]!Uif!Gfbtu!pg!uif!Fqjqiboz Weekly Newsletter No.1700 Sunday, 4th January, 2009 11.00 am Sung Eucharist & Sermon. Celebrant & Preacher: Rev John Woodward . Hymns: 79, 595, 596, Anthem: Sans Day Carol (Rutter) , 270 . Setting: Thomas Mass (David Thorne). 7.00 pm Choral Evensong. Introit: All This Time (Walton) . Officiant: Rev Stewart Lisk. Psalms 98, 100 . Hymns: 75, Anthem: Ibant Magi (Guerrero) , 81 . Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: A Somervell in F. Readings: Isaiah 60, 1-9. John 2, 1-11 . In the world-wide Church we pray today for the Diocese of Lincoln and Bishop John Charles Saxbee, the Diocese of Lincoln-Grantham and Bishop Timothy William Ellis, and the Diocese of Lincoln-Grimsby and Suffragan Bishop David Douglas James Rossdale . In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Iran and Iraq . We pray for peace in the world , remembering Iraq and Afghanistan , and especially at this time the people of Gaza . We pray for the Electoral College of the Church in Wales, meeting on Monday to elect the 76 th Bishop of St Asaph. In this diocese we pray for the Rectorial Benefice of Llanfabon and Rev Christopher Reaney . We pray for the sick, remembering especially Janet Munday, Tomos Owen, Julie Romanelli and Tricia Mullins . We pray for the repose of the souls of the departed, especially Margaret Morgan , whose funeral is on Thursday, also Mary Stark , 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. EVENING PRAYER will be said at St Edward’s Npoebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. on Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6pm, and on 6ui 6.00 pm Parish Surgery. Roath Church House. Thursday at 7pm. All welcome. 7.00 pm St Edward’s Orchestra Practice. 7.30 pm Concert: Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Orchestra. Llandaff Cathedral. Uvftebz! 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. CONCERT at Llandaff Cathedral: Cardiff County 7ui 7.00 pm Holy Eucharist. St Anne's . & Vale of Glamorgan Orchestra, on Monday at 7.30 pm Pavane Rehearsal. Schoolroom. ! 7.30pm. Works by Arnold, Bruch and Rachmaninov. Tickets at door £10 (conc. £7). Xfeoftebz 10.00 am HOLY EUCHARIST . Followed by coffee. PARISH OFFICE closed on Monday this week. 8ui 11.00 am St Edward’s String Orchestra Practice. PARISH DIARIES FOR 2009 are on sale today . Uivstebz 9.00 am Holy Eucharist. St Anne’s. Price £1 (for church funds). 9ui 10.30 am Funeral of Margaret Morgan. St Edward’s. 7.00 pm Evening Prayer. BRING AND SING Widor Mass at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, on 7.30 pm Choir Practice. Saturday, 1.30-6pm. Liturgical candlelit performance for Epiphanytide. Gsjebz!:ui 6.00 pm Evening Prayer. Cost £5 (juniors £3). 0117 -9291487. [email protected] Tbuvsebz! 21ui 1.30 pm Bring & Sing Widor Mass. St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. Ofyu!Tvoebz is the First Sunday of the Epiphany . The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in St Edward’s at 11am, and Choral Evensong will be sung at 7pm. Eucharist readings: Genesis 1: 1-5; Acts 19: 1-7; Mark 1: 4-11. THE CLERGY wish everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. COFFEE will be served in the vestry after the Eucharist this morning, and the 100 Club draw will take place. Newcomers in particular are very welcome to join us. MAINLY MOZART . A concert by Cardiff Chamber Orchestra at 7.30pm on Sat 17 Jan in St Margaret’s. Admission £5 at door. Proceeds to Parish Funds. CYTÛN UNITED SERVICE for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is at St Edward’s on Wed 21 Jan at 7.30pm. ST ANNE’S COTTAGE PIE LUNCH on Sat 24 Jan, 11.30am-1.30pm in St Anne’s Hall. Tickets £4 from Jean and Joan Gough to include main course and dessert. ST EDWARDS ORCHESTRA CONCERT on Fri 30 January at 7.30pm – including Schumann’s Piano Concerto (soloist Alison Dite, conductor Dave Hutchings). Internet: http://StEdward.roath.org.uk Email: [email protected] ARCHBISHOP ROWAN’S NEW YEAR MESSAGE : CHORAL EVENSONG at the Cathedral, 3.30pm today: It’s always a relief to have a bit of space after the busyness of Introit: Come my way, my truth, my light (Harris). Christmas to relax at home and mull over the past 12 months Sumsion in A. Anthem: Here is the little door (Howells). and the hopes and possibilities of the year ahead. The Visiting Choir: Keble Choir. prospect of this coming year, though, is one that produces a lot of anxiety and insecurity for countless people. There are PARISH DISCUSSION GROUP meets next Sunday at fears about disappearing savings, lost jobs, house 7.45pm at Mal and Steve Rowson’s, 56 Colchester Ave. repossessions and worse. While the headlines are often We will be looking at a video and discussing how artists about the big figures, it’s the human cost that makes it real for have portrayed The Nativity. All welcome to the first us. session of the New Year. A little before Christmas I visited a new academy in TAIZÉ SERVICES take place at St Edward’s every other Scunthorpe named after St Lawrence. Lawrence was a month on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Next service: 14 Jan. Christian minister in Rome in the days when you could be arrested and executed for being a Christian, nineteen hundred MUSIC RECITAL on Sat 17 Jan in St Edward’s. Morning years ago or so. Prayer 9.30am, Coffee 10.15am, Recital 10.45-11.30am. When he was arrested, he was told to collect all the treasures GODLY PLAY . On Sat 17 Jan, the Diocesan Children's of the Church to be given up to the courts. He got together all Committee present a half day 'Introduction to Godly Play' at the homeless, the orphans and the hungry that the Church St Donat's Church, Abercynon. Also, Wed-Fri 18-20 Feb: a 3- looked after in the city, and presented them to his judges, day Godly Play training course at St Donat's Church, 9.30am- saying, ‘These are the Church’s treasures.’ 3.30pm each day. Full participation will result in the awarding Like any really good school, St Lawrence’s treats its children of the Diocesan Certificate in Godly Play. Cost: £60 per as treasures. In the last few months we've had to think a lot person to include light refreshments. For details/booking of about wealth and security and about where our ‘treasure’ is. either course, contact Rev Pauline Williams 01443-740207 But it set me thinking - what would our life be like if we really or email [email protected] believed that our wealth, our treasure, was our fellow-human beings? Religious faith points to a God who takes most COMPLINE . Next service: 29 Jan. seriously and values most extravagantly the people who often FOR YOUR DIARY . At St Edward’s: look least productive or successful- as if none of us could Wed 21 Jan. 7.30pm. Cytûn United Service. really be said to be doing well unless these people were Wed 28 Jan. 7.45pm. Paradise Run. secure. Fri 30 Jan. 7.30pm. St Edward’s Orchestra Concert. And as we look around in our own country as well as worldwide, this should trigger some hard questions – whether Taizé Service: 14 Jan. Compline: 29 Jan. we think of child soldiers in Africa or street children in Latin ELECTION OF NEW BISHOP OF ST ASAPH . The door of St America, or of children in our midst here who are damaged by Asaph Cathedral will be locked on Monday as a new bishop of poverty, family instability and abuse, street violence and so the Church in Wales is elected. A “college” of 47 people, much else. Children need to be taken seriously, not just as including the five other Welsh diocesan bishops, will nominate tomorrow’s adults but as fellow-inhabitants of the globe today, and vote on candidates, for up to three days. Once a decision growing human beings whom we approach with respect and is made, Archbishop Barry, will unlock and open the west door patience and from whom we ought to learn. of the Cathedral and announce the name of the Bishop-Elect One of the most damning things you could say about any from the doorstep. The election follows the retirement of the society is that it’s failing its children. That’s why I was really Rt Rev John Davies in December, who served as Bishop of encouraged recently to be invited to open a project in the diocese from 1999. The new bishop will be the 76th Springfield in Birmingham - a church-based initiative Bishop of St Asaph. The Electoral College is made up of supporting children and their parents from across the whole representatives from all six Welsh dioceses. The “home” community. Here the church community took the brave diocese is represented by six lay people and six clergy, and decision to open up their church building for work with local the other five dioceses by three lay people and three clergy families and to seek funding for further buildings and each, plus the five remaining Bishops. Any candidate resources from the local authority. What’s more, they’ve receiving two-thirds of the votes of those present is declared worked throughout in close collaboration with the local Bishop-Elect. Once a bishop is elected, he will have up to 28 mosque and have a joint programme with them for young days to accept the position.