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. This Week:- Tuesday Assembly at Penclawdd 10.10 am St Madoc Centre Trustees 6.30 pm Weds MU Eucharist, Llanrhidian 10 am November 24 th Deanery Conference, Llanrhidian Holiday Park 7.15 pm 27 th Deanery Chapter, Pennard 10 am Messy Church planning meeting, Lamplighter, Bishopston. Come and join the team 7.30 pm 29 th Cathedral. Mission and Ministry Festival + lunch 12 noon December 7 th Advent Family Service – Worship Group, Llanyrnewydd 11.15 am 13 th Christmas Messy Church, Penmaen Hall 2 pm June 27 th 2015. Ordination. Cathedral July 6 th – 9 th 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 16 th 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: [email protected] [email protected] 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 3 rd 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 27 th 7.30 pm. Gower Magazine Articles for January edition must be sent to Mary Colebrook by December 10th for early printing.