PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St German’s Church
17 February 2019 - Septuagesima (OT6)

The Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6) The This week:

two affirmations “Blessed are you who
are poor!” and “Alas for you who are Sun 17
rich!” urge those who listen to make a 8am Said Mass (St G)
choice, an option on behalf of the poor. 9:30 Sung Mass (St S)
In the Old Testament, several times God 11am Sung Mass (St G)
places the people before the choice of Mon 18:
the blessing or the curse. The people are 6pm Mass (St G)
free to choose: “I place you before life Tues 19:
and death, blessing and curse; choose, 10am Mass (St S)
therefore, life so that you and your Wed 20:
descendants may live” (Deut 30:19) The 9:30am School Family
choice is always ours. Service (Eucharist)
(St G)
Parish Notes: Thur 21:
5:45pm Mass (St S)
Social Events for Spring and Summer - include the following: Lenten Soup St Peter Damian
Lunches and reflections (Fridays of Lent); 6 April Quiz night; 5 May Parish Fri 22:
Lunch; 25 May BBQ; 22 June Summer Fayre; 20 July Ceili Night. A list of the 6pm mass (St S)
St Peter’s Chair
full programme for the year is now available.
Sat 23:
PCC & Vestry Meeting - PCC meets to approve the Audited Accounts for the 11am Mass (St S)
year will be after mass on 3 March. The Vestry meeting will be on 7 April St Polycarp
again after mass. A short report from the last meeting is now available. Sun 24:
Cardiff Foodbank - Thanks everyone for their continued generosity. Due to a St Saviour’s:
huge volume of recent donations they have asked that we donate only the 9:30 Sung Mass
following: rice pudding, jam, custard, tinned tomatoes, sponge puddings. St German’s:
8am Said Mass
School family service - Whole school Eucharist this Wednesday at 9:30am
11am Sung Mass
with Tredegarville CinW PS. All are welcome.
Lenten Devotions - Stations of the cross after Monday mass and a charity
soup lunch preceded by a talk in church on Fridays (start 2nd Friday of Lent). Parish Priest:
Fr Phelim O’Hare,
Treorchy Male Voice Choir - concert at St German’s Church commencing at 02922 411229,
7pm (doors open at 6pm) on Sat, 23 March 2019. You are strongly advised to phelimohare@gmail.com
book tickets (£15 from Angela Parry) as soon as possible. (Day off - Friday)
Unique Website Visitors - On average 2,000 people visit our main website Churchwardens:
each month (St German’s web site has c. 900 unique visitors each month).
Recently Departed: Ron Judd RIP Peter Lovitt
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Richard Hill
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READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK PSALM:
1 Sam 26:2, 7-9, 12-13,
Jer 17:5-8 Happy the man who
22-23
Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6
Ps 103:1-4, 8+10, 12-13 has placed his trust in
1 Cor 15:12, 16-20
1 Cor 15:45-49 the Lord. (3vv)
Luke 6:17, 20-26
Luke 6:27-38

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Today’s Music: 572 Praise to the Holiest; 249 Great is thy faithfulness; 363 Jesus the
broken bread; Blest are they (separate page); Mass setting: Murray Mass with the Kyrie,
Sanctus from the Black Mountain Liturgy
COLLECT:
Almighty God, who alone can
bring order to the unruly wills
and passions of sinful
humanity: give your people
grace so to love what you
command and to desire what
you promise, that, among the
many changes of this world,
our hearts may surely there be
fixed where true joys are to be
found; 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 prophet
Jeremiah.
The Lord says this: ‘A curse on the
man who puts his trust in man, who
relies on things of flesh, whose heart
turns from the Lord. He is like dry
scrub in the wastelands: if good
comes, he has no eyes for it, he
settles in the parched places of the
wilderness, a salt land, uninhabited.
‘A blessing on the man who puts his
trust in the Lord, with the Lord for
his hope. He is like a tree by the
waterside that thrusts its roots to the
stream: when the heat comes it feels
no alarm, its foliage stays green; it
has no worries in a year of drought,
and never ceases to bear fruit.’
This is the word of the Lord.
Jer 17
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Happy the man who has placed his
trust in the Lord.
Happy indeed is the man
who follows not the counsel of the
wicked;
nor lingers in the way of sinners
nor sits in the company of scorners,
but whose delight is the law of the
Lord
 and who ponders his law day and
night. R/
He is like a tree that is planted
beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due season
and whose leaves shall never fade;
and all that he does shall prosper.
R/
Not so are the wicked, not so!
For they like winnowed chaff
shall be driven away by the wind:
for the Lord guards the way of the
just
but the way of the wicked leads to
doom. R/
Psalm 1
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter to the
Corinthians.
If Christ raised from the dead is
what has been preached, how can
some of you be saying that there is
no resurrection of the dead? For if
the dead are not raised, Christ has
not been raised, and if Christ has not
been raised, you are still in your
sins. And what is more serious, all
who have died in Christ have
perished. If our hope in Christ has
been for this life only, we are the
most unfortunate of all people.
  But Christ has in fact been raised
from the dead, the first-fruits of all
who have fallen asleep.
This is the word of the Lord.
Heb 2
17 FEBRUARY 2019
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel
according to St Luke.
He came down with them and stood
on a level place, with a great crowd
of his disciples and a great multitude
of people from all Judea, Jerusalem,
and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.
They had come to hear him and to
be healed of their diseases; and
those who were troubled with
unclean spirits were cured. And all
in the crowd were trying to touch
him, for power came out from him
and healed all of them.
Then he looked up at his disciples
and said: ‘Blessed are you who are
poor, for yours is the kingdom of
God. ‘Blessed are you who are
hungry now, for you will be filled.
‘Blessed are you who weep now, for
you will laugh. Blessed are you
when people hate you, and when
they exclude you, revile you, and
defame you on account of the Son of
Man. Rejoice on that day and leap
for joy, for surely your reward is
great in heaven; for that is what
their ancestors did to the prophets.
‘But woe to you who are rich, for
you have received your consolation.
Woe to you who are full now, for
you will be hungry. ‘Woe to you who
are laughing now, for you will
mourn and weep.
‘Woe to you when all speak well of
you, for that is what their ancestors
did to the false prophets.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Luke 6