PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St Saviour’s Church
4 March 2018 - Lent 3

By disrupting the well-established and

accepted economic practices of the
This week:
temple (selling), Jesus publicly reveals Mon 5:
he is more than a pilgrim visiting the 6pm Mass (St G)
temple. He is the Son of God who 6:45pm Stations of
dwells in that temple, and as such he
the Cross
has the authority to disrupt the temple’s
usual activities. Jesus’ ministry is really Tues 6:
that of the Trinity itself. This passage is 10am Mass (St S)
more about ‘who Jesus is’ rather than a 6:45pm Stations of
critique of temple practice. ‘Who Jesus the Cross
is’ still captures our minds, hearts and
Wed 7:
invites a prayerful response from us.
10am Mass (St G)
Sts Perpetua & Felicity
Parish Notes: Thur 8:
5:45pm Mass (St S)
Patron Saint of Wales - St David’s day was last Thursday but in honour of our patron we St John of God
will have Welsh hymns, a Welsh reading and Welsh Cakes after mass today.
Fri 9:
Lent Stations of the Cross - We pray the Stations of the Cross each week preceded by a talk:
St Saviour’s - Tuesdays at 6:45pm; St German’s - Mondays at 6:45pm. 6:00pm Mass (St S)
Lenten Supper & Quiz - Sunday 18 March at 5pm. Please join us for this time of support St Frances of Rome
and fellowship. Tickets now available. Sat 10:
PCC Meeting - the next meeting of the Parochial Church Council will be after mass on 18 11am Mass (St S.)
March to approve the audited accounts. Sun 11: Sunday
Annual Vestry Meeting (AGM) at Easter - Tuesday 17 April at 7:30pm. (Laetare/Mothering
Lent Charity - This year we will support the Lasallian Developing World Project which looks Sunday)
to build schools and education provision in the developed world. See poster in the hall and St Saviour’s:
please take a collection box home. 9:30 Sung Mass;
Holy Week Services - Poster and leaflets now available. Please take one.
St German’s:
Y Gymdeithas - The Society Vespers & Benediction tonight (4th March) 6pm at St Mary’s.
Flowers for Easter - Those wishing to order memorial/thanksgiving flower arrangements for 8:00 am Said Mass
Easter should speak to Gwyneth for an order form. Prices are £20 & £35. Payment with order (Nightshelter);
please by Sunday 18th March. Those wishing to make a donation to the general flower fund 11:00 am Sung Mass
for the Easter Garden etc should speak to Gwyneth.
A Chrism Mass presided over by The Bishop of Ebbsfleet on Monday 26th March in
Bathwick, near Bath at 2.pm. A coach has been arranged and will leave St Mary’s Church at Keep in touch:
11. 15am. Anyone interesting in attending should give their names LizMemorial/
Thanksgiving Lamps - Anybody wishing to sponsor either The Blessed Sacrament Lamp or Parish Priest:
The Lamp to Our Lady should speak to Suzy. The cost of a lamp is £3. Fr Phelim O’Hare,
Walsingham Pilgrimage July 2018 - we need deposits (£20) very soon. Please see Liz or 02922 411229,
Bill for details. [email protected]
Recently Departed: Beryl Denning, Joan Sylvia Ford, RIP (Day off - Friday)

Churchwardens:
READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK PSALM RESPONSE
2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 Bill Eastwood
Exod 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17Ps You, Lord, have the 07800 946949
Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
19:8, 9, 10, 11 Suzy Alabere
1 Cor 1:22-25 Eph 2:4-10 message of eternal
John 3:14-21 02920 331217
John 2:13-25 life. (4vv)

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COLLECT OFFERTORY: Gentile or Jew,
servant or free,
Almighty God, whose most Now thank we all our God woman or man, no more.
dear Son went not up to joy with heart and hands
but first he suffered pain, and and voices, Many the gifts,
entered not into glory before who wondrous things many the works,
he was crucified: mercifully has done, one in the Lord of all.
grant that we, walking in the in whom his world rejoices;
way of the cross, may find it who from our mothers' arms Grain for the fields,
none other than the way of has blessed us on our way scattered and grown,
life and peace; through Jesus with countless gifts of love, gathered to one, for all.
Christ your Son our Lord, who and still is ours today.
is alive and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, O may this bounteous God
now and for ever. through all our life be near us, FINAL HYMN:
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us, Mi glywaf dyner lais,

to keep us in his grace, Yn galw arnaf fi,

GATHERING: and guide us when perplexed, I ddod a golchi 'meiau gyd,

and free us from all ills Yn afon Calfari.

Nid wy'n gofyn of this world in the next. 

bywyd moethus, Arglwydd, dyma fi

Aur y byd na'i berlau mân: All praise and thanks to God Ar dy alwad di,

Gofyn wyf am galon hapus, the Father now be given, Golch fi'n burlan yn y gwaed

Calon onest, calon lân. the Son and Spirit blest, A gaed ar Galfari.

who reign in highest heaven 

Calon lân yn llawn daioni, the one eternal God, Yr Iesu sy'n fy ngwadd,

Tecach yw na'r lili dlos: whom heaven I dderbyn gyda'i saint,

Dim ond calon lân all ganu and earth adore; Ffydd, gobaith,
Canu'r dydd a chanu'r nos. for thus it was, is now, cariad pur a hedd,

and shall be evermore. A phob rhyw nefol fraint.

Pe dymunwn olud bydol, 

Hedyn buan ganddo sydd; Yr Iesu sy'n cryfhau,

Golud calon lân, rinweddol, O'm mewn Ei waith trwy ras;

Yn dwyn bythol elw fydd. Mae'n rhoddi nerth
i'm henaid gwan,

Hwyr a bore fy nymuniad I faeddu 'mhechod cas.

Gwyd i'r nef ar adain cân
COMMUNION:


Ar i Dduw, One bread, one body, Gogoniant byth am drefn,

er mwyn fy Ngheidwad, one Lord of all, Y cymod a'r glanhad;

Roddi i mi galon lân. one cup of blessing Derbyniaf Iesu fel yr wyf,

which we bless. A chanaf am y gwaed.
And we, though many,
throughout the earth,
we are one body
in this one Lord.

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1ST READING : it gives light to the eyes. R/ GOSPEL
A reading from the book of The fear of the Lord is holy, A reading from the Holy Gospel
Exodus. abiding for ever. according to John.
The decrees the Lord are truth
God spoke all these words. He and all of them just. R/ Just before the Jewish Passover
said, ‘I am the Lord your God Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and
who brought you out of the land They are more to be despised in the Temple he found people
of Egypt, out of the house of than gold, selling cattle and sheep and
slavery. than the purest of gold pigeons, and the money-changers
  ‘You shall have no gods except and sweeter are they than honey, sitting at their counters there.
me. than honey from the comb. R/ Making a whip out of some cord,
  ‘You shall not utter the name Psalm 19 he drove them all out of the
of the Lord your God to misuse Temple, cattle and sheep as well,
it, for the Lord will not leave scattered the money-changers’
unpunished the man who utters coins, knocked their tables over
his name to misuse it. and said to the pigeon-sellers,
  ‘Honour your father and your 2ND READING : ‘Take all this out of here and stop
mother so that you may have a turning my Father’s house into a
long life in the land that the Lord A reading from the first letter of market.’ Then his disciples
your God has given to you. St Paul to the Corinthians. remembered the words of
  ‘You shall not kill. scripture: Zeal for your house
  ‘You shall not commit adultery. While the Jews demand miracles will devour me. The Jews
  ‘You shall not steal. and the Greeks look for wisdom, intervened and said, ‘What sign
  ‘You shall not bear false here are we preaching a crucified can you show us to justify what
witness against your neighbour. Christ; to the Jews an obstacle you have done?’ Jesus answered,
  ‘You shall not covet your that they cannot get over, to the ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in
neighbour’s house. You shall not pagans madness, but to those three days I will raise it up.’ The
covet your neighbour’s wife, or who have been called, whether Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-
his servant, man or woman, or they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ six years to build this sanctuary:
his ox, or his donkey, or anything who is the power and the are you going to raise it up in
that is his.’ wisdom of God. For God’s three days?’ But he was speaking
foolishness is wiser than human of the sanctuary that was his
This is the word of the Lord. wisdom, and God’s weakness is body, and when Jesus rose from
Exodus 20 stronger than human strength. the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said
Y mae'r Iddewon yn gofyn am this, and they believed the
arwyddion, a'r Groegiaid scripture and the words he had
hwythau yn chwilio am said.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM ddoethineb. Eithr nyni,   During his stay in Jerusalem
You, Lord, have the message of pregethu yr ydym Grist wedi ei for the Passover many believed in
eternal life. groeshoelio, yn dramgwydd i'r his name when they saw the
Iddewon ac yn ffolineb i'r signs that he gave, but Jesus
The Law of the Lord is perfect, Cenhedloedd; ond i'r rhai a knew them all and did not trust
it revives the soul. alwyd, yn Iddewon a himself to them; he never needed
The rule of the Lord is to be Groegiaid, y mae'n Grist, gallu evidence about any man; he
trusted, Duw a doethineb Duw. could tell what a man had in
it gives wisdom to the simple R/ Oherwydd y mae ffolineb Duw him.
yn ddoethach na doethineb
The precepts of the lord are ddynol, a gwendid Duw yn This is the Gospel of the Lord.
right, gryfach na chryfder dynol. Mark 9
they gladden the heart.
The command of the Lord is This is the word of the Lord.
clear, 1 Cor 1