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: frtimardouin@btinternet.com tadnigel@yahoo.co.uk 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