PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St German’s Church
3 March 2019 - Quinquagesima (OT8)

Today we hear more teaching from Jesus that This week:

have been woven together but each one Sun 3
could stand apart. The splinter in the eye is 8am Said Mass (St G)
a reminder to not neglect one’s own 9:30 Sung Mass (St S)
formation and spiritual wellbeing as 11am Sung Mass (St G)
members of a community. Likewise, to resist Mon 4:
becoming like the Pharisees who, in Jesus’ 6pm Mass (St G)
words, were ‘the blind leading the blind’. Tues 5:
Growing more fully as disciples often means 10am Mass (St S)
Ash Wed 6:
engaging more with one’s own spiritual and
10am Mass (St G)
moral frailties than that of others.
7.30pm Mass (St S)
Thur 7:
5:45pm Mass (St S)
Parish Notes: SS. Perpetua & Felicity
Fri 8:
Ash Wednesday - is this week. Mass with ashes at 10am in St German’s and a
6pm mass (St S)
sung mass with Ashes in St Saviour’s at 7.00pm. St John of God
Lent Booklet for Christian Aid - now available from back of the Church. Sat 9:
PCC & Vestry Meeting - PCC meets to approve the Audited Accounts for the 11am Mass (St S)
year will be after mass today. The Vestry meeting will be on 7 April again St Frances of Rome
after mass. A short report from the last meeting is now available. Sun 10: Lent I
Social Events for Spring and Summer - include the following: Lenten Soup St Saviour’s:
Lunches and reflections (Fridays of Lent); 6 April Quiz night; 5 May Parish 9:30 Sung Mass
St German’s:
Lunch; 25 May BBQ; 22 June Summer Fayre; 20 July Ceili Night.
8am Said Mass
Cardiff Foodbank - Due to a huge volume of recent donations they have 11am Sung Mass
asked that we donate only the following: rice pudding, jam, custard, tinned
tomatoes, sponge puddings.
Parish Priest:
Lenten Devotions - Stations of the cross after Monday mass (6:45pm) and a Fr Phelim O’Hare,
charity soup lunch with a talk in church on Fridays (start 2nd Fri of Lent). 02922 411229,
Treorchy Male Voice Choir - concert at St German’s Church commencing at phelimohare@gmail.com

7pm (doors open at 6pm) on Sat, 23 March 2019. (Day off - Friday)
Churchwardens:
1929 St German’s Magazine - A copy of the Jan 1929 edition of the parish
magazine for an insight into parish life back then (On our website)
Peter Lovitt
Funeral - Fr John Lewis’ is in Llandaff Cathedral on Fri 8 March at 11:30am. 02920 763754
Recently Departed: Very Rev. John T. Lewis, Melba Harrington RIP Richard Hill
07519 352840

READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK

PSALM:
Sir 27:5-8 1 Kgs 8:41-43
Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 Ps 117:1-2 It is good to give you
1 Cor 15:54-58 Gal 1:1-2, 6-10 thanks, O God. (3vv)
Luke 6:39-45 Luke 7:1-10

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Today’s Music: We will be using Welsh English booklets today which contains three of
our hymns: Gwahoddiad, Calon Lan, I Bob un syn. Closing hymn is 252 Guide me O thou
great Redeemer. Mass setting: Murray and Morris (kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei).
COLLECT:
Almighty Father, whose Son was
revealed in majesty before he
suffered death upon the cross:
give us grace to perceive his
glory, that we may be
strengthened to suffer with him
and be changed into his likeness,
from glory to glory; 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 first
book of Ecclesiasticus.
In a shaken sieve the rubbish is
left behind,so too the defects of a
man appear in his talk.
The kiln tests the work of the
potter, the test of a man is in his
conversation.
The orchard where a tree grows
is judged on the quality of its
fruit, similarly a man’s words
betray what he feels.
Do not praise a man before he
has spoken, since this is the test
of men.
This is the word of the Lord.
Sir 27
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
It is good to give you thanks,
O Lord.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to make music to your name,
O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning
and your truth
in the watches of the night. R/
The just will flourish like the palm
tree
and grow like a Lebanon cedar. R/
Planted in the house of the Lord
they will flourish
in the courts of our God,
still bearing fruit when they are old,
still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is just.
In him, my rock, there is no wrong.
R/
Psalm 92
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter to the
Corinthians.
When this perishable nature has
put on imperishability, and when
this mortal nature has put on
immortality, then the words of
scripture will come true: Death is
swallowed up in victory. Death,
where is your victory? Death,
where is your sting? Now the
sting of death is sin, and sin gets
its power from the Law. So let us
thank God for giving us the
victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Never give in then, my dear
brothers, never admit defeat;
keep on working at the Lord’s
work always, knowing that, in
the Lord, you cannot be
labouring in vain.
This is the word of the Lord.
1 Cor 15
3 MARCH 2019
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel
according to St Luke.
He also told them a parable: ‘Can
a blind person guide a blind
person? Will not both fall into a
pit? A disciple is not above the
teacher, but everyone who is fully
qualified will be like the teacher.
Why do you see the speck in your
neighbour’s eye, but do not
notice the log in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your
neighbour, “Friend, let me take
out the speck in your eye”, when
you yourself do not see the log in
your own eye? You hypocrite,
first take the log out of your own
eye, and then you will see clearly
to take the speck out of your
neighbour’s eye.
‘No good tree bears bad fruit, nor
again does a bad tree bear good
fruit; for each tree is known by
its own fruit. Figs are not
gathered from thorns, nor are
grapes picked from a bramble
bush. The good person out of the
good treasure of the heart
produces good, and the evil
person out of evil treasure
produces evil; for it is out of the
abundance of the heart that the
mouth speaks.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Luke 6