]Uif!Fqjqiboz!pg!Pvs!Mpse th Weekly Newsletter No.1597 Sunday, 7 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 Jesus 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. Magnificat & 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 Wales, and Archbishop Barry Morgan. 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 diocese we pray for the Parish of Porth 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 Cathays this week. 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. 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. Roath 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 Cardiff Bay. Price £1.50 inc. postage 20-487609. Gsjebz!23ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the Second 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: 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 South Wales 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 (Penarth) 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 Llandaff 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 Llandaff Cathedral 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, Archbishop of Canterbury 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 Penylan 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 CHRISTMAS 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 ORDINATION 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, Cowbridge 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.