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Weekly Newsletter No. 4388 Sunday, lit" January, 2003 11.00 am Sung Eucharist, Sermon, Sunday School 86 Youth Group. Celebrant: Fr Ken Marfin. Hymns: 69, 271, 72, Anthem, Rec.: We are marching (sh.5). Preacher: Rev. Caroline Downs. Setting: Nicholson. Agnus Dei: Norman Doe. Anthem: The Shepherds' Farewell (Berlioz). 6.30 pm Evensong. Officiant: Rev. Mari Price. Introit: O Praise the Lord (Batten). Psalm 135. Hymns: 62(MP), Anthem: Dsrmi Jesu (Rutter), 212(MP). Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A.Somen/e/lin F. Readings: Isaiah 46, 3-13. Romans 12, 1-8. In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Church sf Myanmar (Burma). We pray for peace in the world and understanding amongst all nations. We pray for the people of Nokhhern Ireland, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Iraq. We pray for those suffering from famine in Southern Africa and Ethiopia. We pray for those suffering as a result of the floods in th~scountry. In this diocese we pray for the Archdeaconry of Margam and Archdeacon Philip Morris. We pray also for the Parish of St Paul's, Grangetown. We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, Gwendoline Hopkins, John Warren, Ron Mayer. We pray for the repose of the souls of the faithful departed, especially Mary Stark, whose anniversary occurs at this time. at Llandaff Cathedral (St Dyfrig Chapel) on Mlandags The Epiphany of Our Lord 6th 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Parish Office. 7.30 pm Holy Eucharist. Llandaff Cathedral. Tuesday 7th 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Wednesdsy 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST. Followed by co 8th 10.30 am Discussion Group. 6 Newminster R 12.30 pm Roath Church House Luncheon CI 1.15 pm Holy Eucharist. Lightship 2000. 2.00 pm Senior Citizens. Roath Church House. 7.30 pm Roath Park Cytljn Meeting. Roafh Park URC, Penywain Road. 7.45 pm Paradise Run. COMPtlNE will be sung on Thursday at ,9pm. Th~rsday 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne's. Compline is a 15-minute service of plainchant - 9th 6.30 pm Full Choir Practice for "The Witness". the last of the monastic "hours". 8.00 pm Full Choir Practice (Services). 9.00 pm COMPLINE. Memt Sunday is the First Sunday of Epiphany, celebrating the Baptism of Christ. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward's at Ilam, the Sunday School and the Youth Group will meet at Ilam, and Evensong will be sung at 6.30pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 1: 1-5; Acts 19: 1-7; Mark 1: 4-1 1. COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist this morning, and the draw for the 100 Club will take place. Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. The Sunday School and Junior Choir will continue the line of coins - please give them your support. ANTHEMS. The anthem at the Eucharist is "The Shepherds' Farewell'' from "L'Enfance du Christ", opus 25 by Hector Berlioa (1803-69). The introit at Evensong is the motet "0 Praise the Lord all ye Heathen" by Adrian Batten (1591- 1637'1) and the anthem is "Dormi Jesu" by John Rutter. NO CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral today. Sung Evensong is at 3.30pn-1,with Howells Collegium Regale, and the Anthem Videntes stellam (Lassus). ST ANNE'S SUNDAY SCHOOL PRESENTATIQN is at 4.1 5pm today in St Anne's. All welcome. WEEKDAYS. Rev. Mari Price normally says Evening Prayer at St Edward's weekdays at 5.30pm. Members of the congregation are welcome to join her. There will be no Evening Brayer on Monday of this week. Internet: http://StEdRoath.fripod.com Email: [email protected] ROATH PARK CYTON meets on Wednesday. The Council is keen to promote more opportunities for cooperation and joint worship between the churches. If you have any ideas you would like considered, or would like to different world in which anything can happen. In this world, with a help in this work, please have a word with Alan dab or two of makeup here and a change of costume there the Mayer, who is chairman of the Council. players are able to transform themselves completely - to assume new identities, far removed from their every day characters and ST EDWARD'S COMMITTEE will meet today personalities. As spectators we enter willingly into the make at 5pm. believe. We admire the skill of the actors. And perhaps we feel a twinge or two of envy. How wonderful to be able to escape into ST MARGARET'S EVENSONG & another character, to become someone else altogether - inhabiting EUCHARIST for Epiphany at 6.30pm today. that absorbing world on the other side of the footlights. TAIZE SERVICES take place at St Edward's After the performance we accept the make believe for what it was. every other month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. But in much of the modern world the issue is a bit more serious. Next service: 15 Jan. We are in the world not of make-believe but of make-overs. Walk down almost any street in town, and you'll see banks, businesses, PUT YOUR YOUTH WORK TO THE TEST. cafes and bars busy reinventing themselves. Time for a change - This is a series of sessions from the Llandaff to the decor and the name. Businesses, charities, seem obsessed Youth Department for youth leaders, clergy with re-branding themselves. You do wonder a bit how much and all who work with and for young people in difference it really makes. So what's going on? I suppose that the Church and beyond. A variety of themes behind all this is an anxiety. What do people really think of us, of are covered, and each session provides an me? Do they trust us, do they admire us, do they think we're better opportunity to share with other youth leaders than our competitors? Perhaps if we changed the name, changed your joys and challenges in working with the image, we'd look better, and be trusted and relied on. Worth a young people. The first session looks at drug try. But how do we know? use and misuse, and is on Tue 21 Jan from Perhaps people trust us even less when we change the brand 7pm at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre. name? It can be an infallible recipe for anxiety, permanent, restless WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. concern about how we look. We're bound to think, as the year There will be a United Service on Wed 22 Jan changes, about change in general - and this is just one kind of at 7.30pm at Albany Road Baptist Church. change. But it's one that tells us some uncomfortable truths about ourselves, about the way we live now. THE WITNESS by Jimmy & Carol Owens will So it may be worth remembering that, for Christians, New Year's be this year's show at St Edward's. We plan to Day also commemorates the Naming of Jesus. Christians, like perform it on Fri & Sat 31 Jan & 1 Feb. other religious believers, see God as someone who tells us who he Rehearsals are on Thursdays. Anyone is, who gives himself a name by which we know him, a name to call interested in taking part (on stage or behind him. And we believe that God isn't constantly anxious about what the scenes) please speak to Alan. we think of him, constantly reinventing himself. Of course, that OUR THANKS to Richard, for deputising on hasn't stopped us down the ages inventing millions of pictures of the organ and piano this morning. him - human images of our own devising to help us try to grasp the OUR THANKS to the Sunday School for their But in reality Christians, like other religious people, believe that excellent contribution to the Cytirn Carol God doesn't change - he is eternally who he is and delighted in Praise last Sunday. The Service was very well being who he is, So God tells us, openly, lovingly, who he is, and attended - the smaller churches in our Council invites our response. And the strange thing is that if we do respond would not have been large enough! in trust, we discover that our anxieties about who we are can be ST EDWARD'S EMAIL ADDRESS. Please dealt with. For if God doesn't change, there's something in us that note that, yet again, we have had to change doesn't change, something that's always true and valuable and the email address. The new address is loveable. No need for constant makeovers. [email protected] For me, this isn't just words - I find myself in the middle of some of the biggest changes in my own life. Still, however the world goes, PRAYERS FOR PEACE AT EPlPHANY are whether any of us ends up as a success or a failure, something is available on the Church of England's website An Invitation to Prayer. This website was originally created to stimulate prayer following the tragic events of September 11. The website received 26,500 page requests on its first day. So far it has received more than 140,000 page r'equests. Its address is WELCOME. We extend a warm welcome to all visitors and http:llwww.invitationtoprayer.org newcomers. Please make yourself known to one of the sidesmen if you are new with us. PARISH DlARlES are on sale today at f Ieach. WHEN YOU NEED ME: Rev. Mari Price (Asst Curate), 23 Ty RQATH CHURCH HOUSE PAPER QUlZ available in Draw Road, Roath Park, Cardiff, CF23 5HB.