Through the Week at St Peter's
Drwy'r Wythnos am Pedr Sant

                       10 - 16 January 2021
                     10 - 16 Ionawr 2021

Monday 11th         Rhys Pritchard, William Williams &                                  Isaac Williams, Priests & Poets
                              7.00pm   Holy Eucharist  
  
Wednesday 13th    Hilary, Bishop
                               10.15am  Holy Eucharist

Saturday 16th         10am      Young Families Eucharist

Sunday 17th           The Second Sunday of Epiphany
                               8.00am Holy Eucharist
                               10.00am Holy Eucharist
                               11.30am Baptism of Eden 
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Readings next Sunday: 1 Samuel 3. 1-10; Psalm 139. 1-10; Revelation 5. 1-10; John 1. 43-51.

As you all know, Father Colin will be retiring at the end of January.  Sadly, it will not be possible to have a final service of thanksgiving for everyone to attend, due to the restrictions. As we have a maximum capacity of about 25 people, Father Colin has decided that we will operate a similar system to that for the Christmas services - booking with the Church Wardens on a first come, first serve basis for his last 3 services: Wednesday 27th at 10.15 am and Sunday 31st at 8am and 10am.  
To give everyone a fair chance, booking will not start until Tuesday 12th January (giving us time to let everyone know). Please contact Kate on 029 20568766 or Jayne – between the hours of 9am and 8pm only. Please do not ask us to take bookings before then. If at all you are able to attend the 8am service, that would relieve demand on the other services.  
If you are unable to come on any of these dates, we will do our best to ensure you can attend one of the services before that week.
                                                          Jayne & Kate
FOR YOUR OWN AND OTHERS SAFETY, please don’t linger in the Church Porch when you arrive  – this is causing congestion and people are not able to socially distance. Also, please put your mask on before entering Church.  If you have forgotten to bring one, there are some in the porch
Have you looked at our web sites?
Our web sites are renewed and brought up to date on a frequent basis. If you have written material as a member of the Creative Writing Group - then one of the poems can be on the website for a few weeks! 
PHOTOGRAPHS- of Church or Gardens or Church and Social events- PLEASE SEND A COPY to the website and we will be able to refresh them. 
Hall & Gardens Website:              
www.stpeterscommunitygarden.org.uk
You can also have a look at the new Ministry Area Website at www.cardiffwestministryarea.weebly.com
Gardens Website: www.stpeterscommunitygarden.org.uk
Hall enquiries: stpeterscommunityhall1@gmail.com
Or telephone 029 2056 5550 and leave a message
Hall Office Hours: Thursdays 10am-12noon 
Hall & Church Whatsapp Group: To join, text your name and St Peter’s Whatsapp to Mark on 07791 275 868
Baptisms; Holy Communion
Please pray for all to be baptised this month and for our children to receive their first Holy Communion
Weekly Services
Following Fr Colin’s retirement at the end of this month, it will not be possible to maintain all our services while we wait for the appointment of a new priest.
Father Huw has very kindly offered to celebrate the Eucharist with us at 10am on Sundays and 10.15am on Wednesdays.
However the 8am Eucharist on Sundays, as well as the Eucharist on Mondays and Saturdays will be suspended. Obviously this will place an added demand for places at our two remaining services – but we cannot safely increase capacity.  We will do our best to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to attend Church, but it will mean that people will be able to come less frequently, and we ask for your patience and acceptance of this difficult situation.
However we hope that you will join us in a Spiritual Communion at home – using the resource on our website (under Worship) or by taking home one of the printed sheets we will provide in Church.
Hall & Gardens
The Hall has had to remain closed after Christmas due to the Tier 4 restrictions.
The Gardens will reopen for a few volunteers to continue working, but they will not be open to the public
SHARING RESPONSIBILITIES – 
Jayne and Kate will liaise with the Area Dean and Ministry Area leader should anyone want to see a priest.
Music – when we are able to sing again, our organist Neil will be choosing the hymns each week.
Stewards – at the moment we have stewards welcoming people, completing track & trace records, and keeping us Covid safe.  We look forward to the return of welcomers, readers, intercessors, servers & administers in the future.
Yvonne, our Pastoral Care Co-ordinator, continues to check that our sick and housebound are kept in touch with, and arrange with other licensed Administers to visit those who want to receive Holy Communion at home, when circumstances permit.
Weekly Readings & News will be prepared by Kate in co-operation with Fr Huw and Margaret Smith (for reflections). Others will share the task of printing.
Kirstie is our Sacristan – she is responsible for many things in Church, among them washing the linen, preparing the altar and keeping the church clean.
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