St Germans Newsletter - 31 March 2019

PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St German’s Church 31 March 2019 - Lent IV - Mothering Sunday

This week: Sun 31 Lent IV 9:30 Sung Mass (St S) 11am Sung Mass (St G)

Parish Notes: Lenten Devotions - Stations of the cross after Monday mass (6:45pm) and a charity soup lunch with a talk in church on Fridays at 12noon with lunch at 12:30. Vestry Meeting - Our AGM will be next Sunday 7 April after mass. Nomination forms for membership of the PCC are available as are electoral roll forms. Quiz Night and Social Events - Please join us this coming Saturday for our Quiz Night and social. Other forthcoming social events include: 5 May Parish Lunch; 25 May BBQ; 22 June Summer Fayre; 20 July Ceili Night. Cardiff Foodbank - Thanks everyone for their help. Please donate only the following: rice pudding, jam, custard, tinned tomatoes, sponge puddings. Churches Together for Lent - There will be an ecumenical service in St Alban’s Church in Splott this Tuesday at 7pm. All are welcome. Holy Week Services - Now available is a list of the services for Holy Week for people to take home. The main change is that this year it is St Saviour’s turn to host the Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion. Working Party - Please join us to help o clean the church for Holy Week and Easter will meet on Monday 15 April from 10am. All are welcome. Altar Servers - Will next meet tomorrow, Monday 1 April (after the stations of the cross) to welcome any new members as well as to start rehearsing for the Holy Week ceremonies. Open to current and prospective new members. Recently Departed: Michael O’Callaghan RIP

READINGS THIS WEEK Josh 5:9a, 10-12 Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 2 Cor 5:17-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

READINGS NEXT WEEK

PSALM:

Isa 43:16-21 Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6 Phil 3:8-14 John 8:1-11

Taste and see that the Lord is good. (3vv)

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Mon 1: 6pm Mass (St G) 6.45 Stations (St G) Tues 2: 10am Mass (St S) 6.45 Stations (St S) 7pm Ecumenical Service in St Albans Wed 3: 10am Mass (St G) Thur 4: 5:45pm Mass (St S) Fri 5: 6pm mass (St S) Sat 6: 11am Mass (St S) Sun 7: Lent V St Saviour’s: 9:30 Sung Mass St German’s: 11am Sung Mass

Parish Priest:

Fr Phelim O’Hare, 02922 411229, [email protected]

(Day off - Friday)

Churchwardens: Peter Lovitt 02920 763754 Richard Hill 07519 352840

WWW.SAINTGERMANWITHSAINTSAVIOUR.ORG

31 MARCH 2019

Music: 605 Sing we of the blessed mother; 156 Faithful shepherd feed me; As I kneel before you; 631 Tell out my soul; Setting: Murray & Morris 


COLLECT

Psalm 34

Lord God, whose blessed Son our Saviour gave his back to the smiters and did not hide his face from shame: give us grace to endure the sufferings of this present time with sure confidence in the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

FIRST READING The First reading is from the book of Joshua. The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.’   The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From that time, from their first eating of the produce of that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer, the Israelites fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded. This is the word of the Lord.

Josh 5

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Taste and see that the Lord is good. I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise always on my lips; in the Lord my soul shall make its boast. The humble shall hear and be glad. R/ Glorify the Lord with me. Together let us praise his name. I sought the Lord and he answered me; From all my terrors he set me free. R/ Look towards him and be radiant; let your faces not be abashed. This poor man called, the Lord heard him and rescued him from all his distress. R/

SECOND READING A reading from St Paul’s 2nd letter to the Corinthians. For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God’s work. It was God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation. In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men’s faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God. This is the word of the Lord.

2 Cor 5

GOSPEL A reading from the Holy Gospel according to St Luke. Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and travelled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living. When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself

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he said, “How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.’ ” So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. Then the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.” But the father said to his slaves, “Quickly, bring out a robe - the best one - and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!” And they began to celebrate. ‘Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. He replied, “Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.” Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. But he answered his father, “Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!” Then the father said to him, “Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.” ’ This is the Gospel of the Lord.

Luke 15