Welcome to the new style edition of CONNECT, our Ministry Area Bulletin, gathering together the past week and looking forward to the week ahead!
LET IT GROW…
Lent has been called the Springtime of the Church. It is a time of growth, flourishing and fruitfulness! We pray that our lives may be fruitful, as we journey closer to our Easter celebrations.
In this weeks’ e-bulletin:
Lent |Worship this Week | Community |Funerals | Young People | Diary Dates | United in Prayer
LENT
Our journey through Lent is well underway! With daily Mass and Prayer, Stations of the Cross, Lent Lunches, a vibrant Lent Course, and so much more, we’re praying that we will grow together and have our faith deepened.
TO LIVE TOGETHER WELL
This is our Lent Course for 2022, exploring some things that we can do together to build up our relationships and to deepen our Christian discipleship. We are doing this by looking at a Rule of Life. We aren’t just doing this for ourselves, but rather to look at our life together as churches in South Cardiff belonging to the wider church.
We know that in any group of people you must have a set of expectations of how you will belong together. A Rule of Life is not there to create difficulties for us and make us do things that prove impossible, but rather to help us to reflect on how our journey of faith is going, to think about what we are able to do well and to reflect on the things that we need to do better.
Check out Fr Edward’s Blog Post on the Diocese of Llandaff website, written after our second session on PRAYER: ‘What happens when we pray?
The next evening session takes place on Wednesday at 7pm at Ss Dyfrig and Samson, with the mosrning session at St Paul’s after the 10am Eucharist.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
LENT LUNCHES
Why not join us at Ss Dyfrig and Samson each Saturday until 9th April from 12 to 1.30pm until 9th April for our Lent Lunch?
WORSHIP THIS WEEK
SUNDAY
BUTETOWN:
S MARY THE VIRGIN
1100hrs Solemn Mass
GRANGETOWN:
S PAUL THE APOSTLE
0800hrs Said Eucharist
1030hrs Sung Eucharist
SS DYFRIG & SAMSON
0915hrs Solemn Mass
SPLOTT:
S SAVIOUR
0930hrs Sung Mass
WEEKDAYS
MONDAY 21
Weekday of Lent
6.00pm Mass (S Mary’s)
6.30pm Stations of the Cross (D&S)
7.00pm Mass (Ss Dyfrig & Samson’s)
TUESDAY 22
Weekday of Lent
10am Mass (S Saviour’s)
10.45am Stations of the Cross (S Saviour’s)
6.30pm Stations of the Cross (S Mary’s)
7pm Mass (S Mary’s)
WEDNESDAY 23
Weekday of Lent
10am Holy Eucharist (S Paul’s)
11am Mass (S Mary’s)
THURSDAY 24
Weekday of Lent
10am Mass (S Mary’s)
9.30am Mass (Ss Dyfrig & Samson’s)
5.45pm Mass (St Saviour’s)
FRIDAY 25
The Annunciation of the Lord (Solemnity)
10am Mass (S Mary’s)
SATURDAY 26
Weekday of Lent
11am Morning Prayer and
Rosary (S Mary’s)
1130am Mass (S Mary’s)
12noon Confessions (S Mary’s)
COMMUNITY
UKRAINE
The continuing plight of the situation in Ukraine continues to move all of us and, each day, we pray for Ukraine, and for a peaceful end to the invasion.
You can make donations to the DEC’s fund at each of our churches. You can also find more resources about how you can contribute and help at the Diocese of Llandaff website
£1200 FOR UKRAINE!
On Saturday, St Paul’s Charity Coffee morning raised an amazing £1200 for Ukraine. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed.
EYES DOWN!
Yes, it’s the ever popular BINGO in Grangetown! Why not give it a try?!
Monday | 7pm | S Paul’s
Thursday | 7.30pm | Ss Dyfrig & Samson’s
COFFEE MORNING (@ST MARY’S)
Our Community Coffee Morning continues to grow, and provides a safe space for anyone who wants to pop along for a free coffee each Thursdays from 11am—1230pm.
If you’d like to help with hospitality and welcome, then get in touch, particularly if you can help this Thursday to open and close (as Fr Dean is unable to be there!)
GET GARDENING – AT SS DYFRIG & SAMSON
A few of our churches have received fruit trees and pots from Natural Resources Wales. Ss Dyfrig and Samson is one of these and we are planning on placing them around the boundary fence at the front of the church.
Why not join us for a working party on Saturday 26th March from 11.30am to tidy and plant before Mothering Sunday? We also welcome donations of money or plants and shrubs. Let’s get gardening!
EASTER FLOWERS
Our churches are already getting ready for Easter! At St Saviour’s if you’d like to donate flower arrangements (in memory or thanksgiving) then please see Gwyneth. Flower arrangements will need to be paid for by Sunday April 3, please.
FUNERALS
Our ministry to the bereaved, and for those who have died, is such an important part of our life. Here are the funerals taking place in the Ministry Area over the next few weeks
ST MARY’S | Thursday 24 March | 1.30pm |Roger Pearson
Tuesday 5 April | 1pm | Kenneth Blackett
ST SAVIOUR’S | Wednesday 30 March | 9.45am | Joan Supp
YOUNG PEOPLE
PASSION | YOUTH EVENT
Sunday April 3 | 5-7pm | St Mary’s
Passion is a new event for young people hosted by St Mary’s Church. Whatever your age, all are welcome – as long as you respect that this is a space for young people!
Beginning with a Barbecue at 5pm we’ll gather in church for worship at 6pm. To help us with catering it would be really good to have some indication of who’s planning on coming along! This is an exciting initiative, so we’d love as many people as possible to come along!
DIARY DATES
ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING
You can play your part in the shaping of of our Ministry Area in our first Annual Vestry Meeting.
Nomination forms for Churchwardens, Sub-wardens and Ministry Area Council Members are available in each of the churches. The meeting takes place on Wednesday March 30 at 7pm at St Paul’s Church. All members of the electoral roll are able to vote.
CHRISM MASS
Bristol Cathedral | Monday 11 April | 12 noon. | Coach available
This is a Chrism Mass celebrated outside of the Diocese by the Bishop of Chichester. If you’d like to book a free place on the Coach, then please either add your name to the list in church (where applicable) or contact Fr Dean.
WALSINGHAM PILGRIMAGE
July 25—28 | Bookings are being taken now
JULY CONCERT AT ST SAVIOURS
Clare Williams and her friends are planning another fundraising concert at St Saviours on Saturday 16 July. All proceeds will go towards new seating in the church. More details will be available closer to the date.
UNITED IN PRAYER | SIDE BY SIDE
PRAYER POINTS
For the Ukraine, the DEC appeal
For all peoples displaced by war, for refugees and asylum seekers, a safe route and welcome for all
For our Lenten devotions and activities across the Ministry Area, for growth in faith and number
For our preparations and publicity for the PASSION youth event on April 3rd
S MARY’S
Eleri Francis, Aron Bux, Carol Blades, Iris Norden, Aisha Bin-Matt, Simon Williams, Christopher Hoffman, Andrew Partridge, Ella Robinson, David Brooks, Dave Robbins, Irene Fox, Hayley McConnell-Hayward, , Brian Pepperell, Fr Christopher Smith, Linda Griffiths
DEPARTED: Roger Pearson
LAMP OF OUR LADY: In memory of Emelie Robyn (on her 6th birthday, 15 March)
S PAUL’S
Jane Pritchard, Ollie Meredith, Kathleen Phillips, Eileen Newbury, Gwyneth Day, Ken Bowen, Debbie, Anthony Lewis, David Nash, Lyn, Christine Davies, Gloria Lockwood, Allan Collier, Pam Probert
SS DYFRIG & SAMSON’S
Christine Moseley, Jacqueline Swain, Mike Williams, Enid Ostler, Pauline, Eric Roberts, Kath Hancock, Jeanette Seymour, , David Williams, Pauline Morgan, Robert Bunkell, Fr Roy Doxsey
ANNIVERSARIES OF DEATH: Cyril Thomas, Frank William Begley, Norman Geoffrey Shellard, Ada Myrtle Sprake, Margaret Irene (Rene) Fisher, George Corbett, Andrew Terence Mannings, Dawn Word nee Howells, Carol Hancock nee Howells, Sandra Mansfield nee Howells, Wendy Howells, Collin Howells, Adrian Howells, Lyn Howells, Leonard Dowse (Priest), Beatrice Winston, Mary Ann Herbert, Celia Bann, Alice Jane Tyrrell, Kenneth Morse, Florence Dimond, Mary Ann Aylesbury
ST SAVIOUR’S
Beryl Hill, David Ryan
DEPARTED: Joan Supp
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