 Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Sinfonia CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable Concertante. Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. ST ANNE’S ADVENT LUNCH Sun 2 Dec 1pm at St Anne’s Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Hall. Tickets £6 per person from Joan Gough 20-307256. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!uif!Ljohepn Weekly Newsletter No.1642 Sunday, 18th November, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 7, 243, 153(MP), Anthem: The Prayer (Sager & Foster), 208(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 6.00 pm Shoe Box Service. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. Introit: Ave Verum (Elgar). Psalms 93, 97. Hymns: 262, Anthem: Prevent Us O Lord (Le Fleming), 260. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Hylton Stewart. Readings: Daniel 6. Matthew 13, 1-9 & 18-23. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Waiapu in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia and Bishop John William Bluck. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the Anglican Peace Conference continuing to meet in South Korea this weekend. We pray for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. We pray for the victims of the cyclone in Bangladesh. We pray for all who are trying to resolve the political crisis in Pakistan. We pray for the family and friends of the seven people who were killed in the house fire in Omagh. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of , & , and Rev Philip Gullidge and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cameroon, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea. We pray for the sick, especially those known to us. 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. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. UIJT!XFFL! EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm 2:ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. CHURCH SHOP selling Cards For Good Causes Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. (cards from registered charities who receive 87p 31ui 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. in the £1 for cards sold) at St Andrew's URC Penylan Road, Mon-Sat until 8 Dec, 10am-4pm. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 32tu 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. SPIRITUALITY GROUP. On 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. Wednesday, 7.30pm at Ty Teilo, 7.30 pm Diocesan Spirituality Group. Ty Teilo, Llandow. Llandow. Rev Huw Rhydderch will speak on “St Clare”. Free entry. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Places are limited, so please check 33oe 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. before coming 01656-890205. 7.00 pm Afghan Action (carpet display). St Michael’s College. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. SPIRITUALITY GROUP: “R.S.Thomas, Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Priest & Poet” with Archbishop Barry at 34se 7.00 pm Theology Public Lecture. Swansea University. Ty Teilo Retreat House on Saturday, Tbuvsebz 10.30 am Diocesan Spirituality Group. Ty Teilo, Llandow. 10.30am-2.30pm. 01656-890205. 35ui 11.00 am St Margaret’s Christmas Fayre. Roath Church House. ST MARTIN’S Schola Cantorum 5.00 pm Traffic Accident Service. St Woolos Cathedral, Newport. sing the Office of Vespers at St 6.00 pm Vespers. St Martin’s. Martin’s on Saturday (Eve of 7.30 pm Music for a Lutheran Christmas. Llandaff Cathedral. Christ the King) at 6pm. 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: Jeremiah 23: 1-6; Colossians 1: 11-20; Luke 23: 33-43. CANTEMUS CHAMBER CHOIR & St Augustine’s Chamber Orchestra Concert at St Augustine’s, Penarth today at 7.30pm. Handel’s “The ways of Zion do mourn” and Four Coronation Anthems. Tickets £12 (conc. £10) at the door. ST MARGARET’S CHRISTMAS FAYRE is on Saturday, 11am-2pm at Roath Church House. Christmas gifts, Christmas wrapping paper/decorations, toys, jewellery, cakes, books, greeting cards, bottles, bric-a-brac, DVDs, CDs, Videos, Tapes, Games and a surprise Pink, Silver and Gold stall! Coffee from 11am. Light lunches from 12 noon. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] SHOE BOX SUNDAY. The Service is at 6pm this MOODS INDIGO is the title of a concert in aid of “Bullies evening at St Margaret’s. Please try to come along – Out” by Gary Mullins & friends at St Edward’s on Fri 30 bring your shoe boxes, and don’t forget your envelope Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes music from the with £2 for each box. The boxes will be collected from shows & light opera. Tickets £5 available from Gill Day, St Margaret’s on Tuesday at 10.30am. If you are able Sue Mowbray, Gary Mullins and the Parish Office. to come for about 15-30 minutes and load the boxes Further information from the Parish Office. onto the van please ring Gill Day 20-495496. ST ANNE’S ADVENT LUNCH on Sun 2 Dec at 1pm at ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Prayer” St Anne’s Hall. Tickets £6 per person from Joan Gough by Carole Bayer Sager (b.1947) and David Walter 20-307256. th Foster (b.1949). The Introit at Evensong is the 14 PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets on Sun 2 Dec at century Eucharistic hymn “Ave Verum Corpus” by 7.45pm at 56 Colchester Avenue, (Mal and Steve’s), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), and the anthem is “Prevent continuing the discussion on “The 39 Articles”. All Us, O Lord” by Christopher Le Fleming (1908-1985). welcome. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at Gibbons Second Service. Anthem: Evening Hymn St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Next service: 6 Dec. (Gardiner). ROATH CHURCH HOUSE CHRISTMAS LUNCH on PARISH SURGERY is on Mondays, 6pm-7pm in the Sun 9 Dec, 12.30 for 1pm. Tickets £8 from Megan Parish Office, for bookings of weddings and baptisms. Martin and the Parish Office. AFGHAN ACTION – a display of hand-made carpets at TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every St Michael’s College on Thursday, 7pm-9pm. other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: FESTIVAL at Holy Cross Church, 12 Dec. Cowbridge. 22-25 Nov. Details 01446-772 302. OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURE at Swansea University St Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint- (James Callaghan Lecture Theatre) on Friday at 7pm. Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. Refreshments will be Professor John Bryant, Chair of Christians in Science, available during the interval. Tickets £5 at the door. will speak on “A Christian Looks at Some Issues in Accompanied children free. Medical Ethics”. Everybody welcome. Admission free ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT ST WOOLOS CATHEDRAL annual service to on Mon 17 Dec at 7.30pm. remember all those affected by road traffic accidents, on ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at Saturday at 5pm. The service is open to anyone who St Woolos Cathedral, Newport on Sun 30 Dec at wishes to commit to God's love and care someone who 6.30pm. has died in such an accident. Preacher: Rev Michael Marsden, Chaplain at Nevill Hall Hospital, FOR YOUR DIARY. Abergavenny. Sun 2 Dec. 7pm. Advent Carol Service. Wed 5 Dec. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY and Wed 12 Dec. Taizé Service. orchestra perform Music for a Lutheran Christmas by Sun 16 Dec. 6pm. Civic Carol Service. St Margaret’s. Praetorius, Bach, Schutz and Buxtehude and Elgar's Mon 17 Dec. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. Coronation Ode, at the Cathedral on Sat 24 Nov at Sat 22 Dec. 10.30am. Cytûn Carol singing in Albany Rd 7.30pm. Tickets £12 & £6 (conc. for children and Sun 23 Dec. 4pm. Christmas Carol Service. students). 20-485 482. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. A SERVICE OF THANKS to celebrate the “Diamond OUR THANKS to Gary for deputising on the piano and Anniversary” of Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of organ this morning. Edinburgh – special prayers and hymns will be included in the 6pm Sung Evensong next Sunday at St PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the Margaret’s. church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to your friends, please do so. e-EUCHARIST at Michael Sobel Sports Centre, Aberdare next Sunday at 6pm. Celebrant: Bishop David WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Yeoman. 20-499876. email: [email protected]. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Wed 28 Nov at 7.30pm. Programme includes Mozart’s Sinfonia CONTACT NUMBERS. Concertante. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. THE PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS at St David’s Hall on Email: [email protected] Sat 1 Dec, 3pm and 7.30pm, with Cambrensis, the St Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected] David’s Praise Choir & Orchestra and St David’s Praise Youth Choir. Tickets £10/£8.50 (children under 12 £5). CLERGY AVAILABILITY. Rev Stewart is unavailable 20-878444. Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!uif!Ljohepn Weekly Newsletter No.1643 Sunday, 25th November, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 218, 224, Be Still, Anthem: Old Irish Blessing (Agay), Majesty. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Preacher: Mr Brian Shapcott. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Jesu, Priceless Treasure (Bach). Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 72. Hymns: 216, Anthem: Te Deum (Woodward), Jesus is King. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: 1 Samuel 8, 4-20. John 18, 33-37. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Wellington in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia, and Bishop Thomas John Brown. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for those who are suffering as a result of the cyclone in Bangladesh. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Cardiff, Dewi Sant and for St Catwg’s Church, , celebrating their 150th anniversary this week, and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. We pray for the sick, especially Maria O’Brien and Charlie Burfoot. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Doreen Cooper, who died this week, also Doreen Lylta Williams and Norman Betty whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 37ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Monday and 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. Wednesday this week. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Uvftebz! 12.30 pm Healing Time. Lightship 2000. on Monday and Friday at 6pm and on Thursday 38ui 1.00 pm Music for Christmas. St David’s Hall. at 7pm this week. All welcome. 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS with Cardiff 7.30 pm City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra. Cathedral. Metropolitan Cathedral Choir of St David Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. at St David’s Hall on Tuesday at 1pm. 39ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Box Office 20-878444. 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA CONCERT on 1.30 pm Chapter. Roath Church House. Wednesday at 7.30pm. Programme includes 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist & Ministry of Healing. Cathedral. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. SCOUT POST. Stamps are available at 16p again this year 3:ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. from the Parish Office. Last posting date is Mon 10 Dec. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. THE FAN GROUP is for anyone to come and meet in friendship – we sit and listen to each Gsjebz 10.30 am Funeral of Julie Protheroe. St Margaret’s. other in turn – it never lasts more than an hour. 41ui 1.30 pm Funeral of Graham Newton. St Margaret’s. We welcome occasional or regular visitors. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Penylan Group meets on 1st Saturday of the 7.30 pm MOODS INDIGO CONCERT. month in the schoolroom at 6.30pm. Tbuvsebz 11.30 am Memorial Service for Tasker Watkins VC (ticket only). Cathedral 2tu 3.00 pm The Promise of Christmas. St David’s Hall. ST ANNE’S ADVENT LUNCH next Sunday 6.30 pm FAN Group. Schoolroom. at 1pm at St Anne’s Hall. Tickets £6 per 7.30 pm The Promise of Christmas. St David’s Hall. person from Joan Gough 20-307256. 7.30 pm Concert for Muscular Dystrophy. Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of Advent. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at 11am and the Sunday School and Youth Group will join us for the service. Coffee will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist, and the 100 Club Draw will take place. The Service of Readings and Music for Advent will take place at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 2: 1-5; Romans 13: 11-14; Matthew 24: 36-44. A SERVICE OF THANKS to celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh – special prayers and hymns will be included in the 6pm Sung Evensong tonight at St Margaret’s. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] MOODS INDIGO is the title of a concert in aid of “Bullies CAROL SERVICES AT ST EDWARD’S. Advent Out” by Gary Mullins & friends at St Edward’s on Friday Readings & Carols next Sunday at 7pm. Nine Lessons at 7.30pm. Programme includes music from the shows & Carols for Christmas accompanied by the orchestra & light opera. Tickets £5 available from Gill Day, Gary on Sun 23 Dec at 4pm. Mullins and the Parish Office. Further information from ANNUAL SLEEP OUT for CASH (Cardiff Action for the the Parish Office. This is a Concert not to be missed – Single Homeless) is on Fri 7 Dec. Gary and his friends are very talented and will produce ROATH CHURCH HOUSE CHRISTMAS LUNCH on a concert which includes music from the shows, light Sun 9 Dec, 12.30 for 1pm. Tickets £8 from Megan opera – a real treat. For further information contact Martin and the Parish Office. Tricia (Parish Office). THE are traditionally chanted before ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Old Irish and after the Magnificat during the Octave before Blessing” by Denes Agay (1911-2007). The Introit at Christmas, December 16-23. Originally included at Evensong is the first chorale from “Jesu Priceless Vespers, they will be sung each day at St Edward’s at Treasure” by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and Evening Prayer that week (starting with Choral the anthem is the setting of “Te Deum Laudamus” by Evensong on 16th). Each antiphon highlights a title for Rev. Herbert Hall Woodward (1847-1909). the Messiah: O Sapientia (O Wisdom), O Adonai (O CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Lord), O Radix Jesse (O Root of Jesse), O Clavis David Walmisley in D Minor. Anthem: Ave Maris Stella (Grieg). (O Key of David), O Oriens (O Rising Sun), O Rex e-EUCHARIST at Michael Sobel Sports Centre, Gentium (O King of the Nations), and O Emmanuel. Aberdare today at 6pm. Celebrant: Bishop David Also, each one refers to the prophecy of Isaiah of the Yeoman. 20-499876. email: [email protected]. coming of the Messiah. DISCUSSION: “Faith and Restorative Justice” with Meg THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS is the title of a Jazz Underdown, prison chaplain, at St Teilo’s Church, Musical based on the Epiphany story, with music by Woodville Rd today at 7.30pm. Simon Payne. It’s world premiere performance takes place at St Edward’s on the afternoon of the Feast of THE PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS at St David’s Hall on th Saturday, 3pm and 7.30pm, with Cambrensis, the St David’s the Epiphany, Sunday 6 January 2008. Praise Choir & Orchestra and St David’s Praise Youth Choir. FOR YOUR DIARY. Tickets £10/£8.50 (children under 12 £5). 20-878444. Wed 5 Dec. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. MEMORIAL SERVICE for the late Sir Tasker Watkins VC at Sun 9 Dec. 12.30pm. Christmas Lunch. Church House. the Cathedral on Saturday at 11.30am (ticket only). Wed 12 Dec. Taizé Service. CONCERT for Muscular Dystrophy Campaign: "Spirit of Sat 15 Dec. 7.30pm. Opera Mint Concert. Christmas" at the Cathedral on Saturday at 7.30pm. Sun 16 Dec. 6pm. Civic Carol Service. St Margaret’s. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at 7.45pm Mon 17 Dec. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. at 56 Colchester Avenue, (Mal and Steve’s), continuing the Sat 22 Dec. 10.30am. Cytûn Carol singing in Albany Rd discussion on “The 39 Articles”. All welcome. Sun 23 Dec. 4pm. Christmas Carol Service. 24/7 PRAYER WEEK 3-10 Dec at the University St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. Anglican Chaplaincy, 61 Park Place. Details from: CONGRATULATIONS to Harriet Evans Webb who was [email protected] captain of the Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan County FEAR, DEMOCRACY & RELIGION is the title of a Netball team which travelled to Millfield School in the consultation facilitated by Revd Roy Jenkins with West Country this week and won their match there speakers Dr Abdalla Yassin and Professor Sean 19-17. Well done to all the team who fought back from Loughlin (of St Edward’s Choir) at Trinity College, being 7-3 down at half time. Carmarthen on Tue 4 Dec at 10am. Contact Rev Robin CHRISTIAN AID launched an appeal for Bangladesh on Morrison 20-348252. Monday, and has sent an initial £100,000 to five partner AIDS ADVENT SERVICE. An ecumenical service for organisations who are providing emergency food, cash, World AIDS Day, reflecting on over 20 years of and medical relief to 100,000 people in some of the CAFOD’s work on HIV/AIDS projects across the worst-affected areas. Aid workers believe that tens of developing world, will take place at St Peter’s RC thousands more lives would have been lost in last Church on Wed 5 Dec at 7.30pm. All welcome. week’s cyclone if early-warning measures had not been introduced over the past 15 years. ST PETER'S PLAYERS ANNUAL this year is Aladdin, Wed 5 Dec - Sat 8 Dec at St Peter’s RC SAMARITAN’S PURSE – Operation Christmas Child. Church Hall. Doors open 7pm, show starts 7.30pm. Over 200 boxes were collected on Tuesday morning. Tickets £7.50 (children £5). Bar, refreshments on sale. Many, many thanks to everyone who helped, providing shoe boxes, gifts, donations, loading the van etc. TENOVUS “LOVELIGHT SERVICE” at 7.30pm on Thur 6 Dec in St Margaret’s. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of COMPLINE. Next service: 6 Dec. the sidesmen if you are new with us. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 12 Dec. CONTACT NUMBERS. MUSIC & WORDS for the Christmas Season on Mon 10 Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. Dec at 7.30pm at St Margaret’s. Music from “Women in Rev Sue Rees is unavailable this week. Harmony” and students from Cardiff University. Rev Stewart is unavailable on Monday. Admission free, donations to St Margaret’s Organ Fund. Parish Office 20-484808. Email: [email protected]

]!Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1644 Sunday, 2nd December, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon, joined by Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Come and see the shining hope, And did those feet, Mine eyes have seen the glory, Anthem: And the glory of the Lord (Handel), Make Way. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 7.00 pm Service of Advent Music and Readings. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees.. Hymns: 49, 48, Rejoice!, 52, Show Your Power O Lord, There’s a Sound on the Wind, 50, 51. Anthems: Matin Responsory (Palestrina), O Emmanuel (Stainer), Adam Lay Ybounden (Ord), O Sapientia (Ramsey), Behold Thou Shalt Conceive (Handl), A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter). In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of West Texas in Province VII of ECUSA, and Bishop Gary Lillibridge and Suffragan Bishop David Mitchell Reed. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons in the Sudan. At the time of World AIDS Day we pray for all who are suffering as a result of HIV/AIDS. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Lisvane and Rev Paul Thompson and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Liberia and Sierra Leone. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, John Warren, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli, Maria O’Brien and Charlie Burfoot. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Doreen Cooper, whose funeral is in St John’s on Wednesday, also Esme Catherine Scobie, Robert Woolgar Riddett (organist at St Edward’s 1941-1976) and Gerald Roy Hubbarde, whose anniversaries occur at this time. UIJT!XFFL! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. 4se 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. St Edward’s on Monday and Friday at 7.00 pm Montgomery Trust Lecture. Swansea University. 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. All welcome. Uvftebz! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 5ui 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. AIDS ADVENT SERVICE. An ecumenical Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. service for World AIDS Day, reflecting on 6ui 12.00 pm Funeral of Doreen Cooper. St John’s (town). over 20 years of CAFOD’s work on HIV/AIDS 12.30 pm Funeral of William Albert. St Edward’s. projects across the developing world, will take 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. place at St Peter’s RC Church on Wednesday 7.30 pm AIDS Advent Service. St Peter’s (RC). at 7.30pm. All welcome. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. COMPLINE will be sung on Thursday at 9pm. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. 7ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. ANNUAL SLEEP OUT for CASH (Cardiff 7.00 pm TENOVUS Lovelight Service. St Margaret’s. Action for the Single Homeless) is on Friday. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. 7.30 pm Salaam Bethlehem (Riding Lights). St Teilo’s, Woodville Rd. 7.30 pm Ty Hafan Carol Service. Cathedral. ST PETER'S PLAYERS ANNUAL PANTOMIME 9.00 pm COMPLINE. this year is Aladdin, Wed-Sat this week at St Gsjebz 1.15 pm Funeral of Georgina Paige. St Anne’s. Peter’s RC Church Hall. Doors open 7pm, show 8ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. starts 7.30pm. Tickets £7.50 (children £5). Bar, 7.30 pm Welsh Camerata Concert. Cathedral. refreshments on sale. ST ANNE’S ADVENT LUNCH today at 1pm at St Anne’s Hall. Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Pavane. Caerphilly Castle. 9ui 7.30 pm Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society Annual Carol Service. Cathedral. 7.30 pm Cardiff Male Choir. St John’s, Canton. 8.00 pm Carols for Christmas (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Community). St John’s, town. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second 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: Isaiah 11: 1-10; Romans 15: 4-13; Matthew 3: 1-12. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church PAVANE. Cardiff’s oldest and best-known live early music House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches group, one of the groups that rehearse regularly at St or joining the Run itself. We need loaves of sandwiches Edward’s will be playing their throughout the day in the CADW Christmas Medieval Fayre and Market at the of either sliced cheese (not grated), tuna, ham or corned Great Hall in Caerphilly Castle on Saturday (10am-5pm) and beef using white medium sliced bread and individually next Sunday (11am-4pm). Medieval Christmas music (English, wrapped sandwiches. Chocolate biscuits, cakes would Latin, French, Spanish, Mexican ... ) on medieval fiddle, also be appreciated as this is our Christmas Run. crumhorns, cornamuse, oud, curtal, harp, hurdy-gurdy, Donations towards presents are also welcome. The recorders, lute, cittern and various percussion. See a picture of sandwiches etc can be given to Kathie Mayer 20- the group performing at St Edward’s on pavane-emc.co.uk 495769 or left at Church House prior to departure. WELSH CAMERATA with the Welsh Baroque Orchestra at Blankets, warm clothing and tinned dog food (with ring Llandaff Cathedral on Friday at 7.30pm: Schutz’s Christmas pulls) are also always needed. If you are interested in Story, Schutz’s Magnificat and Buxtehude’s Das Neugeborne coming out on the Run please contact Kathie Mayer. Kindelein; there will also be music for viols, cornets and sackbuts. Tickets £10 (conc. £7, students & unwaged £3), COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist from Rowlands Music 20-221199 or on the door. this morning, and the 100 Club draw will take place. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE CHRISTMAS LUNCH next Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. Sunday, 12.30 for 1pm. Tickets £8 from Megan Martin ANTHEM at the Eucharist is “And the Glory of the Lord” and the Parish Office. from the oratorio “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel MUSIC & WORDS for the Christmas Season on Mon 10 (1685-1759). Dec at 7.30pm at St Margaret’s. Music from “Women in NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Said Harmony” and students from Cardiff University. Evensong at 3.30pm; the Advent Procession at 6.30pm. Admission free, donations to St Margaret’s Organ Fund. ADVENT CAROL SERVICE is at 7pm today. If you would like TAIZÉ SERVICE. Next service: 12 Dec. to read on of the lessons, please see Alan this morning. OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at St PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets today at 7.45pm Edward’s on Sat 15 Dec at 7.30pm, including Saint-Saëns’ at 56 Colchester Avenue, (Mal and Steve’s), continuing Christmas Oratorio. Refreshments will be available during the the discussion on “The 39 Articles”. All welcome. interval. Tickets £5 at the door. Accompanied children free. 24/7 PRAYER WEEK this week: 3-10 Dec at the ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS CONCERT University Anglican Chaplaincy, 61 Park Place. Details on Mon 17 Dec at 7.30pm. from: [email protected] SCOUT CAROL SERVICE 6pm Mon 17 Dec St Margaret’s. MONTGOMERY TRUST LECTURE on Monday, 7pm in CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE at St Edward’s is on James Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University. Sun 23 Dec at 4pm, accompanied by the orchestra. Rev John Proctor (Vice-Principal and Director of Studies ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at St in New Testament at Westminster College, Cambridge) Woolos Cathedral, Newport on Sun 30 Dec at 6.30pm. will speak on “The Christmas Stories in Faith and THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS Jazz Musical at St Edward’s on Preaching” All Welcome: Free. the afternoon of the Feast of the Epiphany, Sun 6 Jan. FEAR, DEMOCRACY & RELIGION. Religious extremism will come under the spotlight in the first of a series of talks FOR YOUR DIARY. between Christians and Muslims in Wales. Professor Sean Wed 5 Dec. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Loughlin (of St Edward’s Choir) will take part in this Sun 16 Dec. 6pm. Civic Carol Service. St Margaret’s. consultation facilitated by Revd Roy Jenkins at Trinity College, Mon 17 Dec. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. Carmarthen on Tuesday. The Church in Wales is teaming up Sat 22 Dec. 10.30am. Cytûn Carol singing in Albany Rd with the Muslim Council of Wales and the Welsh Centre for Sun 23 Dec. 4pm. Christmas Carol Service. International Affairs to explore the challenges and concerns Wed 2 Jan. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. created by different fundamentalism or forms of religious St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. extremism throughout the world. Dr Abdalla Yassin Mohamed, director of the Discover Islam Centre, Cardiff, will also take MOODS INDIGO. Many thanks to Gary and his friends part. Saleem Kidwai, secretary general of the Muslim Council for a wonderful concert on Friday evening in aid of the of Wales, said the talks were a great step forward for Muslims charity “Bullies Out”. and Christians: “Trying to understand each others’ view-points is the first step towards a solution. Dialogue is the only way SCOUT POST. Scout Stamps are available at a cost of forward not wars or wars of words.” Contact Rev Robin 16p again this year from the Parish Office. Last posting Morrison 20-348252. date is Mon 10 Dec. RIDING LIGHTS THEATRE COMPANY presents “Salaam WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors Bethlehem”, a production about life in the Palestinian Christian and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of Community of Bethlehem in 2006, on Thursday at 7.30pm at the sidesmen if you are new with us. St Teilo’s, Woodville Rd. Tickets £10 (conc. £7, 10 or more £6). Details from Matthew Dixon 20-463499. CONTACT NUMBERS. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. CAROLS FOR CHRISTMAS organised by the Lesbian, Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. [email protected] Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community in South Parish Office 20-484808. [email protected] Wales, on Saturday at 8pm at St John’s Church in town. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is Mince pies and to follow. All welcome. unavailable on Friday. BARBARA MOFFATT is out of hospital and would like Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any to thank everyone for their cards and good wishes. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Tfdpoe!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1645 Sunday, 9th December, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: 47, 50, I Watch the Sunrise, Peace is flowing like a river. Anthem: “Benedictus” (Karl Jenkins). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: Send and Gather to me (Mendelssohn). Officiant: Mr David Hanks. Psalms 11, 28. Hymns: 45, Anthem: This is the Record of John (Gibbons), 54. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Harris in A Minor. Readings: 1 Kings 18, 17-39. John 1, 19-28. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Western New York (Province II of ECUSA) and Bishop Michael Garrison. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. We pray for all who are suffering at this time as a result of flooding. In this diocese we pray for the Conventional District of Tremorfa and Rev Robert Capper and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. We pray for the sick, especially Maria O’Brien. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Sarah Lily Henwood and Winifred Haigh, whose anniversaries occur at this time. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s UIJT!XFFL! at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s on Monday at 6pm and on Thursday at 7pm this week. 21ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Music & Words for the Christmas Season. St Margaret’s.

Uvftebz! 5.00 pm Drop-In Retreat Evening. Lightship 2000. MUSIC & WORDS for the Christmas Season 22ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. on Monday at 7.30pm at St Margaret’s. 7.30 pm CLIC Sargent Carol Service. St David’s Hall. Programme directed by Kelvin Thomas, Organist: Stephen Price. Music from Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. “Women in Harmony” and students from 23ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. Cardiff University. Admission free, donations 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. to St Margaret’s Organ Fund. 7.30 pm TAIZÉ SERVICE. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Wednesday this week. 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Uivstebz TAIZÉ SERVICE at St Edward’s on Wednesday 24ui 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. of this week at 7.30pm. Next service: 20 Feb. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. Gsjebz 6.00 pm Christingle Service. Cathedral. 25ui 7.30 pm RWCMD Classical & Baroque Ensemble. St Teilo’s, Woodville Rd. 7.30 pm Christmas Guitar Recital. St Joseph’s, New Zealand Rd. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA Tbuvsebz 10.00 am Guild of St Illtyd. Ty’r Capel, St Michael’s College. SOLOISTS CONCERT on Mon 26ui 7.30 pm Opera Mint Concert. St Edward’s. 17 Dec at 7.30pm. 7.30 pm Cathedral Choir Christmas Concert. Cathedral. 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: Isaiah 35: 1-10; James 5: 7-10; Matthew 11: 2-11. FLOWERS FOR CHRISTMAS. Mrs Megan Martin will PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the be pleased to receive your donations towards to cost church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them of providing flowers for the church for Christmas. to your friends, please do so. OUR THANKS to Gary Mullins for deputising on the WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors organ and piano this morning. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. SCOUT POST. Scout Stamps are available at a cost of 16p again this year from the Parish Office. Last THE LORD MAYOR’S CIVIC CAROL SERVICE is at posting date is Monday. St Margaret’s next Sunday at 6pm. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS is the title of a Jazz CHRISTMAS SERVICES AT ST EDWARD’S. Musical based on the Epiphany story, with music by Sunday 23 Dec. 4pm. Carol Service. Simon Payne. Its world premiere performance takes . 4pm. Carols around the tree. place at St Edward’s on the afternoon of the Feast of 11.45pm. . the Epiphany, Sunday 6th January 2008, at 4pm. There Christmas Day. 10.30am. Family Eucharist with Sunday will be a rehearsal for anyone interested in taking part at School Presentation on the Nativity. St Edward’s on Thur 20 Dec, starting at 5pm. GUILD OF ST ILLTYD meets on Saturday, 10am-3pm ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “Benedictus” at Ty'r Capel, St Michael's College, Llandaff. All 15-21 from “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” by Karl year olds welcome. Let Jan Gould know if you are Jenkins (b.1944). The Introit at Evensong is the coming (so there'll be enough lunch!). 20-563116. Recitative “Send and gather to me” from the oratorio “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47), and the OPERA MINT will give a concert of seasonal music at anthem is “This is the Record of John” by Orlando St Edward’s on Saturday at 7.30pm, including Saint- Gibbons (1583-1625). Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio. Refreshments will be available during the interval. Tickets £5 at the door. ROATH CHURCH HOUSE CHRISTMAS LUNCH Accompanied children free. The first part is made up of today, 12.30 for 1pm. short pieces from Opera Mint’s varied repertoire, lasting PAVANE perform today 11am-4pm at the CADW about 40 minutes. After the interval, “The Christmas Christmas Medieval Fayre and Market at the Great Hall Oratorio” by Saint-Saëns will be performed. It has an in Caerphilly Castle. ethereal quality, setting a mood of joy and tranquillity for the approach to Christmas. It lasts about 45 minutes. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Evensong at 3.30pm: Howells Collegium Regale. THE O ANTIPHONS will be sung each day in the Anthem: I am the way (Dove). octave before Christmas at St Edward’s at Evening Prayer (starting with Choral Evensong on 16th). IGNITE EVENT featuring The Ignite Worship Band today, 8pm-10pm at The Solus, Cardiff Students Union. SCOUT CAROL SERVICE is at 6pm on Mon 17 Dec in Speaker: Rob Parsons. [email protected] 20- St Margaret’s. 512247. An offering will be taken. CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE at St Edward’s is on LIGHTSHIP 2000 ADVENT LABYRINTH. Come down Sun 23 Dec at 4pm, accompanied by the orchestra. to Cardiff Bay this advent not just for the restaurants, ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at shops or theatre, but to go on a journey. It may be St Woolos Cathedral, Newport on Sun 30 Dec at challenging, but it will also be rewarding. It’s a journey 6.30pm. into the heart of God and back out into his creation. The Advent Labyrinth at the Lightship will give you the time COMPLINE is sung approximately once a month at and space to put work, Christmas presents and other St Edward’s on Thursdays at 9pm. Compline is a 15- distractions to one side and spend time being still and minute service of plainchant - the last of the monastic reflecting. We look forward to seeing you at the “hours”. Next services: 10 Jan, 7 Feb, 6 March. Labyrinth this Advent. Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10am- FOR YOUR DIARY. 4pm, Sun 2pm-4pm. Evenings for groups by Sun 16 Dec. 6pm. Civic Carol Service. St Margaret’s. arrangement. For more information contact Matthew Mon 17 Dec. 7.30pm. Orchestra Soloists Concert. Trick [email protected], or Revd Monica Sat 22 Dec. 10.30am. Cytûn Carol singing in Albany Rd Mills on 0785328444. Sun 23 Dec. 4pm. Christmas Carol Service. “DROP-IN” RETREAT EVENING at Lightship 2000 on Wed 2 Jan. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. the Second Tuesday of the month, 5pm-7pm. St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. A CHRISTMAS CONCERT of Seasonal Music & Carols CARDIFF WALKING FOR HEALTH. A regular led on Tuesday, 7.30pm at St David’s Hall. 25th Anniversary community walk every Thursday at 2pm from the Roath Concert in aid of CLIC Sargent Caring for Children with Community Hall. The walk lasts 45 minutes. Cancer. Welsh Hospitals’ Choir, Brass Ensemble of NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE. The project to produce a and Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Garth digital archive of the newsletters is now complete, Olwg. Tickets £7-£12. Early booking advisable. thanks to the efforts of Richard Mayer. A CD of annual “MEET THE AUTHOR”: Lionel Fanthorpe on Thursday PDFs (not searchable) of all the newsletters from June at Central Library (11am) and Roath Library, Newport 1976 to December 2006 is available, price £2 for church Rd (5pm). Free admission. funds. Please speak to Alan if you would like one. ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC & DRAMA CONTACT NUMBERS. Classical and Baroque Ensemble: from Venetian Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. ceremonial to Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks. Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. [email protected] At St Teilo’s Church, Woodville Road on Friday at Parish Office 20-484808. [email protected] 7.30pm.Tickets £5/£3.50 20-391391. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on Friday. CHRISTMAS GUITAR RECITAL with Graham Anthony Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any Devine on Friday at 7.30 pm at St Joseph’s Church, person who is in hospital. New Zealand Road. Tickets £10 (conc. £7).

]!Uif!Uijse!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1646 Sunday, 16th December, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: We’ve a story to tell, Sleepers wake, Taizé, Anthem: The Peace of God (Rutter), Great is the Darkness. Taizé: Wait for the Lord, whose day is near; wait for the Lord, keep watch, take heart. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 6.00 pm Lord Mayor’s Civic Carol Service. St Margaret’s. 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Officiant: Mr Geoffrey Smith. Introit: O Come Thou Wisdom from on High (from Veni Emmanuel). Psalms 12, 14. Hymns: 228, Anthem: O Sapientia (Ramsey), 52. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 5, 8-30. Acts 13, 13-41. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Worcester in the Church of England and Bishop-elect John Geoffrey Inge, and for the Diocese of Worcester- and Suffragan Bishop David Stuart Walker. We pray for peace in the world, remembering especially Basra in Iraq, where British troops hand control to the Iraqis today. We pray for the people of Pakistan, where the state of emergency has now been lifted. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Llandaff North and Rev Thomas Cooper and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo. We pray for the sick, especially Maria O’Brien, Charlie Burfoot and Eddie O’Donovan. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially those whose anniversaries occur at this time: Gwen Hockings, Gladys Cheshire, Colin Herbert Williams and Constance Frances Treasure (20th anniversary this year). MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. !!Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are EVENING PRAYER will be said at Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Adonai. St Edward’s every evening this week: 28ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Mon 6pm, Tue 5.30pm, Wed 6pm, Thur 6.00 pm Scout Carol Service. St Margaret’s. 7pm, Fri 6pm, Sat 6pm. All welcome. 7.30 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Soloists Concert. ST EDWARD’S ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS Uvftebz! 1.30 pm St Anne’s School Nativity Play. St Anne’s. Concert on Monday at 7.30pm. 29ui 5.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Radix Jesse. PARISH OFFICE is closed on Tuesday until 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. 11am and all day on Wednesday this week. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. ST ANNE’S SCHOOL NATIVITY PLAY at 2:ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. 1.30pm on Tuesday and Wednesday of this 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. week in St Anne’s. All are welcome to attend. 1.30 pm St Anne’s School Nativity Play. St Anne’s. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Clavis David. REHEARSAL FOR “THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS” at Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. St Edward’s on Thursday, starting at 5pm. 31ui 5.00 pm Full Choir Practice (The Camels’ Christmas). 7.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Oriens. COMEDY FOR CHRISTMAS. An evening of silent 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. films at Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Rd West, Gsjebz!32tu 6.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Rex Gentium. on Saturday at 7pm. WELCOME. We extend a warm Tbuvsebz!! 10.30 am Cytûn Carol Singing. Albany Road. welcome to all visitors and newcomers. oe 33 6.00 pm Evening Prayer: O Emmanuel. Please make yourself known to one of 7.00 pm Comedy for Christmas. Canton Uniting Church.! the sidesmen if you are new with us. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Fourth Sunday of Advent. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and the Service of is at 4pm. Evening Prayer will be said at 5.30pm (O Virgo virginum). Eucharist readings: Isaiah 7: 10-16; Romans 1: 1-7; Matthew 1: 18-25. PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to your friends, please do so. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP ROWAN’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. “One of CHRISTMAS SERVICES AT ST EDWARD’S. the strangest yet most moving expressions in the New Sunday 23 Dec. 4pm. Carol Service. Testament is a verse in the Letter to the Hebrews (11.16): God Christmas Eve. 4pm. Carols around the tree. ‘is not ashamed to be called their God’. The writer is talking 11.45pm. Midnight Mass. about the history of God’s people. When they have been Christmas Day. 10.30am. Family Eucharist with Sunday faithful to God, faithful in keeping on moving onwards in faith rather than settling down in self-satisfaction, when they are School Presentation on the Nativity. true pilgrims, then God is content to be known as their God. LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on He declares himself to be the God of pilgrims, of people who Sat 5 Jan, 10.30am-12pm at Dawn Jones’, tickets £1 know that their lives are incomplete and that they are still from Gill Day or Barbara Beavis. Bring & Buy, cakes & journeying towards the fullness of God’s promises. Visiting raffle. Raising funds for our Charities. refugee camps in the Middle East, as I did this October, brings home so powerfully what it is to be literally and absolutely THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS is the title of a Jazz homeless, not able to be confident in any resources, inner or Musical based on the Epiphany story, with music by outer. People in these terrible circumstances will never be Simon Payne. Its world premiere performance takes complacent, they will always be looking for a future. They are place at St Edward’s on the afternoon of the Feast of in the most obvious way those whom God is not ashamed to the Epiphany, Sunday 6th January 2008, at 4pm. be with, people whose God he is happy to be. He is at home with the homeless. But it is also an image of God’s relationship COMPLINE. Next services: 10 Jan, 7 Feb, 6 March. with all those who are homeless or wandering in other ways. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 20 Feb. “God loves the company of those who know their need, and PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP next meeting is Sun 13 Jan, that is why he comes at Christmas to stand with them, to live 7.30pm at Mal and Steve’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. We will with them and to die and rise for them. He is the God who hear John Humphries’ (of Today, Mastermind & Splott) blesses the poor – not only those who are materially poor, but interview where he discusses his struggle with faith. Then we those who are without the ‘riches’ of self-satisfaction and will look at suggestions and ideas for talks and courses for our complacency, those who know all too well how far they fall Spring sessions. Do come and join us, new members always short of real and full humanity. And so we are to pass on that welcome. blessing to the poor of every sort, those who are without FOR YOUR DIARY. material resources and those who are ‘poor in spirit’ because Wed 2 Jan. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. they know their hunger and need. Let us ask ourselves honestly whose company we are ashamed to be seen in – and Wed 20 Feb. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. then ask where God would be. If he has embraced the failing St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. and fragile world of human beings who know their needs, then NETWORK. The ecumenical newsletter is out this we must be there with him. week. We have a few bundles to deliver – please take “May God give us every blessing and joy in the Christmas one if you can help. Season.” HELP IS NEEDED for the preparation and cooking of +Rowan Cantuar food for the reception after the Lord’s Mayor’s civic ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is “The Peace service at St Margaret’s today. If you can help please of God” by John Rutter (b.1945). The Introit at come to Roath Church House at 2.30pm. Evensong is “O come thou wisdom from on high” from THE CONCERT at St Margaret’s last Monday was a the the hymn “O come, O come Emmanuel”, and the very enjoyable event. Our thanks to Kelvin Thomas and anthem is the first of the O-Antiphons, “O Sapientia” by his singers for a lovely evening. We raised £293.10 Robert Ramsey (c.1590-c.1644). towards the organ fund. CHURCHES TOGETHER in STAR (Splott, Tremorfa, FLOWERS FOR CHRISTMAS. Mrs Megan Martin will Adamsdown and Roath) hold their Annual Carol Service at be pleased to receive your donations towards to cost of Willows High School this afternoon at 3pm. All welcome. providing flowers for the church for Christmas. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: Noble LIGHTSHIP 2000 ADVENT LABYRINTH. Come down to in B Minor. Anthem: O thou, the central orb (Wood). Cardiff Bay this advent not just for the restaurants, shops or THE O ANTIPHONS will be chanted before and after the theatre, but to go on a journey. It may be challenging, but it will Magnificat at Evening Prayer during the Octave before also be rewarding. It’s a journey into the heart of God and back Christmas (starting with Choral Evensong today) Each out into his creation. The Advent Labyrinth at the Lightship will antiphon highlights a title for the Messiah: O Sapientia (O give you the time and space to put work, Christmas presents Wisdom), O Adonai (O Lord), O Radix Jesse (O Root of and other distractions to one side and spend time being still Jesse), O Clavis David (O Key of David), O Oriens (O Rising and reflecting. We look forward to seeing you at the Labyrinth Sun), O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations), and O this Advent. Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 2pm- Emmanuel. Also, each one refers to the prophecy of Isaiah of 4pm. Evenings for groups by arrangement. For more the coming of the Messiah. information contact Matthew Trick CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE at St Edward’s next [email protected], or Revd Monica Mills on 0785328444. Sunday at 4pm, accompanied by the orchestra. If you would like to read one of the lessons, please see Alan. CONTACT NUMBERS. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. NO PARISH SURGERY on Christmas Eve or New Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. [email protected] Years Eve. Parish Office 20-484808. [email protected] ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is St Woolos Cathedral, Newport on Sun 30 Dec at unavailable on Friday. 6.30pm. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gpvsui!Tvoebz!pg!Bewfou Weekly Newsletter No.1647 Sunday, 23rd December, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Stewart Lisk. Hymns: 215(MP), 217, 49, Anthem: Behold Thou Shalt Conceive (Handl), 235(MP). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 4.00 pm Nine Lessons & Carols, led by St Edward's Choir & Orchestra. Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Carols: Once in Royal, Coventry Carol, Unto Us is Born a Son, Carol Sweetly Carol, In the Bleak Midwinter, The First Nowell, O Little Town, As with gladness, Hark the Herald. Anthems: Adam Lay Ybounden (Ireland), Jesus Child (Rutter), Bethleham (Gounod), The Lamb (words William Blake, music Tavener), For Unto Us a Child is Born (Handel), The Shepherds’ Farewell (Berlioz), O Holy Night (Adam), The Holy City (Adams). 5.30 pm Evening Prayer: O Virgo Virginum. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Yirol in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan and Bishop Benjamin Mangar Mamur. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. We pray for the people of Pakistan, remembering those who died in the suicide attack on Muslims offering prayers for the festival of Eid, and those who died in the rail crash earlier in the week. In this diocese we pray for the Deanery of Penarth and Barry and Canon Robert Donkin (Area Dean) and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Ghana and Nigeria. We pray for the sick, especially Maria O’Brien, Charlie Burfoot and Eddie O’Donovan. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially John Edward Thomas, Vera Gladys Ellis, Henry Wellington (priest) and Ronald James Mayer, whose anniversaries occur at this time. Christmas Eve 4.00 pm Carols Around the Tree. Officiant: Rev Sue Rees. 11.45 pm Midnight Mass, Procession and Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward. Hymns: 59 (Proc.), Good King Wenceslas, Silent Night, Anthem, 60. Anthem: O Magnum Mysterium (Vittoria). Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne).

Christmas Day (Note service time: 10.30am) 10.30 am Sung Eucharist, Procession & Sunday School Presentation (no sermon). Hymns: 59, 62, It was on a starry night, Anthem: Sans Day Carol (Rutter), 65. 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 today for the Diocese of Yola in the Province of Jos, Nigeria, and Bishop Ibrahim Markus. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Cadoxton-Juxta-Barry and Rev John Hughes. MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at UIJT!XFFL! 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Xfeoftebz St Stephen, the First Martyr EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 37ui 9.30 am HOLY EUCHARIST. St Margaret’s. on Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6pm this Uivstebz St John the Evangelist week. All welcome. 38ui 9.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. St Anne’s. 5.00 pm Choir Practice (Camels’ Christmas and St Woolos). 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. THE PARISH OFFICE IS CLOSED until Fri 4 Jan. The Holy Innocents Gsjebz NO PARISH SURGERY on Christmas Eve or New 39ui 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. St Edward’s. Years Eve. 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of Christmas. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am. There will be no Evensong at St Edward’s, but the Choir will sing the Holy Eucharist at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport, at 6.30pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 63: 7-9; Hebrews 2: 10-18; Matthew 2: 13-23. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] CHRISTMAS SERVICES AT ST EDWARD’S. THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS is the title of a Jazz Sunday 23 Dec. 4pm. Carol Service. Musical based on the Epiphany story, with music by Christmas Eve. 4pm. Carols around the tree. Simon Payne. Its world premiere performance takes 11.45pm. Midnight Mass. place at St Edward’s on the afternoon of the Feast of Christmas Day. 10.30am. Family Eucharist with Sunday the Epiphany, Sun 6 Jan at 4pm. This performance is School Presentation on the Nativity. dedicated to the memory of Dr Eric Payne. Admission is free, but there will be a collection, all proceeds going to WEEKDAY EUCHARISTS. There is no Eucharist at St the Alzheimer’s Society. Edward’s on Wednesday this week. Eucharists for Wed- Fri will be as follows: CYTÛN MEETING at Roath Park URC, Penywain Rd on Wednesday (St Stephen). 9.30am. St Margaret’s. Mon 7 Jan at 7.30pm. Thursday (St John the Evangelist). 9am. St Anne’s. COMPLINE. Next services: 10 Jan, 7 Feb, 6 March. Friday (Holy Innocents). 10am. St Edward’s. PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP next meeting is Sun 13 ANTHEMS. The anthem this morning is “Behold Thou Jan, 7.30pm at Mal and Steve’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. Shalt Conceive” by Jacob Handl, also known as We will hear John Humphries’ (of Today, Mastermind & Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591). At Midnight Mass the Splott) interview where he discusses his struggle with anthem is “O Magnum Mysterium” by Tomás Luis da faith. Then we will look at suggestions and ideas for Vittoria (c.1548-1611), and on Christmas Morning the talks and courses for our Spring sessions. Do come and “Sans Day Carol” arranged by John Rutter (b.1945). join us, new members always welcome. CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7.30pm on Rubbra in A Flat. Anthem: This is the record of John Mon 14 Jan at Roath Church House. Agenda and (Gibbons). minutes will be circulated on the week-end of 5 Jan. TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 20 Feb. CHOIR & ORCHESTRA PRACTICE at 2.30pm today to find out whether we have been practising the same FOR YOUR DIARY. items for the Carol Service. Wed 2 Jan. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. Wed 20 Feb. 7.30pm. Taizé Service. SERVICE OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS today at PCC. 14 Jan. 7.30pm. Roath Church House. 4pm, accompanied by the orchestra. If you would like to St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. read one of the lessons, please speak to Alan. THE CLERGY wish everyone a holy, peaceful and YOU ARE INVITED to 23 Blenheim Road on Christmas happy Christmas. Eve at 8pm for carols and drinks. CONGRATULATIONS to Ed Doe on being awarded LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL. Nine Lessons & Carols on 'Best Young Player' at the Wales Aussie Rules end of Christmas Eve at 3.30pm. Choral Eucharist of the Night season awards. Ed was top scorer in the Wales v at 9.30pm: Haydn’s Little Organ Mass. England international recently, with 5 goals, and has been selected to train with the Great Britain senior SOLEMN VESPERS at St Martin’s on Christmas Eve Aussie Rules squad. and Christmas Day, both at 6pm. Also First Mass of THE LORD MAYOR, CLLR. GILL BIRD would like to Christmas at 9pm on Christmas Eve, Sung by the thank all those who participated in any way in her Civic Liturgical Choir (Haydn’s Missa “Sancti Nicolai”). Service – a special thank you to The Rev Stewart Lisk, CAROLS AROUND THE TREE at St Edward’s on Rev Sue Rees, the two Churchwardens, Bob Hyett and Christmas Eve at 4pm. the Choir and all the people who prepared the excellent reception. The collection raised £620.77. The Lord CAROLS AROUND THE CRIB at St Margaret’s on Mayor has generously donated half of the collection to Christmas Eve at 5pm. St Margaret’s Organ Fund. REHEARSAL FOR “THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS” at FLOWERS FOR CHRISTMAS. Mrs Megan Martin will St Edward’s on Thursday, starting at 5pm. be pleased to receive your donations towards to cost of providing flowers for the church for Christmas. CHRISTMAS PEAL by the Cathedral Guild of Ringers at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday, 2pm-5.30pm. PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the church, price £1 for church funds. If you can sell them to ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at your friends, please do so. St Woolos Cathedral, Newport next Sunday at 6.30pm. WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors There will be no Evensong at St Edward’s. and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF HEAVEN. New Years the sidesmen if you are new with us. Eve Ignite Event featuring The Ignite Worship Band. CONTACT NUMBERS. 10pm-1am at the City Temple. Speakers: Carl Brettle, Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. Chris Cartwright, Nigel James and Gary Smith. 20- Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. [email protected] 512247. [email protected] Parish Office 20-484808. [email protected] LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is Sat 5 Jan, 10.30am-12pm at Dawn Jones’, tickets £1 unavailable on Friday. from Gill Day or Barbara Beavis. Bring & Buy, cakes & Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any raffle. Raising funds for our Charities. person who is in hospital.

]!Uif!Gjstu!Tvoebz!pg!Disjtunbt Weekly Newsletter No.1648 Sunday, 30th December, 2007 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Youth Group and Sunday School. Hymns: Unto Us is Born a Son, 594, Infant Holy, Anthem: Jesus Child (Rutter), 58. Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). Celebrant & Preacher: Rev Sue Rees. 6.00 pm Said Evensong at St Margaret’s. 6.30 pm Sung Eucharist at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport (St Edward’s Choir). Settings of Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Karl Jenkins. Anthem: O Magnum Mysterium (Vittoria) In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Zonkwa in the Province of Abuja, Nigeria, and Bishop Duke Akamisoko. We pray for peace in the world, remembering the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and the troops serving there. We pray for the people of Nigeria, the family of Benazir Bhutto, and all who have been killed or injured in the bombing and rioting there. In this diocese we pray for the Parish of Penmark and in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. We pray for the sick, especially Maria O’Brien, Charlie Burfoot, Eddie O’Donovan. We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially David Vernon Edmunds and Margaret Shepherd, whose anniversaries occur at this time. ST EDWARD’S CHOIR will sing a Eucharist Service at UIJT!XFFL! St Woolos Cathedral, Newport today at 6.30pm. There Npoebz! 4.30 pm Evening Prayer. will be no Evensong at St Edward’s. 42tu 10.00 pm Knocking on the Door of Heaven (Ignite Event). City Temple. Uvftebz!2tu! 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's.! MORNING PRAYER is said in St Margaret’s at 9.15am. All are welcome to the daily office. Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by coffee. 3oe 12.30 pm Luncheon Club. Roath Church House. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s 7.45 pm Paradise Run. on Monday at 4.30pm, Thursday at 7pm and Friday at 6pm this week. All welcome. Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. THE PARISH OFFICE IS CLOSED until Friday. 4se 5.00 pm Choir Practice (Camels’ Christmas). 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. NO PARISH SURGERY on New Years Eve. 7.30 pm Full Choir Practice. REHEARSALS FOR “THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS” Gsjebz 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. at St Edward’s on Thursday at 5pm, Friday at 6.30pm 5ui 6.30 pm Choir Practice (Camels’ Christmas). and Saturday at 2pm. Tbuvsebz 10.30 am Ladies’ Circle Coffee Morning. 110 Carisbrooke Way. 6ui 2.00 pm Choir Practice (Camels’ Christmas). 7.30 pm Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra Concert. Llandaff Cathedral. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Feast of the Epiphany. 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 Jazz Musical “The Camels’ Christmas” will be performed at 4pm, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Ephesians 3: 1-12; Matthew 2: 1-12. THE CLERGY wish everyone a peaceful, happy and healthy new year. CONGRATULATIONS to Maddie Evans-Webb on obtaining a distinction in her Grade I piano examination, and to Gary Mullins on obtaining a distinction in his Grade VII piano examination. PARISH DIARIES are available at the back of the church, price £1 for church funds. CONGRATULATIONS to Kathie Mayer who is one of eight founding members of the first virtual branch (worldwide) of the Mothers’ Union. Her induction ceremony took place last week at . PARADISE RUN on Wednesday leaves Roath Church House at 7.45pm. You can help by making sandwiches or joining the Run itself. 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. The sandwiches can be given to Kathie Mayer 20-495769 or left at Church House prior to departure. Blankets, warm clothing and tinned dog food (with ring pulls) are also always needed. If you are interested in coming out on the Run, please contact Kathie Mayer. THE FAN GROUP will not meet at St Edward’s while the weather is cold. Meetings will resume later in the year. Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP BARRY’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: THE CAMELS’ CHRISTMAS is the title of a Jazz One of the great problems our world faces is the growth Musical based on the Epiphany story, with music by of fundamentalism. The Oxford Dictionary defines it as Simon Payne. Its world premiere performance takes “a religious movement based on strict adherence to place at St Edward’s on the afternoon of the Feast of certain tenets held to be non negotiable”. And the the Epiphany, Sun 6 Jan at 4pm. This performance is words non negotiable say it all – because dedicated to the memory of Dr Eric Payne. Admission is fundamentalists believe so strongly in the truth of their free, but there will be a collection, all proceeds going to convictions that they assume they are right and any the Alzheimer’s Society. contrary opinion is wrong. ANTHEMS. The anthem this morning is “Jesus Child” A new phenomenon has arisen in our country however, by John Rutter (b.1945). At St Woolos Cathedral this what can be called atheistic fundamentalism. It evening the choir will sing the Sanctus, Benedictus and advocates that religion in general and Christianity in Agnus Dei from “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” by particular have no substance and assumes that most Karl Jenkins (b.1944) and the anthem “O Magnum people will accept their premise that faith has no value Mysterium” by Tomás Luis da Vittoria (c.1548-1611). and is superstitious nonsense. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. To have a coherent and rational debate about the tenets Congregational Evensong at 3.30pm. of the Christianity is perfectly natural. To have a virulent, almost irrational attack upon it claiming that what is KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF HEAVEN. New Years being said is self evidently true is dangerous, not just Eve Ignite Event featuring The Ignite Worship Band. because it refuses to allow any contrary viewpoint but 10pm-1am at the City Temple. Speakers: Carl Brettle, also because it affects the public perception of Chris Cartwright, Nigel James and Gary Smith. 20- religion. It leads, for example, to local authorities calling 512247. [email protected] Christmas ‘Winterval’, to hospitals removing all Christian LADIES CIRCLE EPIPHANY COFFEE MORNING on symbols from hospital chapels, or to schools refusing to Saturday, 10.30am-12pm at Dawn Jones’, tickets £1 put on nativity plays, or allowing children to send from Gill Day or Barbara Beavis. Bring & Buy, cakes & Christmas cards with a Christian message, or airlines raffle. Raising funds for our Charities. refusing staff the freedom to wear a cross round their CYTÛN MEETING at Roath Park URC, Penywain Rd on necks. Mon 7 Jan at 7.30pm. All of this is what I would call the new ‘fundamentalism’ COMPLINE. Next services: 10 Jan, 7 Feb, 6 March. of our age and any kind of fundamentalism, be it TAIZÉ SERVICES. Next service: 20 Feb. Biblical, atheistic or Islamic, is dangerous, because it e-EUCHARIST at St Mary’s Church, Bute Street, on Sun 13 allows no room for disagreement, for doubt, for debate, Jan at 6pm. Email: [email protected]. 20-499876. for discussion. It leads to the language of expulsion and exclusivity, of extremism and polarisation, and the claim PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP next meeting is Sun 13 Jan, 7.30pm at Mal and Steve’s, 56 Colchester Avenue. We will that because God is on our side, He is not on yours. hear John Humphries’ (of Today, Mastermind & Splott) Contrast all that with the message of the angel to the interview where he discusses his struggle with faith. Then we shepherds in the nativity story in St Luke’s Gospel, “I will look at suggestions and ideas for talks and courses for our bring you good news of great joy that will be for all Spring sessions. Do come and join us, new members always people”. It is a message of joy and good news for welcome. everyone – no one is excluded, everyone is embraced, PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL meets at 7.30pm on from the shepherds, who would have been seen as Mon 14 Jan at Roath Church House. Agenda and nobodies by respectable Jewish society, to the magi – minutes will be circulated on the week-end of 5 Jan. Gentiles, who would have been strangers in the land. QUIZ in memory of Meurig Oxenham (a former Parish The Gospel writers make the point that Jesus is the Warden) and in aid of Marie Curie Holm Towers on Sat focus of all God’s promises and purposes from the 2 Feb, 7.30pm at Roath Church House. The quiz will beginning of creation. God is not exclusive, he is on the include a buffet supper, bingo and a whisky roll. side of the whole of humanity with all its variety. TRIP TO TAIZE for 15-21 year olds, 26 July - 4 Aug. And that can be an uncomfortable truth to Contact Rev Jan Gould: [email protected] embrace. When Jesus at the beginning of his public FOR YOUR DIARY. ministry goes to the synagogue at Nazareth and says Tue 19 Feb. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. that God has anointed him: PCC. 14 Jan. 7.30pm. Roath Church House. “to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim freedom St Edward’s Committee: Sun 20 Jan at 4.30pm. for prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, release for the oppressed and to proclaim the Lord’s favour,” his WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the fellow countrymen drive him out; they cannot cope with sidesmen if you are new with us. such a God as this, a God who is all embracing especially those who are life’s victims. The God they CONTACT NUMBERS. Rev Stewart Lisk: 20-484808/20-487854. want is a far more tribal figure, a God made in their own Rev Sue Rees: 20-493940. [email protected] image, a God whom they can control and manipulate Parish Office 20-484808. [email protected] and manage. Rev Stewart is unavailable Monday. Rev Sue is unavailable on But that is not the God portrayed in the nativity stories Friday. and therefore not the God of Jesus. Please let the clergy know of any sick person or any person who is in hospital.