Capel y Boro Service Verdi Chorus of Hebrew Slaves, Opening music: Sun 17 May 2020 at 11am from ‘Nabucco’ Karl Jenkins And God shall Morriston Orpheus Choir wipe away all tears from ‘The Service for Mental Health Armed Man: A Mass for Salm 57 Awareness Week Peace’ Mandela and Shakespeare’s God shall wipe away all tears and Complete texts, readings, Julius Caesar there shall be no more death, hymns with links, and neither sorrow nor crying, translations Song - Wyn Davies neither shall there be any more Count on Me Wyn Davies pain. Praise the Lord. (Revelation 21:4) from John Milton Paradise Lost John Clare View here: Written in Northampton County https://www.youtube.com/watch? Asylum v=WhXEHGKj8U4 Arr Brian Hughes Hiraeth Côr DInas from Diary of Anne Frank Message, from Prison letters of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Be Still My Soul Intrada (Finlandia David T. Clydesdale, Jean Ysbryd y tragwyddol Dduw, Sibelius, Katharina Von Schlegel) disgyn arnom ni; Ysbryd y Opening music: tragwyddol Dduw, disgyn arnom Prayers Karl Jenkins And God shall wipe ni: plyg ni, trin ni, golch ni, cod ni: including Prayer of Dame away all tears from ‘The Armed Julian of Norwich Ysbryd y tragwyddol Dduw, Man: A Mass for Peace’; Côr disgyn arnom ni. Caerdydd Glân gerwbiaid a seraffiaid (Sanctaidd Iôr) Spirit of the eternal God, descend Intrada and Welcome (Richard Mant cyf. Alafon) upon us; Spirit of the eternal God, descend upon us: Who would true valour see Blessing fold us, treat us, wash us, raise us: (John Bunyan) Spirit of the eternal God, descend Closing music: A talk by John Jones on the upon us. Paul Simon hymn Newyddion braf Bridge over Troubled Water (sung by NHS staff Llandudno, Newyddion braf a ddaeth i’n bro Who would true valour see, May 2020) (John Dafydd, cytgan Elfed Lewys) let him come hither; one here will constant be, Gwenallt come wind, come weather; from Dartmoor and Plasau’r there’s no discouragement Brenin shall make him once relent his first avowed intent O llefara, addfwyn Iesu to be a pilgrim. (William Williams) Whoso beset him round Ephesians 4: 1-16 / 17-32 with dismal stories do but themselves confound; his sermons at the Zoar Chapel in Elfed, as he was commonly known, his strength the more is. Southwark Street" was also from Carmarthenshire, No lion can him fright; from Blaenycoed, between he’ll with a giant fight, View here: Carmarthen and Newcastle Emlyn, but he will have a right https://www.youtube.com/watch? who came to London in 1898, to be a pilgrim. v=BVIM4_gan4E initially to Harecourt Chapel, a famous place of worship in Islington, before being invited to Hobgoblin nor foul fiend lead the Tabernacle, King’s Cross can daunt his spirit; A talk by John Jones on the in 1904 where he remained for he knows he at the end hymn Newyddion braf almost forty years. shall life inherit. Then fancies fly away, The next hymn was written by a Elfed started preaching at an early he’ll fear not what men say; shoesmith from the village of age and was known locally as the Caeo, in the hills between he’ll labour night and day “Boy Preacher”. While he was at Lampeter and Llandovery. His to be a pilgrim. Newcastle Emlyn grammar school name was John Dafydd, and it’s he was introduced to poetry and rumoured that he made William the strict meters and began to Williams Pantycelyn’s shoes! John compete at eisteddfodau. He later Dafydd was a Methodist who was attended Carmarthen Presbytarian greatly influenced by the religious College where he won every prize ideas of John Bunyan, especially his during his four years there. The Pilgrim’s Progress, which was National Eisteddfod in Wrexham popular reading in Wales in the in 1888 was called Elfed’s 18th century with its Puritan Eisteddfod as he won three of the overtones. literature prizes and it was during this time that he wrote some of his This uplifting hymn first appeared most popular hymns. in Pantycelyn’s first collection of Welsh hymns, Aleluia, in 1747 and After a period in England, Elfed was described as a meditation on returned to Wales, as minister of eternal life. The chorus, however, Park Chapel in Llanelli. While was added in the 20th century by there, he won the chair at the the minister of King’s Cross chapel National Eisteddfod in 1894 and in London, Howell Elvet Lewis, was editor of the Congregational originally for a different hymn by hymn book, Y Caniedydd John Dafydd Caeo. Elfed’s words Cynulleidfaol. were united with John Dafydd’s in its current form in the Detholiad His long tenure at King’s Cross for the 1994 gymanfa programme. covered the 1904 revival, the 1st World War and the Depression in the 20s. He helped a great many who had come to London in search of work during this time, received many honorary John Bunyan window at Southwark doctorates and became Archdruid Cathedral, the venue for the of the Gorsedd between 1924 and recording of this hymn on the link 1928. Retiring from King’s Cross in below and close to Capel y Boro. 1940, Elfed retired to Penarth and, Bunyan had a connection with despite failing eyesight, he Southwark. Horace Monroe writes: continued to travel to preach and "John Bunyan, the tinker of Bedford, lecture until his death in 1953. is connected with Southwark as the preacher who drew crowds to hear Newyddion braf a ddaeth i’n David ‘Gwenallt’ Jones Euogrwydd oesoedd sydd bro, from Plasau’r Brenin yn methlu marw: hwy haeddent gael eu dwyn ar go', A Thywi las fel llinyn mae'r Iesu wedi cario'r dydd, yr hen wynfydau caiff carcharorion fynd yn rhydd. Yn dirwyn rhwng hwsmonaeth y gwaith a’r ydau. Cytgan: O llawenhawn, cydlawenhawn You heard them. The congregation am ddyfod Iesu Grist i’n byd; of the damned efe yw’r Gair, Duw cariad yw, Ascended and in session with their efe yw’r gobaith inni i gyd: dogs. Halelwia! Llawenhawn, Their screech owls, and their endless cydlawenhawn, Written in 1934, the novel’s hero cries am ddyfod Iesu Grist i’n byd. Myrddin Tomos echoes the writer’s of pain and guilt. Shapes writhing in own experience of imprisonment as the fog; But in your cell you gripped Mae Iesu Grist o'n hochor ni, a conscientious objector during your necklace of goodness, your fe gollodd ef ei waed yn lli; World War One. lucky charm, trwy rinwedd hwn fe'n dwg yn The blue river Tywi winding through iach Nid oedd yr un darlun ar y fields of hay and corn. i’r ochor draw 'mhen gronyn bach. muriau. Cerdyn rheolau’r car- char yn unig a hongiai ar un Gwenallt (the bardic name of David Wel, f'enaid, bellach cod dy ben, ohonynt. Darllenodd Myrddin James Jones, 1899 –1968) was one mae'r ffordd yn rhydd i'r nefoedd Tomos y rheolau drwyddynt yn of the most important figures of wen; fanwl, ac o ddiffyg llenyddiaeth 20th-century Welsh-language mae'n holl elynion ni yn awr amgenach i’w darllen, darllenodd literature. The poet created his mewn cadwyn gan y Brenin mawr. hwynt lawer gwaith ar ôl hynny, bardic name by transposing Alltwen, hyd oni wyddai hwy ar gof. the name of the village across the Good news has come to our region, Rheolau: 1. Rhaid i garcharorion river from his birthplace. it is worthy to be brought to mind gadw distawrwydd […]. Gwenallt was born in Pontardawe, Jesus has carried the day, Glamorganshire, and was prisoners may go free. There wasn’t a single picture on the conscripted into the Army in 1917 walls. Only a card with the prison during World War I. He declared Chorus: rules hung on one of them. Myrddin himself a conscientious objector and O rejoice, rejoice Tomos read through the rules in was imprisoned at Wormwood for Jesus Christ came into our world; detail, and because of the lack of Scrubs before being transferred to he is the Word, God is love, alternative reading material, he read Princetown Work Centre in the he is the hope to us all: them many times after that, until he former Dartmoor Prison to until Hallelujah! We rejoice, knew them off by heart. The rules: April 1919, an experience he wrote rejoice, 1. The prisoners must maintain about in his 1941 poem ‘Dartmoor’ for Jesus Christ came into our world. silence […] and his 1934 novel ‘Plasau'r Brenin’. These are regarded as the first Jesus Christ is of our side, from Dartmoor specifically Welsh examples of He shed his blood as a stream; prison literature. through his merit he will lead us Poem written in 1941, also whole describing the writer’s imprisonment In ‘Dartmoor’ Gwenallt looked to to the far side after a little while. c1918 visions of rural Carmarthenshire to help get him through his prison life See, my soul, now raise thy head, A’r nos dôi cri ellyllon yn ddi-dor and it is also said it was during this the way is free to the blessed O’u seiat oerllyd yn y corsydd period that he fell in love with the heavens; garw, hymns of William Williams all our enemies are now Ysgrech ysbrydion o ryw ‘Pantycelyn’, whose work was to in chains by the great King. bant neu dor, inspire so much of his later religious poetry. Our next hymn ‘O llefara, by thy most delightful voice, are He who descended is the same addfwyn Iesu’ by William Williams silent one who ascended far above all was a Gwenallt favourite.