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St Gwynour's Knit and Natter Group
Meeting at St Gwynour's Church, Llanyrnewydd, on Tuesday mornings
in term time for fellowship and crafting. We knit, crochet, sew, sew
and chat, putting the world to right whilst making things for Christian
charities or just for fun. We'll teach you any craft we can if you want
to learn and anyone is welcome. Coffee served.
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Finding An Agent That’s Right For You
This Week:- Tuesday Assembly at Penclawdd 10.10 am St Madoc Centre Trustees 6.30 pm Weds MU Eucharist, Llanrhidian 10 am November
24th Deanery Conference, Llanrhidian Holiday Park 7.15 pm
27th Deanery Chapter, Pennard 10 am
Messy Church planning meeting, Lamplighter, Bishopston. Come and join the team 7.30 pm 29th Cathedral. Mission and Ministry Festival + lunch 12 noon
December
7th Advent Family Service – Worship Group, Llanyrnewydd 11.15 am
13th Christmas Messy Church, Penmaen Hall 2 pm June 27th 2015. Ordination. Cathedral
July 6th – 9th 2015. Clergy School. University of Warwick
Saturday October 10th 2015. Diocesan Conference. Cathedral
Second Sunday Before Advent
Today
PLEASE PRAY FOR Lusitanian Church,
The Rt Revd José Jorge De Pina Cabral
thoughts... final
THE AREA DEANERY OF
CRICKHOWELL, Kelvin Richards,
Jeremey Bevan, Clergy & People
In the week
Monday, St Hugh Brynmawr, Marc
Winchester
Tuesday, St Hilda Crickhowell w Cwmdu
w Tretower, Barry Letson, Sally Rees
Weds, St Elizabeth Llanelli (Gilwern),
Jeremy Bevan
Thurs Llanfeugan etc, interregnum
Friday, St Paulinus Llangattock, Kelvin
Richards
Saturday, St Cecilia All Church
Musicians, Vision 2020 Conf, Llandudno
Awake each day with the rising
sun to pray (Cherokee proverb) My eyes are awake before the
watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise (Ps 119)
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a
desolate place, and there he prayed (Mark Ch1)
Sunday November 16th
2014 Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is at hand…At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the people who rest complacently on their dregs, those who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.” (Zephaniah 1:7-12)
Contact us: Fr Tim Ardouin 01792 391353 Fr Nigel Doyle 01792 850659 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: http://www.churchinnorthgower.com/ Vicarage, Llanrhidian, Gower SA3 1EH
Living
Faith
Meet in Llanrhidian and
Llanmorlais on Wednesday
evenings at 7. Now working
through entire Hebrew Bible!
Yr Eglwys yng Ngogledd
Gŵyr
The Church in North Gower
Message from Treasurer Due to a tightening of banking
regulations, cheques must be made
payable to the 'PARISH OF
LLANRHIDIAN'. Nothing else will
be accepted. Thank you.
ZEPHANIAH’S POEM features extravagant language about a coming time of loss, disaster, distress, and suffering. It is commonly dated to the time before Jerusalem was destroyed by the invading Babylonian empire. While the daring poets whom we call "prophets" could discern the coming danger to the city, most of their contemporaries, ensconced in ideologies of self-regard, did not notice the danger. They simply assumed that as God's chosen people, all would be well. That situation sounds very much like our own. The most discerning among us, often given to poetic extravagance, can see the coming trouble, if not from environmental abuse then from unsustainable economic self-indulgence. At the same time many folk, trusting in old assurances of well-being, assume all will be as it was. They are simply impervious to the real threats that poetic discernment articulates. In our time we, like those ancients, have found God to be an irrelevance to the life of the world. The so-called "new atheists" only bring to speech what is commonly unspoken but tacitly accepted. In a world of Enlightenment rationality where human knowledge is transposed into ultimate control, God is surely an irrelevance. Consequently we are free to do what we want and must do what we can to secure ourselves. The poet moves against such a conclusion, against ancient practicality and against modern rationality. The prophetic claim is a rhetorical one. The offer is a poetic one. The effort is to imagine alternatively, to conjure a world that is not itself ultimate, but that finally must give account of itself. Such a claim... invites us to imagine that soon or late we must give answer for obdurate self-regard.
Dr. Walter Brueggemann
Family Service Every first Sunday @
Llanyrnewydd, 11.15 am.
Holy Eucharist every 3rd
Weds in Llanrhidian
Church. Come. Tangnefedd
Llanrhidian Senior Citizens Every first and third Wednesday, Llanrhidian Park. You
are welcome whether you live in Llanrhidian or not!
Christmas Messy Church to take place in Penmaen Hall on 13th December, 2 pm. Planning at Lamplighter, Nov 27th 7.30
pm.
Gower Magazine Articles for January edition must be
sent to Mary Colebrook by
December 10th for early printing.
-g
jttt
Intercessions Rota NOVEMBER
INTERCESSIONS 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th
St.David Emilia Derrick Sandra
St.Gwynour Maggie Rita Pam E Pam D Diane
St.Rhidian Pam M Emilia Jo/ Susan
Roy Bennett, Anne Berry, Dick and Edna Beynon, Karen Coppin, Mary Farmer, baby Ellie Catherine
Fennell, Alan Grove, Fr Ibrahim and church in the West Bank, Shirley Lewis, Doreen and Peter
Matthews, Sylvia Rowlands, Mary Spacie, Margaret Thomas, Dorothy Tucker, Jean Tucker, Maria
Watkins and all who are sick in hospitals or at home, as well as those who care for them.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED:
and all those whose Anniversaries occur at this time. May their souls and the
souls of all faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
WE OFFER INTERCESSION FOR: the homeless, those subjected to domestic violence, the
destitute, all immigrants struggling with our culture, all those who "can't cope".
Sunday Services:- 8 am Holy Eucharist St Gwynour’s (Penclawdd) 11. 15 Morning Worship St Gwynour’s (First Sunday of Month) 11. 15 Holy Eucharist St Gwynour’s (Fourth Sunday of Month) 9.30 Holy Eucharist St David’s (Wernffrwd) 11.15 Holy Eucharist Ss Rhydian & Illtyd (Llanrhidian) Tuesday :- 9 am Morning Prayer Ss Rhydian & Illtyd (Llanrhidian) Wednesday :- 10 am Eucharist or Morning Prayer Ss Rhydian & Illtyd (Llanrhidian) Thursday:- 5 pm Evening Prayer St David’s (Wernffrwd)
“LIFE is what happens to you /
While you're busy making other
plans”, sang John Lennon to his
young son in Beautiful Boy.
“The day of the Lord will come
like a thief in the night”, Paul
reminds the fledgling Christians
of Thessalonica in one of our
readings today. But dim
worriau (no worries), counters
Paul, “we are not of the night”.
So come on, sound the rally
cry, “put on the breastplate of
faith and love, and for a helmet
the hope of salvation”! The
Thessalonians are to,
“Therefore encourage one
another and build up each
other”.
Like Paul, the prophet
Zephaniah is adamant the “Day
of the Lord” will come at any
moment, indeed it “is at hand”.
In wild poetic verse, he is much
more graphic about the
Regular Worship for North East Gower
De-lightful!
It’s a while since I’ve been
accosted in the street by some
religious desperado telling me the
End of Days is upon us so I’d
better join their club and get
saved. But that might just be
because I haven’t been much on
the city street for a couple of
years. I’ve no doubt they’re still
out there. They are deluded, all of
them. At least, they’ve
completely missed the point
about the whole genre of
Apocalyptic prophesy. Zeph,
Paul and Jesus are not self-
absorbed end of the world
mongers. Every age thinks it is
the single most important era in
history. There are always people
who think they must be living in
the crucial moment when God
will do the big thing. Today is no
different and there were plenty of
them in the times out of which
our Bible texts speak to us this
Sunday. Such beliefs are both
conceited and complacent. They
are an escape route from
thinking, and specifically from
thinking about one’s own
situation and responsibility.
Lapping up the “News” is
similarly motivated.
But the Day of the Lord is
real. The kingdom of God is
indeed upon us. It is here now,
ALWAYS. God calls us to be
awake, to use the talents he’s
given us and sow, reap, gather…
fr tim writes
The News Letter is written on Thursdays. If you would like to include someone in these lists, please give names to church wardens before then. There will be boxes provided in the churches for prayer requests soon. God calls us all to intercede for one another. If you would like to do so during services, please speak to Fr Tim or Sandra (St David’s), Maggie (St Gwynour’s), Sue Medwell (St Rhydian’s).
accompanying
destruction to the ones
who’ve languished too
long in their complacent
social inertia – “That day
will be a day of wrath, a
day of distress and
anguish, a day of ruin
and devastation, a day of
darkness and gloom, a
day of clouds and thick
darkness, a day of
trumpet blast and battle
cry against the fortified
cities and against the
lofty battlements…”
Jesus’ parable of the
talents is little more
temperate in its treatment
of the one who wastes his
or her God-given talent –
“throw him into the outer
darkness, where there
will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.”!
Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is at hand… (Zeph 1.7) Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God (Ps 90.2) But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light (1 Thess 5.4,5)
Based on readings,
Zephaniah 1:7, 12-
18;
1 Thessalonians
5:1-11;
Matthew 25:14-30