PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St German’s Church
28 July 2019 - Trinity 6 (OT 17)

Today’s gospel teaches us about prayer. Like the

disciples in the story, we too come together around
This week:
Jesus who prays alone. We gather around Him and Sun 28: Trinity 6
in Him all our energies, thoughts, every 9:30 Sung Mass (St S)
commitment and preoccupation, our hopes and 11am Sung Mass (St G)
pains. Today it is we who are those disciples who Mon 29:
see the Master praying and allow ourselves to be No Mass (St G)
involved in His prayer, which was and is quite
St Martha
special.  Today His words are addressed to us, the
invitation to trust in the love of the Father is Tues 30:
addressed to us. We are so taken up with material 10am Mass (St S)
things, so much seeking “all and immediately”, so Wed 31:
spellbound by a thousand things, that then (and 10am Mass (St G)
only “then”, after some event that shakes us) we St Ignatius Loyola
discover that they are all really superfluous.
Thur 1:
(From a Carmelite Lectio Divina passage)
5:45pm Mass (St S)
St Alphonsus Mary de
Liguori
Parish Notes: Fri 2:
Benediction and Evensong - this evening at 6pm in St German’s. All are welcome. 6pm Mass (St S)
Sat 3:
Cardiff Foodbank - Many thanks from Cardiff Foodbank to all who regularly donate
11am Mass (St S)
food. Currently, we urgently needed the following items: long life fruit juice, UHT
St Germanus of Auxerre
milk, Rice Pudding, Sponge Pudding, Tinned Potatoes, Tinned Tomatoes, Tinned Sun 4: Trinity 7
fish. They also have plenty of: Beans, pasta, cereals, snacks & sweets, soup, tea, (OT 18)
meat. Many thanks again. St Saviour’s:
Assumptiontide Organ Recital - there will be an organ recital by Christian Schoen 9:30 Sung Mass;
for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St German’s on St German’s:
Thursday 15 August at 7pm. Open to all with a retiring collection for parish funds. 11:00 am Sung Mass

Rome and Assisi Pilgrimage 2019 - 2-6 December. If you are interested in going
please see Fr Phelim. Cost of flights from Bristol, transfers and transport in Rome Parish Priest:
and to Assisi will be £250. Fr Phelim O’Hare,
Weekday Services - No Monday mass this coming week due to clergy holidays but 02922 411229,
phelimohare@gmail.com
Fr Chris Lee will preside at our Wednesday mass at 10am.
(Day off - Friday)
Next Sunday - We welcome back Fr Keith Kimber who will preach and preside.
Churchwardens:
Memorial Garden - As the weather improves the time for weeding and tending to
our garden returns. If you can, please help us in the garden over he next few weeks.
Peter Lovitt
‘Gardening Club’ meets on the 1st Saturday of every month (next meets this coming 02920 763754
Saturday 3 August 2019) from 10-12noon to ‘hack and rack the growing green’. Richard Hill
Recently Departed: Arthur Petty, Louise Anne Lloyd RIP. 07519 352840

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READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK saintsaviour.org
Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23
PSALM RESPONSE
Gen 18:20-32 Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, On the day I called,
Ps 138:1–3,6-7a, 7b-8 14+17
Col 2:12-14 Col 3:1-5, 9-11
you answered me,
Luke 11:1-13 Luke 12:13-21 O Lord. (4vv)

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Today’s hymns: 552 O worship the Lord; 172 Fill your hearts with joy and gladness; 332
I the Lord of sea and sky; 755 Ye Holy Angels bright; Mass setting: Rizza (955)
COLLECT
Merciful God, you have prepared for
those who love you such good things
as pass our understanding: pour into
our hearts such love toward you that
we, loving you in and above all
things, may obtain your promises,
which exceed all that we can desire;
through Jesus Christ your Son 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
Genesis.
The Lord said, ‘How great an outcry
there is against Sodom and Gomorrah!
How grievous is their sin! I propose to
go down and see whether or not they
have done all that is alleged in the
outcry against them that has come up to
me. I am determined to know.’
The men left there and went to Sodom
while Abraham remained standing
before the Lord. Approaching him he
said, ‘Are you really going to destroy the
just man with the sinner? Perhaps there
are fifty just men in the town. Will you
really overwhelm them, will you not
spare the place for the fifty just men in
it? Do not think of doing such a thing: to
kill the just man with the sinner, treating
just and sinner alike! Do not think of it!
Will the judge of the whole earth not
administer justice?’ the Lord replied, ‘If
at Sodom I find fifty just men in the
town, I will spare the whole place
because of them.’
Abraham replied, ‘I am bold indeed to
speak like this to my Lord, I who am
dust and ashes. But perhaps the fifty just
men lack five: will you destroy the
whole city for five?’ ‘No,’ he replied ‘I
will not destroy it if I find forty-five just
men there.’ Again Abraham said to him,
‘Perhaps there will only be forty there.’ ‘I
will not do it’ he replied ‘for the sake of
the forty.’
Abraham said, ‘I trust my Lord will not
be angry, but give me leave to speak:
perhaps there will only be thirty there.’ ‘I
will not do it’ he replied ‘if I find thirty
there.’ He said, ‘I am bold indeed to
speak like this, but perhaps there will
only be twenty there.’ ‘I will not destroy
it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the twenty.’
He said, ‘I trust my Lord will not be
angry if I speak once more: perhaps
there will only be ten.’ ‘I will not destroy
it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the ten.’
This is the word of the Lord.
Gen 18
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
On the day I called,
you answered me, O Lord.
I thank you, Lord, with all my heart:
you have heard the words of my mouth.
In the presence of the angels
I will bless you.
I will adore before your holy temple. R/
I thank you for your faithfulness
and love,
which excel all we ever knew of you.
On the day I called, you answered;
you increased the strength of my soul.
R/
The Lord is high
yet he looks on the lowly
and the haughty he knows from afar.
Though I walk in the midst of affliction
you give me life and frustrate my foes.
R/
You stretch out your hand and save me,
your hand will do all things for me.
Your love, O Lord, is eternal,
discard not the work of your hands. R/
Psalm 138
SECOND READING
The Second Reading is from St Paul’s
letter to the Colossians.
You have been buried with Christ, when
you were baptised; and by baptism, too,
you have been raised up with him
through your belief in the power of God
who raised him from the dead. You were
dead, because you were sinners and had
not been circumcised: he has brought
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you to life with him, he has forgiven us
all our sins.
He has overridden the Law, and
cancelled every record of the debt that
we had to pay; he has done away with it
by nailing it to the cross.
This is the word of the Lord.
Col 1
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel
according to St Luke.
He was praying in a certain place, and
after he had finished, one of his disciples
said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as
John taught his disciples.’ He said to
them, ‘When you pray, say: Father,
hallowed be your name. Your kingdom
come. Give us each day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves
forgive everyone indebted to us. And do
not bring us to the time of trial.’
And he said to them, ‘Suppose one of
you has a friend, and you go to him at
midnight and say to him, “Friend, lend
me three loaves of bread; for a friend of
mine has arrived, and I have nothing to
set before him.” And he answers from
within, “Do not bother me; the door has
already been locked, and my children
are with me in bed; I cannot get up and
give you anything.” I tell you, even
though he will not get up and give him
anything because he is his friend, at
least because of his persistence he will
get up and give him whatever he needs.
‘So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given
to you; search, and you will find; knock,
and the door will be opened for you. For
everyone who asks receives, and
everyone who searches finds, and for
everyone who knocks, the door will be
opened. Is there anyone among you
who, if your child asks for a fish, will
give a snake instead of a fish? Or if the
child asks for an egg, will give a
scorpion? If you then, who are evil,
know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will the
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
those who ask him!’
This is the gospel of the Lord.
Luke 10